Glass & Glazing Products
Glass & Glazing Products, known across its industry simply as GGP, is the United Kingdom's trade magazine for the glass, glazing and fenestration sector: the businesses that make, supply and install windows, doors, conservatories and glazed extensions. Published by the Mark Allen Group from Dartford, in Kent, it is one of the longest-established trade magazines in its sector, and its own mission statement places it at the cutting edge of the window, door and conservatory market, representing the full spectrum of the industry, from installers to fabricators and from systems houses to hardware manufacturers. GGP combines its print title with a substantial website and a digital edition, runs the GGP Installer Awards, and distributes free of charge on a controlled basis to qualifying industry personnel, with subscriptions available to readers outside its terms of control.
Publisher, Base and Circulation Model
GGP is part of the Mark Allen Group, and its masthead gives the publisher's head office as Hawley Mill, Hawley Road, Dartford, Kent DA2 7TJ. The magazine carries the ISSN 0269-0659 and is printed by Pensord Press in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales. Its circulation model is the classic trade-press arrangement, explained in its own pages: controlled free circulation means copies are available free of charge to personnel who come under the magazine's terms of control, while copies are available by subscription to people who do not qualify. In practice that means the magazine lands, at no cost to them, on the desks of the fabricators, installers, systems companies and hardware suppliers who buy and specify glazing products, which is exactly the audience its advertisers, the manufacturers and suppliers of the fenestration industry, want to reach. Its stated mission is to arm readers with the information they need to enhance their businesses in a competitive and challenging marketplace.
Editors and the Publishing Team
The magazine's recent editorial succession is recorded in its own contents pages. Charissa King edited GGP through 2023, writing the welcome for its Guide to Aluminium supplement that year and presenting the magazine at its Installer Awards, before Chris Beck took over as editor, a change visible in the masthead from the January and February 2024 issues onwards, with Beck still editing the title in February 2025. Above the editor, the masthead lists Jon Benson as chief operating officer and publisher, Marc Young as publishing director for MA Business, Jo Claydon-Smith as production manager, Takako Laird as designer and Charley Nash as circulation manager, with advertising led by a dedicated manager and business development support. When GGP joined the Glazpartners programme, it was Beck who spoke for the magazine, and Glazpart's sales director welcomed GGP as one of the longest-established trade magazines in the glass and glazing sector, widely read by thousands of professionals in the industry.
Inside a Typical Issue
A GGP issue is organised to mirror the structure of the trade itself. Its regular sections, as listed in recent contents pages, include the editor's comment, news, analysis, glass, hardware and security, machinery, a fabricator and installer section, installations, products and services, and a trade directory. Columns include industry comment, a column called The Sketch, a column from the Glass and Glazing Federation, known as the GGF, and a closing column called The Last Word, alongside letters and installer-focused opinion. Feature coverage rotates through the subjects its readers trade in: doors, policy, energy efficiency, profiles and systems, marketing, aluminium, conservatories, colours, glass, IT and software, events and the Future Homes agenda. Case-study reporting takes readers inside real projects: one feature described how Senior Architectural Systems' aluminium windows, doors and curtain walling formed the fenestration package for the second phase of the Wapping Wharf regeneration in Bristol's historic harbourside, working with Elite Aluminium Systems on homes built by Balfour Beatty to designs by Alec French Architects.
Energy, Standards and the Direction of the Trade
Much of GGP's reporting follows the technical and regulatory currents moving the fenestration industry. Its February 2023 issue, for example, examined Liniar's Zero|90 system in depth: a 90-millimetre rebated window and door system designed to fit over existing internal wall finishes as a solution for upgrading the existing housing stock, achieving a U-value of 0.66 with triple glazing, accommodating triple and even quadruple glazed units, incorporating recycled material through coextruded parts, saving a reported 17 tons of carbon dioxide over a product's lifetime and cutting transmitted sound by preventing an additional ten decibels from passing through. The magazine frames such product stories within the three themes it identified for the sector: energy-saving performance, sustainability and noise reduction. It also reports the industry's institutions, covering, for instance, the Glass and Glazing Federation's formation of a dedicated aluminium group under its technical team, intended to support members working in shopfronts, commercial entrance screens, curtain walling and commercial windows as aluminium enjoyed a revival in home improvement.
Supplements: The Guide to Aluminium
Alongside the monthly magazine, GGP publishes specialist supplements, of which its Guide to Aluminium is a leading example. The 2023 guide opened with market evidence of aluminium's momentum: figures shared at the Glazing Summit by a leader from Insight Data counted 884 companies manufacturing aluminium products in the previous year, rising to 921, with the Council for Aluminium in Building reporting that 39 per cent of its members predicted positive growth despite expectations of tougher trading. The guide carried an update on the industry's decarbonisation drive from the Council for Aluminium in Building's chief executive, coverage of aluminium curtain walling from specialist fabricators, new product launches such as Cortizo systems from Unique Window Systems, and hardware including Winkhaus's AluPilot fitting system. Supplements of this kind let the magazine serve one material sector in real depth while its main issues continue to cover the whole market, and they give specialist suppliers a concentrated audience of fabricators and installers.
The GGP Installer Awards
The magazine's best-known extension is the GGP Installer Awards, launched in 2020 to celebrate the best of the United Kingdom's glazing installations. The first winners were revealed at an online ceremony on 18 March 2021, in nine categories covering residential installations above and below a value threshold, commercial installation, conservatory and orangery installations, outstanding achievement, a rising star, the best installer support programme and the best technical innovation, with FENSA's Installation of the Year also announced at the ceremony. Entries are judged by an independent panel of industry experts. The awards soon became a live fixture: the 2023 ceremony at the Midland Hotel in Manchester drew 200 guests, was presented by actress and comedian Nina Wadia, and saw the magazine award its first ever Lifetime Achievement award. Recent editions have added categories including best glazed extension, best heritage installation, industry newcomer and business resilience, and the programme has continued to grow, with the 2026 ceremony held at the Midland Hotel in Manchester and the 2027 awards announced for a new venue, the Edwardian Hotel in Manchester. Winning is promoted by entrants as a mark of excellence that builds credibility and customer trust.
GGP Online and Industry Partnerships
Print is only part of the offer. The GGP website carries daily news, installation case studies and product stories between issues, a digital edition reproduces the magazine page for page for online readers, and the title maintains an active presence on LinkedIn and on X under its magazine handles. The brand also involves itself in the industry's networks: in a recent year GGP joined Glazpartners, the promotional programme run by Glazpart for the glazing sector, a move its editor said would strengthen a long-standing relationship and grow the magazine's network of like-minded industry supporters through greater collaboration on features and projects. Its media information makes the commercial case plainly to advertisers, citing reader research that GGP influences buying decisions, that most readers pass their copy to colleagues, and that readers prefer its content to rival publications, claims consistent with its self-description as the UK's most popular and informative glazing magazine, the strapline carried on its February 2024 cover.
The Industry GGP Serves
To understand GGP it helps to understand fenestration, the trade it reports: the design, manufacture and installation of the glazed openings in buildings, from a single replacement window in a Victorian terrace to curtain walling on a city office block and the regeneration schemes its case studies describe, such as tower-block refurbishments in Birmingham and Wolverhampton and the conversion of a Wakefield mill into a creative industries hub. It is a sector of thousands of mostly small and medium-sized British businesses, fabricators, installers, systems houses and hardware manufacturers, working to building regulations, energy standards and security standards such as PAS 24, and employing tens of thousands of people. A monthly magazine that explains new systems, reports standards and awards, showcases good installations and carries the industry's own columns is a piece of that sector's working infrastructure, read on factory floors and in sales offices as much as in boardrooms.
Why Glass & Glazing Products Matters
GGP matters because it is the fenestration industry's magazine of record: longest-established in its sector, controlled in its circulation so that it reaches the people who specify and buy, and active beyond the page through its awards and partnerships. Its combination of technical product coverage, business and marketing features, regulatory reporting and celebration of installation craft gives a fragmented trade of small firms a shared source of news and standards. Published by the Mark Allen Group from Dartford, in Kent, England, and edited in recent years by Chris Beck after Charissa King, Glass & Glazing Products continues to serve the window, door and conservatory market it has covered for decades. Its official website is ggpmag.com, where readers can find current news, digital editions and details of the GGP Installer Awards.
