Glen Dimplex | 13,151 followers on LinkedIn. Everyday Life Empowered | As a privately owned business with a 50-year heritage in manufacturing, Glen Dimplex Group is alive with entrepreneurial spirit, and innovation and driven by a steadfast belief in people and partnerships. Almost five decades ago, Martin Naughton and four colleagues established Glen Electric in Newry, Northern Ireland. Just four years later with the acquisition of Dimplex, a company eight times Glen’s size and a brand leader in electric heating; Glen Dimplex was born.