IndustryNews
Scolmore and ESP celebrate shortlist successes
Megaman welcomes new faces
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s part of its expansion in the UK, Megaman, the energy efficient
lighting manufacturer, has recruited a new National Sales Manager along with three new area-based Business Development Managers to its experienced sales team. Together the team will look to secure and build new relationships within the electrical wholesale sector. Lee Bradshaw is the new National Sales
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he Scolmore Group is confident of success at this year’s Electrical Industry Awards, with Scolmore and ESP having been selected as
finalists across seven categories. In the product categories, Scolmore has been shortlisted for the Residential/Domestic Product of the Year with its Inceptor Omni Tricolour Fire- rated Downlight and for the Commercial Product of the Year with the Inceptor EVO LED Bulkhead. The work the company has been doing with local councils is also paying dividends with Edinburgh Council on the shortlist for the Electrical Project of the Year and Stirling Council for the Lighting Project of the Year. The popular Scolmore App is also on the awards shortlist for the Electrical App of the Year. ESP has been successful with both entries submitted. The Duceri 3W hinged LED Bulkhead has been selected for the Commercial Product of the Year and the GuardCam Deco Wi-Fi Security Floodlight for the Residential Product Category. Comments group marketing director, Marie Parry: “To have achieved finalist status within seven categories for this prestigious industry event is a fantastic achievement and testimony to all the effort that goes in from everyone here to continue to develop innovative, time-saving solutions that help contractors do their jobs more quickly and more safely. We are particularly excited with the success within the lighting and electrical projects categories with the work we are doing with Edinburgh and Stirling councils.”
Manager, responsible for overseeing all of the company’s regional Business Development Managers (BDMs). Lee has over eight years’ lighting sales experience, having owned his own lighting business before joining Poole Lighting. As part of Lee’s team, Karen Jenkins has been appointed as the new Megaman Business Development Manager for the South West. Karen began her career in sales with five years at Rewires Devon Limited (RDL). From there Karen branched into the world of accountancy but missed the customer interaction of a sales role. Paul Rossiter has also been appointed as a Business Development Manager to cover South Wales and the M4 Corridor. Paul started his career in sales with CCF Bristol, part of Travis Perkins, before becoming a Key Account Manager in 2012. Paul then moved into the lighting industry as an Area Sales Manager with Saxby Lighting before taking on similar roles at ML Accessories and Selectric. Finally, Stuart Davies has taken on the role of Business Development Manager for Midlands Central. Stuart brings with him more than 20 years’ experience in the electrical wholesale industry across a number of merchant brands and from a variety of roles.
Tridonic teams up with Casambi T
ridonic and Casambi have partnered to develop a new innovative wireless light
management solution. Tridonic’s basicDIM Wireless system based on Casambi’s Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) technology offers an interconnected and interoperable solution for the hassle-free wireless connectivity of luminaires. Wireless light management opens a myriad of new possibilities for all parties involved in installing a new lighting system. The luminaire manufacturer, the installer to the building operator and the end user, will all benefit from the flexibility and versatility that wireless technologies offer. Also, existing lighting infrastructures can be easily updated and fitted with additional features. Tridonic, a world-leading supplier of lighting technology, and Casambi, a pioneer in wireless
Lee Bradshaw
Karen Jenkins
Paul Rossiter
Stuart Davies
lighting controls, have partnered to develop an innovative wireless light management solution. The partnership culminates in Tridonic’s basicDIM Wireless range of interoperable devices consisting of LED drivers, communication modules, sensors, a user- interface as well as software in the form of the 4remote BT App. “In the last couple of years, Casambi’s wireless lighting control technology based on Bluetooth Low Energy has become established as a leading platform for innovative controls. Pairing Casambi’s technology with our long-standing expertise in the development of lighting
components
has resulted in a flexible and versatile
new system that benefits every player in the lighting industry. Close cooperation in the development
and testing phases between our companies has proven extremely
fertile and we are proud to now market the new system”, explains Bert Tuyt, senior director global systems at Tridonic.
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