P06-07 Industry News:Layout 1 24/08/2021 16:38 Page 6 IndustryNews
Niglon appoints sales managers; partners EIC
East. Sonny Gladdish will cover his home county of Kent as well as South London and parts of Sussex. He has previously worked with ML Accessories and test equipment firm Di-Log. Chris Jackson, meanwhile, is based in Sussex and will cover the rest of the county as well as North London and Surrey. He has worked within the electrical industry for four decades, including with Edmundson Electrical, JCC Lighting, KSR Lighting and BEG. In other news, from June 2021, Niglon is donating 10% of the profits
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from all sales of its Median products to the Electrical Industries Charity as part of an ongoing partnership. The team wanted to help the EIC improve the lives of their peers across the electrical industry who had been impacted by mental or physical ill health, financial worries or COVID-19. Finally, Niglon has initiated a new courier partnership with DPD.
Commercial director Paul Dawson said: “We are thrilled that DPD are partnering with us to help our products make their way from our Solihull headquarters to our wholesale customers based up and down the UK. We know DPD’s commitment to customer service is taken just as seriously as our own, and that they will demonstrate reliability and efficiency at all times.”
idlands-based supplier Niglon has appointed two new area sales managers to support its growth in the South
Misconceptions holding back EV, finds new research
according to new research from myenergi. 36% of those questioned felt that the charging network in the UK was unsubstantial, a figure that increased to 46%, almost one in two people, among those aged over 55. However, statistics released by the Department of Transport in May reveal that the UK’s public EV charging infrastructure has grown by over a quarter, to almost 23,000, in the past 12 months alone. Jordan Brompton, co-founder and CMO of myenergi, said: “While driving, maintaining and charging an EV is really simple, we need the UK public to feel confident that the charging infrastructure is sufficient. Unfortunately, there is still a misconception that EVs have a short range and public charging points are few and far between. This couldn’t be further from the truth. In fact, the average range of a modern EV is 211 miles and there are now more publicly- accessible charging points than petrol stations!” The public charging network is augmented by the rising prevalence of home charging, facilitated byinnovations such as myenergi’s zappi unit.
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ore than one in three Brits wouldn’t consider purchasing an electric vehicle (EV), due to a perceived lack of charging points,
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