YEARBOOK 2021 n EDA Member & Affiliate Business Listings n EDA Key Information n Review: 2020 That Was The Year That Was n UK Construction Sector: Life After The Pandemic MET1000 2021 YEARBOOK n Contents ALL IN ONE TRUE RMS ELECTRICAL TESTER EDA Yearbook 2021 Contents 04 Welcome from the EDA President MET1000 06 Welcome from the EDA CEO True RMS Electrical Tester 08 Dates for your Diary EN 10 How the EDA supports you ■ LED EDA& LCD Display Yearbook with 2019/2020 61243-3 self-testfeaturing the EDA Sector Survey 12 The EDA Board of Management DetachableThe EDA extends Test its grateful Probes thanks to these organisations ■ for supporting this publication: 13 Members & Affiliates contribute their expertise ■ AC/DC Voltage to 1000V to the EDA’s work ABB Ltd Legrand Electric Ltd Join the conversation online: ■ 200AAico AC Ltd measurement Marshall-Tufflex Ltd 14 ETIM: The drive to digital ■ TrueAnsell RMS Lighting on ACV/ACA Megaman (UK) Ltd British Cables Company Megger Ltd 16 EDATA: With the highest quality product data at its heart Electrical Distributors’ Association (EDA) ■ InrushCollingwood Current Lighting ML Accessories Ltd – trading as Knightsbridge Deligo Prysmian Cables & Systems Ltd 19 EDA Training & Apprenticeships @ElectricalDA ■ PhaseECA Rotation Recolight Electrium Sales Ltd (A Siemens Company) Schneider Electric Ltd n Evolving our service to better support your business ■ SingleEnviroVent pole Ltd test Scolmore Group @EDA_UK n Professional product training with the EDA Modules ■ DataGewiss Hold UK Ltd Specialised Wiring Accessories Ltd Why Heatrae Sadia Stearn Electric Co Ltd n EDA Apprenticeship Service ■ MeasuresKingfisher Lightingvoltage Ltd withoutSylvania Lighting UK carry more? n EDA Kickstart Support Get in touch: batteriesKosnic Lighting Ltd Timeguard Ltd LED Group - Robus WISKA UK Ltd 28 Publications & Digital Channels ■ Complies with 020 314 73650 IEC/EN 61243-3:2014 31 Feature article Join the conversation online: Get in touch: 020 7602 0613 ■ IP65 2020 That Was The Year That Was Electrical Distributors' Association (EDA) t 020 3141 7350 All in One 48 Feature article [email protected] ElectricalDA 020 7602 0613 f UK Construction Sector: Life After The Pandemic www.eda.org.uk True RMS @EDA_UK e [email protected] 58 Branch listing of Member Wholesalers Electrical www.eda.org.uk 68 Directory of Member Wholesalers Tester Published by: 98 Products & Services listing for Affiliated Members Electrical Distributors’ Association (EDA) Rotherwick House, 102 Directory of Affiliated Manufacturers 3 Thomas More Street, St Katharine’s and Wapping, 112 Directory of Affiliated Service Providers LONDON E1W 1YZ 114 Directory of Affiliated Solutions Providers © Electrical Distributors’ Association Published by: Electrical Distributors’ Association (EDA) Rotherwick House 3 Thomas More Street St Katharine’s and Wapping The EDA extends its grateful thanks to these organisations for supporting this publication: LONDON E1W 1YZ ABB Ltd • Aico Ltd • Atlantic Heat • Deligo Ltd • Electrium Sales Ltd (A Siemens Company) • Elkay (Part of BDH Ltd) • Heatrae Sadia • Intact Software uk.megger.com LEDVANCE Ltd • Lewden • Luckins (A Trimble Company) • Lutron EA Ltd • Megger Ltd • ML Accessories Ltd T/A Knightsbridge • Prysmian Cables & Systems Ltd [email protected] © Electrical Distributors' Association Recolight • Scolmore International Ltd • Securi-Flex Ltd • Stearn Electric Co Ltd • Sylvania Lighting UK • Timeguard Ltd • Vent-Axia • WAGO Ltd • WISKA UK Ltd [email protected] 3 EDA YEARBOOK 2021 3 MET1000_AD.indd 1 19.01.21 10:24 2021 YEARBOOK n Welcome from the EDA President 1 Stronger than at 2 any time in our history 3 4 The EDA membership 5 is stronger than at any time in our history, 6 representing the cream of the UK’s electrotechnical sector as you’ll see from the directories and listings in this Yearbook. I would like to open this Yearbook by thanking you The EDA membership is stronger than at any all, our Members and Affiliated Members, for your time in our history, representing the cream of the unwavering support of your Association during UK’s electrotechnical sector as you’ll see from a year that has tested us all both personally and the directories and listings in this Yearbook. Our professionally. It has been my privilege to serve as application process is more rigorous than ever, and the EDA’s President during this time, alongside the more business are rejected than are accepted for nine-strong team of Board Members, and as part of membership by the EDA’s Board. I would urge you our Presidential Team: EDA Vice President Charlie and your colleagues to review your EDA benefits - Trimble Luckins enhances data services Lacey, and former EDA President, Simon Barkes. you’ll find more information on the following pages - and if you have not used them to their full, or you with the adoption of ETIM Classi cations. Despite everything thrown at us, this sector would like the EDA team to remind you of what’s has been more fortunate than others. Yes, we have available, please get in touch on 020 3141 7350. In support of the UK’s Electrical Distributors’ Association (EDA) had to think creatively and really earn our stripes as initiative to digitise the Supply Chain using the ETIM Classi cation business leaders to overcome challenges but the I hope you find this Yearbook a useful reference UK’s construction sector has been able to continue tool and that you’ll keep it close to hand. It is a Standard at its heart, Trimble is proud to announce that ETIM has to trade in a way that other sectors have not. useful supplement to all the information available at now been incorporated within the Luckins Platinum data service. www.eda.org.uk The pandemic and the end of the Brexit Get moving and nd out more at: luckinslive.com/ETIM transition period has also created opportunities Thank you once again for your support and for the EDA. Margaret Fitzsimons, our CEO, has commitment. worked tirelessly on your behalf building positive relationships with influential groups and policy makers including the Construction Leadership Council (CLC), the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) and, of course, the kindred trade associations along the supply chain. The result is that your business benefits from a flow of information that had not previously been Chris Ashworth available. I would like to take this opportunity to CEF thank Margaret for her leadership and energy, EDA President until March 2023 and for steering the EDA and its team through a challenging year and, I believe, emerging more resilient and more committed to serving each of our businesses. 4 EDA YEARBOOK 2021 www.eda.org.uk 2021 YEARBOOK n Welcome from the EDA CEO 2021 YEARBOOK n Welcome from the EDA CEO A WORD FROM 1 2 The CEO In an extraordinary 12 months, the EDA’s service for Members & Affiliates 3 flexed in response to the ever-present challenges and changes served up by the pandemic and Brexit. Training took a dive but digitalisation made great 4 strides, and Zoom became the new norm for us all. As I write my introduction to this Yearbook in March In 2020, companies increasingly turned to the 5 The ETIM standard made great strides also. 2021, I feel great optimism that we have almost EDA to help them navigate the uncertain economic The launch of ETIM 8.0 in November 2020 contained I am very proud of ‘sent the virus packing’ and that we will soon be and legislative environment and our membership important amendments specific to the UK market back to normal or at least a new normal where grew as did engagement in the virtual events that how we reacted and the 6 thanks to the input of ETIM UK working groups and people are not in fear of their lives. The EDA is we introduced to ensure that our members could resourcefulness and we signed agreements with several providers of ERP, certainly planning for that this year. speak to each other and exchange experiences. Our PIM and e-commerce software providers that have resilience we showed Taking Stock & Talking Shop Zoom Dialogues were now committed to integrating ETIM capabilities into as a business. It has been an extraordinary 12 months. In early particularly popular. The EDA Team worked very their offers. We regard these companies as important March 2020 we managed to run our Annual Awards hard to assure a constant flow of latest information allies in the proliferation of ETIM and digitalisation of Dinner and our Learner Awards Ceremony but on and insight through the introduction of the regular the sector in general. 24th March we said goodbye to each other, started surveys, informational emails and the creation of the remote working and thought we would be back content-rich Covid and Brexit hubs on our website. In the wider construction industry, ETIM is Throughout the year, the EDA team remained together in a few months. How wrong we were. gathering momentum too. Through our partnership highly productive and motivated and business Through this work, the EDA gained greater with the Builders’ Merchants Federation (BMF), the processes were improved through the introduction It has been such a momentous year that we exposure in the wider construction industry and standard is being adopted in heavyside and lightside of a new Salesforce platform. Furthermore, we all decided to dedicate a large piece of editorial in secured positions on a number of influential industry builders’ merchant with Travis Perkins, the market acquired new digital skills that will continue to be of this publication to a period that will take its place groups, in particular Construction Leadership Council leader, signing up to an ETIM trailblazer group. value in the future. We also had one team member in the history books.