Sparks Electrical News January 2020

CONTRACTORS’ CORNER

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Recognising the industry’s top electrical suppliers

Gold Award: Stone Stamcor – Mark Talbot receives the award from Ian Greyling.

Gold Award: Schneider Electric – Wally Sprin- gorum and Trevor Graham with Ian Greyling.

Gold Award: Three-D Agencies – Ian Greyling hands the award to Mark Jenkins and Ian Downard.

Silver Award: Electrolux – Luddy Carvalho with Ian Greyling.

Silver Award: Ledvance – Nelo Neves receiving the award from Ian Greyling.

T he Irene Country Lodge was chosen as the venue to celebrate the 2019 Electrobase Sup- plier of the Year awards. Adding to the ‘glitz and glamour’, everyone looked dashing in their 1920’s at- tire in line with this year’s celebratory ‘Gatsby’ theme. Electrobase this year marked 20 years of build- ing strong relationships with its members and suppliers. But besides the 20-year celebrations, As is tradition, Electrobase held a raffle to raise funds for a worthy charity – this year it was the Avril Elizabeth Home for the Mentally Handicapped. In another first for this event – the suppliers decided to nominate the best Wholesalers of the Year. Criteria for choosing the winners included, amongst others, loyalty to their specific brand, achieving monthly, quarterly and annual targets, support of training sessions and functions. Third place went to Plumstead Electrical of Cape Town, second prize went to Century Electrical of Vereeniging and the first place went to Northside Electrical of Durban – congratulations to all three wholesalers! Electrobase would like to thank the suppliers for scoring the wholesalers and donating some magnificent prizes to the winners, as well as all its members and suppliers for their support during the year.

and Three-D Agencies. Congratulations also go to the Silver Award winners: Electrolux, Ledvance, Ra- diant and WACO.

Eurolux took home the ‘Most Improved Supplier’ award for 2019, while the Gold Award winners, in alphabetical order, were: Bright Star Lighting, Crab- tree, Enerji Electrical, Eurolux, HellermannTyton, Major Tech/Veti, Stone Stamcor, Schneider Electric

the 2019 event will be remembered for how close the results were – mere decimals decided the win- ner. On that note, Electrobase would like to congrat- ulate Major Tech for winning the 2019 Supplier of the Year, for the third year in a row.

Enquiries: www.electrobase.co.za

Silver Award: Radiant Lighting – Alfred Weldon receives the prize from Ian Greyling.

Silver Award: WACO – Ian Greyling and Jaco Coetzee.

Wholesalers of the Year, 1 st Place: Northside Electrical – Kevin Sparg and Major Tech’s Pat Shaw.

Wholesalers of the Year, 2 nd Place: Century Electrical – Aboo Moolla and Gabriel Marx with Claude Middleton from HellermannTyton.

Wholesalers of the Year, 3 rd Place: Plumstead Electri- cal – Anthony Lloyd from Eurolux presents Bruce Gold, Glenn Gold and Morne Vermeulen with the award.

SPARKS ELECTRICAL NEWS

JANUARY 2020