Electrical Products’ youngest branch, East London, outperformed all the other branches around the country to win the Branch of the Year award for the financial year to end-March 2021.
In announcing the Branch of the Year awards results on June 10 at the conclusion of Electrical Products’ three-day annual conference at the Sabie River Sun in Hazyview, Mpumalanga, Divisional CEO Rod Penaluna congratulated East London Branch Manager Braam Preston and his first class team for their achievement and also picked out for special mention Charles Rose-Innes and Dave Smith for the groundwork leading up to the opening of the branch in 2011, and their subsequent support during its growth.
Last year’s winner Bloemfontein won the Branch of the Year Runner-up award and was also named winner of the Best Stores award. Durban also featured high in the competition, winning both the Most Improved Branch and Best Sales Team awards.
A new feature introduced for the first time was the inclusion of long-service awards presentations to senior people in attendance at the conference.
Rod said he was struck by the large number of management personnel, as a proportion of the total number of long-service awards recipients in the division, who received recognition for long service. “I realised then what a big factor this is in the success of the Electrical Equipment division, which has performed exceptionally well in recent years, including the 2020/21 financial year. We are indeed very fortunate in having such a strong and experienced management team,” he commented.
In addition to Electrical Products, The Electrical Equipment division’s other business units are Genlux Lighting and Satchwell Controls.
The managers who were presented with long service awards at the conference (with years of service in brackets) were: Daniel Horne (35 years), Craig Watt (25 years), Andrea James (15 years), Prince Ziqubu (15 years), Fritz Hattingh (15 years), Prevan Moodley (15 years), Irene Swanepoel (15 years) and Sello Tsoai (15 years).
Other personnel who received long-service awards for the past year were:
43 years: Siva Chetty and Charles Rose-Innes.
35 years: Piet Moselesele and Mike Fry.
15 years: Stuart Black, Steven Munungufhala, Thanesh Suliman, Isaac More, Thamsanqa Dasi, Zellery Leshoro, Sikhumbuzo Mchunu and Esther Thwala.
