Electric.ie January/February 2022

ELECTRIC.IE • The Magazine & Website for the Irish Electrical Industry • 9 Hager What are your top achievements to date since establishing CSGL? Female Owner – Independent Electrical Wholesaler growing the business year on year. Winning “Best Trade Counter 2019” (EIFI Industry Award). Reaching the final in the Clare Business Awards 2021 – Best Micro Business Category. Surviving a global pandemic. Which of the above are you most proud of? Growing the business to what you see today, an established independent electrical wholesaler. Our goal is to provide a quality- led and easy to deal with service which has helped our reputation in the market and subsequently, our growth. How are you and your customers adapting to the new I.S.10101 regulations? For example, what percentage of new reg CU’s do you sell versus old? There was a lot of confusion around the regs at first, but I think that has eased, take up is about 60/40 % so far this year. Hager provides excellent ready to access information both in form of leaflets along with a comprehensive catalogue on their website, which we direct our customers to. The “Wired for Change” leaflet was a huge help for contractors to understand the changes. Hager’s I.S.10101 Regs Hub https://www. hager.ie/regs is a great source of information for the new regs. What do you value most in a manufacturer? As a company we look at the quality of a product first with technical backup support. We have found this in Hager products, John Morrison is our first port of call and has been a huge support to us throughout the years. Selling quality products, with excellent technical support and easily available product literature and information also reflects well on us as a company. What do you like best about Hager? I can’t praise John (Morrison) and the team at Hager enough for the support they have shown us over the past 10 years. To our delight we have shipped Hager products to Belgium and Scotland for customer projects. Our Irish-based customers have looked to support their own clients abroad, we have worked alongside them which has helped us maintain our growth ambitions. Hager’s support from day one has been exceptional. The CSGL Electrical Team