Varilight’s Andrew Wilson reflects on the growing importance of knowledgeable personnel in customer service functions to support wholesalers. Varilight won the Best Supplier Customer Service award in this year’s EW Awards. With the current focus on smart technologies in the wiring accessories market, such as programmable lighting control products and integrated home automation systems, […]
A team of walkers from Varilight has completed the Oxfam Trailwalker challenge, completing a 100km route within 30 hours. John Doyle, Tillie Ingram, Josh Copper and George Fry made up the Varilight team which was one of nearly 400 teams that took part. The teams departed from Queen Elizabeth Country Park in Petersfield on a […]
Andrew Wilson at Varilight calls for greater clarity around the term “dimmable” when it’s applied to LED lighting. With a diverse array of driver technologies, only the best LED dimmers in the market can reliably deliver on the promise made by the “dimmable” label. This is not always made clear by lamp manufacturers, leaving wholesalers […]
Andrew Wilson, Commercial Manager at Varilight, considers the influence of interior design trends and new technology on decorative wiring accessories. There was a time when you could choose wiring accessories in any colour, so long as it was white. In the ’80s and ’90s, a gradual expansion of decorative options in wiring accessories began, with […]
John Doyle, Managing Director of Doyle & Tratt Products Ltd, British manufacturer of the Varilight brand of dimmer switches, explains why wholesalers perform an instrumental role in ensuring compatible dimming options are selected by electricians. More often than not, dimmer switches are required for a lighting scheme to deliver good aesthetics and flexibility for the […]
Home automation technology can have a significant impact in optimising energy usage in the home. Andrew Wilson, Commercial Manager at Varilight, explains how those environmental benefits need not cost a fortune. Over the past ten years there has been a proliferation of competing home automation technologies and a growth of integrated systems providing sophisticated control […]
By Tony Doyle, Chairman at Varilight The postponement of the planned EU phase-out of ‘non-directional’ halogen lamps until September 2018 and the fact that no timetable currently exists to phase out ‘directional’ halogen spotlights (such as GU10s) means that it is worth diverting our attention momentarily from the media ‘spotlight’ on LED lighting in order […]
British electrical wiring accessory and dimmer switch manufacturer Doyle & Tratt Products Ltd, better known by its brand name Varilight, has won a second Queen’s Award for Enterprise, the UK’s highest accolade for business success. The Queen’s Award was awarded to Varilight in the Continuous Innovation category, in recognition of its success in bringing innovation […]
Doyle & Tratt, manufacturer of the Varilight brand of dimmers and decorative switches and sockets, has won a prestigious Movers & Shakers award. The annual awards, from Decision magazine, are unique in that no company is able to apply for nomination. Instead more than 5000 companies in the South of England were researched and independently […]
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Products with pedigree promote profitability
Andrew Wilson, pictured, commercial manager at Varilight, reflects on how advising installers to choose products with an established pedigree benefits wholesalers. With so many imported products competing with established brands in the electrical wholesale market it can be tempting for inexperienced installers to make choices based solely on cost with one eye on the margin […]
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