{"id":10609,"date":"2016-10-31T10:10:10","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T10:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/?p=10609"},"modified":"2016-10-31T10:11:41","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T10:11:41","slug":"electrical-firm-switches-on-new-branch-in-watford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/electrical-firm-switches-on-new-branch-in-watford\/","title":{"rendered":"Electrical firm switches on new branch in Watford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10610\" src=\"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Nick_Steve2-300x247.jpg\" alt=\"nick_steve2\" width=\"300\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Nick_Steve2-300x247.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Nick_Steve2-150x124.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Nick_Steve2-768x633.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Nick_Steve2-1024x844.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Nick_Steve2-500x412.jpg 500w, https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Nick_Steve2.jpg 1836w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An award-winning wholesale electrical distributor, based in Colnbrook, is expanding into Watford following its acquisition of a trade supply business in Croxley Business Park.<\/p>\n<p>Rapid Electrical Distributors, started by St Albans entrepreneur Nick Edwell in 2004, which counts Crossrail as one of its clients, has merged with Watford Electrical Solutions, that\u2019s traded from Greenhill Crescent for over 15 years.<\/p>\n<p>Having rebranded its unit Rapid Electrical (Watford), the business employs six staff.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the expansion, MD Nick Edwell, said: \u201cWatford represents an extremely good opportunity for our business to develop thanks to its connections and the thriving diversity of companies operating from Croxley Business Park and surrounding areas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Steve Charalambous, who worked with Nick Edwell some 18 years ago, started Watford Electrical Solutions in 2001 and continues as Manager of Rapid Electrical (Watford).<\/p>\n<p><em>Above: Nick Edwell (left), Managing Director of Rapid Electrical Distributors, is pictured \u2018switching on\u2019 his Watford branch with the help of Steve Charalambous.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An award-winning wholesale electrical distributor, based in Colnbrook, is expanding into Watford following its acquisition of a trade supply business in Croxley Business Park. Rapid Electrical Distributors, started by St Albans entrepreneur Nick Edwell in 2004, which counts Crossrail as one of its clients, has merged with Watford Electrical Solutions, that\u2019s traded from Greenhill Crescent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10610,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1643,1642,1644],"class_list":["post-10609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","tag-nick-edwell","tag-rapid-electrical-distributors","tag-steve-charalambous","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Nick_Steve2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10611,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10609\/revisions\/10611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}