{"id":16423,"date":"2021-04-29T11:43:08","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T11:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/?p=16423"},"modified":"2021-04-29T13:30:49","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T13:30:49","slug":"may-issue-out-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/may-issue-out-now\/","title":{"rendered":"May issue out now!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the <a href=\"https:\/\/content.yudu.com\/web\/69r\/0A19ww8\/EWMay21\/html\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May issue<\/a> of Electrical Wholesaler. We\u2019ve got another great issue for you this month, with a focus on business and inventory management software and how they can help wholesaler to effect cost and time savings.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m delighted to share the news that for the first time in its history, the prestigious <a href=\"http:\/\/www.electricalwholesalerawards.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EW Awards <\/a>ceremony will take place on a virtual platform, enabling even more to be a part of this prestigious industry event. Datateam Business Media, organiser of the EW Awards, invites the entire industry to join in on Thursday 20 May for an incredible celebration of excellence. The free-to-attend event will kick off at 4:00pm &#8211; head to page 29 to find out more.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in the issue, Hamilton Litestat\u2019s Gavin Williams discusses the growing consumer demand for personalisation in their homes, and how Hamilton\u2019s paintables colour-matching wiring accessories range aims to meet this need (page 15).<\/p>\n<p>In our Home Automation feature on page 24, Scolmore\u2019s Marie Parry looks at how wholesalers can offer smart technology to enhance new \u2018office\u2019 environments. On page 26, Infor\u2019s Kelly Squizzero looks at how COVID-19 has accelerated the need for electrical wholesalers to operate optimised warehouses, offering savings of both cost and time.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, as always, the usual news, views, product innovations and installations from market-leading businesses across the sector, including a look at the role of ventilation in preventing the spread of COVID-19 (31), and the changing world of B2B online sales for a post-pandemic industry (19).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/content.yudu.com\/web\/69r\/0A19ww8\/EWMay21\/html\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to view the full issue!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the May issue of Electrical Wholesaler. We\u2019ve got another great issue for you this month, with a focus on business and inventory management software and how they can help wholesaler to effect cost and time savings. I\u2019m delighted to share the news that for the first time in its history, the prestigious EW [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16424,"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":[1055],"class_list":["post-16423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","tag-featured","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/ew-may.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16423","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=16423"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16433,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16423\/revisions\/16433"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}