{"id":17636,"date":"2022-03-01T15:31:21","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T15:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/?p=17636"},"modified":"2022-03-01T15:31:21","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T15:31:21","slug":"ew-march-issue-a-bright-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/ew-march-issue-a-bright-future\/","title":{"rendered":"EW March issue &#8211; A bright future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/content.yudu.com\/web\/69r\/0A19ww8\/EWMarch22\/html\/index.html?refUrl=https%253A%252F%252Ff.xdref.com%252F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March issue<\/a> of Electrical Wholesaler is out now!<\/p>\n<p>The UK electrical accessories market has returned to growth more quickly than expected after the COVID-19 outbreak in 2020, seeing an estimated 8% growth in 2021, according to a recent report from AMA Research. This is encouraging news as we near the end of Q1 2022, and hopefully marks the beginning of the end of the economic ill-effects of the pandemic for our sector. Growth last year was limited by supply chain disruption and material shortages, but the continued growth in construction output &#8211; not to mention increasing demand for EV charging units, home automation systems and energy efficient retrofits &#8211; makes for a positive outlook. Spring is on its way, and the future looks bright for the electrical market.<\/p>\n<p>On the topic of electrical accessories, our cover story this month is from Selectric UK, showcasing some luxury installations for its first screwless plate design, the 5M-PLUS range. Turn to page 10 to take a look.<\/p>\n<p>On page 28, meanwhile, ESP\u2019s Katie Plumstead shares her insights into how installing smart controls can reduce the impact of huge hikes in energy bills as a result of the recently announced price cap.<\/p>\n<p>As supply issues continue to impact the industry across the globe, Paul Dawson, commercial director at Niglon, shares his thoughts on stock control and management in an uncertain market &#8211; read more on page 30.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, as always, this issue includes our regular news, views, product and installation features from market-leading businesses across the sector.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/content.yudu.com\/web\/69r\/0A19ww8\/EWMarch22\/html\/index.html?refUrl=https%253A%252F%252Ff.xdref.com%252F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the issue here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The March issue of Electrical Wholesaler is out now! The UK electrical accessories market has returned to growth more quickly than expected after the COVID-19 outbreak in 2020, seeing an estimated 8% growth in 2021, according to a recent report from AMA Research. This is encouraging news as we near the end of Q1 2022, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17565,"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-17636","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-new-Issue.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17636","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=17636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17637,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17636\/revisions\/17637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}