{"id":22614,"date":"2025-03-12T09:14:52","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T09:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/?p=22614"},"modified":"2025-03-11T16:19:30","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T16:19:30","slug":"lucecos-ian-hunter-returns-to-eda-data-services-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/lucecos-ian-hunter-returns-to-eda-data-services-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Luceco\u2019s Ian Hunter returns to EDA Data Services Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ian Hunter, trade sales director at Luceco (BG Electrical), re-joins the EDA Data Services Board following a recent vote by the EDATA Steering Group. In the same election, Andrew Pegrum of Deta Electrical Company and Mark Ashworth of ABM Electrical Wholesale Ltd, part of The IBA Buying Group, retained their positions and will each serve another two-year term.<\/p>\n<p>Ian has served on the Board previously but had to relinquish his place when he changed roles. Only representatives from the 28 EDATA manufacturer and wholesaler sponsors can be elected to Board positions.<\/p>\n<p>Responsible for the strategic direction of the EDATA data pool, the elected Board members are:<\/p>\n<p>Richard Baxter, Systems &amp; Procedures Director, Edmundson Electrical Ltd &#8211; Chair<br \/>\nMark Ashworth, Director, ABM Electrical Wholesale Ltd<br \/>\nNick Edwell, Managing Director, Rapid Electrical Distributors<br \/>\nMarcus Leek, Chief Commercial Officer, Rexel UK Ltd<br \/>\nSean Jordan, UK &amp; I Data and Commercial Analytics Director, Schneider Electric Ltd<br \/>\nAndrew Pegrum, Senior Technical Manager, Deta Electrical Company Ltd<br \/>\nMichael Wright, Product Development Manager, Aico Ltd<br \/>\nIan Hunter, Trade Sales Director, Luceco PLC (BG Electrical)<br \/>\nMargaret Fitzsimons, CEO, EDA<br \/>\nRichard Appleton, Head of Digitalisation, EDA<\/p>\n<p>The EDATA data pool continues to expand since its 2020 launch. Now over 100 leading brands share comprehensive high-quality product information on 280,000+ products with EDA Wholesalers who enjoy free access to the data pool to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Filter and search to resolve technical product queries quickly and efficiently<\/li>\n<li>Bulk data downloads to drive business systems and ecommerce<\/li>\n<li>Download PDF Product Data Sheets in a consistent format for quotes, tenders, submittals, and Operation &amp; Maintenance Manuals<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ian Hunter, trade sales director at Luceco (BG Electrical), re-joins the EDA Data Services Board following a recent vote by the EDATA Steering Group. In the same election, Andrew Pegrum of Deta Electrical Company and Mark Ashworth of ABM Electrical Wholesale Ltd, part of The IBA Buying Group, retained their positions and will each serve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22615,"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":[],"class_list":["post-22614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ian-Hunter-of-Luceco-10-March-2025.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22614","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=22614"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22617,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22614\/revisions\/22617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}