The Group Managing Director of OE Electrics, David Masters, has stated that he feels ‘immensely proud’ at the company winning ‘Product of the Year’ in the Lighting, Technology & Accessories category at the Mixology North 19 award ceremony.
OE Electrics, which manufactures power and data distribution solutions, won the award for its PLY product, which you can see below. The company also saw competition from two competitors, Colebrook Bosson Saunders with Lima and SBFI with Arc Duo.
Made in Yorkshire sat down with David Masters, to discuss with him the award, and what it means to OE Electrics. We began by asking David what his general thoughts were to OE Electrics winning the award, both on a personal level and on a wider company level.
David stated, “I feel immensely proud of further recognition for not just OE but specifically our Design Team. We have known for some years we were considered the Innovators of our Industry but it has never been recognised by a specific award before, achieving this has now highlighted to our market that we are the leaders and just recognition for our team of Designers.”
We also asked David about the product, and why he thinks the PLY range won the award, and more broadly what makes OE Electrics products appeal to the consumer.
“Our industry products have for years been considered a necessary functional product rather than desirable, yet we supply into a fashion industry that we identified needs great looking fashionable products.
We made that statement with Pixel and Pluto and have continued to set trends and Ply is yet another of those products to show colour shape and size matter when designing these solutions, coupled with that our Patented TUF Replaceable USB Cartridge made it a winner.”
Representing OE Electrics on the night of the award was Tim Hobbs Technical Director, who was there as a representative and leader of the Design Team, as well as Patrick Tarbit, the Sales and Marketing Director who was supported by other members of the Sales Team.
Looking toward the future, we asked David, based on the great response OE Electrics has had to the PLY range, what’s next for the company?
He responded by saying that the entire team will be continuing to push the key elements that helped PLY win, that being, “We will continue to be the innovators, bringing out new products that will provide solutions to problems customer don’t know they have yet. Our focus is to constantly advance and push the boundaries of design and functionality and we have a brilliant team that can do that. We are very excited about the technology we will be launching in 2020, so watch this space!”
David also believes this award will help showcase the successes of the company to clients saying: “The award has highlighted to our current and future customers that we have a highly successful formula of Award Winning Design and functionality that make the Ply the best solution on the market.”
The winning product, PLY, is a sustainable product made from certified birch plywood, available with both two and three AC power sockets, and is built using ISO9001 quality controlled components. You can find out more about the product over on the OE Electrics website, simply follow this link.