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THE FUTURE IS BRIGHT FOR OVIA A year since its official launch as an independent lighting company, Mike Collins, sales director with Ovia, looks at how the brand is going from strength to strength, with an expanded sales team, second catalogue issue and a raft of new products.
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020 turned out to be an extremely challenging year for everyone, but as a business Ovia has been very fortunate to have been able to ride out the storm so far. The company made the decision to get all sales managers back early from furlough and out on the road and interacting with customers remotely – and that has really paid off. Ovia has exceeded its expectations for the first year as an independent business. Even with the challenges faced in the current climate, the company also released the second issue of its catalogue with a whole range of new products.
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Investment…innovation Ovia has made some very significant investments in the last 12 months. These include the purchase of cutting-edge testing equipment and a revolutionary photometry testing scheme, the appointment of a former BSI testing expert and the addition of a raft of new products to its growing lighting and lighting controls ranges. The company purchased its own Goniophotometer device and signed up to the revolutionary Gonio photometry luminaire testing scheme which has been created by the LIA, together with its partner Acal BFi, to enable lighting manufacturers to offer efficient third party certified luminaire performance testing. By bringing the light test facility in-house, the ground-breaking testing scheme is radically speeding up the testing process for Ovia’s lighting products and also offers reassurance when it comes to validating photometric measurements, such as Lumens per Watt and related performance claims.
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