Megaman is launching an International Project Division to help UK specifiers working in international markets.
The division will be headed up by the company’s international project marketing manager, Ciaran Kiely, and his role will be to direct specifiers to Megaman suppliers in international markets and to ensure that specifications created in the UK are held.
A Megaman crown brass lamp in a Tom dixon fitting
Kiely told Lighting: “If you specify one of our products for a project in Dubai, someone needs to source it in the local market. We have a vast range of lamps and we need to make sure they are there in the quantities needed. Hotel projects can take six to nine months to come through and we’re trying to manage that process through.
“We already have significant experience of working directly with specifiers, in parallel with all parties involved, to ensure that Megaman technology is supplied efficiently and applied to maximum effect on international projects. However, we wanted to acknowledge this expertise more formally with the creation of the new division.”
Megaman has begun to carve out a niche for itself in the decorative lighting market having established partnerships with leading designers such as Tom Dixon and Terence Woodgate in recent times. Kiely said: “To some extent decorative lighting customers feel they have been ignored by the phase out of incandescent sources and get the sense that they’re being funnelled into a corner. We want them to force the changes in the industry rather than feel that they are being forced to change.”
He also revealed that Megaman is working on a 3W or 4W LED replica filament lamp for the decorative market. “It won’t be about the amount of light; it will very much be an aesthetic choice,” he said.
