Until now, rental projects have been the focus of G-LEC's business in the UK, but Lars Wolf, managing director of G-LEC Europe, wants to begin to put more emphasis on the company's new architectural products, saying, "Chimera, which we launched at PLASA this year, is a strong product for us. We already have 700sq.m installed in the BMW Museum in Munich, and we are getting a lot of enquiries. We need a full time sales office in England and, as we have other partner companies in Europe and the Americas, it made sense to form G-LEC UK."
As well as managing sales, G-LEC UK will also support the company's existing UK rental partner, Creative Technology, and others as they are appointed. Wolf, the majority shareholder in G-LEC UK, continues, "The rental market continues to be important to G-LEC - this was where our business started and it remains core to our business model."
Managing director and co-shareholder of G-LEC UK is Bryan Norton. An experienced film and television lighting cameraman, Norton is a New Zealander who some will know from his time in the London office of Strand, when he worked in export sales.
G-LEC UK can be contacted at: 4 Harwood Point, 307 Rotherhithe Street, London SE16 5HD, telephone 020 7231 0811.
(Jim Evans)
