This week, we will attend the Gambica UPS Manufacturers meeting at their new headquarters in London. This is quite an interesting event as it brings together some of the leading manufacturers and suppliers of Uninterruptible Power Supplies in the UK market. The UK UPS group is really a smaller version of the one that meets regularly at a European level but it provides the opportunity for us to be ethnocentric and focus on issues facing the UK power protection market in particular.

There are several problems we can see facing the UK market. One is the ease with which it is possible for a UPS company to import products from the Far East and simple own-lable them. This can provide them with a low-cost entry into the UK market but what about the service support they provide their clients ? Those who have already suffered at the hands of ’skip-technology’ merchants know that when buying UPS you need to look more closely behind the curtain - at spares and service provision in particular. For this reason at Riello UPS we are seeing an increasing section of the market turning towards recognised UPS brand manufacturers like ourselves rather than importers with strong marketing and branding skills.

We are hoping that with the UK UPS group and Gambica we can somehow dervice a policy and guidelines for anyone interested in UPS to help them avoid the most common pitfalls seen when selecting UPS. More on this in the future we are sure.

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