Serving the sector
The EDA (Electrical Distributors’ Association) is the trade association that represents the interests of wholesale distributors of electro-technical products in the UK.
There are two categories of membership:
- Wholesalers join the EDA as members: you can view our current membership here.
- Manufacturers, solutions providers and service providers join as affiliates: you can view our current affiliates here.
Wholesaler members include national networks with hundreds of branches through to single branch operations. We estimate that our membership covers 2,000 outlets throughout England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and, increasingly, these offer online B-2-B services, from which they generate a combined annual turnover of around £4.2 billion.
The EDA is proud of the level of engagement of its Members and Affiliates in the services it offers. These include:
- business networking events;
- training and apprenticeships
- publicity and exposure;
- representation in Europe;
- business support services
- digital product data services
Working for the good of the sector: competition law checklist
At EDA events and at both ad hoc and formal meetings, we make it clear that all present are acting for the good of the sector and that commercially sensitive information is not to be shared.
You can read our Competition Law Checklist here.
