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News Release
Contact:
John Robb
+44 (0)1302 321541
john.robb@cooperindustries.com
Cooper Lighting and Safety’s Nick Manning Wins
Young FD of the Year Award
DONCASTER, UK, 5 October 2010 – Nick Manning, Financial Director of Cooper Lighting and
Safety, a business unit of Cooper Safety, picked up the award for Young Financial Director of the
Year at the recent Yorkshire Finance Director Awards.
The region’s elite financial directors were honoured at a prestigious black-tie event held at Rudding
Park Hotel in Harrogate. Now in their ninth year, the awards are sponsored by Ernst & Young,
Hammonds, Santander and Sewell Moorhouse.
Commenting on his success, Nick said: “I am delighted to have won this award, which recognises
that my involvement in a number of key areas has made a significant contribution to the business as
a whole and will help the company to meet the challenges of the coming years.”
A member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, Nick joined Cooper Lighting and
Safety in 2006 and since then has played a central role in some strategic changes that the company
has made. These included the implementation of financial shared services and, most recently,
negotiating the purchase of the building that the company occupies in Wheatley Hall Road,
Doncaster, where it designs and manufactures a wide range of commercial lighting and emergency
lighting products.
Along with other shortlisted nominees, Nick was interviewed by a panel of representatives from the
four sponsoring firms and at the awards ceremony was announced as the winner out of three
finalists in his category.
For more details, visit www.cooper-ls.com, e-mail info@cooper-ls.com or call +44 (0)1302 303200.
Photo caption: Neil Williams (left), Yorkshire regional director for Santander Corporate Banking,
presents the Young Finance Director of the Year award to Nick Manning, finance director of Cooper
Lighting.
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Editor’s Note: For additional information, contact Rick Bauling at RJB Communications
on +44 (0)1234 782255 or rbauling@rjbcoms.com.
About Cooper Lighting and Safety
Based in Doncaster, Cooper Lighting and Safety Ltd is responsible for three separate brands:
Crompton Lighting, Menvier and JSB. Crompton Lighting is well known in the commercial lighting
sector, while Menvier and JSB are market leaders in emergency lighting as well as having a strong
position in the market for fire-detection equipment. Cooper Lighting and Safety Ltd is one of the
operating companies of Cooper Safety.
About Cooper Safety
Cooper Safety is a leading manufacturer of emergency lighting, security, fire detection and
notification systems also offering lighting fixtures, and electrical installation materials. Our well-known
brands and products can be found in a whole variety of industrial, commercial, and domestic settings
providing protection to both life and property by offering fire and security detection, and escape route
illumination in the event of an emergency. Under normal conditions our products offer professional
lighting solutions and high specification installation materials. Headquartered in Royal Leamington
Spa, England, Cooper Safety comprises 11 different operating companies located in the UK,
mainland Europe and North America. Together these businesses utilise in excess of 1 million square
feet of modern manufacturing and warehousing space, and currently employ over 2000 people.
Cooper Safety is a division of Cooper Industries, Ltd., a USA based Fortune 500 company.
About Cooper Industries
Cooper Industries plc (NYSE: CBE) is a global manufacturer with 2009 revenues of $5.1 billion.
Founded in 1833, Cooper's sustained level of success is attributable to a constant focus on
innovation, evolving business practices while maintaining the highest ethical standards, and
meeting customer needs. The Company has seven operating divisions with leading market share
positions and world-class products and brands including: Bussmann electrical and electronic fuses;
Crouse-Hinds and CEAG explosion-proof electrical equipment; Halo and Metalux lighting fixtures;
and Kyle and McGraw-Edison power systems products. With this broad range of products, Cooper
is uniquely positioned for several long-term growth trends including the global infrastructure buildout, the need to improve the reliability and productivity of the electric grid, the demand for higher
energy-efficient products and the need for improved electrical safety. In 2009, sixty-one percent of
total sales were to customers in the industrial and utility end-markets and thirty-nine percent of
total sales were to customers outside the United States. Cooper has manufacturing facilities in 23
countries as of 2009. For more information, visit the website at www.cooperindustries.com.
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