Island Life October/November 2018

Prestige property
The electrician
who sparked a
business success
An Island business that started out in 1993 as a
one-man electrician service has evolved over the
past 25 years to become one of the region’s major
players in the construction industry, with a client
list that reads like a Who’s Who of business.
Left to right: Gowan Ruler,
Contracts Manager & Andy
Rothery, Commercial Manager
Trevor Jones was just 19 when
he boldly launched out as an
independent electrical contractor.
At that stage, he had completed
a three-year apprenticeship with
Wight Electrical (part of the
former Island Builders Group),
but due to the recession, saw
his job with them disappear.
“The very next day after leaving,
I started sub-contracting and I
guess I never looked back” he says.
Five years down the line, and
still aged only 24, Trevor had
a business that had become
so successful that he was
employing 15 electricians -
which was why in 1998 he took
the decision to incorporate as
Trevor Jones Electrical Limited.
Fast forward another
five years to 2003, and the
company had branched out
into building & development
work – so much so that Trevor
celebrated the 10th anniversary
of the business by creating an
additional arm of the original
electrical business to specialise
in the development work.
The next five-year milestone
came in 2008 when the
electrical side of the business
responded to the recession of
that period by shifting its focus
to larger contracts, and taking
on major re-fits for big-name
clients such as BAE Systems.
In 2010, this growing arm
of the business was re-named
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