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Giles Pratt set to retire

UK: Giles Pratt, sales specialist at Fujitsu General Air Conditioning UK, is set to retire after a career spanning 40 years in the UK air conditioning industry.

After joining air conditioning distributor BRD in 1986 as a sales co-ordinator, he moved to form FM Air Conditioning as a Fujitsu distributor with BRD colleague Rachel Wales in 1992. After 13 years with FM he left to join Oceanair Distribution as sales manger, before leaving there to set up his own company Soulair in 2009. 

In 2018 he resumed direct contact with Fujitsu by joining the UK company as business development manager.

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