Jel

(London:JEL)

Contact Information The Jersey Electricity Company Limited Queens Road St. Helier, Jersey JE4 8NY, Channel Islands Tel. +44-1534-505-460 Fax +44-1534-505-565

Type: Public
On the web: http://www.jec.co.uk
Employees: 322
Employee growth: 6.3%

The Jersey Electricity Company is the sole distributor of electricity services to Jersey, the largest of the Channel Islands. The company's services include electricity supply and a range of building services (mechanical, plumbing, design, air-conditioning, facilities management). It also offers equipment, including space and water heaters, heat pumps, and air-conditioning and refrigeration units. It sells retail appliances through its Powerhouse store. The company has diversified into mobile phones and computers but has sold its JET telecommunications business. Jersey's government controls the utility.

Key numbers for fiscal year ending September, 2008:
Sales: $148.8M
One year growth: (4.2%)
Net income: $17.8M
Income growth: 15.2%

Officers:
Chairman: Geoffrey J. Grime
Chief Executive and Director: Christopher (Chris) Ambler
Operations Director: David B. Padfield

• Active: 2000s
• Genres: Rap
• Instrument: Producer
• Representative Albums: "Soft Money", "Greenball

Biography

Although the first instrument young Jel (born Jeffrey Logan) played -- much to his chagrin -- was the cornet, as soon as he had saved up enough money he bought his first (and only) drum machine/sampler, the SP 1200, when he was in high school. He began to dedicate most of his time to beat-making, and while at college he worked at the Northwestern University radio station, where he was eventually put in contact with MC Adam Drucker, or Doseone, with whom he connected instantly. Jel dropped out of school in 1996 in order to better focus on music, and two years later Dose's debut, Hemispheres, which featured two tracks produced by Jel, came out on Dose's fledgling Anticon label. The following year the duo released Them as the band Themselves, and both, as part of Deep Puddle Dynamics, along with Alias, Sole, and Slug, began working on the record Taste of Rain...Why Kneel? That album didn't end up being released until 2002, the same year that Jel's solo debut, Greenball, came out, with 10 Seconds following a few months later. In 2003 the Meat and Oil EP was issued, and in 2006, after Jel moved from Mush, the label that had released most of his solo work, to Anticon, Soft Money hit shelves. ~ Marisa Brown, All Music Guide

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