{"id":3069,"date":"2023-08-05T13:19:08","date_gmt":"2023-08-05T13:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=3069"},"modified":"2023-08-18T13:20:39","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T13:20:39","slug":"visit-to-cousins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=3069","title":{"rendered":"Visit to Cousins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>4<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;August 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sir John Whittingdale visited Cousins UK&nbsp; in Galliford Road Industrial Estate, Maldon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Having been started by Anthony Cousins\u2019 father as a small watch repairers in East London, the company moved to Maldon and is now Europe\u2019s largest wholesaler of watch parts, tools and equipment to the watch repair trade. It holds over 12 million items in stock and employs around 50 local workers at its modern distribution facility. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sir John met Anthony Cousins and his son (pictured) to discuss how to support the company in their battle against restrictive trade practices imposed by the Swiss watch industry. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"767\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-1024x767.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3070\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-1024x767.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-768x575.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image.jpeg 1344w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4th&nbsp;August 2023 Sir John Whittingdale visited Cousins UK&nbsp; in Galliford Road Industrial Estate, Maldon. Having been started by Anthony Cousins\u2019 father as a small watch repairers in East London, the company moved to Maldon and is now Europe\u2019s largest wholesaler of watch parts, tools and equipment to the watch repair trade. It holds over 12 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3070,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3071,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3069\/revisions\/3071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}