Lighting Industry

Market Segment Manager Kenall, a leading manufacturer of advanced lighting solutions for healthcare, research and other specialized environments, has an exceptional new career opportunity for a Market Segment Manager to work closely with Kenall’s sales, marketing and product management teams to develop business strategies, implement segment-specific marketing and communications plans and monitor key segment metrics. [...]

Focal Point LLC, the Chicago-based architectural lighting manufacturer, is now represented by SLS (Specification Lighting Sales) in New York City. This partnership will allow Focal Point to further develop its relationships with the lighting design and architecture communities in a leading market. SLS is an independent manufacturers’ representative based in New York City, led by [...]

NEMA’s Lighting Systems Index (LSI) ticked 0.9% higher on a quarter-to-quarter basis during 2010Q3. On a year-over-year basis, the index showed a 5.6% gain compared to the third quarter of 2009. Although the LSI has trended higher since hitting a cyclical (and all-time) low during the second quarter of 2009, aggregate lighting equipment demand remains [...]

Nexxus Lighting, Inc. has announced that it has completed the sale of certain assets of its legacy Commercial and Pool businesses to Next Step Products, LLC. The divested businesses consist of the manufacture, marketing and sale of fiber optic lighting and LED products used for applications in commercial, architectural, pool and spa markets, but does [...]

The Romanian Lighting Convention will be held May 18-20, 2011 at the JW Marriott Bucharest Grand Hotel in Bucharest. Click here to learn more about the event.

Cooper Lighting has announced that its Halo brand of recessed and track lighting has been named by Remodeling magazine as the Brand Leader in Lighting. Sweeping all four categories, Halo was notably chosen in the lighting categories of Brand Familiarity, Brands Used in Past Two Years, Brands Used Most, and Brands Used in Past Two [...]

Alliance Lighting has announced the launch of a new office in the United Kingdom to represent its partnering manufacturers (Whitegoods, Vode, Technilum, Lumenpulse, Filix and ALM) to UK lighting specifiers. Jointly directed by Mark DeVries from Alliance Lighting in the U.S. and Douglas James of Whitegoods in London, the formation of Alliance Lighting UK will [...]

“If you retrofit an inefficient, lousy lighting job with new lamps and ballasts, the result is an efficient, lousy lighting job.” —Willard L. Warren, energy consultant

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