Q3 2025 Acquisitions

Here is a quick summary of 9 acquisitions, 2 closures / liquidations, 1 brand relaunch, and 1 merger of two brands within an existing ownership umbrella, in the third quarter of 2025:

• Porter Lighting Shuts Down. More here.
• Innovations Lighting acquired Brass Traditions. More here.
• Fagerhult Group acquired Capelon. More here.
• Hudson Valley Lighting Group (HVLG) re-acquired Sonneman-A Way of Light. More here.
• Ushio acquired AMS OSRAM’s Specialty Lamp Business. More here.
• San’an and Inari acquiring Lumileds. More here.
• Utopia Lighting brand relaunched as a new company. More here.
• Sentry Sports A to Z, LLC files chapter 7 bankruptcy and liquidates assets. More here.
• Noble Venture Partners acquires LumEfficient Lighting. More here.
• Commercial Residential Aluminum acquired American Lightscapes. More here.
• Cooper Lighting Solutions (part of Signify) acquired Nemalux. More here.
• LMPG merges its Sternberg and Lumca brands. More here.
• Tridonic acquired NovaLight. More here.

Reviewing the lighting manufacturer acquisitions by quarter confirms a significant rebound in M&A activity over the past 21 months:

Q1 2024: 11

Q2 2024: 11

Q3 2024: 7

Q4 2024: 6

Q1 2025: 4

Q2 2025: 11

Q3 2025: 9

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David Shiller

David Shiller is the Publisher of LightNOW, and President of Lighting Solution Development, a North American consulting firm providing business development services to advanced lighting manufacturers. The ALA awarded David the Pillar of the Industry Award. David has co-chaired ALA’s Engineering Committee since 2010. David established MaxLite’s OEM component sales into a multi-million dollar division. He invented GU24 lamps while leading ENERGY STAR lighting programs for the US EPA. David has been published in leading lighting publications, including LD+A, enLIGHTenment Magazine, LEDs Magazine, and more.

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