Craig DiLouie

Ledalite has announced the appointment of Don Jacklin to Senior Manager of Business Development. Working in conjunction with our agency sales force and Regional Sales Managers, Jacklin’s new role will be working with Ledalite reps to enhance awareness of the Ledalite brand within the Fortune 500 community, develop sales opportunities to corporate clients, and to [...]

GE’s Lighting & Electrical Institute recently opened enrollment for its 2010 courses. Workshops this year address fundamentals, product troubleshooting, retrofits and lighting trends in healthcare and retail facilities. All conferences are held in GE’s Lighting & Electrical Institute facility on the historic Nela Park campus in Cleveland, Ohio. More than 6,000 lighting professionals from around [...]

Guest post by Ted Konnerth, President/CEO of Egret Consulting Group I just returned from speaking at Strategies in Light. SiL is the largest conference dedicated to LED. My topic was selling new technology into an old culture and it was well received; from both the ‘tech guys’ and the traditional lighting guys. My point was [...]

Construction spending during February 2010 was estimated at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $846.2 billion, 1.3% lower than the revised January 2010 estimate of $857.8 billion and 12.8% below the February 2009 estimate of $970.4 billion, according to new Commerce Department figures. (Note these are estimates and subject to change over the next several [...]

In January, 2010, the city of Bradenton Beach, Florida, along the central Gulf Coast adjacent Sarasota and Bradenton, completed an installation that everyone can appreciate. They replaced 100W high-pressure sodium street lights and ballasts along the city’s main thoroughfare, fronting on Gulf of Mexico beach land, with 17W LED lights. Bradenton Beach found a way [...]

Yum! Brands, parent of KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, Long John Silver’s and other brands, is the world’s largest restaurant company with more than 36,000 restaurants in over 110 countries. As part of its efforts to demonstrate social responsibility, Yum! unveiled its first LEED Gold-certified restaurant, a KFC/Taco Bell in Northampton, Mass., in 2008. The [...]

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Cree has announced that it is introducing a series of LED modules designed to accelerate the adoption of LED lighting by traditional luminaire manufacturers and speed time-to-market for their new LED-based products. The first product in the new line is the Cree LED Module LMR4, created to overcome common design issues manufacturers have faced when [...]

GE Lighting has announced that it is previewing potential OLED lighting application ideas during two industry trade shows this year, Light + Building 2010 in Frankfurt, Germany and LightFair 2010 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. The company will show OLEDs in a number of configurations at both shows, including fixture prototypes that help to demonstrate [...]