From auditing to installation to financing, Cree now offers a comprehensive package of lighting upgrade services as a delivery mechanism for their LED products into the existing buildings market. Click here to learn more. It’s an interesting move, a step toward manufacturers selling Light as a Service.

Leviton recently announced the acquisition of Intense Lighting, LLC, a manufacturer of LED luminaires. Intense Lighting, based in Anaheim, Calif., enhances Leviton’s current product offerings with a wide variety of specification-grade LED lighting solutions for the commercial, hospitality, supermarket, retail and residential markets. Intense Lighting will operate as a new, standalone business unit and maintain [...]

Comprised of one or more LED modules together with an LED driver, variations in light engine output account for most of the variations in LED color temperature, brightness and other output characteristics. This can be problematic for manufacturers as well as end-users wanting consistent brightness and color. To alleviate this problem, many LED light engine [...]

The Board of OSRAM Licht AG has announced that it intends to transfer its general lighting/lamps (including both traditional and LED) business into an independent legal structure. In fiscal 2013/14, this business generated worldwide sales of about 2 billion euros. The independent legal structure is to provide the basis for the further development (spinoff or [...]

Royal Philips has announced that it has signed an agreement with a consortium led by GO Scale Capital through which they will acquire an 80.1% interest in Philips’ combined LED components and automotive lighting business, with Philips retaining the remaining 19.9% interest. The transaction values the business at an enterprise value of approximately $3.3 billion. [...]

To celebrate the UN-designated Year of Light, the Illuminating Engineering Society is holding a photo contest. From IES: Every month we will announce a “Theme of the Month” to which you will post “lighting” photos related to the chosen theme. You can post as many photos as you wish and at the end of each [...]

In this short video, GE Lighting President & CEO Maryrose Sylvester discusses the massive transformation underway in the lighting industry as the incandescent lamp is replaced with smart LED systems and cities, companies, and consumers are empowered to cut costs and energy use and improve maintenance and satisfaction.

For 15 years, the non-profit organization Architecture for Humanity served communities in need, but recently (and sadly) filed for bankruptcy, closing operations on January 1, 2015. Click here to learn more about their story and efforts to continue the work they were doing.

LightNOW regularly publishes updated economic data from NEMA indicating electrical industry confidence, overall lighting sales and performance of HID lamps, fluorescent lamps and general-service lamps. ARCHITECTURAL LIGHTING put the entire year in a single place, providing a great snapshot of how the lighting industry did in 2014. Check it out here.