Your Lighting Brand (YLB), a brand marketing company dedicated to the lighting industry, aims to help local lighting agencies improve the experiences provided to both the manufacturers and the customers they serve. A majority of lighting agency websites are dated in both the platforms they are built on as well as the tools used to [...]

PIXI Lighting recently announced it will begin selling its products through Grainger. Effective June 1, 2014, Grainger will be the only supplier to offer PIXI products, including FlatLight Luminaires, the company’s ultra-thin, edge-lit LED, commercial-grade flat light. In addition, Grainger will offer its customers the following lighting products from PIXI: · 1’x1’, 2’x2’ and 1’x2’ [...]

EYE Lighting International and CIMCON Lighting recently announced they have signed a sales and marketing agreement in which both companies will cooperate to promote and sell outdoor lighting wireless control systems manufactured by CIMCON. Business operations of Hess AG Form + Licht were successfully transferred to Nordeon B.V. by way of an asset transaction on [...]

In December 2013, Precision Paragon conducted its 4th annual state of the lighting industry survey. This year’s survey was distributed to over 5,000 energy-efficient lighting industry professionals. My biggest takeaways were this: The large majority of respondents believe the relighting market is growing. LED luminaires continue to rapidly grow in popularity. Respondents indicate for the [...]

Planning & Evaluation Manager (Mgr 3 – Utils) Salary: $40.70 – $61.05 Hourly Location: City Light, Conservation Resources Division, 901 Fifth Avenue, Room 1814, Seattle, Washington Job Type: Classified Civil Service, Regular, Full-Time Shift: Day Department: Seattle City Light Bargaining Unit: WSCCCE, Local 21 CL Managers Closing Date: 06/03/14 04:00 PM Pacific Time Position Description: [...]

T5 and T12 lamp shipments improved by 9.9% and 9.4%, respectively, on a quarterly basis (q/q) during 2013Q4. Shipments of T8 lamps contracted 2.1% q/q. Nevertheless, calendar year (CY) 2013 showed the index advancing 9.4% on an annual basis. The index for T5 lamps also registered a gain during CY2013, besting CY 2012 by 9%. [...]

SALARY: $34.32 – $39.96 Hourly LOCATION: 901 – 5th Ave, 19th floor, Seattle,, Washington JOB TYPE: Classified Civil Service, Regular, Full-Time SHIFT: Day DEPARTMENT: Seattle City Light BARGAINING UNIT: PTE, Local 17 – Professionals CLOSING DATE: 04/28/14 04:00 PM Pacific Time POSITION DESCRIPTION: Seattle City Light, a department of the City of Seattle, is one [...]

Shipments of halogen A-line lamps increased for the sixth consecutive quarter in 2013Q4, posting an increase of 41.8% over the previous quarter. Similarly, the index for LED A-line replacement lamps increased 42.3% during the quarter. Compact fluorescent lamp (CFL) and A-line incandescent lamp shipments trended in the opposite direction by slipping 0.4% and 10.6% q/q, [...]

NEMA’s Lighting Systems Index gained traction during 2014Q4, increasing by 1.8% compared to the previous quarter. The index increased 4.7% on a year-over-year basis. Index components for emergency lighting, fixtures and miniature lamps posted gains, while ballasts and large lamps retreated q/q. Overall performance during calendar year 2013 placed the index nearly 17% above the [...]