Today’s is Lincoln’s birthday.

The Lighting Practice has announced that it has received Women Business Enterprise (WBE) certification from the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council, Pennsylvania’s Department of General Services’ Bureau of Minority and Women Business Opportunities, and from the City of Philadelphia’s Office of Economic Opportunity. This positions the firm to network with and do business with companies [...]

Nora Lighting has finished a major update of its website at www.noralighting.com that spotlights more than 100 new products, including LED and CFL luminaires and decorative accent lighting, while also providing a wider range of customer service features. Improvements include: * Easier to navigate * New homepage quickly links users directly to specific product lines [...]

Luminaire manufacturer a·light has announced that it will begin building a new manufacturing facility in Southern California shortly. The building will house both of AmerillumBrands (a company I’m proud to call a client) subsidiaries, a·light and Alumen8, in the 54,000-sq.ft. building illustrated in the rendering shown here. The offices, manufacturing and warehouse facilities will be [...]

Sea Gull Lighting Products LLC, manufacturer of decorative and functional lighting products, has introduced a new 600-page catalog detailing its full-line of indoor, outdoor LED and ENERGY STAR® qualified lighting fixtures and ceiling fans. Click here to visit Sea Gull’s website and request the new catalog.

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I am pleased to announce that my latest novel, Tooth and Nail, will be published by Schmidt Haus books in April 2010. This is my first work of horror, or rather, post-apocalyptic fiction and was a lot of fun to write. Hope you’ll check it out when it becomes available!

Cree released its earnings for the second quarter of fiscal year 2010, announcing a record revenue of $199.5 million. This represents a 35% increase compared to revenue of $147.6 million reported for the second fiscal quarter last year and an 18% increase compared to the first quarter of fiscal 2010. See the complete announcement here.

GE Lighting, a unit of GE Appliances & Lighting, has announced the establishment of GE Lighting Solutions, a combination of the company’s LED business unit, Lumination, based in Cleveland, and its commercial and industrial fixture group, GE Lighting Systems, based in Hendersonville, NC. “This change reflects our strategy to serve as an industry-leading solutions provider [...]