Lighting Science Group Corporation and Martin Professional A/S have announced a distribution agreement that will give Martin access to Lighting Science’s X16 DOTZ LED strings for global distribution. The X16 DOTZ LED string will be marketed under the name FlexDOT in Martin’s line of LED video products. FlexDOT is a string of high-brightness RGB LEDs [...]

Braemar Energy Ventures, a venture capital fund making early- to mid-stage investments in the energy technology sector, recently announced a $10 million investment in Fulham, an assembler and distributor of electronic ballasts and drivers for fluorescent, HID and LED lighting. Fulham joins Braemar’s energy efficient lighting portfolio comprised of Laser Light Engines, Nuventix and Luminus [...]

Lighting.com was founded in the 1990s and has since endeavored to serve as a portal for the lighting community. I buy advertising in their newsletter for one of my clients. But all the email addresses for my contacts are no longer working, emails to their general box go unanswered, the phone’s disconnected, they didn’t exhibit [...]

At Lightfair, I had the pleasure of being introduced to Barry Jordan, National Sales Manager for recycling firm Veolia Environmental Services. He told me about his company’s new website, www.recycleabulb.com, designed to streamline collection of household CFLs for disposal and recycling. Utilities, efficiency programs and other collection organizations are invited to participate. Consumers go to [...]

Grenald Waldron Associates, a lighting design firm based in Philadelphia, has turned 40. Happy birthday!

NEMA’s incandescent and compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) indices for Q109 declined 2.4% and 4.6% respectively compared to the previous quarter. The incandescent lamp shipments index showed a decline of 16.9% on a year-over-year basis, nearly reaching the all-time low set during the third quarter of 2008. Since the beginning of 2007, the incandescent index has [...]

I hope you and your family enjoy a great Memorial Day.

I just heard about a Permanent National Sales Manager job for an entertainment lighting company based in Florida via LinkedIn, and thought I’d pass it along: “We are seeking a highly motivated individual to lead efforts to solidify and increase our National Sales market share in the USA. The successful candidate will meet sales targets, [...]

NEMA’s Electroindustry Business Confidence Index (EBCI) for current North American conditions jumped 16 points in April to 42. Though falling below the key 50-point mark indicative of improvement in industry conditions for the 17th straight month, the index nonetheless reached its highest level in nearly a year, and has rallied some 34 points over the [...]