Lighting Industry

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 [...]

Prisma Architectural Lighting has announced that it has changed its name to Performance in Lighting USA, one of three brands under Performance in Lighting, or PiL, an Italian architectural lighting conglomerate.

NEMA’s Lighting Systems Index (LSI) dropped 12.8% during the first quarter of 2009 compared to the prior three-month period. Moreover, the index has registered new all-time low readings in each of the last two quarters. On a year-over-year basis, the LSI plunged nearly 22% and is down more than 26% from the cyclical peak level. [...]

At Lightfair last week, Acuity Brands Lighting, Inc. (parent company of Lithonia, Peerless Lighting, Hydrel and other well known lighting brands) announced the introduction of a new architectural outdoor brand: TERSEN. The international launch of TERSEN is scheduled for June. TERSEN will provide the architectural outdoor lighting marketplace with a collection of artistic outdoor luminaires [...]

A nearly 300-page report released by Strategies Unlimited, LED lighting Fixtures – Market Analysis and Forecast, provides a detailed assessment of the market drivers and challenges faced by the LED lighting fixture industry in penetrating the general lighting market. It provides application analysis and forecasts for nine lighting market segments through 2012. Through 2007, LED [...]