Renaissance Lighting, a developer of solid-state downlights, has been selected to the 2009 GoingGreen East 50 Top Private Company List. The GoingGreen East 50 recognition is given annually at the GoingGreen East executive conference to privately held, emerging companies that create new business opportunities in green technology. Renaissance Lighting was selected by the editorial team [...]

My bad for sitting on this post for so long, but better late than never … Late last year, more than 100 sales professionals, representing 70 agencies nationwide, attended the Nora Lighting Commercial Sales Conference, where 19 firms were honored for their outstanding sales achievements. The annual three-day event was held at the company’s headquarters [...]

An article I wrote for TED Magazine recently describes the emergence of the NEMA Premium Ballast. Basically, this is a program, with a mark, that identifies the industry’s most efficient fluorescent electronic ballasts available for 4-ft. T8 lamps. It’s a great idea, even if simply to avoid confusion. Everybody calls their electronic ballasts “high efficiency” [...]

The International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD) recently conducted an economic impact survey in an effort to determine how the current economic downturn is affecting its members and their businesses. IALD Executive VP Marsha Turner summed up the results: “Significantly, it’s not all doom and gloom. There is a lot of trepidation–understandably–but there is definite [...]

WAC Lighting has contributed nearly 100 luminaires to Happy House, a New York City-based emergency shelter operated by the New York Asian Women’s Center (NYAWC). The NYAWC is the exclusive resource in New York with special Asian language, culture counseling and shelter capabilities to help Asian victims of violence and human trafficking. WAC Lighting donated [...]

Meyda Lighting has established MEYDA CUSTOM LIGHTING, a division that specializes in custom lighting fixtures, lamps, stained glass windows and more. Lighting diffusers are crafted of stained glass, steel, sandcarved glass, fused glass, blown glass, acrylics, fabrics and more. Fabricators work with steel, iron, aluminum, bronze, brass and copper which are welded, forged, formed and [...]

I was contacted by Placement Professionals, a recruiting agency located in northern NJ, which is looking to fill three regional sales positions for a high-end commercial lighting controls manufacturer in the NYC metro area, Los Angeles and Dallas areas. “The specific requirement is someone having sold lighting controls to the commercial industry and who has [...]

Acuity Brands Lighting, Inc. has entered into an agreement (subject to regulatory approval) to acquire 100% of the outstanding capital stock of Sensor Switch, Inc., the $37 million controls manufacturer, for $205 million. Sensor Switch, based in Wallingford, CT, offers energy-saving control solutions such including occupancy sensors, photocontrols and distributed lighting control devices. “The acquisition [...]

Cooper Industries has announced the acquisition of Irvine, CA-based Illumination Management Solutions, Inc. (IMS). IMS is a developer of specialized optics and system design for LED luminaires. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. IMS designs and manufactures LED systems and luminaires for a variety of lighting applications and has developed an innovation called LightBAR(tm) [...]