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Acuity Brands, Inc. today announced it has entered into a purchase agreement to acquire all of the equity interests of The Luminaires Group (“TLG”), a leading provider of specification-grade luminaires for commercial, institutional, hospitality and municipal markets, all of which complements…
Acuity Acquires WhiteOptics
WhiteOptics®), is a New Castle, DE-based manufacturer of advanced optical components used to reflect, diffuse and control light for LED lighting used in commercial and institutional applications. WhiteOptics’ product portfolio includes light guide plates, optical diffusers and innovative micro-structure lenses…
Acuity Peerless Renna LFI 2019 Design Excellence Award
(Commercial Indoor: Troffers, Suspended and Surface Mounted) A simplicity of form provides compatibility with modern architecture, especially open and deconstructed ceilings. The 4” housing width and minimal 1/4” lightguide bezel supports a balance of visual comfort with a minimalist physical…
Acuity Promises Affordable OLED Luminaires in OLEDworks Alliance
While many mainstream LED lighting companies have jettisoned OLED technology, Acuity Brands has continued to hang in there, and now it has signed a deal with specialist OLEDWorks to help it expand its line with what it says will be…
Acuity Brands Partners with OLEDWorks
Acuity Brands, Inc. announced plans to work exclusively with OLEDWorks, a manufacturer of organic light-emitting diode (OLED) lighting technology, on an expanded product portfolio of OLED luminaires. Acuity Brands, using OLEDWorks technology, intends to develop a series of affordable and…
LED Lighting Adds Up to Big Savings for Target
Target’s LED lighting partner is Acuity Brands. Back in 2015, Target kicked off a test at about 100 stores in which it replaced the existing fluorescent light fixtures in its ceilings with LED lights. Flash forward to the present day,…
Acuity Sells Spanish Company Carandini
Acuity Brands has quietly unloaded its $23 million Spanish lighting company Carandini, as it tries to stay steady in what CEO Vernon Nagel described this week as a “challenging lighting market.” The sale came to light when the buyer, Spain’s…
Wegmans Features OLED Lighting Technology
Rochester-based OLEDWorks LLC contributed its Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) lighting installations in select Wegmans stores and worksites, thereby enhancing the Wegmans experience. OLED lighting provides naturally diffused light with unrivaled light quality. OLED Works says OLED lighting produces an…
Now LEDvance Joins Price Rise Wave
LEDvance has become the latest company in North America to announce a price increase. Its traditional non-LED lighting equipment will now be subject to a six to eight per cent hike. The LED products will not be subject to a…
Have Lighting Prices Hit a Turning Point?
America’s biggest fixture manufacturer has surprised the global lighting industry with the first major price rise in the market in years. Acuity Brands – parent of top brands in both North America and Europe including Lithonia, Winona, Holophane, Hydrel, Carandini,…
The Acuity Acquisition of IOTA
Acuity Brands has announced the acquisition of IOTA Engineering, a specialist in emergency lighting technology such as LED drivers with emergency lighting capabilities. The acquisition likely fills a void in the former’s portfolio, although Acuity has long offered the Power…
Global LED Indoor Commercial Lighting Market Will Reach USD 15.87 Billion in 2018
According to the latest report from LEDinside, a division of the market research firm TrendForce, 2018 Commercial Lighting, Smart Lighting and Panel Light Market Report, the global LED indoor commercial lighting market will reach USD 15.87 billion in 2018, accounting…
Chinese Firms Prepare Bids for GE Lighting Ops – Sources
(3/5 Reuters) – At least two Chinese companies are preparing bids for industrial conglomerate General Electric’s remaining lighting assets in a potentially $1 billion deal, according to people familiar with the situation. MLS Co and Foshan Electrical and Lighting Co…
Acuity Brands, Inc. Announces Acquisition of Lucid Design Group, Inc.
An Oakland, CA-based provider of building analytics through its industry-leading BuildingOS® business intelligence platform. The Company believes the combination of Lucid’s BuildingOS platform and Acuity Brands’ large installed base of networked sensors for lighting and building automation controls and its…
Acuity Brands Offers Complete Indoor Positioning Service (IPS) Solution
Acuity Brands, Inc. announced a complete, end-to-end indoor positioning services (IPS) solution comprised of two Atrius™ Internet of Things (IoT) platform services: Atrius™ Navigator software development kit (SDK), and Atrius™ Insights spatial analytics web application. the Atrius Navigator SDK enables…
Acuity Adds Phunware as an IoT Partner for SSL-Based Location Services
Acuity Brands continues to expand its smart lighting and Internet of Things (IoT) partner ecosystem with the latest partner being mobile software specialist Phunware. Phunware offers a technology stack that enables its customers to easily build apps that can leverage…
Acuity Teams with Indoor Mapping Firm That Has Big Airport Presence
Another day, another matchup between a lighting company and an IT firm in an effort to turn lighting infrastructure into intelligent data networks. This time, LED lighting stalwart Acuity Brands has teamed with LocusLabs, an indoor mapping software specialist which…
Target Gives the Go-Ahead on IoT Lights at Half Its Stores
The world’s largest known deployment of lighting-based indoor positioning is finally going full speed ahead, as US retail giant Target plans to roll out a customer engagement system in nearly half of its 1800 stores by Christmas. Using Bluetooth chips…
Acuity Brands, Inc. Offers News Street Lighting Network Solution Using SSN Platform
Acuity Brands Lighting, Inc. has selected Silver Spring Networks, Inc. as a technology and channel partner for its smart street light and smart city solutions. Acuity Brands has developed and will market its DTL® DSN intelligent photocontrol, which will operate…
New IoT Platform from Acuity Brands Helps Evaluate and Plan Space Allocation Through Lighting
Acuity Brands introduced Atrius Spaces, an Internet of Things (IoT) platform service that helps customers manage space utilization using a building’s occupancy data. Atrius Spaces, which includes a web application and an application programming interface (API), can be used to…
