TODAY'S NEWS AND INFORMATION

Philips Looks for Acquisitions in Asia, India

Firefighters use Brushes to Manually Remove Snow from LED Traffic Lights

Cree Claims Brightest, Most Energy Efficient Bulb

• Delivers more than 800 lumens and consumes fewer than 10 watts 

• “This is a significant milestone for the industry,” said Chuck Swoboda

USA Today Sheds Light on Incandescent Ban

Sales Increases During Hubbell's 4th Quarter

• EPS drops from $0.84 per share to $0.81

Salina, KS to give $750K to Philips Lighting

• Philips to Ad 50 jobs

Lighting Science Group Completes $18 M Private Placement

• Pegasus Partners IV,LP and two of its operating advisors purchased 3,167,333 shares at an aggregate price of $10,452,200

LSI Q2 Jumps

• 81% increase in second quarter profit, driven by strong sales in its lighting segment.

President Obama Visits Orion

• Obama:  "Orion is a leader in solar power and energy efficient technology"

Cooper Reports Strong 4Q

• Core revenue growth of 14% 

Lime Energy Signs Alliance with GE Lighting

Valmont Announces 9% Price Increase

Federal Agency Leaves Lights on in DC

Philips Quarterly Profit Set to Double

• Medical and lighting post strong numbers

GE Reports Strong Numbers

GE's Immelt to Head President Obama's Competitiveness Board

• President Obama, "We think GE has something to teach businessesses all across America

Lite-On Expects 10-15% of Revenue from LED

Cooper Announces 5-7% Price Increase

• Excludes LED

Cree Continues to get Hammered

• Falls from near $70 last week  to $52.xx

Bridgelux to Focus on China and LED Lighting

• Added sales offices in both Shanghai and Shenzhen

Juno Announces 5-7% Price Increase

Cree Misses Forecast

• "Demand isn't fantastic right now in the marketplace and things have softened a little bit,"

Hubbell Announces 5-7% Price Increase

• Steel up 52%

• Copper up 110%

• Aluminum up 64%

Ruud v. Cooper

Acuity Brands Website Goes Down on Friday Evening 9:27 pm EST

Philips Day-Brite  Announces 5-7% Price Increase

• Excluding LED

LD+A Wins Award

Report:  75% of all Lighting in 2020 to be Efficient

• Technical, market, and other barriers will somewhat hamper the growth of LED lighting in the beginning of this decade

• LED sales volumes will still be relatively low in those years, but high prices will lead to large revenue figures

Lightolier Price Increase

Florida Park Adds CK's Color LEDs

Multiquip Introduces Plasma Lighting Tower

• The first hydrogen fuel cell powered light tower

• Light tower uses innovative plasma light technology, which is filament-free, producing a clean, natural light with a 50,000 hour life

GE Acquires Remote Energy Monitoring

Now Hiring:  Lighting Science Group

• Adding up to 50 jobs in engineering, manufacturing, R&D and supply chain

Acuity Brands Announces 5-7% Price Increase

Acuity Brands Reports Higher Profits, but Misses Estimate

• Expects Challenging 2Q

Philips Acquires Optium Lighting

• Privately-owned company specialising in customised, energy-efficient lighting solutions for the office, industry and retail segments.

LUXIM and NXP Bring Smart Card Security Technology to Lighting

• Helps assure component authentication throughout the entire supply chain

Acuity Brands:  There's an App for That

Cree Increases Performance of XLamp MX-6

• Available with 80 CRI minimum in warm white (2600 K – 4300 K)

• MX-6 LEDs can provide an L70 lifetime of more than 150,000 hours

Carmanah Sues Lightech

• $625,000 Advance Payment in Failed Acquisition at Center of Dispute

Zach Gibler, CEO, Lighting Sciences Group, Killed in Bicycle Accident

• The Accident

• Senior Management to Continue to Lead Manufacturing, Sales, Technology and Marketing

• Weinberg Named Chairman of the Board; Harkleroad and Darnell Named Vice Chairmen

CA Says Goodbye to the 100 watt Incandescent

Times Square Ball Ignites LED Hopes

Cooper Acquires Apex Controls

• Pressures in commercial markets will continue to be a drag on earnings throughout the current year; however, numerous items such as lighting retrofit, government spending, energy efficiency projects and stimulus will help buffer underlying pressure

Crawford Lipsey Named CEO at Relume

Smart Lighting Set to Surge

Lighting Science Group Secures ARRA Funds to Relight Washington

• DDOT conducted a study and analysis of LED lighting products from a variety of vendors and manufacturers.

• Study involved the evaluation and analyses of photometric readings, fixture life, efficacy, aesthetics, color temperature, dimmability and compatibility with remote monitoring and control systems.

North Korea Threatens War over South Korea's Christmas Lights

• Decked with 100,000 light bulbs and topped with an illuminated cross

• The brightly lit steel tree sits on a peak high enough for it to be seen by North Koreans living in impoverished border towns, which frequently suffer electricity cuts and food shortages

Lighting Science Group Names Financial Industry Veteran to Board

• Leon Wagner, Co-Founder of GoldenTree Asset Management

Budget Cuts to Darken California Streets

• Vista, CA to turn off every other light if tax increase not passed

• "Most lights are energy-efficient so dimming them won’t save much"

Philips to Produce 150mm Wafers

Osram on the Block?

In Delhi, 70% of Streetlights Don't Work

GE to Re-Bid Cleveland Job

LEDucation 5 Sold out!

Research and Markets Announces 2010 Research Report

LED Dominates Christmas Lighting

Lighting Science Group to Build it's 1,000,000th LED Lamp

Bulb Ban--Maybe Not?

GE Offers $50 LED Lamp

• 9 watts replaces 40 watt incandescent

• 25,000 hour life

Macy's Goes Green

• Switching 117,000 Incandescent  bulbs to LED's

CREE Introduces 60-watt equivalent

• Uses only 11 watts

Schwarzenegger Appoints Gibler to R20 Initiative

NLB Sees Some Improvement

UC Davis to Reduce Lighting Energy by 60%

Acuity Wins Top IMARK Award

...And now ESL?

• Uses accelerated electrons to stimulate phosphor to create light, making the surface of the bulb “glow”

• Creates the same light quality as an incandescent but is up to 70% more energy efficient

Report on GreenBuild

Philips-Lumec Responds to LRC's Response to DOE's Response to LRC's Report

GE Publishes Industry Transformation Paper

BP Selects LSI for LED Canopy

• LSI will act as BP's "lighting expert"

• Retrofit program is expected to involve as many as 1,600 sites per year for three years for jobber-owned locations

The Gloves Come Off.  LRC Responds

• Rea:  "It is disappointing that all six of the LED manufacturer representatives recommended streetlights with lower light output than the incumbent technology"

• Added "Higher Powered" Addendum

  • LED is 2.3 the lifetime cycle costs of 150 HPS

• Rea:  "...encourage specifiers to actually read Specifier Reports: Streetlights for Collector Roads and draw their own conclusions, rather than relying on faulty interpretations posted on blogs or distributed via mass emails,”

 

Now BetaLED Goes Inside

• A new line of interior architectural downlights for commercial and high-end residential use

NEXXUS Earns Energy Star for ARRAY

Light Systems Can Kill Superbugs

Venture Capitalists are Going Green

Cleveland's LED Bid Tied to Job Creation

• Must build a manufacturing and research facility in the city and hire 350 employees

Philips to Close Sparta Plant

• Nearly 300 workers found out Thursday that the plant will close in 201

Lights Out at Meadowlands Stadium

• Lights drop out during 3Q of Cowboys vs Giants game

Siemen Reports Loss; Orders Soar 25%

Lightech Announces Carmanah-Lightech Deal Off

Carmanah Cancels Lightech Deal

• Lays off 37

• "...Loss of the engineers...actually reflects strength in the company's illumination department."

• "The building blocks we have in there are strong, and the next evolution of products can be put out way faster and way cheaper," he said. "We don't need them as much ... "

CREE Announces Higher LPW

UK Begins Going Dark

Valmont Announces 5% Price Increase

Cooper Acquires Mount Engineering & Apex Lighting Controls

NXP Launches Automotive LED Technology

US Army Announces New Lighting Policy

• Complete replacement of all inefficient incandescent lighting on Army installations within five years

• Beginning in 2013, new construction will meet ASHRAE

US House of Representatives Switches to LED

OLED Expected to Grow to $1.4B in 2015

Incandescent Phase-Out Costing US jobs

NEXXUS Lighting Sells Some Assets

DOE's 'Lighting Facts' Not so Factual

DOE Awards $1M to Redwood Systems

• Redwood was awarded Phase I of the same grant to explore the feasibility of providing power and communications to LED lighting through a low-voltage networking system

• Redwood applied for and received Phase II funding, which allows further commercial development

CREE Names Ex-Lowe's CEO to Board

Lighting Science Group Passes Energy Star Standard

Digitimes Research:  LED to Capture 16% of Global Market Share in 2013

Light at Night Leads to Obese Mice

LSI's 1Q Profit Rises

• Optimistic about continued growth in solid-state LED Lighting. 

GE's John Strainic on Regulation

Tennessee Representative Marsha Blackburn Challenges Incandescent Ban

Charles  Darnell Joins Lighting Science Group Board

• 50 years of lighting industry experience

GE Unveils Hybrid Halogen-CFL

• Inside the GE light bulb is a halogen capsule, which turns on instantly and brightly within half a second. It then shuts down once the CFL takes over

Cooper Reports Strong 3Q

• Electrical Products Group segment revenues for the third quarter of 2010 increased 9.3 percent

An Interview with John Selander, IES President

Cree Tumbles as 1Q Misses Estimate

Michael Moisin Sues Over Dimmable CFL Patents

• Defendants include:  GE, Philips, Walmart

Westminster Maintains Streetlights that are neither HID, LED, Light Emitting Plasma, Induction, Fluorescent or Incandescent

Philips Profit Triples

• Lighting reports strong growth

Holophane to Light Javits Center

• Will use Prismpack high bay luminaires

Woman Gets Caught Stealing $300K from Philips

• Former assistant human resources director for Philips Lighting was convicted of claimed thousands of dollars in reimbursements for university classes 

Nexxus Lighting Receives Energy Star Rating

Acuity Brands Acquires Winona Lighting

• Acquisition strengthens presence in the design community

GE's 3Q Drops 18%

Valmont Report 3Q with 36% Lower Net on Higher Sales

• Utility  business fell 27%

• Gross margin fell to 25.1% from 31.4% as costs jumped a third

Moser Baer and Universal Display Invest $20M in OLED Manufacturing

Could Light at Night Make You Fat?

Petras:  "75% of GE's Lighting Sales will come from LED"

• "Deal with Transformation"

124,000 CFL's Recalled from Northeast

• Sold in NY, NJ, CT, and PA

Lighting Science Group's Zach Gibler on CNN

• Will produce in one day, what we produced in one year

• China, Mexico faster with stimulus

• Could have lost Home Depot by not ramping fast enough

Mercury in CFL to Decline

MA Town to Shut Off Every Other Streetlight

• Will save police and firefighter jobs

LRC Study:  HID vs LED

• LED streetlights and the induction streetlight could be spaced only about one half the distance of the HPS and PSMH streetlights and still meet the RP-8 lighting criteria

• Life cycle cost of the LED streetlights tested for this study is up to twice that of the HPS and PSMH streetlights tested

OLED vs LED

Acuity Brands 4Q Earnings Fall

• But both revenue and earnings excluding one-time costs topped Wall Street expectations

AmerillumBrands Forms New Partnership

Lighting Science Group Gets Recapitalized

• Simon Property Group Invests

LED CRI Debunked

• low to no correlation at all between the computed CRI and the visually determined differences in color

• CRI is in general not applicable for a ranking on color rendition when white led sources are part of the observed illuminants

GE Invests $60 M in Bucyrus Plant

• Will create 130 new jobs

Siemens to Acquire Controls Company

• Customers can participate in Smart Grid demand response programs with local utilities

Acuity Offers LED White Papers

·         LED and Binning 

·         LED and 100% Efficiency

·         LED and Lumen Depreciation

·         LED and Controls

Home Depot Chooses Lighting Science Group

Lighting Science Group Receives Energy Star

Acuity's Peter Ngai to Present OLED Technology

Orion Receives 6 New Patents

DOE Announces Winners

• Kichler

• Cree

• Edge

SYLVANIA Wins 2 Gold Awards at NeoCon

Zach Gibler, CEO of Lighting Science Group, to Appear on CNBC

Efficient Lighting Becomes Business Priority

CREE Adds 20 Jobs in North Carolina

LED's Shed Light on Impressionism

Lightech Sold to Solar Company

• Price:  $18.5M

Estimate:  LED Market at $17.5B

Daintree Launches ControlScope(tm)

• Partners with Easylite

Cooper Raises 3Q Outlook

Lighting Science Group Considers Move to China

Hubbell Declares Dividend

Military to Study Light from Fireflies

• Produces light, but no heat

Powerful Microscope to Study Lighting

Another UK Town Turns off Streetlights

• 'Part-night lighting'

Last US Incandescent Lamp Plant to Close

FTC sues LED manufacturer

• Lights of America selling 40 watt equivalent (400 lumens) with LED lamp which provides 74 lumens

 

CREE Stock Above $80  in May;  Now Below $50

 

Philips Develops Mains-Voltage White OLED

• Eliminates need for costly power supply

 

FORBES:  Beyond LEDs: Indiana Town Goes for Light Emitting Plasma

 

• ...hardy enough to withstand heat and cold.  "We get over 100 degrees sometimes and even below 30..."

 

 

Bill Brown Sales Teams up with Tyco

 

IES Weighs in on Spectral Weighting

 

Lighting Science Group Reports Loss

• $102,712,000 loss for quarter ending June 30

Kaufman Brothers Begins Coverage of LED Sector

• Hold Rating for CREE

 

NLB: Lighting Systems Index Stalls, Slumps

• Growth in C&I construction activity is not expected for at least several more quarters

 

 

Graphite Foam will Add $50 to $100 to LED luminaire cost

 

LA Uses Light to Fight Crime

 

Move Over LIGHTFAIR; JP Morgan to Host LED Symposium

 

Lighting Sciences Begins Trading on Bulletin Board

 

ORNL Discovers Graphic Foam can Dissipate Heat

• Eliminates need for aluminum heat sink

 

City Considers Turning Off Every Other Light

 

Gerard Lighting  Profit  up 54%

 

Stan Deutsch Associates Offers Showcase in New York

 

Lighting Science Group Reports Loss

 

Bill Watkins, Bridgelux CEO, Opens up for Forbes

• Traditional Manufacturers:   "...every dollar they invest in LED technology steals from their core business"

 

• "Traditional manufacturers take 16 months  to two years to innovate"

 

 

CREE to sell downlights at Home Depot

• Fit into a six-inch recessed can

• 10.5 watts, same  light as a 65-watt incandescent bulb

• Price  is $49.95.

Shorting CREE

 

Acuity Brands Completes Exchange of Notes

 

China, Inc Report Now Available

 

LIGHTFAIR 2011:  Call for Speakers

 

After Huge Sell-Off, Is CREE a Buy?

 

Lighting Science Group Lights Street in Spain

 

Mercedes Adds LUXEON Rebel

 

CREE Falls on Forecast

 

Lighting of Ball Field Criticized

 

The Upside of Nexxus Lighting

 

Lumileds Crosses 1 Billion LUXEON LED Benchmark

 

Bridgelux Collaborates with China's Foshan Electrical

 

Tulsa Turns Lights Back On

 

Philips Responds to Components Shortage

 

Calls Purchased on Acuity Brands Stock

• Investors expect stock to rise

DECO Warns Cities about  Made in America

 

Ballast Shortage Reaches Critical Point

• Hubbell to source ballasts from distributors

Siemens Net Profit up 12%

 

Rochester, MN Requires Residents to Pay for Streetlights

• $1.82 per month per household

LUMILEDS LUXEON Rebel Reaches 300+ Lumens

 

Acuity Brands Acquires Remaining Assets of Renaissance Lighting

 

Senior Managers of GDC Acquisitions Holding Company Charged with Bank Fraud Conspiracy

 

• JDC Lighting is a prominent lighting distributor in Northeast

 

VP Biden Responds to Made in America Fraud

 

Cooper Reports 2Q up 51%

 

Applied Materials will Exit Thin Film Solar, Focus on LED

 

Introducing the IES NY 'Nightseeing' Tour

 

DOE to Provide Consumer Education

 

Philips Reports 5x Profits

• Lighting is up 13%

• Internal letter attributes increase to emerging markets

                            

  GE Reports 16% Increase in Profit                           

                            

 GE Introduces iPhone App for Mood Lighting

 

 GE Names New CEO to LED Business

•                               Jaime A. Irick named President and CEO

 

Luminous Devices Expands in N. America

 

IKEA to Ban Incandescents

 

Lumenetix Appoints Douglas Herst Chairman of the Board

 

DOE Can Learn from DOE

 

Introducing a Solar Powered Light Bulb

• Lasts 4 hours per night

Philips & CREE Announce Comprehensive Cross Licensing Deal

 

• CREE:  'Signals both companies commitment to growing the LED market.

• Philips:  '...delighted that CREE will be joining our LED Luminaire Licensing Program.'

 

Consumer Product Safety Commission Recalls Whitco Poles

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Madden 11 Improves Lighting

• Patterns of light and shadows will be unique to the individual stadiums to better emulate how they appear

 

Acuity Misses Quarterly Profit Number

• 3Q profit dips  3%

• Shares fall 12%

 

 

• Report accuses 6 companies of violations

• Report given to Vice President Biden

 

Ruud Responds

 

Rambus & GE Announce Licensing Agreement

 

                       

                        GE's Jim Campbell Collapses During VP Biden's Talk

 

GE May Leapfrog with OLEDs

 

 

IES Establishes Public Policy Initiative

 

Ruud Sued

• COUNT ONE:  IMS claims infringement of LED "Wide-Beam Generation" patent

 

• COUNT TWO:  Civil Conspiracy.  Claims Alan  Ruud, who served as IMS director, violated fiduciary responsibility

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   Made in America:

 

   Lighting Sciences Group Forges Deal with Pace 

 

 

 

 

 

US Architecture Billings Fall

 

Orion Offers LED

• "...outperforms lighting developed by one of the leading LED manufacturers. The result of the field verification test validates Orion's mastery in thermal and optical optimization."

 

 

Acuity Brands Moves from S&P 600 to S&P 400

• Replaces CarMax

 

CBS Story on Lighting

• Tom Hamilton of Philips calls market introduction of CFL a 'Flop'

• CBS says LEDs will save homeowner $300-$600 per year

 

China Intelligent Lighting Launches $10M IPO

 

Coming in 2011:  New Labels

• Emphasize Lumens not Watts

 

LED's Bright Future...

• ....but a burnout on the way

 

Brodrick:  LED's not suitable for T8 Replacement

 

Orion Receives Patents on Outdoor Lighting

 

Report:  LED Lighting Market to Grow to $1.3B by 2013

• ". market will enter a competition-oriented phase, where paying attention to competitors becomes the basis of a company’s product development policy."

 

 

Solar Bulb to Shine on Developing World

• 5-10 year life, $15 cost

 

LIGHTFAIR Breaks West Attendance Records

• 22,000, 10% increase

 

Vintage Bulbs Make a Comeback

• Howard Brandston must be pleased

 

Lighting Science Group's Fred Maxik Files 100th Patent

 

GE & Lithonia Team Up to Help Educate Schools

 

Is CREE Overpriced?

 

GE Appliance/Lighting Profit up 39%

• GE to invest $600M in the unit in next few years

• Will hire 830 employees

• Renamed division from Commercial & Industrial to Home &  Business Solutions

 

WAC Raises Money for Parkinson's Disease

 

LUXIM Enters Australia/New Zealand Market with Gerard Lighting

 

Luminous Devices in Asia Partnership

• Avnet Electronics Marketing will distribute Luminus PhlatLight LEDs to customers in Asia

 

CREE Downgraded due to Oversupply Concerns

 

Cleveland's Mayor Yanks LED Deal with Chinese Company

 

Litecontrol Announces Brian Golden as President

 

Stocks Hammered

• CREE drops 8.6% to $65.13

• GE down 5.8% to $16.26

• HUBB down 4.8% to $42.50

 

Orion Announces Year-End Results

• $65M annual revenue; loss of $4.2M

• Preliminary settlement of class action suit claiming that the defendants made misstatements and failed to disclose material information in the Company's initial public offering registration statement and prospectus.

 

 

 

 

Gerard's $85M IPO is Fully Subscribed

 

 

Daintree Network Launches Wireless Control System at LIGHTFAIR

• Expertise is in enabling wireless communications, and in simplifying the installation, commissioning and management of lighting controls and energy management applications.

 

 

Mark Rousch as 'Andy Roney'

 

Joe Montana Visits LIGHTFAIR

 

LIGHTFAIR Innovation Awards

 

 

GE's 27th Annual Edison Awards

 

 

The Gloves are off.  GE & Cree vs. Home Depot & Lighting Science Group

• ECOSMART LED vs Energy Smart LED

 

Bob Horner Accepts Position with IES

• Director of Public Policy

• Will plan, develop and coordinate the public policy interests of the IES to government, regulatory, trade and professional associations

 

 

SYLVANIA Announces 3% Price Increase

 

Chicago Recycler Fined $743,000

•  EPA said the warehouse was actually a hazardous waste site and operated without the required permit.

 

University Study:  We Think Better Under Incandescent

 

Bright Forecast for LED Lighting

 

AU:  Two-Thirds of CFL Offer Less Light than Claimed

 

 

Cavet 'Hell bent on coming to USA'

•  Claims 'Disruptive' Technology 

 

There's an App for that

• Louis Poulsen Introduces IPhone App

 

Cramer Recommends Cooper, Hubbell

 

CEO Sells Large Stake of Cooper Industries

• CEO Kirk  Hachigian sold 114,000 shares 

 

Veda Clark out at Lightcontrol

 

NLB Solicits for 'High Benefit Lighting' Awards Program

 

 

IES 2010 Annual Conference:  CALL for Papers

• Submission deadline:  21 MAY

GE T8 moving back to the US

• Add 130 jobs to Bucyrus, OH plant

• Will be appropriate in projects funded under the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act

 

 

Cooper  Declares Dividend

 

Lighting Science Group Receives $18M in Stimulus Funds

•  Potential to create 832 new jobs

 

 

The Problem with Light + Building

 

Light + Building + Trapped-Like-Rat

 

Cooper Upgraded

 

Cooper Announces 46% Increase in EPS in Q1

• Electrical products revenue dropped 2.2%

 

DOE vs. DOD re: LED

• Air Force bans LED

• Allows exceptions for bulleting boards, display cases

 

Clarification on Incandescent Ban

  

Jaffe Lighting's Long Rise and Quick Fall

 

LIGHTFAIR 2011 Moving to Philadelphia

 

GE Introduces 40-watt LED

• 450 Lumens; 9 watts; saves 77% energy

 

Lighting Quotient Offers $2500 Scholarship

• Named in honor of Sy Shemitz

 

Luminous Devices Joins Next Generation Lighting Alliance

 

An Interview with Tim O'Brien, President, Zumtobel Lighting, North America

 

 

Acuity Reports

• 2Q EPS fell 7%

• Revenue slid 1%

• "Very Challenging" environment for rest of 2010

Nexxus Lighting Reports 4Q

• Annual Revenue of $11.6M

• 4Q Revenue of $3M

 

LSI Sells LSI Marcole

 

• Takes $700,000 write off

 

Orion Wins Plant Engineering Magazine Award

• 100 watt exterior fluorescent fixture has 1718% more light than 111 watt LED

 

Sports Lighting Tower Collapses

• No injuries, unclear if it is another Whitco

Orion Moves to NYSE Exchange

 

Acuity Brands Declares Dividend

• $0.13;payable 3 May

 

Bridgelux to Offer $20 LEDs

 

Schreder Sues Former Employee

• Allegedly stealing trade secrets while working with a business in competition

 

• Suit accuses him of "a series of disloyal and intentionally wrongful activities"

 

• "Funneled opportunities to his own business to pitch, and ... even used Schreder's own product designs"

 

Cooper Announces 3-5% Price Increase

 

Bridgelux Partners with Molex

• Bridgelux CEO describes CFL as  "...crappy design, lousy light, and it has mercury and lead."

 

Delta-Valmont, Not a Done-Deal

James McMahan Named WAC GM and VP

GE Offers LED Quality Standards to Protect Decision-makers

• Biggs:  "...LED solution leaders such as GE need to press for standards that protect customers."

 

LSI Spin-off to Open EU Office

• New company formed by Fred Jalbout, LSI top executive

• Independent company will be headquartered in France

Visa's Alliance with Acuity Brands

Australian-Based Gerard Lighting in Bid to Raise $85M

Vice-President Biden to Visit CREE today

Starbucks Goes Green with GE LED

Philips Lumileds Offers Ultra Compact LUXEON c

Lemnis Lighting Receives Additional $37M

GE Receives DOE/EPA Sustained Excellence Award

• Fifth straight year

Philips to Participate in Gulf Forum

• Will display a booth with a pledge wall where people can sign their oath to take simple actions in saving energy and switching to energy efficient lighting

 

ER EXCLUSIVE:  An Interview with Luminus Devices CEO, Keith T.S. Ward

 

Outdoor Lighting Fixture Recalled by American Electric

• Recall involves model AVL outdoor lighting fixtures

Supermarket Lighting Helps Vegetables Stay Fresh

• Significantly higher levels of vitamins C, K, E and folate than when kept out of the light.

 

Valmont to Buy UK's Delta

• Pays 20% premium over stock price

Valmont Increases Prices by up to 8%

Johnson Control Acquires Lighting Service Company

Fired Seagate CEO Loves Lighting...and himself

• Editor's Comments

Please welcome Joe Montana to the Lighting Industry

Philips Hanover Lantern  Announces 3-5% Price Increase

Architecture Index Down, Again

• Loses 2.9 points

Philips Allscape Announces 3-5% Price Increase

Philips Bronzelight Announces 3-5% Price Increase

Mark Eubanks new GM at Cooper Lighting; Neil Schrimsher Promoted

• Schrimsher to oversee 4 divisions, including Lighting

Philips Hadco Announces 3-5% Price Increase

GELS Announces 3-6% Price Increase

Orion Founder, Wife, to Sell Shares

• Proceeds to pay for personal taxes

 

•  Critical of traditional channels
  

Lighting Affects the Taste of Wine

• Humble Editor to conduct own test at Marriott Marquis in Manhattan this evening

 

Valmont 4Q up 5%

EU to Focus on Intelligent Luminaires

• Intelligence is major objective for both manufacturers and end users, resulting in a greater level of integration between controls and luminaires

 

Cooper Declares Dividend

Energy Efficiency:  The Best Alternative Energy Sector 

Philips Acquires Italian Luminaire Maker Luceplan

NLB Achieves Goals

OSRAM Opto Launches new LED site

The Future has arrived:  Audi  Superbowl Ad Green Police

• Man arrested for 'Possession of an Incandescant Light Bulb'

First LED, then LEP, now LEC

• Less expensive than OLED

• Easier to recycle

Philips Introduces 250w Pulse Start with 90% Efficiency

• Meets California Title 20

• Same footprint as standard 250 watt

Introducing 'Thought Controlled Lighting'

NEXXUS Reports Preliminary 4Q

• Sales of $3M
• Expects 55% growth over 3Q

CREE Downgraded

•  "extraordinarily strong MOCVD tool bookings" could lead to short-term overcapacity in the industry..."

 

Lithonia to Lose Jobs

• Cochran plant impacted

Orion Posts Lower 3Q

LSI to Close Tennessee Plant

•  Cited weak demand for the wire harness components the plant makes and the loss of high-volume business to offshore competitors.

 

Stray Light Optical Introduces First US Light Emitting Plasma Streetlight

• Saves 50% energy; 50,000 hour life

• Lumen package increased 40% in last 12 months

Robe Announces New Appointments

Croft Value Fund Likes Valmont

• Sleeper stock; poised to gain

Lunera to Receive VC Backing

Acuity Brands Announces Collaboration with Samsung LED

• ...to significantly accelerate the adoption of LED technologies in the marketplace

• ...underscores  commitment to sustainable lighting solutions...

Cooper Upgraded by UBS

Cooper Profit up 16%; Beats Street

GE Combines Outdoor & LED Business

• David Elien new President & CEO of Lighting Solutions; Paul Morse VP at Hendersonville

 

Philips Reports Higher 4Q;

• 10% of lighting sales now come from LED

• Asia & Latin America lead growth; US declines

• Lighting:  Earnings were 41M Euro vs -376M Euro a year earlier.

BetaLED Reached 100 LPW

GE's 4Q Falls

LSI Reports Mixed Results

• Lighting Revenuse increased 1%

Howard Lewis Elected Chairman of National Lighting Bureau

CREE Profit TRIPLES in 2nd Q

CNBC's Kramer Bullish on Cooper

U.S. Department of LED (DOE) gives another $37M in Stimuls Money to LED research

 

Leviton to Sell Assets of American Insulated Wire

PG&E Introduces Rebate Catalog

Acuity Brands to Receive Tax Credit

• $772K for Crawfordsville, IN

CREE Downgraded

Former Seagate CEO to Join our Industry

• Bill Watkins has taken on the CEO job at Sunnyvale, CA-based LED Lighting company Bridgelux.

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• Bridgelux is also on the verge of closing an oversubscribed round of venture capital that could top out north of $50 million

 

• Founded in 2002, that Bridgelux has already raised about $72 million in venture capital

 

Energy Focus Lands $12M Retrofit Contract

• Rob Wilson commented, "Two of the seven projects are multi-million dollar contracts through a leading energy services company ("ESCO") for projects at a public school district and a public University

 

 

Ruud Lighting Wins Patent Infringement

EXCLUSIVE:  Philips Combines Lamp and Ballast Organizations

Orion Claims Boost from Acuity Lighting's Comments

Luminous Devices Settles Investor Dispute

LED Company Fighting for its Life

• Luminous Devices accuses its lender of reneging on a $15.1  million loan and blocking access to its bank accounts

 

• Company said it has raised $140 million since it was founded in 2002 and was close to raising another $15 million in financing when Hercules blocked access to some of its bank accounts

 

 

Acuity Brands Beats Street

• 20% Increase in Profit

Valmont Downgraded

GE Reorganization Good for Lighting

• Division changes name from "Consumer & Industrial" to "Appliances & Lighting"
• In recent months, Mr. Immelt has said GE now wants to keep the unit as it matches with GE's new goals of growing its industrial businesses, particularly in businesses that address energy efficiency and a smarter electricity grid.
  

Stock	1-Jan-09	31-Dec-09	Change
Cree	$    16.04	$      56.37	251%
Cooper	$    30.67	$      42.64	39%
Philips	$    20.73	$      28.44	37%
Valmont	$    64.76	$      78.45	21%
Siemens	$    77.77	$      91.70	18%
Lighting Science	$       0.75	$        0.80	7%
Acuity	$    35.36	$      35.64	1%
GE	$    17.07	$      15.13	-11%

 

Philips Lights Times Square Ball

• View image

Valmont Declares Dividend

Venture Offers Product Line to meet California's New Title 20 Efficiency and Compliance Standards taking effect 1 JAN 2010

• ...standard 88% ballast efficiency to 90 and 92%. This can be interpreted that the state of CA is asking for electronic ballasts in HID fixtures.

• The 88% systems can still be utilized under precise rules. A
  manufacturer must use an integral dimming system with the fixture as one option.

Hubbell Addresses Outdoor Lighting Standards

• Consensus Agreement has been Achieved and sent to Washington

HALO:  Homeowners Against Lighting Ordinances

Nexxus Lighting has Follow-on Stock Offering

• 5,750,000 shares @ $3

LED Traffic Lights Blamed in 12 Accidents; 1 Death

• Snow blocks signal

• "As far as I'm aware, all that can be done is to have crews clean off the snow by hand," said Green Bay, Wis., police Lt. Jim Runge. "It's a bit labor-intensive."

Philips Completes Retrofitting Times Square Ball to all LED

ER: EXCLUSIVE:  Discussion with Zia Eftekhar on new position

Zia Eftekhar Named appointed Chief Executive Officer of Philips Professional Luminaires North America

Generation Brands Files Chapter 11

• Sea Gull Lighting
• Murray Feiss
• Tech Lighting

Siemens Downgraded

• Cut to equal-weight by Morgan Stanley

The Motley Fool Likes Acuity Brands

• Better positioned

Siemens Reports 58% drop

Acuity Brands Prices Private Offering

CREE Demonstrates 98 LPW Streetlight  

Cooper Acquires Pauluhn

• $35M deal 

LSI Opens iZone

• The multi-faceted facility is dedicated to innovative new technology for lighting and graphics products

• An integral tool in educating customers about LSI's advanced products and underlying technologies

Christopher Ruud Named President of Ruud Lighting

DOE's Jim Brodrick To Continue Exclusive Focus on LED  (Commentary)

• correction

TIME:  Philips LED Bulb is One of Best Inventions in 2009

Konica Minolta Expects $1B in OLED Sales in 2017

• "Management at Konica Minolta is committed to making OLED lighting one of our major business pillars in the mid to long term."

• Konica Minolta is developing OLED lighting gear with GE

Ilumisys Vows to be #1 in LED

• ...said that large manufacturers such as General Electric Co. and Phillips Electronics (their spelling) are jumping into the market, “but they don't have competitive products."

• According to Gerald Polk, manager of energy partnership and services group at Detroit-based DTE Energy Co., the cost of traditional street-lamp bulbs is $200-$250.

Editor's Note:  Humble editor is happy to sell Mr. Polk HID lamps, all day long, at the reduced price of $190.  It's a bargain!

Juno Lighting and Elite Amicably Settle Patent Dispute

Valmont Honored with Export Award

Cree Installs at Walmart

• Will be installed in 650 stores

• Replaces 70 watt CMH

Acuity Brands to License Philips LED portfolio

Vossloh Schwabe N. America Operations to be folded in with Universal

NYC Update:  LightAbilities to Rep LSI

FTC Seeks New Labels for Bulbs

• People think of 'watts as a measure of brightness...
  

Orion Reports Loss

• Anticipates $16.5-$18M for 3Q

Secretary Chu Announces $151 Million for R&D

• Includes crystal growth technology that could lower the costs of LEDs

NJ Installs 10 Millionth CFL

Law School Shines Too Bright

Cooper Reports Lower Earnings; Beats Forecast

• Record 9 month free cash flow

AIA Billings Up Slightly

Cree Reports Record Quarterly Revenue

• Revenue $169.1M, a 20% increase

• Net Income increased to $21M 

More CFL Criticism

GE's Earnings Fall 42%

• Sales off 20% across the board

• Profit is up at Consumer & Industrial

Hubbell Cuts 20 Jobs in Christiansburg

Valmont 3Q Beats Estimate; Sees Lower 4Q

• Q3 EPS $1.53 vs est $1.07 

• Q3 sales down 12%

Lighting Sciences Introduces Roadway Lighting Technology

Philips Triples Profits

• Helped by cost-cutting

• Beats forecast

 CV Lighting Closes

CREE to add 575 jobs

Acuity Brands Annual Profit Falls 43%

• Net income of $84.9 million and earnings of $2.04 a share, compared with net income of $148.3 million and earnings of $3.56 a share in fiscal 2008.
• Stock Upgraded by Wedbush Morgan

Toshiba to Introduce 60 watt Equivalent LED

Lightswitch Lights Chicago Sky

Governor Schwarzenegger is Introduced to Light Emitting Plasma™

Lemmis to Offer $39.95 LED Replacement for Incandescant

EPA & DOE in Bold Partnership

BusinessWeek Article on Philips Lighting

• Philips has forked out $5 billion over the past five years on acquisitions in large part to expand its LED business.

• Global lighting industry will grow at around 5% a year through 2012,  LED market is forecast to expand at 28%.

Siemens:  Sales Continue Slide
GE:  Slowest Recovery in Decades

Lumileds Opens Shanghai Office

Transparent White OLEDs

Would Philips Really Sell Lumileds?

PATENT WARS CONTINUE:  iLight Awarded $5M in Patent Suit

• Rulings that confirm iLight’s victory in its patent infringement litigation against Fallon Luminous Products Corporation, a Knoxville, TN sign company

• Court rejected Fallon’s motion for a new trial, and increased the total amount awarded to iLight

• iLight invented what the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the jury found to be a unique manner of using LED technology to simulate cold cathode and neon lighting. 

• “With more than 50 patents governing this unique technology, it is difficult for us to imagine an LED product of high quality that offers very desirable, bright, and even illumination similar to cold cathode or neon without using iLight’s proprietary technology.”

Lighting Sciences Launches Major New Product at Clinton Global Initiative

• Substantially increased light output at about half the cost 

• New line of LED retrofit lamps will use approximately 80% less energy than the traditional lighting technology lamps they replace. 

Taiwan Manufacturer Mulls Acquiring LUMILEDS from Philips?

NY Streetlight Replacement a Real Dud

• The antique lights, which are called bishop's crooks, cost about $10,000 to purchase and install. Standard streetlights cost about $4,000.

• "It's a beautiful thing, but they aren't very bright," said Murray Fink

• $4.7 million project to replace 500 working street lamps 
  

SLP Acquires American Louver Lighting Divsion

Audit Finds Wasted in Shared Savings Program

• Buildings torn down several years ago; Government paid $850,000 for energy savings at facilities that no longer existed

QSSI Acquires Duraguard

Neptun's IP Notice

Orion CEO to meet with Walmart, Dell, at White House

CREE Falls 5% after announcing 11M New Share Offering

The Acquisition Opportunities in Lighting

• LED companies likely have the greatest chance to be acquired 

• Plasma lights will also attract shoppers, but it could take longer

Toshiba Mulls M&A to Gain Share

• Aims to raise lighting system sales to 350 billion yen ($3.8 billion) by 2015

• Toshiba now faces increasing competition at home from non-lighting makers Panasonic Corp, which said it will launch LED light bulbs in Japan on October 21

CREE Offers 11M New Shares

Philips Lumileds Introduces New LED Headlamps

Cooper Completes Move to Ireland

GE Upgraded

• JP Morgan raises fro $12/share to $17/share

Cree & IBM?

Bill Brown Sales and Robertson End Relationship by Mutual Agreement

Global Emerging Lighting Market = $112 Billion

Citigroup Upgrades Cooper

Shareholders Approve Cooper's Move from Bermuda to Ireland

• Allows Cooper to expand it's workforce

SAVE THE BULB!   HOWARD BRANDSTON'S OP ED PIECE IN WALL STREET JOURNAL

Philips and Lighting Science Settle All Litigation

• Trade between both companies will be intensified

• Philips to make limited equity investment in LSG

• My exclusive discussion with Zach Gibler, CEO

Tom Salpietra Named President & CEO of EYE Lighting

Tom's Exclusive Comments to EdisonReport

Orion Receives Modular Patent

Edison's Revenge!

• Max Bahr "...energy savings lamps are useless for reading"

U.S. Navy Fleet Going LED

LUXEON Rebel Gains UL Recognition

• Possible for UL Listing on new luminaires without having the full in-system LED investigation 

Product Safety Commission Issues Warning on Whitco Poles

• Issues warning while investigation is ongoing

• "To reduce the risk of injury, Whtco Co. LP Outdoor steel stadium light poles should be inspected immediately."

Former Howard Manager Pleads Innocent

• Could spend rest of life in jail

LSI Narrows Loss

• $0.01 per share loss compared to $1.18 during year-earlier quarter

SLi and AC Electronic Establish Partnership

NEMA Lighting Index Falls to Another New Low

• An additional 4.3% drop from the first-quarter’s then-all-time-low performance.

• On a year-over-year basis, the Index plunged by almost 25%.

Architecture Billings Up

• Rebounded more than 5 points last month

TED Magazine Names Leviton Manufacturer of the Year

Florida Power & Light won't change Street Tariff to allow LEDs

• Plans to evaluate technology for 1 year

• Ft. Lauderdale scrapped talk of LED's because of FP&L's position

Insiders Sell $6M of Valmont

Lumileds Adds Alvin Tsi to Asian Operations

CREE Upgraded

Electricity Rates Drop

• Wholesale electricity cost an average of $40 a megawatt hour, down from $66.40 a year earlier

Valmont Introduces Pole Risk Based Analysis Tool

• A risk-based analysis so they can assess their own pole failure risk.

• Expert inspection, analysis, repair and replacement of poles, lattice towers and related structures 

Wisconsin Politicians Introduce Legislation to Create Green Jobs

• Legislation introduced at Orion's Technology Center

Orion Reports Numbers

• Revenue down 22%

• Gross Profit down 33%

• Operating Expenses up 18%

• Added 31 contractor partners, total 476 contractor partners

GE to Close Canadian  Lamp Plant

AAL & Kim to Share Facility in California

Cooper Declares Dividend

Siemens Profit Down 7%

• Will cut 1600 jobs--most in Europe

• Company "did particularly well" compared with its main competitors

ALP Acquires Tooling, Equipment of ALC

Lighting Sciences Lays Off 29; Moving HQ to Florida

WSJ Selects Finelite as one of Top 35 Small Workplaces

72% Don't want Feds Changing their Lightbulbs

• Rasmussan Poll says 18% approve; 10% not sure

Cooper Controls Enters Marketing Agreement with Electronic Diversified

Cooper Reports 45% Lower Profits

• Still beats expectations

Orion Announces New President, James R. Kackley

• Oversee day-to-day operations

• Reports to Neal R. Verfuerth, who continues as CEO 

Valmont 2Q Profit Up

Philips Plan for Recession

Slump May be Ending

Universal Display and Armstrong Develop Oled with a little help from Department of Energy (DOLED)

GE Profits Fall 49%

GE Introduces EVOLVE Outdoor LEDs

GE Plans to Reduce Household Energy to Zero

Philips Stock Gains 5%

Philips Reports 94% Drop in Net Profit

• Lighting shows 57M Euro Loss

• Better in the second half than the first half due to cost-cutting programs and — possibly — some recovery in sales.

Keith T.S. Ward's Interview with Journal of New England Technology

Philips May unveil more Cost-Cutting at Lighting

• Expected to post loss on 13 JUL

• Targeting more than 500 million euros in annualized cost savings by the end of this year

• Detailed plans for 6,000 job cuts in 2009 on top of 3,000 announced in 2008

Jademar Merges with Henry Stern

• Over 100 years combined international experience

Cooper Downgraded

LEED Depot Challenges White House on Efficiency

Incandescent Lamp, Not Yet Dead

TCP Coming to the US

• Will offer own brand in US while private labeling for GE, OSI, Philips

• Sales down about 6%

• Cedes nothing to LED

An Opposing view...

Acuity Brands Expects to Earn $0.57 per Share

LSI Lands Large Canopy LED Retrofit

Orion Introduces FL Streetlight

President Obama Pushes Lighting   (MSNBCvideo)

• "Light bulbs, not sexy..."
• Californians Consume 40% less energy per person than the national average
• 7% energy in America is from lighting
• Secretary Chu will look at Whitehouse lightbulbs
• $346M for development, deployment and use of energy efficiency in residential and commercial buildings

Zumtobel Warns on Outlook

• No recovery before 2010

Bangor, ME Switches Streetlights to LED

• Uses stimulus money

Lebelight Claimes 130 LPW LED

• Lebelight is used in Chinese Spaceships

Light Tower Collapses in Texas

Misguided Iowa Town Considers Turning Off Lights

OSRAM  SYLVANIA Names Rick Leaman as President & CEO

• Claims Number 1 position

• Charlie Jerabek Transitions to Vice Chairman

Illumitex Raises Cash;

• Quiet on the exact details about how its technology works

Duke Energy Settles Efficiency Lawsuit

• Will reduce energy demand by 2 percent over the next four years. It sets a target of reducing demand by as much as 8 percent by 2020.

Philips Projects Revenue Growth at -17%

Valmont Target Price Raised

• Next Generation Research raises from $75 to $85

Leviton Wants to Move Again; This time to Long Island

• Only 3rd move in 100 years

Cooper Wants to Move Again; This time to Ireland

Philips Moves Away from "Bulbs" and "Fixtures"

• Offers more of a holistic approach

Incandescent May not be Dead, After all

• 100-watt lamp output; 60-watt consumption

Valmont to Benefit from Stimulus Spending

NEMA Lighting Index in Freefall

• Ballasts and fixtures showing greatest weakness

Metrolight Announces New CEO

• Raises additional $3M from existing shareholders

Valmont Upgraded

• Driven by revenue growth

CREE Announces Strategic Relationship with RFHIC

Peace Bridge Lit with LED's

GE's Immelt:  Worst is Over

CREE Raises 4Q Outlook

LA's Big Burn

• Streetlights on 24/7

iLight Prevails in Patent Infringement Case

• Multimillion dollar award

• iLight President:  “It is difficult for us to imagine an LED technology of high quality that offers very desirable, bright, and even illumination similar to cold cathode or neon without using iLight’s proprietary technology.”

Orion Reports Quarterly Results:

• Revenue down 31%

• Gross Profit down 43%

• Suspends annual revenue guidance

Leviton Acquires EZE Rough System

GE, LRC in Test to Treat Dementia

• Researchers want to regulate the sleep-wake cycle by regulating the amount of exposure to blue-white (wakefulness) and yellow-white (sleepiness) light

LSI Restores Goodwill

PG&E to Offer Rebates on LED Streetlights

• Customers will be able to switch to a lower billing rate under the LS-2 schedule starting May 1, 2009
• Customers will be eligible for a rebate for every qualified LED fixture purchased and installed after May 1, 2009. Detailed instructions about applying for the rebate will be provided soon

CalculiteLightolierPhilips wins Most Innovative Product of the Year

GE Edison Award goes to Jim Benya, Michael Neils, Juan Villatoro, and James Christensen

 

Luxim Raises $12M in Series C Funds

Siemens Reports Strong 2Q

• Profits soar, but profits drop 29% in Industry Sector (includes lighting)

Valmont Raises Dividend by 15%

Cooper  Declares Dividend

• Given 5-star rating by Credit-Suisse, Wachovia

Siemens to Lower Forecast

LSI Reports $2.5M Loss

• Will no longer give sales/earnings guidance
• Withdraws prior forecast

Cooper Quarterly Profit Falls 35%

• Seeing some signs of stabilization
• Focus on rightsizing the business

NYC Plans Retrofits for Older Buildings

• Result in $2.9 billion in private investment in building improvements by 2022
• Generate 2,000 new jobs in energy auditing and related fields
• The program would begin in 2013

NJ Governor Visits Lighting Science Group

CREE Beats Estimate

• Q3 adjusted EPS $0.13 vs. estimate of $0.12

• Q3 revenue up 5% to $131.1M vs. estimate $130.6M

• Sees Q4 revenue $137M-$143M vs. estimate $136.3M

  

CREE Announces Smaller Bins for Warm/Neutral LEDs

Acuity  Brands Completes Acquisition of Sensor Switch

GE Net drops 35%

• Immelt upbeat

Valmont Announces Strong 1Q

• Record 1Q sales, operating income and net earnings.

Philips Posts 1Q Loss

• $78M loss

• Lighting Fell 19%

Orion Lowers Expectations

• Predicts sales of $71M vs. analyst expectations of $81M

EXCLUSIVE:  Howard Lighting Lays Off Sales Force

Eight Lighting Poles have Failed Across the US

• One commonality:  Whitco

Coming to a Cobrahead Near you:  Mandatory Bi-Level Dimming

• Details & Definitions

• Exclusions:  Theatrical, Swimming Pools, Christmas Lights, Emergency Lighting, Landscape, Electrodeless Fluorescent

Best Place to Work in South Carolina?  Hubbell Lighting

• Beats out 250 companies including BMW

Acuity Brands Income Dips

• Company cuts 200 more jobs

Philips Acquires Selecon

Orion Lightpipe Named Product of the Year

Acuity Declares Dividend

Howard Brandston vs. High Pressure Sodium

• “If makeup rooms had high-pressure sodium lighting, you would end up looking like the Bride of Frankenstein”
• “I happen to like trees green.”

Philips Sees Weakening in ALL Sectors

• No impact from stimulus package
• An "L" shaped recession

LED's Light up Chapel Hill

• 12-month test program

Independent LED Data Available at NLB website

AIA's Billing Index Rises Slightly

• Previous month was all-time-low

President Obama gives huge Plug to Orion

• "Double the life at half the energy"
• Mispronounces Orion (video)

ALP Initiates Price Decrease on Plastic Products

Acuity Brands to Buy Sensor Switch

• $205 Million

Cooper Acquires LED Company

Cities Rush to Get Stimulus Money for LED

• At least 30 cities ask for $104M

PureSpectrum Files Patent for Cold Cathode Dimming

A Good Day!

• Lighting Sciences up 22%
• Orion up 21%
• GE up 19%
• Valmont up 11%
• Cooper up 8%
• Acuity up 7%
• Cree up 7%

Daniel R Smith & Assoc, Sold for $4.2M

LIGHTFAIR to Offer Master's Course in Lighting, Free

Philips Honored by French Institute for MASTER LED

• A single Master LED retrofit bulb uses less than 7W and can replace traditional incandescent bulbs up to 40W

The GE Stock Slide Continues

GE Stock:  Lowest Price Since 1993

• Immelt's buys 50,000 shares

Cheap, Transparent OLEDs

ASSIST and Nighttime Lighting

BK/Teka Get Extreme Makeover

Philips Closes US Plant

• Susan Bloom, "“As a prudent company, we are constantly assessing the status of every part of the business,”

Group Formed to Focus on Cold Storage Opportunities

Ruud Lay-offs 

• “Thank goodness for LED”

Clinton Foundation Funds LA LEDs

GE's Immelt Turns Down 08 Bonus 

• Will not receive his $11.7 million long-term performance award

Valmont Beats Street Estimate

• 4Q net income of $28.5M, up from $23.1M a year ago
• Revenue rose to $493M, above analysts' expectations of $456M

Oppenheimer Sees Acuity, Cooper Poised to Gain from Stimulus

• GE probably too big to benefit

Hubbell Declares Dividend

NEMA Lighting Index Falls to 10-year Low

• Lowest Index ever recorded
• Index contracted 4.8% from the 3Q to 4Q,
• A year-over-year decline of 11.2%
  

ETC Get into LED by Acquiring Selador

Lighting will be Strongest Market for CREE

San Jose to Replace LPS with LED

• City is seeking $20 million to install 20,000 new lights as part of a project officials
• Lights.... will alert the city automatically when they are out.
• Can dim lights 30 percent from 3 a.m. to 5 a.m

Cooper Reports Dividend; Authorizes Share Repurchase

GE to Pay Dividend

• $0.31 per share
• Will evaluate future dividends

Orion Introduces Parking Lot Solution

Thorn Opens New Plant in UK

• Secures 700 jobs

Montana Considers REQUIREMENT for LED Streetlights

• Study found the payback period for new construction ranged from 3.7 years to 6.3 years

LSI Reports Dismal 4Q

Lumileds Offers Online Tool for Energy Star Application

• Tool addresses the requirements of the “Chromaticity and Spatial Uniformity

The Night The Lights Went out in Georgia

• Acuity Brands, Cooper, Hubbell, Philips collectively stock prices down average of 37% Since APR 08
• Big Four Account for 54% of Lighting
• Recommends all Four as 'potential investment candidates' (EdisonReport agrees)
• Acuity Brands:   "...good company operating in a terrible part of the economic cycle."

Cooper Lighting Canada Raises Prices

Hubbell Reports 6% Net Increase in 4Q

• Net income in the fourth quarter of 2008 was $46.3 million compared to $48.0 million
• Decline in profitability in the segment was due to weaker results in our residential lighting business

Siemens Reports Sharp 1Q Decline in Net Profit

• Revenues Rise 7%

GE Announces 2 week shutdown in Hungary

Cooper Reports 38% Drop in 4Q

• Additional layoffs

• Revenue Falls 1%

Philips Reports 4Q Loss, will axe 6000 jobs

Time Takes on Energy Efficiency
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GE  Net Falls 44%

Analyst Predicts Cooper 4Q will be 'Major Mis

 

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PRESS ROOM 

 

JF Simard to Leave Philips Lumec

 

Fulham Welcomes Michael Bremser

 

 

 

 

 

David Lopez is Available

'Disruptive' Bridgelux Appoints Chief Sales and Marketing Officer from Outside of Lighting

 

Megan Carroll to Xicato

Functional Devices Launches Family of Shunt Relays

A Celebration  of Zach Gibler's Life

 

 

 

CAREERS

OEM Regional Sales Manager--Xicato

Outside Sales--SLS Indiana

Channel Sales Director--Lighting Science Group

National Sales Manager--Robertson Worldwide

Director of Marketing--Robertson Worldwide

Inside Sales--Belfer Group

Quotations/Inside Sales--Nashville

LED Engineer/Program Leader--GE Appliance & Lighting

Specification Sales--Nashville

Midwest Regional Sales Manager--Lightech

Sales Management--Jimway

Director, Deco Product Management--Jimway

Product Manager, Maxlite

Inside Sales--Cleveland, OH

Business Development Manager--Peachtree Lighting

Central Region Sales Manager--The Lighting Quotient

Quotations Analyst-Amerlux

Outside Sales--Facilities Solution Group

Inside Sales Development--Cree

Regional Sales Manager--Insight Lighting

Materials/Warehouse Manager--Texas Fluorescents

Market Segment Manager--Kenall

Various Positions--Fulham

Director of Sales--The Pompeo Group

Product Manager--Luminus Devices

Product Manager--SELUX

Regional Sales Manager--OCL Architectural Lighting

National Accounts Sales Representative--Illumetek

Regional Sales Manager--MP Lighting

Outside Strategic Account Professional--Philips Roadway

Design Engineers--Pathway, the Lighting Source

Product Designer--Birchwood Lighting

Marketing Manager, LED Street Lighting--Leotek Electronics

Manufacturing Team Leader--Kenall

Creative Optical Designer--Peerless

Director of Marketing, LED Systems--The Pompeo Group

Southern California Regional Manager--The Pompeo Group

National Accounts Manager--Targetti Poulsen

International Specification Manager, NYC--Targetti Poulsen

Marketing Director--Litetronics

LED Product Marketing Manager--Illumitex

Project/Quotations Manager--Light Abilities

Production Coordinator

Customer Service

Director of Sales, Strategic Accounts--Daintree

Regional Sales Manager--Cyclone Lighting

Regional Sales Manager

Product Support Engineer--American Ballast

Sales Application Engineer--Redwood Systems

Account Manager--Philips Lighting

Technical Sales Specialist, Washington--Leviton

Technical Sales Specialist, Dallas--Leviton

OEM Regional Sales Manager--Xicato

Technical Sales Specialist--Leviton

C&I Utility Rebate Coordinator--MaxLite

Lighting Showroom Sales Manager--The Pompeo Group

Support Engineer--Bega-US

LED Technologies Engineer--Insight Lighting

Program Manager, Lighting--CREE

Inside/Outside Sales--Pathway Lighting

Roadway Lighting Photometric Application Sales Engineer--Philips

Product Design Engineer--SELUX

Regional Sales Manager--Best Lighting Products

Revit Design Manager--SPI Lighting

Architectural Sales Manager--ERCO

 

PROFESSIONALS IN THE NEWS

Cooper Veteran, Tom Benton to Lighting Science Group

Travis Jones to Lighting Science Group

Fulham Welcomes Larry Smith, VP of Lighting Renovation

Ron Zigmont to Literonics

Dan. T. Thomson, R.I.P.

Rick Cash, R.I.P

.Randy Vander Linde is available

Robertson Worldwide Bulks up Salesforce with Rocco Barbanente

 

T.J Wendorf to Waldmann

Josef Levy is Available

Ron Zigmont is Available

Jim Hunter Joins Luminous Devices from Philips

Tom Shaffer Joins Allumen8

Glenn Bordfeld and Rich Stam Join Solais Lighting

Randy Kirsch, Managing Director Specification Lighting Sales

 

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