Lighting … A Smaller Segment of LSI LSI Industries, the parent of LSI Lighting and Atlas Lighting, reported 3Q fiscal year 2026 earnings on April 23. As one of the few remaining publicly traded lighting manufacturers that reports, although not […]
Following its acquisition of the permanent lighting portion of Topaz from Southwire, Halco Lighting has been reviewing its rep network and making, in many cases, the hard decision of which independent manufacturer representative to go to market within each territory. […]
The price of copper and aluminum, over the years, continues to rise and most feel that it is sustainable given the central role that, especially copper, plays in the economy. Everything from electricity transmission to data center, from EVs and […]
Graybar yesterday announced that it is expanding its presence in Oklahoma with the acquisition of Broken Arrow Electric Supply. The company, which already had two locations in the state under the Graybar name, will be adding seven more under the […]
Distributor acquisitions. We got accustomed to them from 2021-2025 with over 125 electrical distributors acquired. Last year was a quiet year, ending with Inline acquiring three branch Knoxville-based Customer Service Electric Supply. It seems that the industry’s acquisition engine is […]
The overall lighting market has been “challenged” the past half decade with questionable, if any, sales growth. In fact, Channel Marketing Group’s Pulse of Lighting report, which we’ve conducted for 8 years, rarely has shown growth. Last quarter Acuity CEO […]
nVent announced 4Q 2025 and full year 2025 results on February 6. The fourth quarter performance included record sales and backlog, and new product introductions while acquisitions performed ahead of expectations. Sales were about $1.07 billion, up 42% y-o-y, with […]
Legrand announced full year 2025 earnings on February 12. As many know, this is a very diversified company specializing in electrical and digital building infrastructures through a range of high value-added products and solutions including lighting, controls, power management and […]
What do Arlington Industries and Pull Logic have in common? Both are innovators. And innovative companies drive change and are valued. Innovation Drives Acquisition Both companies are known as innovators and, coincidentally, received new “investors” with Arlington being acquired by […]
Many have talked about the need for some consolidation in the lighting industry, and there have been some small companies acquired but few that have good brand awareness. Yesterday Halco changed this. Halco announced that it acquired Topaz’ lighting business […]
