We’re seeing distributors continue to invest in software tools that streamline processes, increase capacity, and generate enhanced services … all in an effort to reduce costs and increase sales. John Gunderson and I were at the MDM SHIFT conference last […]
With many commenting that the lighting industry is “slow” and some companies undergoing retraction you may think that lighting innovation is declining, and the future may be dimming. Repeatedly you hear of value-engineering and the commoditization of the industry, especially […]
Given feedback from our Q1 Pulse of Lighting Report and Acuity’s Q2 earnings report, we can say with confidence, “the lighting market was flat last quarter with business slowing as the quarter progressed.” The quarter was initially hit with weather […]
When lighting companies show up at AHR to exhibit and talk about lighting controls, as well as hold educational sessions / press briefings, you know the lighting market is changing. This is what Acuity / QSC and Delta Intelligent Building […]
After a forty-plus year relationship, AD and Genlyte Solutions Group, a Signify company announced that they are ending their relationship and parting ways. Genlyte, which emanates from Philips Lighting, Advance Transformer, and Genlyte Group, which was founded in 1984, was […]
By Emily Lai, LC Lighting control systems are becoming an essential component of modern commercial and residential construction projects. With energy codes growing increasingly stringent and clients demanding smarter, more sustainable buildings, contractors are being tasked with not just installing […]
While the residential market represents a relatively small segment of the overall electrical market, especially for electrical distributors, it is important for some. Further, when a “development” goes into an area there is a spurt of commercial construction activity. The […]
Change is at the doorstep of Signify, the parent company of Genlyte Solutions and Cooper Lighting, two of the electrical industry’s largest lighting manufacturers. In fact, we’ve considered them part of the “Big 4” in lighting (Acuity, Cooper Lighting, Philips […]
2024 was a challenging year for the lighting industry. Continuing from the Q3 Pulse of Lighting report, feedback from our Pulse of Lighting respondents consistently revealed a stagnant (and nominally declining) market, which unfortunately continued into Q4. But there is […]
One of Channel Marketing Group‘s endeavors is a lighting website / publication, US Lighting Trends. US Lighting Trends reaches 29,000 lighting designers, electrical contractors, distributors, showrooms, reps / lighting agents, and manufacturers throughout the US. We publish editorial content twice […]
