Last week Cree streamlined its business by divesting of its Wolfspeed business in an endeavor to expand its lighting business. Wolfspeed, Power and RF division, which includes the silicon carbide substrate business for power, RF and gemstone applications, and was the […]
We’ve just passed the 6 month mark for the year and while there has been much change, the past month highlighted many and accelerated some. Consider: Consolidation Shealy sells to Border States to create a $2B ESOP. Grove Madsen sells to […]
Acuity announced their Q3 results yesterday. In an electrical materials market that continues to be rather anemic, the lighting market continues to outperform and Acuity remains the leader among large lighting players. It appears that Acuity is delivering on all cylinders. […]
LightFair, the pre-eminent lighting tradeshow, was held back in April with large crowds in San Diego. Prior to the show we reached out to some distributors and asked them if they would be willing to share their observations as, given […]
Last week’s NAED National, held in Washington DC, was well attended with approximately 700 registered attendees. The seminar sessions, for the most part, were well attended with 125-150 or so attending each of them and, perhaps unplanned, there was a […]
Our friend Bill Attardi at Energy Watch shared interesting data he obtained regarding the exploding growth of the LED market … and the growth is startling and has major ramifications relating to the LED market. Here shared this five year […]
You may remember the iconic jingle of “Ace is the place with the helpful hardware folks” but did you know that Ace is the place for LED lighting? According to an article in the April issue of Hardware & Building Supply […]
Last week both Acuity and Cree shared calendar Q1 lighting success (defined as sales performance). So, let’s look at what they said and what it could mean. Acuity quarterly report (their Q2 fiscal year) Overall “outstanding results” Net sales increased […]
Over the past couple of months we’ve touched on the changes that the lighting industry is undergoing. While much of it relates to LEDs, the “lamp” business, lighting controls and connectivity, we also mentioned how lighting can become a data […]
As we’ve seen over the past couple of months with the entry of Cisco into the lighting space and emergence of PoE, the lighting space is changing. By virtue of the technology is there a significant risk that a percentage […]
