Acuity Brands
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Company type | Public |
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Industry | Commercial and industrial lighting |
Founded | 2001 |
Headquarters | Atlanta, GA, United States |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | CEO: Vern Nagel |
Products | Consumer Goods List of brands |
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Number of employees | 11,800 (August 2016)[1] |
Website | acuitybrands |
Acuity Brands, Inc. is a lighting manufacturing company. It was founded in 2001 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.[2]
Products
The company spun out its specialty chemicals product lines into a publicly traded company called Zep Inc. in 2007, leaving it focused on its lighting businesses.[3]
Lighting equipment made by the company includes indoor and outdoor fixtures for commercial and institutional, industrial, infrastructure, and residential applications. The company offers lighting equipment to electrical distributors, retail home improvement centers, national accounts, electric utilities, utility distributors, municipalities, contractors, catalogs, and lighting showrooms. It distributes these products through independent sales agents, factory sales representatives, distribution centers, regional warehouses, and commercial warehouses.[4]
Acquisitions
Acquisition date | Company | Country |
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February 2009 | Lighting Control & Design[5] | USA |
April 2009 | Sensor Switch, Inc.[6] | USA |
July 2010 | Renaissance Lighting[7] | USA |
October 2010 | Winona Lighting[8] | USA |
February 2011 | Sunoptics[9] | USA |
February 2011 | Healthcare Lighting[10] | USA |
August 2011 | Horizon Control[11] | USA |
October 2011 | Pathway Connectivity, Inc.[12] | USA |
January 2013 | Adura Technologies[13] | USA |
January 2013 | eldoLAB Holding BV (eldoLED)[14] | USA |
April 2015 | ByteLight, Inc.[15] | USA |
March 2015 | Distech Controls[16] | USA |
December 2015 | Juno Lighting Group [17] | USA |
January 2016 | Geometri[18] | USA |
July 2016 | DGLogik[19] | USA |
February 2018 | Lucid Design Group, Inc.[20] | USA |
See also
References
- ^ a b "Acuity Brands 10-K report 2016". Securities and Exchange Commission. Retrieved November 5, 2016.
- ^ AYI: Profile for ACUITY BRANDS INC - Yahoo! Finance
- ^ "Acuity Brands, Form 8-K, Current Report, Filing Date Nov 6, 2007". secdatabase.com. Retrieved Dec 30, 2012.
- ^ Acuity Brands Lighting Archived February 8, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Funk, Dale (19 February 2009). "Acuity Brands Buys Lighting Control & Design". Electrical Wholesaling. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
- ^ "Acuity Brands Announces Completion of Sensor Switch Acquisition". BusinessWire. businesswire.com. 20 April 2009. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
- ^ Wright, Maury (29 July 2010). "Acuity acquires Renaissance Lighting and intellectual property". LEDs Magazine. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
- ^ "Acuity Brands Acquires Winona Lighting". Solid State Lighting Design. 19 October 2010. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
- ^ "Acuity Brands Acquires Sunoptics, a Leading Provider of High-Performance Prismatic Daylighting Products". Business Wire. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
- ^ "Acuity Buys Healthcare Lighting to Boost Medical Market Offerings". Electrical Wholesaling. 1 June 2011. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
- ^ Wright, Maury (16 August 2011). "Acuity Brands buys lighting-control specialist Horizon Control". LEDs Magazine. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
- ^ "Acuity Brands Acquires Pathway Connectivity". Lighting Controls Association. 5 October 2011. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
- ^ "Wireless control developer Adura Technologies acquired by Acuity Brands". LEDs Magazine. 17 January 2013. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
- ^ "Acuity Brands Acquires LED Driver Manufacturer". Electrical Wholesaling. 8 April 2013. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
- ^ "Acuity Brands, Inc. Acquires IP and Certain Assets of ByteLight, Inc". Solid State Lighting Design. 16 April 2015. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
- ^ "Acuity Brands Acquires Distech in a $252M Addition to Its Lighting and Controls Roster". Greentech Media (GTM). 9 March 2015. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
- ^ "Acuity Brands, Inc. Completes Acquisition of Juno Lighting Group". NEMA - National Electrical Manufacturers Association. 11 December 2015. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
- ^ Chandler, Doug (8 January 2016). "Acuity acquires GeoMetri". Electrical Marketing. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
- ^ Wright, Maury (11 July 2016). "LED business news: Revolution Lighting, Acuity, Seoul, SSL executives". LEDs Magazine. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
- ^ "Acuity Brands, Inc. Acquires Lucid Design Group, Inc. - DisruptCRE". DisruptCRE. 2018-02-21. Retrieved 2018-05-03.
External links
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- Acuity Brands webpage
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