WAC Lighting co-founders Tai and Tony Wang were honored at Selfhelp’s 2023 Gala recently at Pier Sixty in New York City. The couple are renowned for their tremendous professional accomplishments in the lighting industry as well as their philanthropic endeavors. For many decades they have shown exceptional integrity and commitment to bettering the community and…
St. Louis-based Graybar, a leading distributor of electrical, communications and data networking products and provider of related supply chain management and logistics services, has completed the acquisition of Shepherd Electric Supply, based in Baltimore, Maryland. Shepherd Electric Supply is an electrical distributor that serves construction, commercial, industrial, and government customers. Founded in 1892, Shepherd Electric…
Women in Lighting + Design (WILD) is an inclusive organization that welcomes all women in the lighting industry as well as allied communities. All members play an essential role in ensuring that WILD voices are heard and in helping advocate for all under-represented genders in the lighting industry. WILD is committed to meeting all of…
The Arizona division of Dynalectric Company (Dynalectric Arizona) opened a new turnkey electrical services and off-site fabrication facility at 9029 East Peterson Avenue in Mesa, AZ. Dynalectric Arizona is a part of EMCOR Group, Inc. Located in Mesa’s Gateway Area, the new location will play an important role in expanding Dynalectric Arizona’s capabilities throughout the…
Story City, Iowa-based Innovative Lighting, one of the first LED fixture manufacturers in the U.S., is excited to continue its commitment to pioneering innovative LED technology as it celebrates 30 years of transformation. When the company first opened its doors in June 1993 in the heart of the Silicon Prairie, it offered one product: a…
Opened nearly 100 years ago as part of the Capitol House building in Melbourne, Australia, the art deco-era Capitol Theatre was designed by American husband and wife architects Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin and is the oldest movie theatre in that city. The ceiling is particularly notable, with intricate moulded plaster designed to…
GM Energy, a wholly owned subsidiary of General Motors, has rolled out its initial retail offerings to enable customers to leverage vehicle-to-home (V2H) bidirectional charging technology, stationary storage, and additional energy management products. The Ultium Home product offerings will be the first solutions to be made available to residential customers through GM Energy, and are…
WAC Lighting has added its fourth warehouse and distribution center in the country to provide even greater availability and faster delivery to its customers. The lighting manufacturer held a Grand Opening ribbon-cutting ceremony for its new 140,000-sq.-ft. facility last week in Cedar Hill, Texas. Attending the event from WAC were Shelley Wald, Co-CEO, Dirk Wald,…
With offices in London and New York City, architectural lighting manufacturer Lucent Lighting has taken steps to cut its environmental impact and encourages other lighting manufacturers to follow suit in embracing sustainable solutions for the industry. Lucie Sidwell, Global Operations Director of Lucent Lighting, notes that one of the ways to reduce this impact is…
Sarasota, Fla.-based Wrench Group, LLC – a nationwide provider of home services – has announced that Master Electrical Service of Ogden, Utah, has joined the Wrench Group family of brands. Master Electrical Service’s electricians offer a range of services to Salt Lake City area’s homeowners and businesses, including installation of arc fault breakers and circuits,…
East Taunton, Mass.-based Norwell Lighting — which has a 70-year history of manufacturing exterior and interior decorative lighting primarily for the residential market — has been acquired by Elk Home, headquartered in Nesquehoning, Pa. Only Norwell Lighting will join Elk Home. Its affiliated companies Ilex Lighting and Custom Metalcraft, both of which involve custom domestic…
The New York City Section of the Illuminating Engineering Society (IESNYC) has announced the recipients of the 2023 Lumen Awards, which were presented at the 55th Lumen Gala held on June 15 at Pier 60 in Chelsea Piers. The Lumen Awards and Gala, a distinguished program of the IESNYC, is a platform that highlights and…
The smart home market continues to expand, and now a large utility has gotten into the category. Houston-based NRG Energy (once part of Northern States Power Company) has centered on energy generation and the retail electricity space for years, with growth coming from nearly one dozen acquisitions of other energy companies. In March, NRG entered…
Glendale, Ariz.-based Barron Lighting Group, a manufacturer of commercial and industrial lighting solutions, is proud to celebrate its 50-year anniversary. Founded in Gurnee, Illinois in 1973, Barron has enjoyed five decades of growth built on its core values of integrity and innovation. From the beginning and through the early 1980s, the Barron Manufacturing Corporation established…
Chatsworth, Calif.-based Regency Lighting (now rebranded as Regency Supply) has acquired AllSale Electric – the largest wholesale electrical distributor in the San Fernando Valley – in a strategic move to grow the company and expand the product line. A statement from Regency Lighting read, “As the lighting world has grown more complex, we have taken…
When World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) employees returned to the company’s Stamford, Connecticut headquarters full-time last month, there were impressive changes in their working environment. California-based Enlighted, a leading proptech company owned by Siemens, was tapped by the WWE to support its vision of a smart, energy-efficient headquarters by implementing an intelligent lighting control system…