The Genlyte Group was a company that manufactured and sold
lighting
Lighting or illumination is the deliberate use of light to achieve practical or aesthetic effects. Lighting includes the use of both artificial light sources like lamps and light fixtures, as well as natural illumination by capturing daylig ...
fixtures and controls. Products designed by the Genlyte Group include indoor and outdoor fixtures for the commercial, residential, theater, and industrial markets. Genlyte was bought out by
Royal Philips Lighting on January 18, 2008.
Since the completing the acquisition of the Genlyte Group, the individual lighting companies were reorganized by Philips into the Philips Lighting Business Unit - Professional Luminaires North America, headquartered in Burlington, MA.
Genlyte Brands
There were several brands owned by Genlyte, they were:
*Alkco
*ALLscape
*Ardee
*Bronzelite
*Canlyte
*Capri
*Chloride Systems
*Crescent
*d'ac Lighting
*Day-Brite
*Emco
*ExceLine
*Entertainment Technology
*Forecast
*Gardco
*Guth
*Hadco
*Hanover Lantern
*HighLites
*Hoffmeister
*Horizon
*LAM Lighting Systems
*Ledalite
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Lightolier
Lightolier is a company that manufactures and sells a wide array of lighting fixtures. It was founded in 1904 by Bernhard Blitzer under the name of ''New York Gas and Appliance Co.'' When electric lighting started to be more widely accepted, the ...
*Lightolier Controls
*Lite-Energy
*Lumec
*mcPhilben
*Metrolux
*Morlite
*NiteLife
*Nessen Lighting
*Omega
*Quality Lighting
*Shakespeare Composite Structures
*Specialty Lighting
*Stonco
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Strand Lighting
Strand Lighting is an international theatre and television lighting company founded in 1914 in London's West End that supplies lighting fixtures and controls for the entertainment industry. Strand's products have been used on countless theatr ...
*Translite-Sonoma
*Thomas Lighting Residential
*Thomas Lighting Canada
*U.S.S Manufacturing
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Vari-Lite
Vari-Lite is a brand of automated, variable-colour stage lighting systems. Their intelligent lighting fixtures are commonly used in theatre, concerts, television, film and corporate events.
History
Pre-history
The origins of Vari-Lite dat ...
*Vista
*Wide-Lite
References
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External links
Genlyte official sitePhilips Professional Luminaires siteALLscape siteBronzelite sited'ac LightingHadco siteHadco LED siteHadco University siteHanover Lantern siteNessen LightingProject by Hadco siteU.S.S ManufacturingStonco Lighting
Lighting brands