GE Lighting is a division of Savant Systems Inc. headquartered in

Nela Park Nela Park is the headquarters of GE Lighting, a Savant company and is located in East Cleveland, Ohio, United States. Nela Park is the first industrial park in the world being home to most of the lighting breakthroughs of the last century. The in ...

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. The company traces its origins to

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's work on lighting in the 19th century.

History

In 1911, General Electric was found to have acquired three quarters of the

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, an association of lighting product companies through which GE had licensed its patented products; this trading arrangement was the subject of an

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investigation, and as a result the association was dissolved. GE subsequently acquired several of the association's member companies. These were later consolidated with the Edison lamp division. In July 2011, GE Lighting entered a licensing agreement with Nuventix for its LED cooling technology and invested $10 million into the company. Two weeks later, the company announced its plans to buy Lightech, acquiring its LED and halogen power supplies, for a deal reportedly worth between $15 million and $20 million. On October 7, 2015, the Commercial division of GE Lighting was separated from the business and a new startup,

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, was created. On July 1, 2020, GE Lighting was acquired by

Savant Systems Savant Systems Inc. is a home automation company headquartered in Hyannis, Massachusetts, United States. The company was founded in 2005 and is privately held. It has 200 employees at its headquarters and a further 700 through its subsidiary GE ...

, a home automation company.

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