Acuity Brands

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Acuity Brands, Inc.
Type Public company
Founded Atlanta, Georgia 2001
Headquarters Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Key people Mr. Vernon J. Nagel
Industry Home Furnishings & Fixtures
Products Consumer Goods
Revenue 2,172.9 million in 2005
Website http://www.acuitybrands.com

Acuity Brands, Inc. (NYSEAYI), through its subsidiaries, engages in the design, production, and distribution of lighting equipment and specialty products worldwide. The company was founded in 2001 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia.[1]

Acuity Brands has spun off its specialty chemicals business effective November 1, 2008. The new company is known as Zep Inc. and is traded on the NYSE under the ticker symbol ZEP. [2]

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[edit] Lighting

Lighting equipment includes indoor and outdoor lighting fixtures for commercial and institutional, industrial, infrastructure, and residential applications. The company offers its lighting equipments 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. [3]

[edit] Brands

[edit] Lighting brands

  • Lithonia Lighting
  • American Electric Lighting
  • Carandini
  • Gotham
  • Holophane
  • Hydrel
  • MetalOptics
  • Peerless
  • SpecLight
  • Antique Street Lamps
  • Mark Architectural Lighting

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