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CREE: 'Signals both companies commitment to growing the LED market.
Philips: '...delighted that CREE will be joining our LED Luminaire Licensing Program.'

Consumer Product Safety Commission Recalls Whitco Poles

Madden 11

Madden 11 Improves Lighting

Patterns of light and shadows will be unique to the individual stadiums to better emulate how they appear

Acuity Misses Quarterly Profit Number

3Q profit dips 3%
Shares fall 12%

Report accuses 6 companies of violations
Report given to Vice President Biden

Ruud Responds

Rambus & GE Announce Licensing Agreement

VIDEO **WARNING: Graphic**

GE's Jim Campbell Collapses During VP Biden's Talk

GE May Leapfrog with OLEDs

IES Establishes Public Policy Initiative

Ruud Sued

COUNT ONE: IMS claims infringement of LED "Wide-Beam Generation" patent

COUNT TWO: Civil Conspiracy. Claims Alan Ruud, who served as IMS director, violated fiduciary responsibility

Made in America:

Lighting Sciences Group Forges Deal with Pace

US Architecture Billings Fall

Orion Offers LED

"...outperforms lighting developed by one of the leading LED manufacturers. The result of the field verification test validates Orion's mastery in thermal and optical optimization."

Acuity Brands Moves from S&P 600 to S&P 400

Replaces CarMax

CBS Story on Lighting

Tom Hamilton of Philips calls market introduction of CFL a 'Flop'
CBS says LEDs will save homeowner $300-$600 per year

China Intelligent Lighting Launches $10M IPO

Coming in 2011: New Labels

Emphasize Lumens not Watts

LED's Bright Future...

....but a burnout on the way

Brodrick: LED's not suitable for T8 Replacement

Orion Receives Patents on Outdoor Lighting

Report: LED Lighting Market to Grow to $1.3B by 2013

". market will enter a competition-oriented phase, where paying attention to competitors becomes the basis of a company’s product development policy."

Solar Bulb to Shine on Developing World

5-10 year life, $15 cost

LIGHTFAIR Breaks West Attendance Records

22,000, 10% increase

Vintage Bulbs Make a Comeback

Howard Brandston must be pleased

Lighting Science Group's Fred Maxik Files 100th Patent

GE & Lithonia Team Up to Help Educate Schools

Is CREE Overpriced?

GE Appliance/Lighting Profit up 39%

GE to invest $600M in the unit in next few years
Will hire 830 employees
Renamed division from Commercial & Industrial to Home & Business Solutions

WAC Raises Money for Parkinson's Disease

LUXIM Enters Australia/New Zealand Market with Gerard Lighting

Luminous Devices in Asia Partnership

Avnet Electronics Marketing will distribute Luminus PhlatLight LEDs to customers in Asia

CREE Downgraded due to Oversupply Concerns

Cleveland's Mayor Yanks LED Deal with Chinese Company

Litecontrol Announces Brian Golden as President

Stocks Hammered

CREE drops 8.6% to $65.13
GE down 5.8% to $16.26
HUBB down 4.8% to $42.50

Orion Announces Year-End Results

$65M annual revenue; loss of $4.2M
Preliminary settlement of class action suit claiming that the defendants made misstatements and failed to disclose material information in the Company's initial public offering registration statement and prospectus.

Gerard's $85M IPO is Fully Subscribed

Daintree Network Launches Wireless Control System at LIGHTFAIR

Expertise is in enabling wireless communications, and in simplifying the installation, commissioning and management of lighting controls and energy management applications.

Mark Rousch as 'Andy Roney'

Joe Montana Visits LIGHTFAIR

LIGHTFAIR Innovation Awards

GE's 27th Annual Edison Awards

The Gloves are off. GE & Cree vs. Home Depot & Lighting Science Group

ECOSMART LED vs Energy Smart LED

Bob Horner Accepts Position with IES

Director of Public Policy
Will plan, develop and coordinate the public policy interests of the IES to government, regulatory, trade and professional associations

SYLVANIA Announces 3% Price Increase

Chicago Recycler Fined $743,000

EPA said the warehouse was actually a hazardous waste site and operated without the required permit.

University Study: We Think Better Under Incandescent

Bright Forecast for LED Lighting

AU: Two-Thirds of CFL Offer Less Light than Claimed

Cavet 'Hell bent on coming to USA'

Claims 'Disruptive' Technology

There's an App for that

Louis Poulsen Introduces IPhone App

Cramer Recommends Cooper, Hubbell

CEO Sells Large Stake of Cooper Industries

CEO Kirk Hachigian sold 114,000 shares

Veda Clark out at Lightcontrol

NLB Solicits for 'High Benefit Lighting' Awards Program

IES 2010 Annual Conference: CALL for Papers

Submission deadline: 21 MAY

GE T8 moving back to the US

Add 130 jobs to Bucyrus, OH plant
Will be appropriate in projects funded under the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act

Cooper Declares Dividend

Lighting Science Group Receives $18M in Stimulus Funds

Potential to create 832 new jobs

The Problem with Light + Building

Light + Building + Trapped-Like-Rat

Cooper Upgraded

Cooper Announces 46% Increase in EPS in Q1

Electrical products revenue dropped 2.2%

DOE vs. DOD re: LED

Air Force bans LED
Allows exceptions for bulleting boards, display cases

Clarification on Incandescent Ban

Jaffe Lighting's Long Rise and Quick Fall

LIGHTFAIR 2011 Moving to Philadelphia

GE Introduces 40-watt LED

450 Lumens; 9 watts; saves 77% energy

Lighting Quotient Offers $2500 Scholarship

Named in honor of Sy Shemitz

Luminous Devices Joins Next Generation Lighting Alliance

An Interview with Tim O'Brien, President, Zumtobel Lighting, North America

Acuity Reports

2Q EPS fell 7%
Revenue slid 1%
"Very Challenging" environment for rest of 2010

Nexxus Lighting Reports 4Q

Annual Revenue of $11.6M
4Q Revenue of $3M

LSI Sells LSI Marcole

Takes $700,000 write off

Orion Wins Plant Engineering Magazine Award

100 watt exterior fluorescent fixture has 1718% more light than 111 watt LED

Sports Lighting Tower Collapses

No injuries, unclear if it is another Whitco

Orion Moves to NYSE Exchange

Acuity Brands Declares Dividend

$0.13;payable 3 May

Bridgelux to Offer $20 LEDs

Schreder Sues Former Employee

Allegedly stealing trade secrets while working with a business in competition

Suit accuses him of "a series of disloyal and intentionally wrongful activities"

"Funneled opportunities to his own business to pitch, and ... even used Schreder's own product designs"

Cooper Announces 3-5% Price Increase

Bridgelux Partners with Molex

Bridgelux CEO describes CFL as "...crappy design, lousy light, and it has mercury and lead."

Delta-Valmont, Not a Done-Deal

James McMahan Named WAC GM and VP

GE Offers LED Quality Standards to Protect Decision-makers

Biggs: "...LED solution leaders such as GE need to press for standards that protect customers."

LSI Spin-off to Open EU Office

New company formed by Fred Jalbout, LSI top executive
Independent company will be headquartered in France

Visa's Alliance with Acuity Brands

Australian-Based Gerard Lighting in Bid to Raise $85M

Vice-President Biden to Visit CREE today

Starbucks Goes Green with GE LED

Philips Lumileds Offers Ultra Compact LUXEON c

Lemnis Lighting Receives Additional $37M

GE Receives DOE/EPA Sustained Excellence Award

Fifth straight year

Philips to Participate in Gulf Forum

Will display a booth with a pledge wall where people can sign their oath to take simple actions in saving energy and switching to energy efficient lighting

ER EXCLUSIVE: An Interview with Luminus Devices CEO, Keith T.S. Ward

Outdoor Lighting Fixture Recalled by American Electric

Recall involves model AVL outdoor lighting fixtures

Supermarket Lighting Helps Vegetables Stay Fresh

Significantly higher levels of vitamins C, K, E and folate than when kept out of the light.

Valmont to Buy UK's Delta

Pays 20% premium over stock price

Valmont Increases Prices by up to 8%

Johnson Control Acquires Lighting Service Company

Fired Seagate CEO Loves Lighting...and himself

Editor's Comments

Please welcome Joe Montana to the Lighting Industry

Philips Hanover Lantern Announces 3-5% Price Increase

Architecture Index Down, Again

Loses 2.9 points

Philips Allscape Announces 3-5% Price Increase

Philips Bronzelight Announces 3-5% Price Increase

Mark Eubanks new GM at Cooper Lighting; Neil Schrimsher Promoted

Schrimsher to oversee 4 divisions, including Lighting

Philips Hadco Announces 3-5% Price Increase

GELS Announces 3-6% Price Increase

Orion Founder, Wife, to Sell Shares

Proceeds to pay for personal taxes

Critical of traditional channels

Lighting Affects the Taste of Wine

Humble Editor to conduct own test at Marriott Marquis in Manhattan this evening

Valmont 4Q up 5%

EU to Focus on Intelligent Luminaires

Intelligence is major objective for both manufacturers and end users, resulting in a greater level of integration between controls and luminaires

Cooper Declares Dividend

Energy Efficiency: The Best Alternative Energy Sector

Philips Acquires Italian Luminaire Maker Luceplan

NLB Achieves Goals

OSRAM Opto Launches new LED site

The Future has arrived: Audi Superbowl Ad Green Police

Man arrested for 'Possession of an Incandescant Light Bulb'

First LED, then LEP, now LEC

Less expensive than OLED
Easier to recycle

Philips Introduces 250w Pulse Start with 90% Efficiency

Meets California Title 20
Same footprint as standard 250 watt

Introducing 'Thought Controlled Lighting'

NEXXUS Reports Preliminary 4Q

Sales of $3M
Expects 55% growth over 3Q

CREE Downgraded

"extraordinarily strong MOCVD tool bookings" could lead to short-term overcapacity in the industry..."

Lithonia to Lose Jobs

Cochran plant impacted

Orion Posts Lower 3Q

LSI to Close Tennessee Plant

Cited weak demand for the wire harness components the plant makes and the loss of high-volume business to offshore competitors.

Stray Light Optical Introduces First US Light Emitting Plasma Streetlight

Saves 50% energy; 50,000 hour life
Lumen package increased 40% in last 12 months

Robe Announces New Appointments

Croft Value Fund Likes Valmont

Sleeper stock; poised to gain

Lunera to Receive VC Backing

Acuity Brands Announces Collaboration with Samsung LED

...to significantly accelerate the adoption of LED technologies in the marketplace
...underscores commitment to sustainable lighting solutions...

Cooper Upgraded by UBS

Cooper Profit up 16%; Beats Street

GE Combines Outdoor & LED Business

David Elien new President & CEO of Lighting Solutions; Paul Morse VP at Hendersonville

Philips Reports Higher 4Q;

10% of lighting sales now come from LED
Asia & Latin America lead growth; US declines
Lighting: Earnings were 41M Euro vs -376M Euro a year earlier.

BetaLED Reached 100 LPW

GE's 4Q Falls

LSI Reports Mixed Results

Lighting Revenuse increased 1%

Howard Lewis Elected Chairman of National Lighting Bureau

CREE Profit TRIPLES in 2nd Q

CNBC's Kramer Bullish on Cooper

U.S. Department of LED (DOE) gives another $37M in Stimuls Money to LED research

Leviton to Sell Assets of American Insulated Wire

PG&E Introduces Rebate Catalog

Acuity Brands to Receive Tax Credit

$772K for Crawfordsville, IN

CREE Downgraded

Former Seagate CEO to Join our Industry

Bill Watkins has taken on the CEO job at Sunnyvale, CA-based LED Lighting company Bridgelux.

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Bridgelux is also on the verge of closing an oversubscribed round of venture capital that could top out north of $50 million

Founded in 2002, that Bridgelux has already raised about $72 million in venture capital

Energy Focus Lands $12M Retrofit Contract

Rob Wilson commented, "Two of the seven projects are multi-million dollar contracts through a leading energy services company ("ESCO") for projects at a public school district and a public University

Ruud Lighting Wins Patent Infringement

EXCLUSIVE: Philips Combines Lamp and Ballast Organizations

Orion Claims Boost from Acuity Lighting's Comments

Luminous Devices Settles Investor Dispute

LED Company Fighting for its Life

Luminous Devices accuses its lender of reneging on a $15.1 million loan and blocking access to its bank accounts

Company said it has raised $140 million since it was founded in 2002 and was close to raising another $15 million in financing when Hercules blocked access to some of its bank accounts

Acuity Brands Beats Street

20% Increase in Profit

Valmont Downgraded

GE Reorganization Good for Lighting

Division changes name from "Consumer & Industrial" to "Appliances & Lighting"
In recent months, Mr. Immelt has said GE now wants to keep the unit as it matches with GE's new goals of growing its industrial businesses, particularly in businesses that address energy efficiency and a smarter electricity grid.

Stock	1-Jan-09	31-Dec-09	Change
Cree	$ 16.04	$ 56.37	251%
Cooper	$ 30.67	$ 42.64	39%
Philips	$ 20.73	$ 28.44	37%
Valmont	$ 64.76	$ 78.45	21%
Siemens	$ 77.77	$ 91.70	18%
Lighting Science	$ 0.75	$ 0.80	7%
Acuity	$ 35.36	$ 35.64	1%
GE	$ 17.07	$ 15.13	-11%

Philips Lights Times Square Ball

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Valmont Declares Dividend

Venture Offers Product Line to meet California's New Title 20 Efficiency and Compliance Standards taking effect 1 JAN 2010

...standard 88% ballast efficiency to 90 and 92%. This can be interpreted that the state of CA is asking for electronic ballasts in HID fixtures.
The 88% systems can still be utilized under precise rules. A
manufacturer must use an integral dimming system with the fixture as one option.

Hubbell Addresses Outdoor Lighting Standards

Consensus Agreement has been Achieved and sent to Washington

HALO: Homeowners Against Lighting Ordinances

Nexxus Lighting has Follow-on Stock Offering

5,750,000 shares @ $3

LED Traffic Lights Blamed in 12 Accidents; 1 Death

Snow blocks signal
"As far as I'm aware, all that can be done is to have crews clean off the snow by hand," said Green Bay, Wis., police Lt. Jim Runge. "It's a bit labor-intensive."

Philips Completes Retrofitting Times Square Ball to all LED

ER: EXCLUSIVE: Discussion with Zia Eftekhar on new position

Zia Eftekhar Named appointed Chief Executive Officer of Philips Professional Luminaires North America

Generation Brands Files Chapter 11

Sea Gull Lighting
Murray Feiss
Tech Lighting

Siemens Downgraded

Cut to equal-weight by Morgan Stanley

The Motley Fool Likes Acuity Brands

Better positioned

Siemens Reports 58% drop

Acuity Brands Prices Private Offering

CREE Demonstrates 98 LPW Streetlight

Cooper Acquires Pauluhn

$35M deal

LSI Opens iZone

The multi-faceted facility is dedicated to innovative new technology for lighting and graphics products
An integral tool in educating customers about LSI's advanced products and underlying technologies

Christopher Ruud Named President of Ruud Lighting

DOE's Jim Brodrick To Continue Exclusive Focus on LED (Commentary)

correction

TIME: Philips LED Bulb is One of Best Inventions in 2009

Konica Minolta Expects $1B in OLED Sales in 2017

"Management at Konica Minolta is committed to making OLED lighting one of our major business pillars in the mid to long term."
Konica Minolta is developing OLED lighting gear with GE

Ilumisys Vows to be #1 in LED

...said that large manufacturers such as General Electric Co. and Phillips Electronics (their spelling) are jumping into the market, “but they don't have competitive products."
According to Gerald Polk, manager of energy partnership and services group at Detroit-based DTE Energy Co., the cost of traditional street-lamp bulbs is $200-$250.

Editor's Note: Humble editor is happy to sell Mr. Polk HID lamps, all day long, at the reduced price of $190. It's a bargain!

Juno Lighting and Elite Amicably Settle Patent Dispute

Valmont Honored with Export Award

Cree Installs at Walmart

Will be installed in 650 stores
Replaces 70 watt CMH

Acuity Brands to License Philips LED portfolio

Vossloh Schwabe N. America Operations to be folded in with Universal

NYC Update: LightAbilities to Rep LSI

FTC Seeks New Labels for Bulbs

People think of 'watts as a measure of brightness...

Orion Reports Loss

Anticipates $16.5-$18M for 3Q

Secretary Chu Announces $151 Million for R&D

Includes crystal growth technology that could lower the costs of LEDs

NJ Installs 10 Millionth CFL

Law School Shines Too Bright

Cooper Reports Lower Earnings; Beats Forecast

Record 9 month free cash flow

AIA Billings Up Slightly

Cree Reports Record Quarterly Revenue

Revenue $169.1M, a 20% increase
Net Income increased to $21M

More CFL Criticism

GE's Earnings Fall 42%

Sales off 20% across the board
Profit is up at Consumer & Industrial

Hubbell Cuts 20 Jobs in Christiansburg

Valmont 3Q Beats Estimate; Sees Lower 4Q

Q3 EPS $1.53 vs est $1.07
Q3 sales down 12%

Lighting Sciences Introduces Roadway Lighting Technology

Philips Triples Profits

Helped by cost-cutting
Beats forecast

CV Lighting Closes

CREE to add 575 jobs

Acuity Brands Annual Profit Falls 43%

Net income of $84.9 million and earnings of $2.04 a share, compared with net income of $148.3 million and earnings of $3.56 a share in fiscal 2008.
Stock Upgraded by Wedbush Morgan

Toshiba to Introduce 60 watt Equivalent LED

Lightswitch Lights Chicago Sky

Governor Schwarzenegger is Introduced to Light Emitting Plasma™

Lemmis to Offer $39.95 LED Replacement for Incandescant

EPA & DOE in Bold Partnership

BusinessWeek Article on Philips Lighting

Philips has forked out $5 billion over the past five years on acquisitions in large part to expand its LED business.
Global lighting industry will grow at around 5% a year through 2012, LED market is forecast to expand at 28%.

Siemens: Sales Continue Slide
GE: Slowest Recovery in Decades

Lumileds Opens Shanghai Office

Transparent White OLEDs

Would Philips Really Sell Lumileds?

PATENT WARS CONTINUE: iLight Awarded $5M in Patent Suit

Rulings that confirm iLight’s victory in its patent infringement litigation against Fallon Luminous Products Corporation, a Knoxville, TN sign company
Court rejected Fallon’s motion for a new trial, and increased the total amount awarded to iLight
iLight invented what the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the jury found to be a unique manner of using LED technology to simulate cold cathode and neon lighting.
“With more than 50 patents governing this unique technology, it is difficult for us to imagine an LED product of high quality that offers very desirable, bright, and even illumination similar to cold cathode or neon without using iLight’s proprietary technology.”

Lighting Sciences Launches Major New Product at Clinton Global Initiative

Substantially increased light output at about half the cost
New line of LED retrofit lamps will use approximately 80% less energy than the traditional lighting technology lamps they replace.

Taiwan Manufacturer Mulls Acquiring LUMILEDS from Philips?

NY Streetlight Replacement a Real Dud

The antique lights, which are called bishop's crooks, cost about $10,000 to purchase and install. Standard streetlights cost about $4,000.
"It's a beautiful thing, but they aren't very bright," said Murray Fink
$4.7 million project to replace 500 working street lamps

SLP Acquires American Louver Lighting Divsion

Audit Finds Wasted in Shared Savings Program

Buildings torn down several years ago; Government paid $850,000 for energy savings at facilities that no longer existed

QSSI Acquires Duraguard

Neptun's IP Notice

Orion CEO to meet with Walmart, Dell, at White House

CREE Falls 5% after announcing 11M New Share Offering

The Acquisition Opportunities in Lighting

LED companies likely have the greatest chance to be acquired
Plasma lights will also attract shoppers, but it could take longer

Toshiba Mulls M&A to Gain Share

Aims to raise lighting system sales to 350 billion yen ($3.8 billion) by 2015
Toshiba now faces increasing competition at home from non-lighting makers Panasonic Corp, which said it will launch LED light bulbs in Japan on October 21

CREE Offers 11M New Shares

Philips Lumileds Introduces New LED Headlamps

Cooper Completes Move to Ireland

GE Upgraded

JP Morgan raises fro $12/share to $17/share

Cree & IBM?

Bill Brown Sales and Robertson End Relationship by Mutual Agreement

Global Emerging Lighting Market = $112 Billion

Citigroup Upgrades Cooper

Shareholders Approve Cooper's Move from Bermuda to Ireland

Allows Cooper to expand it's workforce

SAVE THE BULB! HOWARD BRANDSTON'S OP ED PIECE IN WALL STREET JOURNAL

Philips and Lighting Science Settle All Litigation

Trade between both companies will be intensified
Philips to make limited equity investment in LSG
My exclusive discussion with Zach Gibler, CEO

Tom Salpietra Named President & CEO of EYE Lighting

Tom's Exclusive Comments to EdisonReport

Orion Receives Modular Patent

Edison's Revenge!

Max Bahr "...energy savings lamps are useless for reading"

U.S. Navy Fleet Going LED

LUXEON Rebel Gains UL Recognition

Possible for UL Listing on new luminaires without having the full in-system LED investigation

Product Safety Commission Issues Warning on Whitco Poles

Issues warning while investigation is ongoing
"To reduce the risk of injury, Whtco Co. LP Outdoor steel stadium light poles should be inspected immediately."

Former Howard Manager Pleads Innocent

Could spend rest of life in jail

LSI Narrows Loss

$0.01 per share loss compared to $1.18 during year-earlier quarter

SLi and AC Electronic Establish Partnership

NEMA Lighting Index Falls to Another New Low

An additional 4.3% drop from the first-quarter’s then-all-time-low performance.
On a year-over-year basis, the Index plunged by almost 25%.

Architecture Billings Up

Rebounded more than 5 points last month

TED Magazine Names Leviton Manufacturer of the Year

Florida Power & Light won't change Street Tariff to allow LEDs

Plans to evaluate technology for 1 year
Ft. Lauderdale scrapped talk of LED's because of FP&L's position

Insiders Sell $6M of Valmont

Lumileds Adds Alvin Tsi to Asian Operations

CREE Upgraded

Electricity Rates Drop

Wholesale electricity cost an average of $40 a megawatt hour, down from $66.40 a year earlier

Valmont Introduces Pole Risk Based Analysis Tool

A risk-based analysis so they can assess their own pole failure risk.
Expert inspection, analysis, repair and replacement of poles, lattice towers and related structures

Wisconsin Politicians Introduce Legislation to Create Green Jobs

Legislation introduced at Orion's Technology Center

Orion Reports Numbers

Revenue down 22%
Gross Profit down 33%
Operating Expenses up 18%
Added 31 contractor partners, total 476 contractor partners

GE to Close Canadian Lamp Plant

AAL & Kim to Share Facility in California

Cooper Declares Dividend

Siemens Profit Down 7%

Will cut 1600 jobs--most in Europe
Company "did particularly well" compared with its main competitors

ALP Acquires Tooling, Equipment of ALC

Lighting Sciences Lays Off 29; Moving HQ to Florida

WSJ Selects Finelite as one of Top 35 Small Workplaces

72% Don't want Feds Changing their Lightbulbs

Rasmussan Poll says 18% approve; 10% not sure

Cooper Controls Enters Marketing Agreement with Electronic Diversified

Cooper Reports 45% Lower Profits

Still beats expectations

Orion Announces New President, James R. Kackley

Oversee day-to-day operations
Reports to Neal R. Verfuerth, who continues as CEO

Valmont 2Q Profit Up

Philips Plan for Recession

Slump May be Ending

Universal Display and Armstrong Develop Oled with a little help from Department of Energy (DOLED)

GE Profits Fall 49%

GE Introduces EVOLVE Outdoor LEDs

GE Plans to Reduce Household Energy to Zero

Philips Stock Gains 5%

Philips Reports 94% Drop in Net Profit

Lighting shows 57M Euro Loss
Better in the second half than the first half due to cost-cutting programs and — possibly — some recovery in sales.

Keith T.S. Ward's Interview with Journal of New England Technology

Philips May unveil more Cost-Cutting at Lighting

Expected to post loss on 13 JUL
Targeting more than 500 million euros in annualized cost savings by the end of this year
Detailed plans for 6,000 job cuts in 2009 on top of 3,000 announced in 2008

Jademar Merges with Henry Stern

Over 100 years combined international experience

Cooper Downgraded

LEED Depot Challenges White House on Efficiency

Incandescent Lamp, Not Yet Dead

TCP Coming to the US

Will offer own brand in US while private labeling for GE, OSI, Philips
Sales down about 6%
Cedes nothing to LED

An Opposing view...

Acuity Brands Expects to Earn $0.57 per Share

LSI Lands Large Canopy LED Retrofit

Orion Introduces FL Streetlight

President Obama Pushes Lighting (MSNBCvideo)

"Light bulbs, not sexy..."
Californians Consume 40% less energy per person than the national average
7% energy in America is from lighting
Secretary Chu will look at Whitehouse lightbulbs
$346M for development, deployment and use of energy efficiency in residential and commercial buildings

Zumtobel Warns on Outlook

No recovery before 2010

Bangor, ME Switches Streetlights to LED

Uses stimulus money

Lebelight Claimes 130 LPW LED

Lebelight is used in Chinese Spaceships

Light Tower Collapses in Texas

Misguided Iowa Town Considers Turning Off Lights

OSRAM SYLVANIA Names Rick Leaman as President & CEO

Claims Number 1 position
Charlie Jerabek Transitions to Vice Chairman

Illumitex Raises Cash;

Quiet on the exact details about how its technology works

Duke Energy Settles Efficiency Lawsuit

Will reduce energy demand by 2 percent over the next four years. It sets a target of reducing demand by as much as 8 percent by 2020.

Philips Projects Revenue Growth at -17%

Valmont Target Price Raised

Next Generation Research raises from $75 to $85

Leviton Wants to Move Again; This time to Long Island

Only 3rd move in 100 years

Cooper Wants to Move Again; This time to Ireland

Philips Moves Away from "Bulbs" and "Fixtures"

Offers more of a holistic approach

Incandescent May not be Dead, After all

100-watt lamp output; 60-watt consumption

Valmont to Benefit from Stimulus Spending

NEMA Lighting Index in Freefall

Ballasts and fixtures showing greatest weakness

Metrolight Announces New CEO

Raises additional $3M from existing shareholders

Valmont Upgraded

Driven by revenue growth

CREE Announces Strategic Relationship with RFHIC

Peace Bridge Lit with LED's

GE's Immelt: Worst is Over

CREE Raises 4Q Outlook

LA's Big Burn

Streetlights on 24/7

iLight Prevails in Patent Infringement Case

Multimillion dollar award
iLight President: “It is difficult for us to imagine an LED technology of high quality that offers very desirable, bright, and even illumination similar to cold cathode or neon without using iLight’s proprietary technology.”

Orion Reports Quarterly Results:

Revenue down 31%
Gross Profit down 43%
Suspends annual revenue guidance

Leviton Acquires EZE Rough System

GE, LRC in Test to Treat Dementia

Researchers want to regulate the sleep-wake cycle by regulating the amount of exposure to blue-white (wakefulness) and yellow-white (sleepiness) light

LSI Restores Goodwill

PG&E to Offer Rebates on LED Streetlights

Customers will be able to switch to a lower billing rate under the LS-2 schedule starting May 1, 2009
Customers will be eligible for a rebate for every qualified LED fixture purchased and installed after May 1, 2009. Detailed instructions about applying for the rebate will be provided soon

CalculiteLightolierPhilips wins Most Innovative Product of the Year

GE Edison Award goes to Jim Benya, Michael Neils, Juan Villatoro, and James Christensen

Luxim Raises $12M in Series C Funds

Siemens Reports Strong 2Q

Profits soar, but profits drop 29% in Industry Sector (includes lighting)

Valmont Raises Dividend by 15%

Cooper Declares Dividend

Given 5-star rating by Credit-Suisse, Wachovia

Siemens to Lower Forecast

LSI Reports $2.5M Loss

Will no longer give sales/earnings guidance
Withdraws prior forecast

Cooper Quarterly Profit Falls 35%

Seeing some signs of stabilization
Focus on rightsizing the business

NYC Plans Retrofits for Older Buildings

Result in $2.9 billion in private investment in building improvements by 2022
Generate 2,000 new jobs in energy auditing and related fields
The program would begin in 2013

NJ Governor Visits Lighting Science Group

CREE Beats Estimate

Q3 adjusted EPS $0.13 vs. estimate of $0.12
Q3 revenue up 5% to $131.1M vs. estimate $130.6M
Sees Q4 revenue $137M-$143M vs. estimate $136.3M

CREE Announces Smaller Bins for Warm/Neutral LEDs

Acuity Brands Completes Acquisition of Sensor Switch

GE Net drops 35%

Immelt upbeat

Valmont Announces Strong 1Q

Record 1Q sales, operating income and net earnings.

Philips Posts 1Q Loss

$78M loss
Lighting Fell 19%

Orion Lowers Expectations

Predicts sales of $71M vs. analyst expectations of $81M

EXCLUSIVE: Howard Lighting Lays Off Sales Force

Eight Lighting Poles have Failed Across the US

One commonality: Whitco

Coming to a Cobrahead Near you: Mandatory Bi-Level Dimming

Details & Definitions
Exclusions: Theatrical, Swimming Pools, Christmas Lights, Emergency Lighting, Landscape, Electrodeless Fluorescent

Best Place to Work in South Carolina? Hubbell Lighting

Beats out 250 companies including BMW

Acuity Brands Income Dips

Company cuts 200 more jobs

Philips Acquires Selecon

Orion Lightpipe Named Product of the Year

Acuity Declares Dividend

Howard Brandston vs. High Pressure Sodium

“If makeup rooms had high-pressure sodium lighting, you would end up looking like the Bride of Frankenstein”
“I happen to like trees green.”

Philips Sees Weakening in ALL Sectors

No impact from stimulus package
An "L" shaped recession

LED's Light up Chapel Hill

12-month test program

Independent LED Data Available at NLB website

AIA's Billing Index Rises Slightly

Previous month was all-time-low

President Obama gives huge Plug to Orion

"Double the life at half the energy"
Mispronounces Orion (video)

ALP Initiates Price Decrease on Plastic Products

Acuity Brands to Buy Sensor Switch

$205 Million

Cooper Acquires LED Company

Cities Rush to Get Stimulus Money for LED

At least 30 cities ask for $104M

PureSpectrum Files Patent for Cold Cathode Dimming

A Good Day!

Lighting Sciences up 22%

Orion up 21%

GE up 19%
Valmont up 11%
Cooper up 8%
Acuity up 7%
Cree up 7%

Daniel R Smith & Assoc, Sold for $4.2M

LIGHTFAIR to Offer Master's Course in Lighting, Free

Philips Honored by French Institute for MASTER LED

A single Master LED retrofit bulb uses less than 7W and can replace traditional incandescent bulbs up to 40W

The GE Stock Slide Continues

GE Stock: Lowest Price Since 1993

Immelt's buys 50,000 shares

Cheap, Transparent OLEDs

ASSIST and Nighttime Lighting

BK/Teka Get Extreme Makeover

Philips Closes US Plant

Susan Bloom, "“As a prudent company, we are constantly assessing the status of every part of the business,”

Group Formed to Focus on Cold Storage Opportunities

Ruud Lay-offs

“Thank goodness for LED”

Clinton Foundation Funds LA LEDs

GE's Immelt Turns Down 08 Bonus

Will not receive his $11.7 million long-term performance award

Valmont Beats Street Estimate

4Q net income of $28.5M, up from $23.1M a year ago
Revenue rose to $493M, above analysts' expectations of $456M

Oppenheimer Sees Acuity, Cooper Poised to Gain from Stimulus

GE probably too big to benefit

Hubbell Declares Dividend

NEMA Lighting Index Falls to 10-year Low

Lowest Index ever recorded
Index contracted 4.8% from the 3Q to 4Q,
A year-over-year decline of 11.2%

ETC Get into LED by Acquiring Selador

Lighting will be Strongest Market for CREE

San Jose to Replace LPS with LED

City is seeking $20 million to install 20,000 new lights as part of a project officials
Lights.... will alert the city automatically when they are out.
Can dim lights 30 percent from 3 a.m. to 5 a.m

Cooper Reports Dividend; Authorizes Share Repurchase

GE to Pay Dividend

$0.31 per share
Will evaluate future dividends

Orion Introduces Parking Lot Solution

Thorn Opens New Plant in UK

Secures 700 jobs

Montana Considers REQUIREMENT for LED Streetlights

Study found the payback period for new construction ranged from 3.7 years to 6.3 years

LSI Reports Dismal 4Q

Lumileds Offers Online Tool for Energy Star Application

Tool addresses the requirements of the “Chromaticity and Spatial Uniformity

The Night The Lights Went out in Georgia

Acuity Brands, Cooper, Hubbell, Philips collectively stock prices down average of 37% Since APR 08
Big Four Account for 54% of Lighting
Recommends all Four as 'potential investment candidates' (EdisonReport agrees)

Acuity Brands: "...good company operating in a terrible part of the economic cycle."

Cooper Lighting Canada Raises Prices

Hubbell Reports 6% Net Increase in 4Q

Net income in the fourth quarter of 2008 was $46.3 million compared to $48.0 million
Decline in profitability in the segment was due to weaker results in our residential lighting business

Siemens Reports Sharp 1Q Decline in Net Profit