Genlyte Group
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The Genlyte Group was a company that manufactured and sold lighting
Lighting
Lighting or illumination is the deliberate application of light to achieve some practical or aesthetic effect. Lighting includes the use of both artificial light sources such as lamps and light fixtures, as well as natural illumination by capturing daylight...

 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
  • Lightolier
    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 name was changed to Lightolier, a contraction of the...

  • Lightolier Controls
  • Lite-Energy
  • Lumec
  • mcPhilben
  • Metrolux
  • Morlite
  • NiteLife
  • Nessen Lighting
  • Omega
  • Quality Lighting
  • Shakespeare Composite Structures
  • Specialty Lighting
  • Stonco
  • Strand Lighting
    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 theatre productions and TV shows worldwide.-History:Strand...

  • Translite
  • Thomas Lighting Residential
  • Thomas Lighting Canada
  • U.S.S Manufacturing
  • Vari-Lite
    Vari-Lite
    VARI*LITE is the brand name of one of the first automated, variable-colour stage lighting systems to be created. Their intelligent lighting fixtures are commonly used in theatre, concerts, television, film and corporate events.-Pre-History:...

  • Vista
  • Wide-Lite

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