Acuity Brands

Infobox_Company
company_name = Acuity Brands, Inc.
company_
company_type = Public company
foundation = Atlanta, Georgia 2001
location = Atlanta, Georgia, USA
key_people = Mr. Vernon J. Nagel
industry = Home Furnishings & Fixtures
products = Consumer Goods
revenue = profit 2.1729 billion in 2005
homepage = http://www.acuitybrands.com

Acuity Brands, Inc. (nyse|AYI), 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. [ [http://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=ayi AYI: Profile for ACUITY BRANDS INC - Yahoo! Finance ] ]

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. [ [http://www.corporate-ir.net/ireye/ir_site.zhtml?ticker=AYI&script=410&layout=6&item_id=1029432 Acuity Brands, Inc. News Releases ] ]

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. [ [http://www.acuitybrandslighting.com/ Acuity Brands Lighting ] ]

Brands

Lighting brands

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

References

External links

* [http://www.acuitybrands.com/ Acuity Brands webpage]