Genlyte Group

Holding company Bairnco formed the Genlyte Group from nine lighting companies in 1984.[1][2] The Genlyte Group formed a joint venture with Thomas Industries in 1998.[3] Genlyte Group brands at the time included Bronzelite, Canlyte, Crescent, DiamondF, ExceLine, Forecast, Hadco, Lightolier, Stonco, and Wide-Lite.[4] Thomas Industries brands included Capri, Day-Brite, Emco, Gardco, Lumec, mcPhilben, Omega, and Thomas.[5] Additional brands appeared, and in some cases later disappeared, from the Genlyte Thomas website as follows:

The Genlyte Group reached an agreement with Thomas Industries in 2004 to acquire its 32% minority interest in Genlyte Thomas.[19] The Genlyte Group (now including Genlyte Thomas brands) acquired the JJI Lighting Group in 2006, thereby adding the following brands: Alkco, Allscape, Ardee, d’ac, Guth, High-Lites, Hoffmeister Leuchten, LAM, Metrolux, Morlite, Nessen, Quality, Specialty, and Vista.[20] It also acquired Strand Lighting in 2006,[21] followed by Hanover Lantern in 2007.[22]

The Genlyte Group was acquired by Philips in 2008,[23][24] and became part of the Philips Lighting Business Unit Professional Luminaires North America.[25] Philips Lighting N.V. included Genlyte brands when it was created in 2016, and the spinoff was renamed Signify N.V. in 2018.[26]

The name was brought back as Genlyte Solutions by Signify in 2020 to cover a subset of its brands.[27] Genlyte Solutions brands include Advance, Alkco, Bodine, BrightSites, Chloride, Color Kinetics, Day-Brite CFI, Gardco, Hadco, Interact, Ledalite, Lightolier, Lumec, Philips, Philips Dynalite, and Stonco Keene.[28]

• Horizon, Lite-Energy, Matrix, and Zed were already listed as of November 1999.[6]
• DiamondF was not listed there, and its own website had gone offline by December 1998.[7]
• Ledalite was acquired in 1999.[8]
• Translite Sonoma was acquired in 2000.[9]
• Chloride Systems and LightGuard were acquired from the Chloride Group in 2000.[10]
• Fibre Light was listed in 2001 following a joint venture announced in 1999.[11][12] It had been removed from the list by April 2004,[13] and its own U.S. website went offline earlier that year.[14]
• Entertainment Technology was acquired from Rosco Laboratories in 2001.[15]
• Vari-Lite was acquired in 2002.[16]
• Shakespeare Composite Structures was acquired in 2003.[17]
• USS Manufacturing was acquired in 2004.[18]

External links

• Signify Brands