As the market leader, we provide a broad product offering of the best brands and categories, with a high level of service and consistency. We have the number one market access in the industry, comprised of the leading independent sales agents, electrical distributors, and retailers.
We’ve returned our lighting and lighting controls business to growth by focusing on our customers’ needs and increasing our margins through product vitality and productivity improvements.
Despite challenging market conditions in FY21, we remained focused on our strategy, challenging the industry’s service levels, leading the technology curve, and accelerating product vitality.
Lighting and Lighting Controls
TRANSFORMING
LIGHT
Providing sustainable, inspiring, and intelligent lighting solutions that enrich the communities where people live, learn, work, and play.
“To continue leading the industry, we will aggressively reinvent the service experience using technology. We will also maintain a high product vitality and continuously reinvent our portfolios.”
Trevor Palmer
President, Acuity Brands Lighting and Lighting Controls
BETTER.
SMARTER.
FASTER.
Our Lighting and Lighting Controls business leads the industry with a broad portfolio of products.
We continue to adapt our portfolio to meet the changing needs of our customers.
This Fiscal Year, Acuity capitalized on the growth trend in the industrial market by rapidly expanding our portfolio of Contractor Select products. For example, The Lithonia Lighting® Compact Pro High Bay (CPHB), a breakthrough high bay luminaire, was designed to deliver improved performance in a smaller size. Our CPHB has been in high demand due to the increase in warehouse renovations, driven by the shift to online retail and the expansion of logistics networks across North America. To ensure supply chain flexibility, the product is more efficient to transport and can be manufactured in our facilities or sourced externally.
This Fiscal Year, Acuity capitalized on the growth trend in the industrial market by rapidly expanding our portfolio of Contractor Select products. For example, The Lithonia Lighting® Compact Pro High Bay (CPHB), a breakthrough high bay luminaire, was designed to deliver improved performance in a smaller size. Our CPHB has been in high demand due to the increase in warehouse renovations, driven by the shift to online retail and the expansion of logistics networks across North America. To ensure supply chain flexibility, the product is more efficient to transport and can be manufactured in our facilities or sourced externally.
Pictured here: Acuity Brands associates working in our Monterrey Production Facility in Mexico.
Better. Smarter. Faster. is the process by which we are transforming our Company.
Through Better. Smarter. Faster. we are making progress on two essential factors — delivering value to our customers and focusing on time, our only constrained resource. To solve our customers’ problems, we are taking the important step of learning more about their needs. As we better understand their needs, we map them to the art of the possible to identify the best solution and include time as a key performance indicator.
Lights are essential to all spaces, which gives us an opportunity for innovation and growth.
In a new or existing construction project, lighting and lighting controls are key to the design and functionality of a space. Two of the most exciting new developments in our industry are the increased focus on reducing energy consumption and enhancing wellness.
Pictured here: Custom lighting installed in an office building in Orlando, FL.
Agent: Landreth Lighting, Inc.
Specifier: HLB Lighting Design, Inc.
Photographer: Chad Baumer Photography
Agent: Landreth Lighting, Inc.
Specifier: HLB Lighting Design, Inc.
Photographer: Chad Baumer Photography
Leader Insights: An interview with Sarah Golish
Senior Vice President, Digital Lighting Networks
Sarah Golish leads the Digital Lighting Networks team within the Lighting and Lighting Controls segment responsible for developing and delivering lighting controls systems and in-luminaire technology for indoor and outdoor spaces that allow our customers to reduce energy cost, aid in-building code compliance, and improve occupant comfort. She joined Acuity in 2016 and, in the last 12 months, has seen a significant transformation at the Company.
This Fiscal Year we improved our service levels and processes in several ways.
We realigned our sales team, bringing in more product specialists with a deeper level of technical expertise to support our agency partners and other channel partners. Our teams saw improvements across our service levels by shifting our focus to real-time visibility for our customers and associates. We are now able to track our product from inventory to customer delivery with a higher degree of precision. Our distributors, contractors, and agents can now see the status of an order at any time to enable planning and proactive communication. Our improvements allow us to better anticipate constraints in our supply chain and allow us to engineer alternatives that can help manage lead times.
The acquisition of OSRAM North American Digital Systems Business was an exciting advancement of our driver portfolio.
The OSRAM North American Digital Systems Business acquisition was strategically significant. We are now able to better control our technology and product lifecycle, expand our access to the North American component market, and reduce our dependency on others for LED driver product supply and supporting technology. We are excited about what we can achieve in the future.
We have learned a lot about ourselves during the pandemic, and one of the biggest realizations was that our team can innovate and operate effectively from anywhere in the world.
There has always been an assumption that teams need to interact in person in the same office or location. However, our teams have thrived in this new collaborative digital ecosystem. We have a growing network of engineers spread across the globe, including a new layer of engineering talent with the acquisition of OSRAM North American Digital Systems Business. We have found new ways to support our engineering teams when they couldn’t physically be together to maintain our productivity.
