1100 Companies Operate in the US's $12 Billion Lighting Equipment Manufacturing Industry.DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c47517) has announced the addition of the First Research report: Lighting Equipment Manufacture - Industry Profile to their offering. Covering over 175 industries and updated every 90 days, the First Research Industry Profiles do the "heavy lifting" for you - saving your sales team valuable research time, enhancing client communications and giving you the competitive edge to win more business. Easy-to-use and up-to-date, the Industry Profiles provide you with the industry research necessary to stay on top of constant changes in select industries. The First Research profiles help target your products and services directly to prospects. The Industry Profiles provide the information and understanding you need to engage new prospects during the sales process A sales process is a systematic approach for performing product or service sales. The reasons for having a sales process include seller and buyer risk management, achieving standardized customer interaction in sales and scalable revenue generation. , deepen customer relationships and strengthen your own bottom line. Topics Covered: Industry Overview Quarterly Industry Update Business Challenges Trends and Opportunities Call Preparation Questions Financial Information Industry Forecast Website and Media Links Glossary of Acronyms Summary Brief Excerpt ex·cerpt n. A passage or segment taken from a longer work, such as a literary or musical composition, a document, or a film. tr.v. ex·cerpt·ed, ex·cerpt·ing, ex·cerpts 1. from Industry Overview Chapter: The US lighting equipment manufacturing industry includes about 1,100 companies with combined annual revenue of about $12 billion. Major companies include Acuity Brands Acuity Brands, Inc., 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. , Hubbell, and Genlyte. Divisions of large integrated companies such as General Electric also manufacture lighting equipment. The industry is concentrated: the largest 50 companies have about 70 percent market share. COMPETITIVE LANDSCAPE Demand depends primarily on residential, industrial, and commercial construction activity. Large companies have advantages in purchasing power Purchasing Power 1. The value of a currency expressed in terms of the amount of goods or services that one unit of money can buy. Purchasing power is important because, all else being equal, inflation decreases the amount of goods or services you'd be able to purchase. 2. , manufacturing volume, and distribution efficiencies. Small companies compete by offering specialized products and superior customer service in regional markets. Annual revenue per employee is about $200,000. PRODUCTS, OPERATIONS & TECHNOLOGY Major product categories are lamp bulbs and parts (about 20 percent of revenues) and lighting fixtures (about 80 percent). Lamp bulbs consist primarily of incandescent in·can·des·cent adj. 1. Emitting visible light as a result of being heated. 2. Shining brilliantly; very bright. See Synonyms at bright. 3. , fluorescent, and three types of high intensity discharge (HID) lamps: metal halide halide: see halogen. , sodium, and mercury vapor. Lighting fixtures consist of metal, glass, and plastic products in various decorative styles. Residential fixtures may be highly decorative while industrial, commercial, and institutional applications tend to be more basic. Portable fixtures, such as table and floor lamps, are used primarily in residential applications. Incandescent bulbs are the primary choice for residential applications, while longer-lasting, more expensive, fluorescent and HID bulbs dominate industrial, commercial, and institutional applications. Raw materials for lamp bulbs include glass, tungsten tungsten (tŭng`stən) [Swed.,=heavy stone], metallic chemical element; symbol W; at. no. 74; at. wt. 183.85; m.p. about 3,410°C;; b.p. 5,660°C;; sp. gr. 19.3 at 20°C;; valence +2, +3, +4, +5, or +6. , copper, and inert gases inert gases (i·nertˑ gaˑ·s  s),n. such as argon argon (är`gŏn) [Gr.,=inert], gaseous chemical element; symbol Ar; at. no. 18; at. wt. 39.948; m.p. −189.2°C;; b.p. −185.7°C;; density 1.784 grams per liter at STP; valence 0. and nitrogen. For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c47517 |
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