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:

• 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]

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]

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External links

• Signify Brands