Acuity Brands, Inc.

Type	Public (NYSE: AYI)
Founded	2001
Headquarters	Atlanta, GA, USA
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Vernon J. Nagel (CEO) (Chairman) & (President)
Industry	Home Furnishings Fixtures
Products	Consumer Goods List of brands
Revenue	▲ US$ 2.026 billion (2008)
Operating income	▲ US$ 261.06 million (2008)
Net income	▲ US$ 148.25 million (2008)
Total assets	▼ US$ 1.408 billion (2008)
Total equity	▼ US$ 575.55 million (2008)
Employees	6,500 (2008)
Website	Acuity Brands.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.^[1]

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. ^[2]

Contents 1 Lighting 2 Lighting Brands 3 Acuity Brands Technology Services 4 Pollution 5 References 6 External links

[edit] 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. ^[3]

[edit] Lighting Brands

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

[edit] Acuity Brands Technology Services

• SAERIS
• ROAM (Remote Operations Asset Management)

[edit] Pollution

In 2002 and 2003, Acuity Brands faced investigations from the city of Atlanta and the United States federal government over reports that it had released excessive amounts of phosphorous into wastewater.^[4]

[edit] References

• Gove, Matt (February 15, 2002). "Real Estate Notes: Acuity Brands unit moving to Fulton Industrial". Atlanta Business Chronicle. http://atlanta.bizjournals.com/atlanta/stories/2002/02/18/newscolumn4.html. Retrieved 2009-11-24. 

[edit] External links

• Acuity Brands webpage

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