Lightrays - September/October 2010

MEMBER NEWS

Circa Lighting Uses Eco-Friendly
Construction in Corporate Office

Circa Lighting has moved its corporate office to a historic building in the downtown area of Savannah, Ga.

The new office will accommodate personnel in accounting, customer service, warehousing, sales and management. The showroom will remain in its current location in the Downtown Design District of Savannah.

Owner Gale Singer realized “the move offered an opportunity to create an innovative work environment by implementing new eco-friendly construction trends. With the new DIRTT plant in Savannah, we found the perfect resource to fulfill our vision of creating an environmentally conscious workplace

with a design aesthetic
to match the Circa
Lighting brand.”
DIRTT (Doing It
Right This Time) are
modular walls used in
office interiors that are
engineered to easily
move to another location, providing a
more sustainable solution to building on-
site and rebuilding when change occurs.
Carpet tiles were also selected because
of the ease of removal and replacement
without the use of nails or padding, and
the office workstations are made of safe
materials and recycled content.

In addition, many of the existing amenities in the historic building were utilized and re-purposed into the new design.

Cohen, Hayes, Gombos and
Blumberg Join Annapolis
Lighting

Ronna Cohen, LS, Lance Hayes, CLC, Linda Gombos, CLC, and Jane Blumberg, CLC, recently joined Annapolis Lighting after working together for 15 years at Branch Electric/ Rexel prior to Rexel exiting the lighting market. Along with Jerry Hopp, CLC, the team makes up Annapolis Lighting’s new residential, light commercial division, led by Cohen.

Cohen

President, Sales and Marketing for Murray Feiss Lighting.

In addition to her existing product development and merchandising duties, Scutaro will now oversee all sales department executives and lighting and home décor sales associates.

Peter Weller Joins PureSpectrum

Peter Weller has joined PureSpectrum Inc. as Vice President of Sales.

Weller is a lighting and lighting controls industry veteran who holds two lighting patents and has more than 20 years of industry experience in engineering, business development, marketing and sales. His previous experience includes positions with Venture Lighting, H.E. Williams Inc., OSRAM SYLVANIA and TCP Inc.

WAC Lighting, Hubbardton Forge
Honored at Innovative Green
Design Awards

WAC Lighting’s LEDme Downlights was named the winner and Hubbardon Forge’s Vortis Pendant received special mention in the lighting category of New York House magazine’s second annual Innovative Green Design AwardsSM (IGDA) competition in June.

Winners were deemed to represent
the greenest materials, most sustainable
methods of manufacturing, highest
energy efficiency, greatest innovation,
minimal carbon footprint and best-
looking design in each category, from
soft goods to lighting, appliances and
building materials.

Robert Berg Joins
Premiere Lighting

Robert Berg has joined Premiere Lighting Associates Inc. of Northbrook, Ill., as Vice President of Business Development.

His duties at the sales agency will include improving customer support systems and enhancing Premier Lighting’s current business model to adapt to the changing economy.

Berg has 30 years of lighting sales experience and has spent the last 20 years with Thomas Lighting, a division of Philips.

ELK Lighting Acquires Baldinger

ELK Lighting Inc. of Nesquehoning, Pa., recently purchased certain assets of 117-year-old architectural lighting manufacturer Baldinger Architectural Lighting Inc./Louis Baldinger & Sons Inc. through ELK’s sister corporation, Mount Summit Lighting Inc.

ELK has created an internal support structure specifically for this new division, including dedicated customer service personnel, designers, draftsmen and project coordinators to ensure a smooth transition for their clients.

Full Spectrum Celebrates New LEED
Platinum Headquarters

Barb Cote Joins Murray Feiss;
Maria Scutaro Promoted to VP

Barb Cote has joined Murray Feiss as Product Development Manager.

In her new position, Cote will be responsible for overseeing the designer department, developing new products, studying fashion trends and creating marketing strategies. She will work closely with the Murray Feiss sales force and customer dealer base.

Cote has more than 30 years of experience in lighting showroom management, sales, merchandising and product development.

Maria Scutaro has been appointed to the newly created position of Vice

Zenhkai Dai, Thomas Wang
Appointed to New Positions
at WAC Lighting

Zengkai Dai has been appointed head of WAC Lighting (Shanghai) Co. Ltd.

In this new position, Dai will be in charge of WAC Lighting’s sales and marketing outside of the U.S.

Previously, he served as Director of
Marketing for WAC Lighting U.S. Before
joining WAC, he held several positions
for Lutron Electronics Co., including
Asia Operations Manager and China
Sales/Market Development Leader.
Based in WAC Lighting’s
International Offices in Shanghai, he
will be responsible for residential and
commercial sales, working with sales
agencies, distributors, designers and
specifiers throughout Asia, Europe and
the global arena.

Wang has worked in WAC Lighting’s International Sales Department for the past two years, primarily in the company’s family-owned manufacturing campus and offices in Guangdong, China. He has also held many positions at WAC Lighting’s Headquarters in Garden City, New York, including accountant and sales assistant.

Full Spectrum Solutions recently held a ribbon cutting for its new LEED Platinum world headquarters and manufacturing facility in Jackson, Mich. The 72,000 sq. ft. facility incorporates a plethora of “green” features, including: cork and bamboo walls;