Acuity Brands

Acuity Brands, Inc.
Public (NYSE: AYI)
Industry Home Furnishings
Fixtures
Founded 2001
Headquarters Atlanta, GA, USA
Coordinates 33°47′10″N 84°22′59″W / 33.786°N 84.383°W / 33.786; -84.383Coordinates: 33°47′10″N 84°22′59″W / 33.786°N 84.383°W / 33.786; -84.383
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Vernon J. Nagel (CEO)
(Chairman) & (President)
Products Consumer Goods
List of brands
Revenue Increase US$1.66 Billion (FY 2009)[1]
Increase US$155 Million (FY 2009)[1]
Increase US$84.9 Million (FY 2009)[1]
Total assets Decrease US$1.29 Billion (FY 2009)[2]
Total equity Increase US$672 Million (FY 2009)[2]
Number of employees
6,500 (2008)
Website Acuity Brands.com
Acuity Brands office.

Acuity Brands, Inc. (NYSE: AYI), is an electronics manufacturing company. It was founded in 2001 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia.[3]

Acuity Brands has spun off its specialty chemicals business effective November 1, 2007. The new company is known as Zep Inc. and is traded on the NYSE under the ticker symbol ZEP. [4]

Lighting

Lighting equipment made by the company includes indoor and outdoor lighting fixtures for commercial and institutional, industrial, infrastructure, and residential applications. The company offers its lighting equipment 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.[5]

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