April 30, 2013 - Canada scooped up three awards at this year’s GE Edison Awards competition, an international contest to lighting professionals who demonstrate creative and significant use of GE light sources (lamps and/or LEDs) in a lighting design project completed during the previous year.

April 26, 2013 - GE Lighting has entered a joint-development agreement with Cooledge Lighting to develop a customized GE Lightech LED power-supply driver in Cooledge’s full range of LED light sheet solutions, which debuted this week at LightFair International 2013. The agreement extends beyond the LED driver integration to include the development of high performance LED phosphors and LED solutions targeting commercial applications, including signage applications. Cooledge says its flexible LED light sheets are engineered to provide high-quality lighting utilizing a highly dense pattern of LEDs on a thin plastic substrate.

April 18, 2013 - To celebrate GE Lighting’s 100 years at its headquarters—Nela Park in East Cleveland, Ohio—the GE Foundation has donated $500,000 to two Northeast Ohio non-profit health centres. In addition, the Nela Park centennial celebration offered more than 100 guests and hundreds of Nela Park employees the opportunity to reflect on the history of the nation’s first industrial park.

April 4, 2013 - Pat Haughey, general manager of GE Lighting-Canada, announced the recent appointment of Nabil Jacques Salem to the position of field sales developer for the Quebec market.

December 7, 2012 - GE Lighting has acquired Boulder, Colo.-based Albeo Technologies Inc., a privately held LED fixture manufacturer established in 2004.

December 5, 2012 - GE Lighting has announced its Call for Entries for the 30th annual GE Edison Award competition, recognizing excellence and quality in professional lighting designs that employ the significant use of GE lighting products, including, but not limited to:

October 30, 2012 - Halco Lighting Technologies welcomes Jerry Kalb to the position of director of business development. Kalb brings more than thirty years of knowledge in the lighting industry to the Halco team, with experience from GE Lighting, Acuity Brands Lighting and EYE Lighting.

October 8, 2012 - GE Lighting announced John Strainic will head the business’s North America Consumer Lighting operation. In this newly created role, Strainic will be responsible for driving growth for GE Lighting’s North America consumer business.

October 2, 2012 - GE Lighting has introduced the GE Energy Smart 27W LED bulb, delivering 1,600+ lumens, 3000ºK colour temperature and 25,000-hour rated life. Featuring the standard A-19 bulb shape, the incandescent replacement bulb boasts of smooth dimming, instant full brightness and 60+ lumens per watt. The bulb also features a synthetic jet– a method to move air to cool LEDs using an oscillating membrane, which fits within the envelope of the A-19 bulb shape.

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September 10, 2012 - Steve Parent, district manager, GE Lighting Professional Sales has announced Michel Champoux to the position of lighting sales representative, where he will be responsible for regions in Southern Ontario, including Kitchener, Waterloo, London, Windsor, and Niagara.