Traditional brick-and-mortar supermarkets are reconfiguring their store layouts and lighting designs as part of their new strategy to retain customers, attract new ones and remain relevant in the rapidly changing grocery retail channel. As online competition and dollar stores capture more dry-goods business, supermarkets are shifting their focus away from shrinking center aisles to their […]

Supermarkets must reinvent themselves as online grocery shopping and home delivery intensifies, and overall consumer behavior evolves. The internet is now the fastest-growing grocery retail channel, with a compound annual growth rate of 19.5%, according to the grocery retail research firm IGD. Supermarkets’ online rivals such as AmazonFresh, Fresh Direct and Instacart, as well as […]

Hotels are under more pressure today to deliver the “wow” factor to impress millennial guests. Millennials, the generation of people born between 1981–1996, have come of age during a time of technological transformation, globalization and economic disruption. Under these circumstances, they have developed behaviors and preferences very different from the generations that came before them. [...]

Hotel chains are modernizing their facilities to cater to guests who want more than a room where they can sleep. Young and old, 74% of Americans are prioritizing experiences over products. In today’s world of hospitality, guests want private spaces and work areas—as well as rooms that encourage socialization—to deliver destinations that invoke unique experiences. […]

Electrical distributors are battling online retailers and big-box stores in a fierce competition. With competitors increasingly targeting your customers, you must remain focused on developing and implementing strategies that reduce customer attrition and win new business. But time is ticking away. Amazon’s B2B division, which is called Amazon Business, generated more than $1 billion in […]

In the beginning, Amazon only sold books. After a quarter-century of business, the company has 647,500 employees, occupies 288.4 million square feet of real estate and accounts for nearly half of online retail in the United States. In 2005, the online giant set its sights on the B2B market. Today, Amazon Business, the company’s B2B […]

Quick-Line Recessed 4” Linear Helps Contractors, Design-Build Firms, Owners OAKLAND, N.J. – Oct. 23, 2019 – Amerlux, an award-winning design-and-manufacture lighting company, announced today its expansion of the linear lighting family that essentially eliminates availability and installation headaches for contractors, designers and building owners. Amerlux’s new Quick-Line Recessed [...]

Free Webinar Approved for AIA CE Credits Set for 10/22 OAKLAND, N.J. – Oct. 21, 2019 – Amerlux, an award-winning design-and-manufacture lighting company, announced today that it will present a ground-breaking webinar about how light can promote improved patient outcomes and higher satisfaction rates in health care. Amerlux’s free webinar series, “eLumenNation,” goes live tomorrow […]

Interchangeable Lighting Attachments Snap In OAKLAND, N.J. – Oct. 16, 2019 – Amerlux, an award-winning design-and-manufacture lighting company, announced today its new low voltage, track light system could be leveraged as a tool to free imagination trapped in the minds of architects and lighting designers. Amerlux’s Slots and Dots is an easily configurable track light […]

Trunking System Allows Lighting to Change Along With Store OAKLAND, N.J. – Oct. 14, 2019 – Amerlux, an award-winning design-and-manufacture lighting company, announced today its new supermarket lighting system that changes along with the aisles in a store. Amerlux’s Cadence allows stores to easily change the location of the light source without the help of […]

AIA Members Earn CE Credits for Completion of Free Program OAKLAND, N.J. – Sept. 16, 2019 – Amerlux, an award-winning design-and-manufacture lighting company, announced today that it will present its second ground-breaking webinar in a four-part series to help its stakeholders keep pace with an industry that has turned into the new tech sector. Amerlux’s […]

Legendary Reality TV Retailer Retrofits 185 Downlights in Fitting Rooms OAKLAND, N.J. – September 10, 2019 – Amerlux, an award-winning design-and-manufacture lighting company, announced today that more brides can be seen in the best light since the installation of its spec-grade solutions at the famous “Say Yes To The Dress” reality TV venue Kleinfeld Bridal […]

Amerlux Puts Wedding Dresses in the Best Light A true New York City icon, the venerable Kleinfeld Bridal has been selling some of the finest wedding dresses for more than 75 years. Made famous as the home of TLC’s reality show, “Say Yes to the Dress,” Kleinfeld is a bridal retail legend. Kleinfeld had one […]

Lighting designers are tasked with the challenge of collaborating with architects to create spaces that maximize both functionality and beauty. While carpenters work with wood and masons with bricks, light is the primary tool for lighting designers. Thanks to advancements in LED technology, lighting designers have a lot more to work with in their toolbox […]

“Energy efficient” and “green building” are no longer just trendy buzzwords. LEED certification and key energy codes like Title 24 have not only made them a regular part of your vocabulary but also end goals for your lighting design projects. Lighting accounts for 17% of the energy usage of a typical building and can easily […]