Today in Lighting — Monday, July 13, 2026
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I hope you had a nice weekend. Here are the stories making news.

Congratulations to our good friends at SDA Lighting and Controls, now an employee-owned company. I think it’s a great deal for the employees and a great deal for management. I have an interview set with Melissa Deutschstein and we will have details coming up.

Spring Lighting Group’s John Hamilton brings decades of ESCO experience to NALMCO, emphasizing accountability, collaboration, and value-engineered lighting solutions while helping strengthen the company’s presence in the contractor and energy retrofit markets.if i

ArchLIGHT Summit has announced Andrea Hartranft as its closing keynote speaker. In her presentation, the renowned designer will explore what the future of lighting may look like through a candid examination of several possible scenarios. We know Andrea well, and when she’s going to talk about candid scenarios, it will be a very exciting talk.

Wayne Tyler has launched a redesigned website featuring updated technical resources, product information, application imagery, and sales support tools to help architects, designers, engineers, and contractors streamline the specification process. More on designinglighting.com.

An unusual day for lighting stocks on Friday — the Dow was up 150 points, NASDAQ was up 75, and we were down across the board except Signify, which was up nearly 3%.