The New York-based architectural lighting company, whose new BP150 Series Metal Halide Image/Framing projector won the award for Debuting Product of the Year for Architectural Lighting at the recent LDI show in Las Vegas, already enjoys success in Europe through distributor Enliten. However, with the products in demand throughout Europe, and equipment in retail stores across the continent, plus other installations such as the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, the company is keen to establish a more formal presence in the European market. A UK operation will also enable the company to work directly with the designers who are now doing work all over the world.
"Lighting Services collaborates with designers worldwide and in recent years we have become increasingly impressed with the way our business is developing in the UK," says Lighting Services Inc's president, Daniel Gelman. "We have an extensive catalogue of CE approved products specifically for Europe, with the additional benefit of having the ability to customize and develop products to suit the individual requests of lighting designers. We also take a proactive approach to customer research, as opposed to R&D pushing products on the market, and provide a range of services to complement our products, such as an interactive online Q&A service."
Established in 1958 by the lighting designer on the former Tonight Show, Lighting Services Inc has won many awards, including LDI 2002, ADEX 2000 and EDDY 1999. Working largely in the retail, display, architectural and corporate lighting markets, Lighting Services Inc has a global focus, with 140 representative agents worldwide, and is currently in the process of recruiting a UK sales manager, with a view to opening a London office in the near future. Consultant Michael Hall, previously managing director of Roscolab in the UK, is very familiar with Lighting Services Inc: "With a long history of engineering and manufacturing high quality lighting systems in the industry, Lighting Services has an impeccable reputation in the USA. Their menu of creativity, top-quality personnel and service, design, engineering and manufacturing techniques is set to make them a huge success this side of the Atlantic."
(Ruth Rossington)
