Whose products and people create opportunities for energy savings

Today, new LED lighting technologies from GE Lighting are rearranging the way furniture stores are lit. From conveying to customers the correct color of cabinets to cutting utility bills by tens of thousands of dollars a year, bright, white, energy-efficient LED lamps have retailers of rugs and recliners kicking back to enjoy a full house of benefits.

Havertys Furniture (Atlanta) recently evaluated its lighting portfolio across its 122 Southeast-region locations, wanting a solution that would benefit more than just its bottom line. The technology, performance and aesthetics of LED high bay light inspired Havertys to use GE products to retrofit existing stores and for new construction going forward. The switch will save an average $22,300 per store per year or $2.2 million company-wide and is part of Havertys' even larger environmental initiative.

Thanks in part to technology and to the attention paid to energy efficiency, GE has become the LED lighting provider to many other retailers throughout the world. These customers recognize the advantage of working with partners to implement their environmental strategies, including GE, whose products and people create opportunities for energy savings.

They can be used in diverse applications, including architectural and room lighting, and retrofit solutions, meaning the replacement of conventional light bulbs. “Integrating our LEDs in the luminaire systems from Phoster Industries creates perfect lighting solutions that are particularly suited to illuminating boutiques, supermarkets and other stores,” says Ivo Ivanovski, Marketing Manager in General Lighting at Osram Opto Semiconductors.