Acuity Brands, Inc. (NYSE: AYI), is an electronics manufacturing company. It was founded in 2001 in Atlanta, Georgia.
Acuity Brands created formed a new business, selling specialty chemicals. This change was effective November 1, 2007, and is known as Zep Inc. Zep is traded on the NYSE under the ticker symbol ZEP.
Lighting equipment made by the company includes indoor and outdoor lighting fixtures for commercial and institutional, industrial, infrastructure, and residential applications. The company offers its lighting equipment to electrical distributors, retail home improvement centers, national accounts, electric utilities, utility distributors, municipalities, contractors, catalogs, and lighting showrooms. It distributes these products through independent sales agents, factory sales representatives, distribution centers, regional warehouses, and commercial warehouses.
