The Experts
Interviews
The numbers stack up
They say that once you work for yourself you never want to go back to working for someone else, but Thorn Lighting’s Nick Clark is the exception to the rule. Ben Cronin talks to the head of the manufacturer’s newly-formed Energy Solutions division about funding models for lighting upgrades
Ninety and counting
The Finnish controls and ballasts manufacturer Helvar celebrates its 90th anniversary this month with ambitious plans to double its business in three years. Ben Cronin speaks to Paul Wilmshurst, managing director at Helvar UK, and global director for Helvar Lighting Controls
The Games master
LoveLight on 6 October will feature a segment on the lighting of the London 2012 Games. In the build-up to the event Ben Cronin talks to former lighting designer and LOCOG design principal Kevin Owens
An old head on young shoulders
Sharp Microelectronics might be a relative newcomer to the lighting market but Uwe Hock argues that it brings a vast amount of optoelectronic knowledge to the table. Ben Cronin speaks to the manager of the company’s lighting business in Europe about LCD backlighting and the optimum price points for retrofit bulbs
Home is where the heart is
Following a seat-of-the-pants takeover in 2004, Wila is one of the success stories of the lighting industry. Ben Cronin asks UK managing director Neil Condliffe how the UK business has managed to double in size over the course of the last five years
It’s all in the genes
It was a surprise last year when the Zumtobel Group replaced long-time CEO Andreas Ludwig with Harald Sommerer, vice-chairman of its supervisory board. One year on, he thinks the company has seen off the worst of the recession
Bumps in the road
Phil Marshall, president and CEO of GE Lighting & Industrial (Europe, Middle East & Africa) spoke to Lighting at the UK launch of GE’s Infusion LED module
Abacus interviews attendees at the Lighting Design Awards
Abacus Lighting launched their new web TV channel, Abacus TV, at this year’s LDAs
Bridging the gap
When global distributor arrow electronics formed a group dedicated to the manufacture of LEDs, it was up to european lighting director Stephane Rosa to develop the brand across europe
Measure for Measure
As part of the optical measurement group with the National Physical Laboratory, Dr Paul Miller concerns himself with every aspect of the measurement of light. Here he speaks to Lighting about photometry, optical radiation and the parameters for measuring LEDs.
Martin Valentine
The former lighting group director of AECOM (Faber Maunsell) is moving to a new position in Abu Dhabi. He discusses the reasons and the ramifications
Kit Cuttle
Author and academic Kit Cuttle is currently visiting lecturer in advanced lighting design at the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, and the City University, Hong Kong
Grant Daniels
The managing director of Thorn Lighting in the UK and Ireland, Grant Daniels, talks to Lighting about taking a step back from the day-to-day business of running a lighting company
Mark Law
Tesco uses one per cent of the UK’s energy. Its head of lighting Mark Law is responsible for a staggering four million lamps
Peter Fitzgerald
Peter Fitzgerald talks about getting back in the saddle - in the lighting business and literally
