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The Company |
The Company
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From its early years in Boston, to Watertown, MA in 1940, and eventually to Hanson, on Massachusetts' south shore, in 1974, Litecontrol has always maintained a leadership role through product innovation and responsiveness to customer demands in the lighting industry. A second facility in Plympton, MA was purchased in 1995 and the company now has over 200 employee-owners and operates two fully integrated manufacturing facilities totaling 450,000 square feet.
1930's - 1940's - 1950's - 1960's - 1970's - 1980's - 1990's - 21st Century
1930's
- Litecontrol was founded in Boston in 1936.
- Irving Jennings, President & Wallace Danforth, Treasurer.
- Manufactured incandescent and showroom fixtures.
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1940's
- Manufactured switch boxes for Navy destroyers and submarines during WW II.
- Introduced recessed & surface lensed fixtures.
- Developed fixtures for F. W. Woolworth, our first big customer.
- Became the first Holophane lens licensee.
- Slogan: "Keep Upkeep Down".
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1950's
- Introduced first school fixtures.
- Provided Luminous Ceiling Calculator developed by Professor Parry Moon and Dr. Domina Spencer.
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1960's
- New ownership by sons of founders: Robert Danforth and Charles Jennings.
- First company to offer fixture colors (LiteColors™).
- Introduced first architectural products: Mod-66™and Wall/Slot® fixtures.
- Our first diversification effort: Sun/Tec radiant heating panels. Not a big hit.
- Introduced first library stacklight.
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1970's
- Purchased and moved into Hanson facility.
- Expanded LiteColors to 16.
- Our second diversification effort: HotPot ski waxer. Even less of a hit. Need a waxer?
- Robert Danforth became sole owner.
- Expanded from a regional to a national company.
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1980's
- Introduced LiteSpeed™ quick-ship service.
- Introduced first product to light architectural coves, Cove-45.
- Expanded Mod product family.
- Introduced Wall/Slot®-II and first Low Ceiling Indirect fixture - LCI™.
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1990's
- Introduced dozens of award-winning indirect and indirect/direct fixtures, including Classica, the first perforated indirect fixture.
- Introduced first "Inde-Pendants™" fixture - Scion™.
- Introduced SAE Systems™ (Simple-Affordable-Efficient).
- Purchased Plympton facility.
- Opened Litecenter™.
- Veda Ferlazzo Clark, President.
- Litecontrol became an employee-owned Company.
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21st Century
- Introduced new Cove-25 and Cove-30.
- Introduced innovative "All-Perf" product - Vidére.
- Introduced new generations of Arcos™ Perf and LC products.
- Expanded SAE Systems product line to T5HO lamp technology.
- Introduced Inde-Pendants™ individual pendant-mounted fixtures.
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