Franklin Empire Expands Partnership with Signify to Include Lamps and Ballasts

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Franklin Empire will now bring to market products, solutions and services newly available from Signify (formerly Philips), including LED systems, lamps, ballasts, light fixtures, controls and connected lighting solutions through the company’s recently launched interact IoT platform. As one of the original distributors of Lightolier in 1965, Franklin Empire has remained a channel partner following Lightolier’s journey to Bairnco, Genlyte, Philips, and now Signify. Franklin Empire is now able to offer complete lighting solutions from one company, which brings with it the benefit of one point of contact for fulfillment and service pre and post sales.

Signify is the largest lighting company globally, with an extensive portfolio of innovative lighting solutions. They have pioneered key breakthroughs in lighting over their long history, most recently in the realm of LED, which is key to our current and future success in lighting leadership.

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