Acuity Brands Publishes Environmental, Social and Governance Report
November 11 2019 - 3:00PM
Acuity Brands, Inc. (NYSE: AYI) (“Company”) recently published the
Company’s first Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) report
describing certain actions Acuity Brands is taking to develop and
provide products and services to help customers improve their
impact on the environment and also describing many of the ways in
which the Company benefits the lives of its associates and their
local communities. The Company estimates that certain of its
products, for example, saved customers 9.2 billion kWH in energy
savings, which is equivalent to the annual greenhouse gas emissions
from more than 1.3 million automobiles. The Acuity Brands ESG
program, called EarthLIGHT, also emphasizes the importance to
Acuity Brands of putting honesty and integrity at the center of all
it does.
The report outlines the Company’s goals over the
next three years for reducing its carbon footprint related to raw
materials, packaging and shipping, as well as for reducing
electricity and gas usage in all Company facilities. The report
also describes some of the Company’s goals in the areas of
associate health & safety and community involvement. “Much of
the ESG work we are doing is not new to Acuity Brands; we’ve been
pursuing these initiatives for many years,” said Vernon J. Nagel,
Chairman and CEO, Acuity Brands, Inc. “What we’ve done recently is
add more structure and methodology to this work as we leverage our
culture of continuous improvement. We have approximately 12,000
associates with great ideas on how to improve our operations, and
we are using our EarthLIGHT program to find ways to eliminate waste
and increase our positive impact on the world.”
For more information, please visit EarthLIGHT
program and report.
About Acuity
Brands
Acuity Brands, Inc. (NYSE: AYI) is the North
American market leader and one of the world’s leading providers of
lighting and building management solutions. With fiscal year 2019
net sales of $3.7 billion, Acuity Brands currently employs
approximately 12,000 associates and is headquartered in Atlanta,
Georgia with operations throughout North America, and in Europe and
Asia. The Company’s products and solutions are sold under various
brands, including Lithonia Lighting®, Holophane®, Aculux®, American
Electric Lighting®, A-Light™, Antique Street Lamps™, Atrius®,
Cyclone™, DGLogik™, Distech Controls®, DTL®, eldoLED®, Eureka®,
Gotham®, Healthcare Lighting®, Hydrel®, Indy™, IOTA®, Juno®,
Lucid®, Luminaire LED™, Luminis®, Mark Architectural Lighting™,
nLight®, Peerless®, RELOC® Wiring, ROAM®, Sensor Switch®,
Sunoptics® and Winona® Lighting. Visit us at
www.acuitybrands.com
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Media Contact: Neil Egan Neil.Egan@acuitybrands.com
770-860-2957
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