GE lighting will terminate all direct business activities in Asia and Latin America

According to the latest news shows, GE CEO Bill Lacey yesterday in the lighting to staff's e-mail said, since November 30th, GE lighting will be terminated in all direct business activities in Asia and Latin America, so that GE lighting to achieve a high degree of focus, and consolidate its win in North America, Europe and the Middle East market position, and continue to expand the scale and improve profitability.

Bill Lacey was appointed as the new president and CEO of GE lighting at the beginning of this year. Bill said, GE lighting can not only meet the service market, but also to lead the market, which means that we must focus on innovation, innovation. In view of this, the company has made a number of major strategic decisions, these decisions will strengthen GE lighting in the LED and related technology business, laying the foundation for the future.

In order to take full advantage of the opportunity to change the current industry, Bill announced the second statement for the establishment of a new incubator laboratory, accelerate LED innovation, and create a leading product line. The statement said that the laboratory will focus on the development and testing of home networking technology, including the creation of GE lighting intelligent node function, the program will start in the second half of this year, the relevant pilot projects. The lab will also work with new ecosystem partners to develop innovative and flexible intelligent lighting solutions. The lab will be supported by resources from around the world, including GE lighting technology team in china.

LED when replacing the tide comes, the traditional lighting giant also had to actively seek to change the way of transformation, stripping the traditional lighting business, force LED segments, LED value chain to high-end. Some time ago, GE lighting announced it will close the United States of Kentucky, Lexington two traditional lighting production plant in August 2017. In February, GE lighting decided in the next 1 years, the phasing out of the United States in the sale of CFL (compact fluorescent lamp) to replace the LED bulb. The company spokesman said in a statement: "in the future, GE lighting will be fully focused on innovation and LED technology, by 2020, LED lights will occupy half of the U.S. market and 80% of global lighting revenue will come from LED. "

From the above statement shows that similar with the international giant PHILPS lighting, GE lighting in the premise of improving LED market penetration, pay more attention to the development of intelligent interconnection technology, in the business transformation process gather more resources in the industrial chain of high-end part of intelligent lighting. As one of the important drivers of intelligent lighting, GE lighting in the search for smart lighting solutions never stop. Whether it is intelligent building lighting, or intelligent LED street lighting network, GE lighting in recent years, the action has never been broken. Such as intelligent system integrated into the product, through the wireless gateway to realize remote control on the lamp, with the help of GE industrial Internet platform --Predix, acquisition and analysis of data through the sensor, controller, wireless transmitter and micro processor etc..

The statement also can not help but think of Samsung Electronics, Samsung Electronics announced in 2014 to stop outside the LED lighting business, in order to achieve a more effective, centralized operating strategy. In recent years, the rapid development of China's LED lighting industry chain enterprises, and some of the international manufacturers of the exit or compression to some extent can also be retained for the Chinese LED lighting companies to provide a better competitive environment.

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