Well, its sad that now GE is selling its century old lighting business to a smart automation company, Savant Systems.  

https://www.cnet.com/news/high-end-smart-home-brand-savant-acquires-ge-lighting/

Yeah I saw that. I am assuming this is just the home/light bulb business, and not part of the commercial/street lighting division.

I’m not sure about street lighting, but I think this includes the commercial lighting too. GE already spun off the LED business into Current by GE, which was sold, but they struggled to get rid of the rest of their lighting business. I think that they are totally out of it now, from what I’ve read (It seems to be implied that they have no lighting operations now).

Looks like Philips is the only company actually making light bulbs themselves anymore, the rest are just licensed brand names now.

I wonder if GE will last. When a company’s core business is no longer viable, they always seem to go. (Westinghouse, being mainly an industrial company & RCA, making vacuum tubes as its core business come to mind). Then again, GE still has power generation, but even that isn’t as important as their aircraft or healthcare divisions, and of course the aircraft business is obviously crap right now.

It seems like a curious acquisition to me, considering that much of the GE professional smart lighting technology already went to Daintree while much of the GE consumer smart lighting products are sold by Jasco.  Why would a smart lighting systems company want the remainder of GE Lighting, which does not include the portions most relevant to their segment of the market?

Once complete, there will be at least four companies producing lighting products under the GE name, Savant, Daintree, Jasco, and Nicholas Holiday.

I work at a company that manufactures parts for GE's Healthcare & Aviation divisions and we were told of this just today.

It's rather odd that GE has sold off everything that made it what it was, lighting, appliances, etc. The things now have little to do with who they are.

I like a lot of the By Jasco GE products. They have some neat stuff.

GE, another zombie brand much like their kinfolk and the multitude of other businesses like Milwaukee, Fluke, etc. It wouldn’t surprise me if many of the purchasing entities of late have at least a Chinese connection...

Im sad that ge's bulb division is gone. I used to love their bulbs and they where my favorite brand until the bad led crap came out and most of their good quaility incandescents where stopped being made. I think the turning point would be that when the changed from the yellow package to the various color denotign lumesn adn the white background. Also them changing to china lamps was a factor.