SIC 3645 Residential Electric Lighting Fixtures

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SIC 3645

The residential electric lighting fixtures industry encompasses manufacturers that produce a variety of equipment and components for home use. Popular offerings include chandeliers, desk and floor lamps, glass and metal lamp shades, yard lights, and wall-mounted lighting fixtures. Light bulbs, cloth and plastic lamp shades, flashlights, and lanterns are classified in other industries.

NAICS CODE(S)

335121

Residential Electric Lighting Fixture Manufacturing

During the early 2000s, shipment values for the residential electric lighting fixture industry totaled $2.21 billion, down from $2.37 billion in the late 1990s. In 2003 total revenue for the lighting fixture manufacturing industries, including residential, commercial, and industrial fixtures, exceeded $4.25 billion. General home improvement centers and specialty lighting stores together commended three-quarters of total residential lighting fixture sales in 2004.

About 50 percent of industry revenues for the residential sector were derived from stationary, or mounted, fixtures, such as ceiling and wall lamps. Portable lamps, like movable desk and floor lamps, accounted for about one-third of shipments. The remainder of revenues was garnered from the sale of lamp shades and various types of parts and accessories.

The first lighting apparatus pre-dates the light bulb—in 1650, German Otto von Guericke produced a luminous glow from a spinning globe of sulfur. However, the evolution of modern day lamps and fixtures parallels the popularization of the electric light bulb, which Thomas Edison invented in 1879. Rapid demand for all types of lighting devices helped the residential lighting fixture industry grow to a $1.4 billion business by the early 1980s.

Industry revenues grew sluggishly during the 1980s, despite healthy residential construction markets. Increased foreign competition was a primary reason for stagnant sales. Although revenues reached about $1.8 billion by 1988, the industry suffered a severe commercial development depression and stalled housing starts in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Sales plummeted about 16 percent between 1988 and 1990 to $1.6 billion.

New home construction buoyed sales to about $1.6 billion in 1992 and to $1.8 billion by 1993. In the mid-1990s, the industry benefited from the passage of nationwide energy initiatives and legislation. The National Energy Security Act of 1992 mandated the use of new...