For the Week of April 7th

Management Changes:

W.A.C. Lighting (Garden City, N.Y., lighting manufacturer and designer) has named Chas Bernstein vp, sales and marketing, replacing Leonard Schwartz, who plans to retire at the end of 2003. Bernstein will be responsible for overseeing the firm's sales force and expanding its marketing programs and strategies.

Emick Howard & Seibert Inc. (Seattle retail planning, architecture and interior design firm) has added Bruce Lindeke as a project architect. Lindeke most recently worked at HOK/Burgess.

Business Briefs:

DMX Music (Los Angeles entertainment music solutions provider) has received a $10 million capital infusion from Liberty Media Corp. DMX Music will use the financing to build its infrastructure and continue expanding its entertainment music solutions, including music programming, visual imaging, message marketing, promotions and multimedia systems.

LEDtronics (Torrance, Calif., LED designer and manufacturer) has added an online energy calculation tool to is web site for computing energy and monetary savings derived from using LED instead of incandescent bulbs. By logging onto www.ledtronics.com, users can find out annual energy savings, energy saved over the lifetime of a lamp and return investments.

Awards & Competitions:

Osram Sylvania (Danvers, Mass., lighting and materials developer and manufacturer) has been named an Energy Star Partner of the Year by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for its continued development of energy efficient lighting products.

Little Diversified Architectural Consulting (Charlotte, N.C., architectural consulting firm) received a Blue Diamond Award for “The Best Use of Information Technology” from the North Carolina Chamber of Commerce and Information Technology Charlotte. The award recognizes the company's use of compiler technology, a system for creating full sets of prototype construction documents.