What Kim Lighting does

Kim Lighting is a designer and manufacturer of specification-grade outdoor architectural lighting, headquartered in Los Angeles with 90+ years of operating history. The company produces area/site/roadway luminaires, wall mounts, bollards, in-grade fixtures, flood lights, parking garage luminaires, and landscape lighting systems, with notable proprietary optical and thermal platforms including PicoEmitter, Strike Optic, WARP9, EKG full-cutoff, and the recently introduced edge-lit architecture. Its product portfolio addresses harsh-environment and code-compliant applications, with select lines rated to ASTM F3016 for vehicular impact and others engineered to meet California Title 24 and Dark Sky requirements.

The company serves commercial, municipal, institutional, automotive, healthcare, hospitality, retail, petroleum, warehouse, education, and harsh-environment end markets. Kim Lighting operates as a brand within HLI Solutions, Inc. (Current Lighting), a multi-brand lighting platform, and reaches customers through authorized sales representatives and specification channels with quote-based project pricing. Connected-lighting capabilities (Bluetooth in Lightvault 8, NX wireless controls, DMX-driven RGBW) represent a recent layering of controls onto the core hardware portfolio, while LED upgrade kits for legacy fixtures provide a retrofit monetization path against the installed base.

Name

Kim Lighting

Legal name

Kim Lighting (brand of HLI Solutions, Inc.)

Website

https://kimlighting.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1930

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

251–500 employees

Short description

Kim Lighting is a 90+ year spec-grade outdoor architectural lighting manufacturer (Los Angeles) operating as a brand within HLI Solutions/Current Lighting, serving commercial, municipal, institutional, and harsh-environment markets through authorized sales agents and project-based specification channels.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Outdoor Architectural Lighting

NAICS

Electric Lighting Equipment Manufacturing (3351), Electric Lighting Equipment Manufacturing (33513)

SIC

Electric Lighting & Wiring Equipment (3640)

akta.pro primary industry

Outdoor & Area Lighting (Street, Roadway, Parking, Flood, Sports/Architectural exterior) (IMAGAIAB)

akta.pro secondary industry

Lighting Controls & Smart Lighting Systems (BPABAGAC)

Keywords

• Outdoor architectural lighting
• Specification grade luminaires
• Site lighting fixtures
• LED area lighting
• Landscape lighting products

Headquarters

HQ city

Rowland Heights

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Outdoor Architectural Lighting Fixtures: Sale of spec-grade outdoor architectural lighting products including area/site/roadway luminaires, decorative post tops, canopy/garage fixtures, wall mounts, flood lights, bollards, in-grade fixtures, and landscape lighting. Products are sold through specification channels for commercial, municipal, and institutional projects.
2. Lighting Poles and Mounting Infrastructure: Sale of complementary pole products including aluminum and steel poles (round, square, tapered), bracket arms, and mounting options that support luminaire installations
3. LED Retrofit Kits: Replacement and upgrade kits for existing installations, providing technology refresh solutions that preserve UL/CSA/ETL listings and warranties
4. Lighting Controls: Integration with NX Lighting Controls platform for wireless and wired control solutions, occupancy sensors, and smart building connectivity

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Kim Lighting is a designer and manufacturer of spec-grade outdoor architectural lighting, offering a broad portfolio of site, area, landscape, pole-mounted, and retrofit lighting fixtures plus lighting controls. The company's products are engineered for durability in outdoor environments and are specified for commercial, municipal, institutional, and infrastructure projects.

Product overview

Kim Lighting is a designer and manufacturer of quality, high-performance decorative outdoor architectural lighting products. The portfolio includes Area/Site/Roadway luminaires (Altitude, Ouro, Curvilinear, Bounce, Era), Wall Mount luminaires (Cypher with multiple fascia options, Wall Director, Wall Forms), Flood and Architectural luminaires (Intent, KFL), Landscape lighting (Bell, Ravenna, Scarab, Spun Copper, Traditional), Bollards (B30, Bounce, Compact, Gem, Pavilion, Vandal-Resistant), In-Grade lighting (Lightvault 8, Minivault), Parking Garage lighting (PGL8), and Vandal-Resistant fixtures (Prevent). The product line also includes Poles (various styles in aluminum and steel) and Controls accessories (Pharos controller, occupancy sensors). Kim Lighting offers LED upgrade kits for many legacy products and supports NX Lighting Controls integration across the portfolio.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Altitude: Low-profile housing luminaire available in multiple sizes for pedestrian/site/roadway environments
• Cypher
• Ouro
• Prevent
• Entablature
• Bounce
• Era
• Solitaire
• PGL8
• Pursuit
• Wall Director
• Wall Forms
• Intent
• KFL
• Lightvault
• Micro Flood
• Gem
• Pavilion
• Bell

Products and services

• Spec-grade outdoor architectural lighting fixtures
• Lighting poles and pole-mounted luminaires
• LED retrofit kits
• Lighting controls

Segments10 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature8 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Current Lighting (HLI Brands)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerKim Lighting operates as a brand under HLI Solutions, Inc. (Current Lighting), which provides the parent company infrastructure including marketing, distribution, and digital platforms. The relationship allows Kim Lighting to leverage Current's comprehensive brand portfolio and national sales network while maintaining its specialized focus on outdoor architectural lighting.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Hubbell Lighting: Hubbell Lighting is a major North American lighting manufacturer with a broad portfolio spanning architectural outdoor, commercial, industrial, and roadway lighting. It competes directly with Kim Lighting in spec-grade outdoor area/site, roadway, and architectural luminaires, and operates through similar specification and agent channels.
• Signify (Philips Lighting): Signify, the parent of Philips Lighting, is a global lighting leader whose outdoor/architectural portfolio (Gardco, Lumec, Stonco, Hadco) competes directly with Kim Lighting in area/site/roadway, bollards, landscape, and architectural floodlighting for commercial and municipal projects worldwide.
• Acuity Brands: Acuity Brands is one of the largest North American lighting and building solutions companies, with architectural outdoor brands (e.g., Holophane, Hydrel, American Electric Lighting) that overlap directly with Kim Lighting's spec-grade outdoor area, site, roadway, and architectural flood categories. Both compete for specification on commercial, municipal, and institutional projects.
• Cooper Lighting Solutions (Eaton): Cooper Lighting, part of Eaton, offers an extensive outdoor and architectural lighting portfolio (Invue, McGraw-Edison, Lumark) that competes with Kim Lighting in parking structures, area/site lighting, and architectural floodlighting for commercial and municipal specification.

Emerging players

• LSI Industries: LSI Industries is a North American manufacturer of outdoor area/site lighting, parking structure luminaires, and architectural products that compete with Kim Lighting in commercial, retail petroleum, and parking garage applications, particularly on price-competitive specification bids.

Direct peers

• Selux: Selux is a European-headquartered architectural lighting manufacturer with a strong North American specification business. Its outdoor bollard, pole-top, and linear product families directly overlap with Kim Lighting's outdoor architectural portfolio in design intent, optical performance, and specifier target customer.
• HessAmerica: HessAmerica is the North American arm of Hess, a German architectural outdoor lighting manufacturer. Its bollards, poles, and area/site luminaires target the same specifier channel as Kim Lighting in streetscape, campus, and urban architectural applications.
• Bega (Bega/US): Bega is a German-headquartered specialist manufacturer of architectural outdoor luminaires with a strong North American presence. Its focus on design-led bollards, pole-top, wall-mount, and in-grade products mirrors Kim Lighting's specification-grade architectural positioning and premium aesthetic orientation.
• Architectural Area Lighting (a Current/HLI brand): Architectural Area Lighting is a sister brand within the HLI/Current Lighting portfolio with overlapping outdoor area/site/roadway and pole products. Because both brands are sold through the same HLI sales-agent network, they are direct portfolio-internal competitors for the same architectural specification opportunities.
• Ligman Lighting: Ligman is a Thailand-based manufacturer of architectural outdoor lighting with a global specification presence. Its bollards, poles, in-grade, flood, and area/site luminaires target the same architect/specifier channel as Kim Lighting on commercial, hospitality, and urban projects.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/kimlightinginc
• YouTubeyoutube.com/CurrentLighting
• Facebookfacebook.com/kimlighting
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/kim-lighting
• Instagraminstagram.com/Current_Lighting

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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