Website Update, February 2018

Acuity Brands understands our public website is critical to the business and requires support and attention at the highest level. To improve the current experience, Acuity Brands recently hired Andrew Crowder into a newly created position of Vice President, Website Marketing & Development. Andrew brings to our company an extensive consulting background focused on resolving complex website issues. Additionally, we restructured the teams supporting the public facing website under Andrew, and will continue to add resources to accelerate website development.

In the next two months, you will see the following enhancements to the website:

• Enhanced search results that more accurately reflect the product specifications and relevant group ranking of products based on sales.

• An updated product details page that will consolidate the product information available on the web onto a single page reducing the number of clicks to retrieve desired information. This information will include an overview including product specification, lighting files, a product image gallery and related products.
  • This new product information page will keep users in their current web experience. For an example, if a user has found a product from a brand site such as Peerless, the branding and navigation will remain the same as the rest of the Peerless website. If the user finds the product on the acuitybrands.com website, then the branding and navigation will remain on the global site.

• The Juno, Indy, Aculux, and Gotham brand sites will undergo a redesign to better align the look and feel of the brand experience, and provide refined navigation and search within the brand’s

• 24×7 monitoring of the website through the IT support team which will decrease downtime.

• Updated web experiences for Holophane and AEL.

Beyond these exciting updates, we are adding additional projects that will increase the stability and speed of the website enhancing the overall user experience.