& television lighting founded 1914 london headquarters dallas texas united states parent royal philips lighting website http www.strandlighting.com strand lighting is an international theatre and television lighting company founded in 1914 in london s west end that supplies lighting fixtures and controls for the entertainment industry . strand s products have been used on countless theatre productions and tv shows worldwide . contents 1 history 2 see also 3 references 4 external links history edit strand electric as it was originally named was created in 1914 . arthur earnshaw and phillip sheridan were both london theatre electricians when they set up their company . in 1968 strand lighting was purchased by the famous rank film corporation and thus became rank strand . in 1969 rank took over century lighting started in new york in 1929 which became strand century in the us . in 1976 rank acquired stagesound ltd from theatre progects and created rank strand sound . in 1986 rank strand bought quartzcolor an italian based manufacturer of tv & film lighting . in 1990 strand lighting became the first company and only north american company to achieve iso9000 quality certification . strand was eventually bought from rank by a venture capitalist group in the late 1990s . on 11 july 2006 the genlyte group a us company announced their acquisition of strand lighting . genlyte has since been acquired by royal philips lighting 1 today strand lighting is still run as a separate independent company within royal philips lighting and continues as a leading name in stage television motion picture and architectural lighting and services . see also edit lighting control console stage lighting instrument references edit philips completes acquisition of genlyte press release . 2008 01 28 . retrieved 2008 03 15 . external links edit official site philips genlyte official site the strand archive complete history of the company regal group collection of restored strand lighting consoles and followspots by regal group uk . dimmer.com technical information for various strand lighting products this article about a company of the uk is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e this stagecraft related article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title strand lighting & oldid 731880746 categories stage lightingunited kingdom company stubsstagecraft stubshidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 28 july 2016 at 03 26 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view