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News Release
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Karin Martin, Karin Martin Communications
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Cooper Lighting Announces SOURCE Awards Call For Entries
Annual lighting design competition celebrates its 36th year.
PEACHTREE CITY, Ga., June 12, 2012 – Cooper Lighting, an industry leader committed to delivering
innovative products and driving transformational technology in the lighting industry, has announced a call
for entries for its 36th Annual SOURCE Awards national lighting design competition. The competition,
which focuses on furthering the understanding, knowledge and function of lighting as a primary element in
design, is open to all lighting designers, architects, engineers, professional designers and consultants
who use Cooper Lighting fixtures in an interior or exterior design project. Students currently enrolled in
any of these disciplines are also eligible to enter projects based on conceptual lighting designs utilizing
Cooper Lighting fixtures, and are judged in a separate student category. This year’s competition will once
again seek a creative use of fixtures providing energy-efficient design solutions in addition to standard
projects.
The competition requires the primary and predominant use of any or all of the Cooper Lighting brands,
which include Halo, Halo Commercial, Metalux, Portfolio, Neo-Ray, Corelite, Sure-Lites, Lumark,
McGraw-Edison, Fail-Safe, Lumière, Shaper, IRiS, Ametrix, RSA, io, Invue, MWS and Streetworks.
Projects will be judged on the blending of aesthetics, creative achievement, technical performance and to
the degree which the lighting met project constraints and design concept goals. There will be no minimum
or maximum number of awards given, as each project will be judged on its own merit. Award categories
will include: Winner, Honorable Mention and Award of Recognition.
Judging for the 36th Annual SOURCE Awards competition will take place in February 2013 by a
professional, independent panel of lighting and design professionals as well as a representative of the
SOURCE, Cooper Lighting’s premier lighting education center. The student winner(s) will receive a crystal
trophy and a monetary award ($1,500) while the professional winner(s) will also receive a monetary
award ($2,000) and a crystal trophy along with local and national recognition. Both the student and
professional winners will also receive an invitation to attend a lighting seminar at the SOURCE, located at
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Cooper Lighting’s headquarters in Peachtree City, Georgia. The faculty adviser of the student winner will
also be invited to attend a seminar. Entries must be postmarked on or before January 31, 2013. Winners
will be announced in April 2013.
Throughout the competition’s 35-year history, winners have been awarded more than $600,000 as well as
industry-wide recognition. Past entry applications have included commercial offices, retail stores, galleries,
libraries, banks, hotels, restaurants, convention centers, entertainment facilities, churches and residences.
To download a complete list of rules, visit
http://www.cooperindustries.com/content/public/en/lighting/resources/education/source/source_awards.html
or e-mail TalkToUs@CooperIndustries.com.
About Cooper Lighting
Cooper Lighting, a subsidiary of Cooper Industries plc (NYSE: CBE), is the leading provider of worldclass lighting fixtures and controls to commercial, industrial, retail, institutional, residential and utility
markets. As lighting technologies have advanced over the years, Cooper Lighting has been at the
forefront of the industry in helping businesses and communities leverage the latest technologies to
improve efficiency, reduce costs and enrich the quality of the environment. For more information, visit
www.cooperlighting.com.
About Cooper Industries
Cooper Industries plc (NYSE: CBE) is a global electrical products manufacturer with 2011 revenues of
$5.4 billion. Founded in 1833 Cooper's sustained success is attributable to a constant focus on
innovation and evolving business practices, while maintaining the highest ethical standards and
meeting customer needs. The Company has seven operating divisions with leading market positions
and world-class products and brands, including Bussmann electrical and electronic fuses; Crouse-Hinds
and CEAG explosion-proof electrical equipment; Halo and Metalux lighting fixtures; and Kyle and
McGraw-Edison power systems products. With this broad range of products, Cooper is uniquely
positioned for several long-term growth trends including the global infrastructure build-out, the need to
improve the reliability and productivity of the electric grid, the demand for higher energy-efficient
products and the need for improved electrical safety. In 2011 sixty-two percent of total sales were to
customers in the industrial and utility end-markets and forty percent of total sales were to customers
outside the United States. Cooper has manufacturing facilities in 23 countries as of 2011. For more
information, visit the website at www.cooperindustries.com.
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