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News Release
Contact:
Karin Martin, Karin Martin Communications
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Cooper Lighting Announces SOURCE Awards Call For Entries
Annual lighting design competition celebrates its 35th year.
PEACHTREE CITY, GA, June 22, 2011 – Cooper Lighting, a division of Cooper Industries plc (NYSE:
CBE), has announced a call for entries for its 35th 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, Metalux, Portfolio, Neo-Ray, Corelite, Sure-Lites, Lumark, McGraw-Edison, Fail-Safe,
Lumière, Shaper, IRiS, Ametrix, RSA, io, Invue, MWS, PDS and Streetworks.
Projects will be judged on the blending of aesthetics, creative achievement, and 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 35th Annual SOURCE Awards competition will take place February 2012, 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. Student winner(s) will receive a crystal
trophy and a monetary award ($1,500) and professional winner(s) will also receive a monetary award
($2,000) and a crystal trophy along with local and national recognition. Both student and professional
winners will also receive an invitation to attend a lighting seminar at the SOURCE, located at Cooper
Lighting’s headquarters in Peachtree City, Georgia. The faculty adviser of the student winner will also be
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invited to attend a seminar. Entries must be postmarked on or before January 31, 2012. Winners will be
announced in May, 2012.
Over the competition’s 34-year history, winners have been awarded well over $600,000 in addition to
receiving 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/35
th_Annual_Call_For_Entries.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 innovative,
high quality interior and exterior lighting fixtures, controls and related products to worldwide 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 2010 revenues of
$5.1 billion. Founded in 1833, Cooper's sustained success is attributable to a constant focus on
innovation, evolving business practices while maintaining the highest ethical standards and meeting
customer needs. The Company has seven operating divisions with leading market positions and worldclass 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 2010 fifty-nine percent of total sales were to customers in the industrial and
utility end-markets and thirty-nine percent of total sales were to customers outside the United States.
Cooper has manufacturing facilities in 21 countries as of 2010. For more information, visit the website at
www.cooperindustries.com
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