Electric Lighting Agencies and O’Blaney Rinker Associates are pleased to announce that they have entered into a joint venture to combine their mutual lighting and control system specification efforts in New York City. The joint venture offers the extended client base of both agencies in the lighting and control system specifications and sales, a vast range of experience and knowledge across the complete spectrum of New York’s lighting design, engineering, architectural and distribution communities.

The Electric Lighting Agencies, Inc. is the oldest and largest commercial lighting manufacturer’s representative in the New York Metropolitan area. O’Blaney Rinker Associates is a boutique design alternative lighting agency specializing in architectural lighting and providing service from schematic development through project completion and after market service.  By combining the strengths of Electric Lighting Agencies with those of O’Blaney Rinker Associates, the joint venture positions the two agencies as the largest and most versatile commercial lighting manufacturer’s representatives in the New York Metropolitan area.

The joint venture expands the current line card of both representatives to commercial lines including Juno Lighting Group, Hubbell Lighting Inc., and Philips Color Kinetics with boutique specialty lines such as Specialty Lighting Industries, Litemakers, Inc., and Modular International Inc., in addition to of over 30+ other exceptional manufacturers. Sales offices will remain independently operated with O’Blaney Rinker Associates location in Manhattan and Electric Lighting Agencies with three additional locations in New York City, New Jersey and Long Island.