Cost vs resilience: How this affects the UK lighting industry

“We are risking a race to the bottom”
We are living through a major shift in the way that business is done and will be done in the future. The traditional ‘adversary model’ has always been about offering the lowest price to win a project. The introduction of the LED has opened a can of worms by removing the one stable element from lighting manufacture – a guaranteed decent light source. Due to this we are risking a race to the bottom.

“There is an absolute direct relationship between low prices and poor quality”
‘Gatekeepers’ of specifications have not caught onto the simple fact that there is an absolute direct relationship between low prices and poor quality.

 John Bullock, Bob Bohannon, John Gorse and Paul Davidson