Lamps Plus

LAMPS PLUS, Inc. is a privately held corporation that designs, manufactures, and sells portable lighting, fixture lighting, home décor items and a variety of other related products. Its world-wide headquarters is located in the Chatsworth district of the the San Fernando Valley region of the City of Los Angeles, California.

Background

The company was founded in 1976 in Los Angeles by President and CEO Dennis Swanson and his wife, Vice President and Designer Manja Swanson. From lamp design and manufacture, the company moved into retail and is now a full multi-channel retailer and the largest specialty lighting company in the United States. LAMPS PLUS maintains international offices and manufacturing plants, and its website was picked as one of the top fifty retail websites by Internet Retailer magazine in 2004. The company and Dennis Swanson hold several patents for lighting design, including a torchiere floor lamp design with two adjustable side lights and a lamp having a low light level replaceable bulb. Dennis Swanson has also served as past President of the American Lighting Association.

The mission statement of the LAMPS PLUS company is “To form relationships with our customers and provide solutions to their lighting and decorative problems through unique products and services.”

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Awards and Recognition

[http://www.internetretailer.com/article.asp?id=10752 2004 Internet Retailer Best of the Web Top 50 Retailing Sites]
[http://www.americanlightingassoc.com/members/news_hall.php 2006 Inductee to the Lighting Hall of Fame – Dennis K. Swanson]
[http://www.internetretailer.com/top500/list.asp 2007 Internet Retailer Top 500 Retail Web Sites]

Patent Number / Issue Date

[http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6916108.PN.&OS=PN/6916108&RS=PN/6916108 6916108] / 2005-07-12
[http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6860619.PN.&OS=PN/6860619&RS=PN/6860619 6860619] / 2005-03-01
[http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6264350.PN.&OS=PN/6264350&RS=PN/6264350 6264350] / 2001-07-24
[http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=5997160.PN.&OS=PN/5997160&RS=PN/5997160 5997160] / 1999-12-07
[http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=5620247.PN.&OS=PN/5620247&RS=PN/5620247 5620247] / 1997-04-15
[http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=5567043.PN.&OS=PN/5567043&RS=PN/5567043 5567043] / 1996-10-22
[http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=5330323.PN.&OS=PN/5330323&RS=PN/5330323 5330323] / 1994-07-19

Trivia

On the American TV show The King of Queens, lead character Doug’s bowling team was defeated by a fictional LAMPS PLUS bowling team in an episode from 2002.

External links

* [http://www.lampsplus.com LAMPS PLUS Official Website]

References