Strategies Unlimited celebrates 35 years of photonics market research
Photonics industry market analysis firmStrategies Unlimited (http://www.strategies-u.com) (Mountain View, CA) proudly celebrates 35 years of service. Founded in 1979, with headquarters in the heart of Silicon Valley, Strategies Unlimited produces multi-client market research reports on photonics-related subjects ranging from LEDs and lighting to lasers to medical imaging, playing a significant role in the Annual Lasers & Photonics Marketplace Seminar held in conjunction with Laser Focus World. On a custom basis, the company uses its global market perspective to perform specialized studies and consulting on narrow or focused topics related to the specific business interests of individual clients. Strategies Unlimited’s analysts are often called upon as experts to give their perspective and outlook at international industry conferences.
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The company's international client base includes leading manufacturers of photonics products such as LEDs, laser components, and lighting products and systems. It also provides market data to financial services firms, government organizations, and industry associations. These world-class clients use Strategies Unlimited’s market research as an integral part of their business decision-making and planning processes.
Strategies Unlimited has been covering the LED market continuously since 1994. In 2000, it established the annual Strategies in Light LED business conference and expo, the first event of its kind. Strategies in Light US is the largest and most successful North American LED and lighting conference and trade show, attracting nearly 5,000 delegates in 2014. The highlights of the conference are the presentations of market reviews and forecasts from Strategies Unlimited's analysts. Strategies in Light conferences have also been established in Europe (2010), and Japan (2008).
The company also tracks a wide range of photonics products and systems from industrial lasers and laser diodes to image sensors and biomedical systems. The products span many different end-user sectors, such as manufacturing, consumer electronics, medicine, military systems, and more. Over the past 35 years, Strategies Unlimited says it has established itself as the most authoritative source for market information on photonics products across a wide range of technologies and industries.
Strategies Unlimited was acquired by PennWell Corporation in 2002. Founded in 1910 in Tulsa, OK, PennWell is a privately held and highly diversified business-to-business media and information company that provides quality content and integrated marketing solutions for the following industries: Oil and gas, electric power generation and delivery, hydropower, renewable energy, water and wastewater treatment, waste management, electronics, semiconductor manufacturing, optoelectronics and photonics, fiber-optics, aerospace and avionics, LEDs and lighting, fire and emergency services, public safety, and dental.
SOURCE: Strategies Unlimited; http://www.strategies-u.com
Gail Overton | Senior Editor (2004-2020)
Gail has more than 30 years of engineering, marketing, product management, and editorial experience in the photonics and optical communications industry. Before joining the staff at Laser Focus World in 2004, she held many product management and product marketing roles in the fiber-optics industry, most notably at Hughes (El Segundo, CA), GTE Labs (Waltham, MA), Corning (Corning, NY), Photon Kinetics (Beaverton, OR), and Newport Corporation (Irvine, CA). During her marketing career, Gail published articles in WDM Solutions and Sensors magazine and traveled internationally to conduct product and sales training. Gail received her BS degree in physics, with an emphasis in optics, from San Diego State University in San Diego, CA in May 1986.