Fast food chain McDonald’s has committed to increasing the energy efficiency in company-owned restaurants by 20 per cent in seven of its top markets by 2020.

Lighting technology is developing beyond just LED to smart lighting and digitalisation, industry leaders at Light + Building told Lux.

Lighting manufacturers can now have their product claims independently verified by the LIA Labs and the Energy Saving Trust.

Stadiums that will be used as venues for this summer’s football World Cup in Brazil have had a lighting upgrade ahead of the games.

Osram’s turnover rose by one per cent on a comparable basis to almost €1.3 billion (£1.1 billion) in the first three months of 2014, compared to the same period last year.

Philips Lighting has reported flat year-on-year sales result in the first quarter of the year, with an increase in LED sales making up for a decrease in consumer luminaires.

The Lux Review team scoured the halls of Light + Building in Frankfurt last week to find the most exciting new kit on show for 2014. Here’s our top ten.

The rise of LED is driving lighting manufacturers to shift their focus from lamps to luminaires. 

At this year's Light + Building show in Frankfurt there’s one thing on everyone’s minds: smart lighting.

Toshiba is shifting the focus of its European and US lighting businesses from lamps to luminaires.

Former Hess directors Christoph Hess and Peter Ziegler may have to pay $6.9 million (€5 million) in damages to investor Holland Private Equity (HPE), which claims it suffered massive losses after the firm was floated on the stock market on the basis of false accounts.

Harsher penalties are being introduced for those who dispose of mercury-containing fluorescent lamps unsafely.

Havells-Sylvania is set to add an internet-enabled lamp to its range following the signing of an exclusive distribution deal with LiFX, the internet-sensation that started off as one of the fastest-funded Kickstarter projects of all time.

Loss-making LED luminaire maker Lietcorp and its parent company Ocean-LED have been bought out of administration.

Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris has undergone an energy-efficient upgrade, with 400 luminaires changed to LED.

Lighting manufacturer Aurora may have to pay damages to Collingwood Lighting for infringing a patent used in Collingwood’s FireLED luminaire.