NEW YORK, April 29, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Veteran business journalist Stacey Tisdale joins Neal Verfuerth, President and CEO, Orion Energy Systems, Inc., (Nasdaq:OESX) to discuss the company's industry, strategy, financials and positioning.
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Neal Verfuerth has been the driving force of the company he helped found in 1996. Under his leadership, Orion Energy Systems has grown into a company with more than 200 employees and annual sales of well over $50 million, to thousands of customers that include 78 of the Fortune 500(tm).
He has created many patented products, principally the Illuminator(tm) lighting fixture platform, Apollo(tm) Solar Light Pipe, InteLite(tm) Controls, and other energy-saving technologies. Verfuerth has also developed innovative, proprietary sales and financing programs for Orion's energy efficient products and services.
Neal Verfuerth's accomplishments as a business leader and technology innovator have been recently recognized by the Alliance to Save Energy, National Society of Professional Engineers, Inc. 500, Ernst & Young, and many others.
About Orion Energy Systems, Inc.
Orion Energy Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:OESX) is a leading power technology enterprise that designs, manufactures and implements energy management systems, consisting primarily of high-performance, energy efficient lighting systems and controls and related services, for commercial and industrial customers without compromising their quantity or quality of light. Orion has deployed its energy management systems in 3,300 facilities across North America.
Since 2001, Orion technology has displaced over 303 megawatts, enough electricity to power more than 250,000 homes per year, saving customers $304 million, and reducing indirect CO2 emissions by 3.8 million tons. For more information, visit www.oriones.com.
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