Bob Ready’s Blue Ash, Ohio-based LSI Industries is a significant player in the national lighting industry. The company is now publicly traded, with more than 1400 employees in the US and Canada—eight or nine hundred of them in Ohio alone.

Over the last 35 years, the company has grown here in the US while most lighting suppliers have shifted their production overseas. And it’s survived the Great Recession even as others have faltered and failed

In particular, LSI’s line of LED lighting has raised the company’s profile. The lights allow customers to save 40 to 80 percent or more on their lighting energy costs. This innovative and rapidly evolving lighting technology not only slashes users’ utility bills, it also cuts the power-plant pollution that endangers our children’s health and threatens our fragile atmosphere.