Signify is the world's leading lighting company, operating across 70-plus countries with approximately 27,000 employees representing 99 nationalities and annual sales of EUR 5.8 billion. Formerly known as Philips Lighting, the company carries over 130 years of innovation history and operates across professional lighting, consumer lighting, and Internet of Things applications.
The company's technical portfolio spans energy-efficient LED products, connected lighting systems and IoT-enabled platforms, and associated installation and maintenance services. Beyond conventional lighting, Signify is active in areas including Li-Fi - light-based wireless communication - 3D-printed luminaires, human-centric lighting design, and smart city infrastructure. It states it invests heavily in R&D and describes itself as leading the lighting industry's expansion into IoT.
Signify serves a broad range of end markets: professionals specifying commercial and industrial installations, consumers, municipalities developing urban lighting infrastructure, and businesses integrating lighting into connected building or city systems. Its solutions are also positioned around carbon emissions reduction, with engineered products designed to lower energy consumption at scale.
The company places stated emphasis on continuous learning, creativity, and collaboration internally, and describes its approach to innovation as responsible - oriented toward sustainability and human well-being. With a workforce drawn from 99 nationalities and operations spanning six continents, the working environment is internationally distributed by design.
