ABOUT · ARCHIPELAGO LIGHTING GROUP · MONTCLAIR, CA · SINCE 1997

Lighting,
reinvented.

Built for 40-foot warehouses, K-12 corridors, cold-storage rooms,
and spec-grade projects, and the retail aisles of nine national retailers.

1997
Founded
30+ yr
Supplying Shelves
85M+
Units Shipped
9
National Retail Accounts
12
US Warehouses
01

Three decades of OEM discipline.

From the retail shelf to the spec package — one quality system, two doors.

ALG was founded in 1997 as an OEM and white-label manufacturer. For three decades we've been vetted, audited, and approved to put product on the shelves of America's largest home and garden retailers — The Home Depot, Lowe's, Costco, Walmart, Tractor Supply, Canadian Tire, Kroger, Fred Meyer, and Batteries Plus.

That vetting is not casual. National retailers require multi-year compliance histories, safety-listing discipline, quarterly factory audits, retail-grade packaging, and the operational maturity to refill a planogram in a single replenishment cycle. We earned a place on those shelves the long way — one passed audit, one warranty cycle, one accepted line review at a time.

Out of that retail OEM discipline grew our commercial & industrial catalog. Same factories. Same quality system. A completely separate sales motion, a separate price book, and a separate set of customers. Specifiers, electrical contractors, ESCOs, EPCs, and authorized distributors never see a retail SKU in a project package — and a retail buyer never sees a spec-grade quote.

THE DISCIPLINE
House brand, co-brand, or OEM — retail product is built to a retailer's planogram, packaging standard, and replenishment rhythm. Commercial & industrial product is built to a specifier's photometric file. Neither program crosses into the other channel's aisle.
02 · BY THE NUMBERS
A spec-grade manufacturer, sized for both shelves.
1997
Year founded · Montclair, CA
85M+
Units shipped through retail channel
9
National retail accounts · active
6
Retail aisles · Home to Party
12
US replenishment warehouses
9
Commercial & industrial brand families
8
Industry verticals served · spec channel
0
Channel-conflict incidents · by policy
03

One catalog. Two doors.

ALG sells through two channels that never share a shelf, never share a part number, and never share a price sheet.

RETAIL · OEM · WHITE-LABEL

Retail · Consumer

On the shelves of the people who sell to consumers.

BUYER
National big-box retailers, regional chains, category managers, retail buyers
PROGRAMS
House brand Co-brand OEM / white-label PolyGrow (horticultural)
DISTRIBUTION
The Home Depot · Lowe's · Costco · Walmart · Tractor Supply · Canadian Tire · Kroger · Fred Meyer · Batteries Plus
SCALE
6 retail aisles · UPC + PDQ + shelf-ready packaging · planogram-mapped
WARRANTY
Retail-program warranty · built for replenishment economics
PRICING
Retailer-set · we never set consumer price
LEAD TIME
12 US warehouses · same-week replenishment on in-season SKUs
CHANNEL POLICY ALG does not sell directly to consumers. Every retail SKU ships through a vetted retailer.
COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL · SPEC-GRADE

Commercial & Industrial

Specified, quoted, and installed through authorized channels only.

BUYER
Specifiers, electrical contractors, ESCOs, EPCs, lighting agents, authorized distributors
BRAND FAMILIES
planoRCH lamparRCH luxRCH cityRCH multi-fMILY tubulRCH signTURE constNT contrLS
DISTRIBUTION
Authorized distributors · independent reps (AURA portal) · ALG distributor portal · direct project quote
SCALE
8 industry verticals · DLC Premium / Standard · LM-79 + LM-80 photometric library on file
WARRANTY
5–10 yr by tier · ECO · PRO · PRO+
PRICING
Quote · project · rebate-eligible · TAA-compliant SKUs available
LEAD TIME
Hundreds of thousands of units available to ship from US stock
CHANNEL POLICY C&I product is never sold through retail aisles. Authorized distribution only.
HOW WE KEEP THE TWO CHANNELS HONEST

A retailer's shelf is valuable real estate; a specifier's project package is a contract. Both depend on trust that our product only shows up where it's supposed to. We protect that trust with five written rules.

  • 01Retail product is sold only by retailers. ALG does not list retail SKUs on its own commercial-facing site, in its distributor portal, or in any project quote. Consumers buy from our retail partners — not from us.
  • 02Commercial & industrial product is sold only through authorized channels. planoRCH, lamparRCH, luxRCH and the rest of the C&I families ship only via authorized distributors, reps, and the ALG distributor portal — never via retail aisles or direct consumer e-commerce.
  • 03No SKU lives in both channels. Form factors may rhyme — a retail garage light and a commercial high-bay share a driver platform — but the SKU number, the UPC, the listing, and the warranty are channel-specific.
  • 04Separate sales orgs, separate price books. Retail account managers do not quote projects. Spec reps do not negotiate planograms. Pricing for each channel is built against that channel's cost stack and never reconciled in the field.
  • 05Shared everything else. Same factory floor, same driver bench, same QA log, same warranty rigor. A failure learned on a retail SKU patches a spec SKU, and vice versa.
05

Approved to ship to nine national retailers.

Every name below ran a multi-quarter audit before our first SKU hit their planogram. Each program is active. None of these retailers stocks our commercial & industrial product — by policy.

EST. PROGRAM
EST. PROGRAM
CLUB CHANNEL
EST. PROGRAM
RURAL / FARM
CANADA NATIONAL
GROCERY
PNW REGIONAL
SPECIALTY
SOME SHELVES ARE STILL OPEN.
If you're a retail buyer evaluating a house-brand, co-brand, or OEM/white-label program in lighting, ALG has bench capacity.
Request a buyer capability deck →
06

Nine C&I families. Six retail aisles.

Two catalogs that never cross. The C&I brands are sold only through authorized channels. The retail aisles are sold only through vetted retailers.

Specified, quoted, and installed through authorized distributors and reps. Not available at retail.

planoRCH
COMMERCIAL INDOOR
Recessed downlights, panels, troffers, linear, low-bay. Offices, retail, education, healthcare.
lamparRCH
INDUSTRIAL
Round & linear high-bay, low-bay, washdown, dock light, vapor-tight. 14–40 ft mounting heights.
luxRCH
COMMERCIAL OUTDOOR
Area, canopy, flood, wall pack. Building exterior, parking, job-site, gas station.
cityRCH
MUNICIPAL
Bollard, pole, post-top, roadway. Public works, transit, parks, streetscape.
multi-fMILY
MULTI-FAMILY HOUSING
Recessed cans, surface mount, SafeZone exit/EM, corridor and exterior pack for MDU.
tubulRCH
LINEAR LAMPS
T5 · T8 · PL · PLL · U6. Drop-in retrofit. Ballast-compatible and direct-wire SKUs.
signTURE
REFLECTORS & RETROFIT
A-lamp, BR flood, PAR, HID retrofit corn-cobs. The replacement-lamp catalog.
constNT
EMERGENCY & LIFE SAFETY
Battery backup, exit signs, combination units. UL 924-listed for egress.
contrLS
CONTROLS
Occupancy, daylight, networked BLE-mesh controls. DLC NLC5 listed.
07

Designed in California. Built where it ships best.

Two California facilities run engineering and US branded production. A twelve-warehouse domestic footprint runs retail replenishment.

NORTH AMERICA · OPERATIONS FOOTPRINT
HQ — Montclair, CA
US Production — Riverside, CA
Warehouses shown · reps/distributors on Find a Rep
01
Montclair, CA
HQ · Industrial design · Sales · Customer service
4615 State Street, Montclair, CA 91763
02
Riverside, CA
US Production · Driver assembly · Final QA · Branded fulfillment
9345 Sycamore Canyon Blvd, Riverside, CA 92508
03
Global manufacturing
United States · Mexico · China · Thailand
Built to ALG engineering specifications, with final quality control in California. Country of origin is stated on every product and its documentation.
08

Four rules that decide everything else.

01

The part number is the hero.

A contractor on a Friday afternoon does not need a marketing story; they need a SKU they can read off a shelf, type into a quote tool, and reorder Monday. We design packaging, catalogs, and websites around that one act.

02

The shelf decides.

If a SKU does not move at the shelf — physical or specified — it does not get a generation-two refresh. We do not subsidize loyalty to our own platforms. The catalog is pruned annually, not grown.

03

Two channels, one catalog.

Retail and Spec are commercially separate, but technically unified. The same driver platform, the same connector library, the same warranty discipline. A failure mode learned in one channel patches both.

04

Engineered in California. Built where it ships best.

US production for branded volume that needs short cycles. Global manufacturing — United States, Mexico, China, Thailand — for programs that need scale. All production is built to ALG engineering specifications and reports to the same QA log. Country of origin is stated on every product and its documentation.

09

From retail OEM floor to a two-catalog manufacturer.

1997
Founded in Montclair, CA
Archipelago Lighting Group incorporates as an OEM and white-label lighting manufacturer.
2001
First national retail program
First passed line review at a national home retailer. The retail compliance discipline takes hold.
2008
Twelve-warehouse US footprint
Distribution build-out gives ALG same-week replenishment on in-season retail SKUs.
2012
PolyGrow horticultural launches
First retail sub-brand built for the garden aisle — supplemental grow + accent lighting.
2014
Two-channel structure formalized
Retail and C&I split into independent commercial orgs. Separate price books, separate sales teams, shared engineering.
2015
Riverside production opens
9345 Sycamore Canyon Blvd. Driver assembly + final QA brought in-house for branded C&I product.
2018
planoRCH · lamparRCH ship
First branded commercial & industrial SKUs ship under the family. Sold only through authorized channels.
2021
contrLS launches
BLE-mesh networked controls platform. DLC NLC5 listed. No gateway, no cloud lock.
Now
Distributor + AURA portals live
Direct-to-distributor portal with rebate calc + IES on demand. AURA rep portal goes live.
NEXT STEP

Pick the door you came through.

RETAIL · DIY
For homeowners, light contractors, and retail buyers.
  • Find ALG at The Home Depot, Lowe's, and Amazon
  • Apply to become a retail buyer or category lead
  • Retail packaging spec sheets · UPC + planogram
COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL · SPEC-GRADE
For specifiers, electrical contractors, and authorized distributors.
  • Talk to a spec rep · project quote · rebate desk
  • Download the lamparRCH Product Guide (PDF)
  • Authorized distributor portal · IES + LM-79 on demand