EXHIBIT 99.1
News Release
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Company Contact:
Dan Smith
Acuity Brands, Inc.
(404) 853-1423
ACUITY BRANDS TO PARTICIPATE
IN ROBERT W. BAIRD & CO. INDUSTRIAL CONFERENCE
ATLANTA, November 5, 2007 – Acuity Brands, Inc. (NYSE: AYI) today announced it will participate in the Robert W. Baird & Co. Industrial Conference being held in Chicago, Illinois, on November 6-7, 2007. Vernon J. Nagel, Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Acuity Brands, will present at the event, discussing recent business performance and other subjects of interest to investors. The presentation will take place on Wednesday, November 7, 2007, at 11:50 a.m. CT.
A live audio Webcast of the presentation will be available athttp://www.wsw.com/webcast/rwbaird20/ayior on the Company’s Web site athttp://www.acuitybrands.com. This Webcast will be archived at this site for 90 days.
Acuity Brands, Inc. owns and operates Acuity Brands Lighting. With fiscal year 2007 net sales of approximately $2.0 billion, Acuity Brands Lighting is one of the world’s leading providers of lighting fixtures and related services and includes brands such as Lithonia Lighting®, Holophane®, Peerless®, Mark Architectural Lighting®, Hydrel®, American Electric Lighting®, Gotham®, Carandini®, SpecLight®, MetalOptics®, Antique Street Lamps™, and Synergy Lighting Controls®. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Acuity Brands employs approximately 7,000 associates and has operations throughout North America and in Europe and Asia.
