November 11, 2026
Genlyte and Current Swap Agencies in Utah
Signify moves to Build26 as Current consolidates with Stevens Sales
Two of Salt Lake City’s lighting agencies are about to trade manufacturers.
Genlyte Solutions, the Signify business, will move its Utah representation from Stevens Sales to Build26 on December 1, 2026. Current Lighting is doing the reverse. It is taking its commercial, industrial and roadway business out of Build26 and moving it to Stevens Sales. By the end of the year, each agency will have the major the other one used to carry.
Until now, Stevens Sales has carried Signify and part of Current’s portfolio on the same line card. It represented Genlyte in Utah alongside Current’s GLI business, the legacy GE Lighting commercial side of Current’s portfolio. Build26 carried the rest of Current in the state.
After the swap, each major will be with its own agency. Stevens Sales becomes Current’s sole C&I Utah agency and gives up Genlyte. Build26 takes on Genlyte and gives up Current. Utah specifiers, distributors and contractors who used to deal with two agencies for Current will deal with one, and Genlyte gets a new agency for the first time in years.
Neither manufacturer said whether the shared line card at Stevens Sales played a role. Neither said which decision came first. From the outside, the announcements look like an action and a subsequent reaction, but the companies have described them only as separate representation changes.
Genlyte Starts Over at Build26
A Signify spokesperson confirmed the change to us. The spokesperson said the company will work with Build26 to support lighting designers, specifiers, architects, ESCOs, contractors and distributors across the territory. According to the company, Utah customers will have access to the full Genlyte portfolio, including Color Kinetics, Ledalite, Lumec and Philips.
“We look forward to working with the Build26 team and making it easy for our customers to select, specify and order the lighting solutions they need when they need them,” the spokesperson said.
The change stops at the Idaho border. Build26 also covers Idaho, but the spokesperson said Genlyte’s Idaho representation is not changing, and Idaho Lighting Solutions continues to carry the brands there. In Idaho, Build26 represents none of the four major lighting manufacturers, and its Idaho lighting line card is about half the length of its Utah card.
Current Moves All of Utah to Stevens
Current Lighting COO Chip Taylor confirmed that the company is moving its commercial, industrial and roadway business to Stevens Sales, which he called Current’s long-term GLI partner in Utah. “We wish Build26 well and appreciate our partnership over the last several years,” Taylor said.
Taylor also clarified the timing. He said Current’s contract with Build26 technically runs until December 31, 2026, and that the company “will honor all obligations” until then.
For Current, the move means one agency represents its whole Utah portfolio: the HLI side (legacy Hubbell Lighting) and the GLI side (legacy GE Lighting commercial). Stevens Sales already knows the GLI side well. The new work is the HLI business coming over from Build26.
The Agencies Not Changing
Most of the Utah market is staying where it is. JRC, the state’s largest lighting agency, remains with Acuity. Quantum Lighting, which has represented Cooper Lighting for decades, remains with Cooper. The swap involves two agencies and two manufacturers, and the other relationships in the market are unchanged at the moment.
Build26 has seen a big change before. The agency was formed in June 2022 when Pinnacle Solutions and Rocky Mountain Lighting and Controls merged. Its name comes from Division 26, the electrical section of construction specifications. The name is literal: in addition to lighting, Build26 runs an electrical supply business that represents Southwire, Eaton and a long list of other supply lines. At the time, its four principals, Trevor Sorensen, Kelly Quinton, Karre Leishman and Max Marler, described the combined firm as a new approach to the electrical market.
The handoffs will be tightest for projects already under way. Genlyte leaves Stevens Sales on December 1, and Current’s contract with Build26 runs through the end of December. During that month, each agency will be passing open quotes, submittals and orders to the other. For lighting people in Utah, the main question is whether specifications follow the brands or stay with the reps who helped write them.
