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		<title><![CDATA[Acuity Brands on the Upswing?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jessica Johnson submits:  Acuity Brands AYI has focused on cost cutting, layoffs, and targeting energy efficiency, which helped its October quarterly earnings, beating analysts&#8217; expectations despite a 31% fall in sales. The price is trending back towards its 52-week high reached in October. The short interest (percentage shares outstanding...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Early Earnings Warnings]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Duru submits:  The next earnings season has not quite started yet, so it was probably easy to miss potentially indicative earnings warnings last week from two companies with combined market capitalization of just over $3 billion. Acuity Brands, Inc. AYI - an Atlanta-based company that designs, produces, and...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 06:49:45 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Acuity Buys Sensor Switch for $205M to Offer More Efficient Lighting]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greentech Media submits:  By Ucilia Wang Acuity Brands Lighting Inc. has agreed to buy Sensor Switch for about $205 million to boost its offerings at a time when lots of public money is set to be spent on helping homeowners and businesses conserve energy. by Greentech Media]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 07:51:36 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Acuity Brands, Inc. F1Q09 (Qtr End 11/30/08) Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Earnings Call Excerpt  Acuity Brands, Inc. AYI F1Q09 Earnings Call  January 6, 2009 10:00 am ET Executives Dan Smith &#8211; Vice President, Treasurer  Vernon Nagel &#8211; President, Chief Executive Officer Richard Reece &#8211; Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer  Analysts Peter Lisnic - Robert W....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:57:10 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Acuity Brands, Inc. F4Q08 (Qtr End 08/31/08) Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer Session Operator  Operator Instructions Your first question comes from the line of Matt McCall - BB&T Markets Matt McCall - BB&T Markets If we look at the gross margin performance I think last quarter you had talked about expectations of sequential pressure of up to 100 basis...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:31:13 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Acuity Brands, Inc.  F3Q08 (Qtr End 05/31/08) Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer Session Operator  Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Chris Glynn - Oppenheimer.  Chris Glynn - Oppenheimer  Fourth quarter cash flow is typically the strongest of the year. Any movement around that normal trend this year, should that be the typically expectation again? Richard K....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:05:30 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Zacks Earnings and Margins Strategy highlights: Acuity Brands, Hawaiian Holdings, Schnitzer Steel Industries and Almost Family]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[CHICAGO -- Earnings are the single most important metric for a company. Combine that with a healthy Net Profit Margin and you find a screen that has generated a cumulative return of +623.7% since January 2001. For 2006, this Profit Track has returned 23.4%. For the first month of 2007,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Acuity Brands, Inc. F2Q08 (Qtr End 02/29/08) Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer Session Operator  We will now begin the formal question-and-answer session.  In order to ask your question please press *1 on your touchtone phone.  You will be announced prior to asking your question. To withdraw your question you may press *2.  Once again, to ask...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:52:19 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Acuity Brands F1Q08 (Qtr End 11/30/07) Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer Session Operator  The first question comes from Robert Mccarthy, Banc of America.  Robert Mccarthy &#8211; Banc of America  Good morning everyone.  Vernon J. Nagel  Hi, Rob.  Robert Mccarthy &#8211; Banc of America  Congratulations on a good quarter it looks like you...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2008 13:58:42 -0800</pubDate>
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