Environmental Lights Acquires Nova Flex
San Diego-based LED lighting solutions provider Environmental Lights has acquired St. Cloud, Minnesota-based lighting manufacturer Nova Flex, which provides customizable, flexible lighting solutions to commercial, architectural, and high-end residential markets.
The acquisition brings together two linear lighting companies serving different markets, enabling Nova Flex to leverage the power of a larger, more diversified supply chain and tap into the combined product expertise to accelerate growth of its product catalog.
Nova Flex will continue to operate independently, with David Kidd remaining as President, and all of his key team members remaining in their existing roles. Kidd remains an owner in Nova Flex through an investment in Environment Lights as part of the transaction.
Nova Flex joins City Theatrical as Environmental Lights continues to build its lighting brand portfolio. Environmental Lights and City Theatrical will continue to serve their markets and customers separately from Nova Flex.
“We are excited to welcome Nova Flex to our family as this brings two strong lighting companies with deep product experience together to help fuel each other’s growth,” said Brad Tedder, CEO of Environmental Lights. “Nova Flex’s differentiated, high-performance solutions and responsive, customer-first approach perfectly align with our strategy and vision.”
Added Kidd, “Environmental Lights is an excellent strategic and cultural partner for Nova Flex. My goal has always been to build a great lighting company, and this partnership will deliver expanded product breadth for customers while deepening our organization and its technical capabilities, without changing the high levels of service and responsiveness provided to our agents, specifiers, national accounts, and distributors.”
The transaction closed in February 2026.
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