Maximum Yield USA 2015 April | Page 152

You tell us At a Glance Business: G8LED Location: Sun Valley, California Phone: 1-888-771-GROW Web: g8led.com Number of years doing business: 6 Company motto: Grow Green With G8LED Technology! Started by electrical engineers who took an interest in indoor gardening, G8LED manufactures high-quality lights to give customers optimal results in their growrooms. Robert H, managing director, explains how the company has been expanding its market share year after year, and why customers are at the root of this success. Tell us a little about how G8LED started. G8LED was started by electrical engineers turned indoor growers. Using our design and manufacturing network, we decided to create an efficient indoor grow system using the advanced LED technology available at the time. After going through several rounds of designing, growing, testing and feedback, we were able to formulate a highyielding lighting system that could give customers the results they were looking for. How has the company grown over the years? From our humble beginnings, we expanded grassroots-style through word-of-mouth referrals from our indoor gardening contacts. For the first few years, we experienced a fierce resistance to LED grow lights because of subpar products. Customers were not able to get the results they were looking for with these subpar products and this tainted the entire industry. 150 Maximum Yield USA  |  April 2015