‘UK Best Illuminated Sign 2005’ uses the Permlight El Blanco LED Lighting System

• The El Blanco White LED system lights channel letter on Intercontinental Vienna Hotel

Birmingham, UK - Thursday, May 05, 2005 – Permlight Products announced today that its El Blanco white products were used in the Intercontinental Hotel Vienna sign that won the coveted ‘Best Illuminated Sign’ for 2005 at the recent European Sign Industry Awards. This is the 2nd year in a row that Permlight Products have been commended for use in a top sign at this prestigious event. The signs were fabricated by Ashleigh Signs.

“It appears that Ashleigh Signs and the Permlight LED lighting systems are a winning formula,” commented Michael Webb, Permlight’s Marketing Manager. “This sign is a perfect example of a customer asking us to solve a long term potential maintenance problem on a high rise building by replacing neon and fluorescent lighting with our long lifetime modular solutions. Our El Blanco White LED system continues to outperform and under price any competing LED solution on the market.”

The El Blanco system (900-WHT-12) used on the Intercontinental Hotel used CREE’s (Nasdaq: CREE) XLamp LEDs.

Permlight's LED Systems are distributed by Applelec Sign Components in the UK.

About Permlight

Permlight, a premier provider of energy efficient LED lighting solutions, designs and manufactures LED Lighting Systems and power supplies for indoor and outdoor applications. With its patented thermal management technology, the company provides products that are rated as the brightest and most cost effective systems in the industry.