BRETT KINGSTONE is Chairman & CEO of Super Vision International, Inc. At the age of 19, while attending Stanford University, Brett Kingstone established his first fiber optic display manufacturing facility in a garage near campus. Upon his graduation, the company continued to receive orders from customers including Tokyo Disneyland and Walt Disney EPCOT Center. Mr. Kingstone is the author of …
Where Are They Now? – Entrepreneur
By Lynn Beresford Super Vision International Inc. THEN: 1994 Sales: $2.4 million Brett Kingstone doesn’t take business lightly. In 1994, his fiber-optic light and cable manufacturing company was doing $2.4 million in sales–but Kingstone still didn’t consider it a shining success. Why? He knew Orlando, Florida-based Super Vision International could do much more. Fiber-optic lighting offers so many advantages over …
A Natural Entrepreneur
By Susan Lundline Brett Kingstone began making money on his own at 6 years old Brett Kingstone started his first business — a lemonade stand — at age 6 in New York. But instead of buying soda or candy with his earnings, he chose to save it for college. A couple of years later, he earned money by selling …
Fiber Optic Light Source Apparatus and Method (Patent # 5,838,860)
Jun 18, 1996 – Super Vision International, Inc. A fiber optic cable lateral illumination system comprising a housing having an internal cavity and an aperture communicating the cavity externally of the housing, an optical system located within the internal cavity; the optical system comprising a reflector and a high intensity lamp positioned within the reflector for directing light along an …
AT&T/Super Vision Throw Switch On World’s Largest Fiber Optic Sign
Last Thursday night, with the Mayor of New York City and prominent city officials looking on, Robert Allen the Chairman of AT&T turned on AT&T’s new signage display in New York’s Time Square. The cheering could be heard all the way across the continent to the factory of Super Vision International, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUPVA) in Orlando, Florida which constructed the …