Exhibit 99.3

	News Release
		Acuity Brands, Inc.
		1170 Peachtree Street, NE
		Suite 2400
		Atlanta, GA 30309
		Tel: 404 853 1400
		Fax: 404 853 1430
		AcuityBrands.com

Company Contact:

Dan Smith

Acuity Brands, Inc.

(404) 853-1423

ACUITY BRANDS ANNOUNCES ANNUAL MEETING DATE

ATLANTA, October 7, 2008 – Acuity Brands, Inc. (NYSE: AYI) announced that it will hold its Annual Meeting of Stockholders at 1:00 p.m. ET on Thursday, January 8, 2009, in the Ballroom of the Four Seasons Hotel, 75 Fourteenth Street NE, Atlanta, Georgia. The quarterly meeting of the Company’s Board of Directors will also take place that day.

Acuity Brands, Inc. owns and operates Acuity Brands Lighting, Inc. and Acuity Brands Technology Services, Inc. With fiscal year 2008 net sales of approximately $2.0 billion, Acuity Brands Lighting and Acuity Brands Technology Services combined are one of the world’s leading providers of lighting fixtures and related products and services and include brands such as Lithonia Lighting^®, Holophane^®, Peerless^®, Mark Architectural Lighting™, Hydrel^®, American Electric Lighting^®, Gotham^® , Carandini^®, SpecLight^®, MetalOptics^®, Antique Street Lamps™, Synergy^® Lighting Controls, SAERIS™, and ROAM^®. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Acuity Brands employs approximately 6,500 associates and has operations throughout North America and in Europe and Asia.