Stockholder Services

Corporate Headquarters
Acuity Brands, Inc.
1170 Peachtree Street, NE
Suite 2400
Atlanta, Georgia 30309-7676
404-853-1400
www.acuitybrands.com

Acuity Brands Lighting
One Lithonia Way
Conyers, Georgia 30012-3957
770-922-9000
www.acuitybrandslighting.com

Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
Ernst & Young LLP
55 Ivan Allen Jr. Boulevard
Suite 1000
Atlanta, Georgia 30308-3051
404-874-8300

Annual Meeting
1:00 p.m. Eastern Time
Thursday, January 8, 2010
Four Seasons Hotel Ballroom
75 Fourteenth Street, NE
Atlanta, Georgia 30309-3604


Stock Listing
New York Stock Exchange
Ticker Symbol: AYI

Acuity Brands has filed the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer certifications required by Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act as exhibits to its 2009 Annual Report on Form 10-K, and submitted its required annual Chief Executive Officer certification to the New York Stock Exchange for fiscal year 2008.

Stockholders of Record
The number of stockholders of record of Acuity Brands common stock was 3,925 as of October 26, 2009.

Transfer Agent And Registrar
BNY Mellon Shareowner Services is the transfer agent, registrar, dividend disbursing agent and dividend reinvestment agent for the Company. Stockholders of record with questions about lost certificates, lost or missing dividend checks, direct deposit of dividends, or notification of change of address should contact:

Acuity Brands, Inc.
C/o BNY Mellon Shareowner Services
P.O. Box 358015
Pittsburgh, PA 15252-8015
Web site: www.bnymellon.com/shareowner/isd

Toll Free: (866) 234-1921
(Inside the United States and Canada)

(201) 680-6685
(Outside the United States and Canada)

BuyDIRECT Plan
BNY Mellon Shareowner Services offers the BuyDIRECT investment plan, a direct purchase and sale plan for investors wishing to purchase Acuity Brands stock. Dividends can be automatically reinvested. The Plan is not sponsored or administered by Acuity Brands.

Inquiries should be directed to BNY Mellon Shareowner Services.

This annual report includes forward-looking statements regarding expected future results of the Company. A variety of factors could cause actual results to differ materially from expected results. Please see the risk factors more fully described in the accompanying financial information, which is separately filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission as part of the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended August 31, 2009.  

Tax Basis Allocation Letter
Acuity Brands, Inc., was spun off from National Service Industries, Inc. on December 1, 2001. For information regarding tax basis allocation of shares, refer to this letter. 

Acuity Brands, Inc. spun off its specialty products business (ZEP Inc.) on October 31, 2007.  For information regarding tax basis allocation of shares, refer to this letter.