Industrial distributor Carlton-Bates, a subsidiary of WESCO Distribution, Inc. (WCC) will operate out of WESCO's Indianapolis branch. Kimberly Cherry will lead the new operation as the new market field sales representative.
With the addition of Carlton-Bates, the Indianapolis facility will be a one-stop resource for a wide range of industrial products and will allow Carlton-Bates to provide products and solutions to WESCO customers.
"This expansion is part of Carlton-Bates' strategic plan to continuously improve our customer service and product offerings. It is first of several new locations to be opened within the next two years and proof of an increased commitment to our partnership with WESCO," said WESCO group vice president and general manager, Todd Farnsworth. Details
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Jim Lucy has been wandering through the electrical market for more than 30 years, most of the time as an editor for Electrical Wholesaling, Electrical Marketing newsletter and CEE News. During that time he and the editorial team for the publications have won numerous national awards for their coverage of the electrical business. He showed an early interest in electricity, when as a youth he had an idea for a hot dog cooker. Unfortunately, the first crude prototype malfunctioned and the arc nearly blew him out of his parents' basement. Before becoming an editor for Electrical Wholesaling magazine and Electrical Marketing, he earned a BA degree in journalism and a MA in communications from Glassboro State College, Glassboro, NJ., which is formerly best known as the site of the 1967 summit meeting between President Lyndon Johnson and Russian Premier Aleksei Nikolayevich Kosygin, and now best known as the New Jersey state college that changed its name in 1992 to Rowan University because of a generous $100 million donation by N.J. zillionaire industrialist Henry Rowan. Jim is a Brooklyn-born Jersey Guy happily transplanted in the fertile plains of Kansas for the past 20 years.