CLS Expansion Plans Dictate Move to Larger Facility

Plans to expand from 20 local locations to perhaps as many as 40 have dictated a move
by Capital Lighting & Supply to a 220,000-square-foot facility in Forestville, Md.

Now under construction, the new facility is set to open early in 2008. CLS will
move its HQ operations (now in Alexandria, Va.) and its 85,000-square-foot distribution
center (in Newington, Va.) to the new building – and have room to spare.

“We’ll have plenty of room to including a new training facility,” said John Hardy,
president/CEO of CLS. “We’ve never had that before. We’ll use it both to continue our
ongoing training of our own people, and to expand to offer classes to our customers.”

With its growth in the past five years, CLS could see that it would soon go
beyond the service capacity of its existing distribution center. Planning for future growth
dictated the move to a new facility.

“Our new building, which will house more than $18 million of inventory, will
incorporate the latest technology,” Hardy said. “Our operation will have ‘a lot less’ –
we’ll be both wireless and paperless!”

What’s in it for the electrical contractors and end-users who make up the CLS
customer base? "With our current limitations, we've been unable to get into the fastener business
in any significant way. That will change. And the new facility will help us get into
datacom, which many of our contractor customers have asked about,” Hardy answered.

"We'll still be the same CLS. We'll focus on our mission statement – 'to be the
electrical distributor of choice, for our customers, employees, and suppliers.' That won't
change.”