County Executive Breaks Ground for CLS’s New Headquarters & Distribution Center

Upper Marlboro, MD - Capital Lighting & Supply hosted a Ground Breaking Ceremony June 6th for their new 220,000 square-foot headquarters and central distribution center. Prince Georges County Executive Jack Johnson attended the event and said “Capital Lighting’s decision to relocate to Prince George’s County is a symbol that our county is growing and has the right environment for businesses to grow.”

The facility is being built in the Eastgate Business Park near the interchange of Pennsylvania Avenue and I-495 near Andrews Air Force Base and is expected to be fully operational by the summer of next year. This move will create approximately 135 jobs and the company has plans to expand and add six to eight branches throughout Maryland within the next five years.

John Hardy, CLS’s President said “We are extremely pleased to be able to relocate our headquarters and CDC facility in Prince Georges County. It has a strong economy, a great workforce and a wonderful business environment.”

Background: Capital Lighting & Supply
With 20 locations, CLS is the electrical distributor of choice in the DC-MD-VA area.

CLS is an operating unit of Sonepar U.S. (www.sonepar-us.com), a Philadelphia-based subsidiary of one of the world’s largest electrical distributors. With 200 branches here, privately owned Sonepar is ranked 6 th among U.S. electrical distributors.

Worldwide, Paris-based Sonepar’s 22,650 employees generate annual sales of more than $12.4 billion from 1,330 locations in 29 countries. The #1 electrical distributor in France, Sonepar derives more than 70% of its sales from outside that country.