GREENVILLE, S.C. — The Upstate area of South Carolina is a place that continues to flourish. Ranked the number three state for doing business and area development, more than $10.2 billion in has occurred from 2018-2022. Electrical wholesale distributor City Electric Supply (CES) is thrilled to have a presence in the area. Recently, CES opened its ninth location in the district, adding three locations in the last six years to assist recent booms.
“The Upstate area is growing. South Carolina has a great business climate. A lot of people want to move here, and we are seeing tremendous expansion. CES wants to have locations in place to be ready to assist in developments when the time comes,” said District Manager Don Corbett. “Customers working on these developments have busy schedules. With these strategically placed locations, CES hopes to ease customers’ wait and drive times to help jobsites and projects move as quickly as possible.”
Greenville alone is seeing unprecedented amounts of growth. Gaining 19 residents per day in 2022, the city has upcoming developments that will pour millions into affordable housing, amongst other residential towers downtown. CES has four branches located in the Greenville area.
“With the CES business model, we take our business to the markets with centralized locations, so people don’t have to drive an hour trip into a big metroplex,” said Corbett. “Four branches really serve the Greenville market. “Greenville’s downtown branch backs right up to downtown airport. Greer, Simpsonville, and now Easley surround Greenville proper. CES Spartanburg is located downtown as well.”
As the downtown area continues to grow and develop outside of the city, the CES model will be implemented to help customers, Corbett explained.
“What we found when we opened the Greer location east of Greenville was that the business was impacted positively among those two branches, and more people were able to be helped with better service.”
Spanning 117 miles, the nine locations span from Gaffney, SC, to Toccoa, GA, and will be able to bring value and serve the Upstate area through the CES business model. With CES Easley now open, Don and the company hope for the same help given to customers.
“We expect a similar dynamic from this Easley branch. It will build its own customer base, and it will feed off the Greenville base. And that’s what’s good about CES—your account is good at any location with us, so our customers can stop in wherever they need.”
Overall, the goal of CES opening these locations where we have them comes down to one thing: we want to serve our customers to the best of our abilities,” said Corbett. “With the grand opening of our Easley store coming soon, we hope CES will be able to assist all customers and do what we can to make their days easier.”
The company looks forward to assisting community development and projects, helping electricians and general contractors with their needs through personalized customer service.
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