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CES is Adding Industrial Automation to its Services Playbook. Here’s How

City Electric Supply’s new Industrial Automation Solutions launch shows how a distributor can turn customer demand, supplier alignment and internal branch support into a new service platform. With more than 700 branches across North America, learn why and how CES created the new offering.

By Mike Hockett

June 25, 2026

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City Electric Supply’s latest value-added service launch is not rooted in a single customer pain point. It is more the result of many small ones. As CES expanded its reach across North America, its branch teams kept running into adjacent opportunities in industrial settings — particularly with customers who already trusted the distributor’s local service model but needed more support around automation, controls and Siemens product access. For

CES

— No. 8 on

MDM’s 2026 Top Electrical Distributors List

— that steady branch-level demand eventually became a signal: industrial automation could…

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