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For more than 50 years, Carlton-Bates Company (CBC) has served the industrial market with specialized services and solutions and is a leading distributor of automation controls and advanced electronic/electromechanical solutions. As a member of the WESCO family of companies, CBC serves customers in all 50 states and Mexico. In every aspect of our business, CBC strives to meet the changing needs of our customers by providing next-generation solutions.

CBC can help you streamline your supply chain. With dedicated assembly facilities in the US and Mexico, we provide outsourced manufacturing for our partnered customers, saving them time, money and resources.

In addition to local consultative support, CBC offers a vast inventory of product solutions from more than 360 authorized manufacturers. We service a broad spectrum of end markets with an array of products such as sensors, switches, relays, circuit breakers, contactors, wire/cable management, power supplies, terminal blocks and connectors.

With our unique combination of products and services, CBC is equipped to meet and exceed your needs.

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VALUE STATEMENT

We are an innovative solutions provider committed to supplying our manufacturing clients with competitive advantages.

We do this through the application of a progressive and consultative approach to delivering quantifiable customer value through our LEAN Solutions, Inventory Management Solutions, Global Account Solutions and Assembled Solutions capabilities.

MISSION

To lead our customers to their next generation solutions through our energy and creativity.

CORE VALUES

SERVICE: We provide excellent customer service, align our solutions with our customers' goals and make it easy to do business with us.

EMPOWERMENT: We possess the knowledge, skills and authority to exceed the needs of our customers, suppliers, and CBC team members.

POSITIVE CHANGE: We stay at the forefront of our industry's evolution and consistently adapt to the dynamic needs of our customers.

TEAMWORK AND TRUST: We depend on each other for individual and collective success through hard work, vision, integrity and a passion for winning.

CULTURE

Teamwork, creativity, initiative and accountability are the principles that drive our leading-edge solutions.

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Carlton-Bates is a wholly owned subsidiary of WESCO Distribution, Inc.

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ISO Certification

Our corporate facility and Distribution Center in Little Rock, AR, are certified ISO. ISO (International Organization for Standardization) is the world’s largest developer of standards. Although ISO’s principal activity is the development of technical standards, ISO standards also have important economic and social repercussions. ISO standards make a positive difference, not just to engineers and manufacturers for whom they solve basic problems in production and distribution, but to society as a whole. Click here to view our certificate.