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The Henderson tradition started in 1919 when a young entrepreneur by the name of Harry Henderson organized Henderson Electric Company to supply products and equipment to the emerging electrical contracting business in Louisville, Ky. Throughout the roaring twenties and the depression era of the thirties, Henderson Electric Company transformed its electrical supply operation into a full service electrical contracting business. The tumultuous events of World War II and the need for expanding industrial capacity helped establish Henderson Electric as a local prominent electrical contractor with the potential of performing complicated projects in a timely cost efficient manner.

By the mid-fifties Henderson maintained a solid position as one of capable electrical contractors in Kentucky with such projects as the Kentucky Fair and Exposition Center, major projects at GE Appliance Park and major retrofit project at International Harvester's Farm Machinery foundry and manufacturing operation. In 1960 Henderson opened an office in Lexington, Ky. to better serve the rapidly growing central Kentucky market. Within a few short years this office was managing some of the largest projects to date for the University of Kentucky and the Commonwealth of Kentucky in and around Frankfort, the state's capital.

As the company's customer base continued to expand with larger customers who maintained operations in diverse geographic locations, the need for a strategy to continue to offer quality service emerged. Partly as a solution to this need and partly as a way of preparing the company for management succession, Henderson Electric Co., Inc. merged with five (5) other prominent national electrical contractors in 1998 to form Nationwide Electric, Inc. (NEI). However nearly a year later in November 1999, NEI was purchased by a large publicly held Canadian corporation by the name of Bracknell ( TSE: BRK) to serve customers throughout North America. We were servicing customers as Henderson Electric Co, Inc., a Bracknell Company.

When the entire construction market started to dramatically slowdown in 2001, it affected Bracknell and its entire North American operations, which included us in Louisville, Ky. In November of 2001 Bracknell Corporation collapsed and ceased to exist. The Henderson management group repurchased the assets of Henderson Electric Co., Inc. and starting operating as Henderson Services, LLC on December 1, 2001. The name change reflects our new marketing strategy that we provide other services other than the traditional electrical construction.

The Henderson tradition is still alive and well as a result of many decades of change. We still feel Harry Henderson, the founder, would be proud of the continuing tradition that stills bears his name. Harry's company has embraced these changes without losing sight of the tradition of quality performance and a passion for customer service, a passion that motivated Harry Henderson more than eighty (80) years ago.