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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, Kentucky.  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 prominent local 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  the capable electrical  contractors in Kentucky by completing such projects as the Kentucky Fair and Exposition Center, major projects at G. E. Appliance Park, and a major retrofit project at International Harvester’s Farm Machinery foundry and manufacturing operation.  In 1960, Henderson opened an office in Lexington, Kentucky 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.

In 1986, Henderson opened a field office in Georgetown, Kentucky, on the construction site of the new automotive assembly plant owned and operated by Toyota Motor Manufacturing.  Due to our involvement in the construction of this large facility and the resulting relationship with Toyota, we have established a permanent presence on-site.  Today we continue our service to Toyota as well as other customers from our Georgetown location.

 As the company’s customer base continued to expand with large 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 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 serviced our customers as Henderson Electric Co., Inc., a Bracknell Company.

Bracknell, and its entire North American operation, was affected when the construction and telecommunications market started to dramatically slow down in 2001.  By November of 2001 Bracknell Corporation had collapsed and ceased to exist.  On December 1, 2001 the Henderson management group repurchased the assets of Henderson Electric Company, Inc. and began operating as Henderson Services, LLC. The name change reflects our new marketing strategy.  We are a company that is now a provider of many other services in addition to traditional electrical construction.

The Henderson tradition is still alive and well as a result of many decades of change.  We believe that its’ founder, Harry Henderson, would be proud of the continuing tradition that still 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 ninety years ago.  The current third-generation management remains focused on these ideals, while leading TEAM Henderson by embracing the use and implementation of technology to provide world-class performance in all aspects of our business.