electrical contracting founded 1919 founder moses rosendin and christopher rosendin headquarters san jose california key people tom sorley larry beltramo revenue 800 million owner employee owned number of employees 5 300 website rosendin.com rosendin electric is an electrical contractor headquartered in san jose california with more than 5 000 employees nationwide and an annual revenue of approximately 800 million . branch offices are located in san francisco sacramento and los angeles ca tempe az hillsboro or las vegas nv sterling va and most recently baltimore md. 1 history edit in 1919 two brothers began rosendin electric motor works . the company serviced the santa clara san jose agricultural community by wiring homes and shops rewinding motors for wells and pumps and extending pole line facilities for utility companies . the company expanded its business to central california through the 20 s the great depression and world war ii . the end of world war ii brought rapid commercial and industrial growth to the santa clara valley and expanded work for rosendin . the company grew from eight employees in the late 30 s to ninety employees in the 1950s . in 1953 rosendin electric was incorporated as an electrical contractor in the state of california . in 2000 the rosendin electric employees completed their buyout of the rosendin family which had begun in the mid 90s to become the largest employee owned electrical contractor . they are currently the fourth largest electrical contractor in the us . 2 rosendin electric is also involved in design and construction of wind energy plants including grids and collection systems . 1 their first wind farm installation was in 2002 and as of 2011 they had completed close to 60 wind farm projects . 3 on april 12 2010 rosendin electric completed its acquisition of kst electric ltd. kst a texas based privately held full service electrical data and communication contracting company based out of manor texas with regional offices in dallas houston san antonio corpus christi and harlingen . with the acquisition rosendin electric gained immediate access to the texas construction market . in december of 2013 rosendin electric announced that kst electric would assume its new name as rosendin electric . references edit a b http www.hoovers.com rosendin electric id 42058 free co profile.xhtml http www.energytodaymagazine.com index.php option com content & task view & id 6702 & itemid 80 http www.usbusiness review.com content view 1303 102 external links edit rosendin electric website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title rosendin electric & oldid 700221386 categories companies based in san jose californiacompanies established in 1919engineering companies of the united statesemployee owned companies of the united states navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 17 january 2016 at 04 38 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view