Now in its 101st year of business, Utah electrical contracting giant Cache Valley Electric Co. has settled comfortably into not just one market niche, but several. While Cache Valley’s core focus is its electrical construction division, with projects that range from a few thousand dollars to more than $70 million, the contractor’s broad base of specialties also includes an equally robust combination of transmission line and substation work, signals and utilities projects, technology services, teledata and a service division recognized for its rapid response on smaller projects.
Third-generation Cache Valley owner and CEO Jim Laub says the firm has intentionally expanded its services over the years to remain competitive. “We realized years ago that we had to be more diverse. When we were much smaller, we did a lot of government work for the Corps of Engineers and the Defense Department; it was 80% of our work,” Laub says.