Codale Electric Supply, Inc. was founded October 14, 1975, by Dale P. Holt, our company president. Codale started in a 5,000-square-foot building with just five employees. We soon outgrew the original building and added more space by way of another 5,000-square-foot building across the street—not an ideal setup, but it sufficed for the time. Our main markets were residential and commercial construction, with a large focus on the industrial marketplace.

In 1982 Codale moved into a new 25,000-square-foot facility in Salt Lake City, which enabled us to grow and attract many new customers. On September 9, 1983, Codale Electric was appointed as the authorized Allen-Bradley distributor for Northern Utah. This appointment really put Codale “on the map” as the leader in the industrial marketplace.

Codale opened its second branch location in Provo, Utah, in 1989. By 1993 we had completely outgrown our Salt Lake headquarters facility and moved into a new 85,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art facility. This facility was intended to be the last headquarters building that the company would need…

Between 1995 and 2008 the company continued to expand, adding nine more branches and several new markets served, including DataComm, Outside Plant (OSP) and Utility. Codale has become the largest electrical distributor—by an impressive lead—in the markets that we cover, with sales of over $236,000,000 in 2008.

By 2007 we recognized we would soon outgrow our headquarters facility once again. In the fall of 2007 we broke ground on our new world-class headquarters facility, and we took occupancy in February 2009. At 210,000 square feet, it is the most state-of-the-art facility in the electrical distribution industry, spanning 13 acres and including a separate 15,000-square-foot modification and assembly building for the construction of new substations.