History

The origins of the business go back to the 1920’s when Alex Vallance founded a major electrical retailer and Vallectric was born as one of its service departments.

During the second World War the company found itself installing electrical services to the Vickers tank factory at Barnbow in Leeds and also installing radios in tanks; an early example of changing the business to reflect customer requirements.

Growth in the scale of it’s electrical contracting activities in the post war years led to it being incorporated as a separate limited subsidiary in 1959 and, ultimately, to its independence in 1987 when the retail activities were sold by the Vallance family.

In 1991 the Vallance family decided to allow wider ownership of Vallectric and 25% of the equity was transferred to other Directors and Senior Managers.

In 2006 the Executive Board and Senior Management of Vallectric completed a management buy out.

Today, Vallectric remains a private limited company, but has changed significantly from its purely domestic and commercial electrical contracting origins in West Yorkshire and now offers a broad range of mechanical and electrical installation services throughout the UK.