26 Business View - December 2014
Geared to Work for
Customer Satisfaction
Reinvented Quinco Electrical won’t hesitate to go where the need is
CONSTRUCTION
David Deese knows the value of a name.
So when he stumbled on the word “Quinco” while rum-
maging through a garage, he got curious.
“My grandfather had passed away and he left me a
box, and in the box there was an ashtray that said Quin-
co on it,” he said. “So I asked my father what Quinco
meant, and he told me my grandfather had owned an
electric company in Orlando (Fla.) in the 1950s that
was called Quinco Electrical.”
Ironically, Deese was working in the electric business
at the time, too, with a fledgling Orlando-area entity
called D & P Electric. D & P had begun in 1992 with
small residential jobs before gradually evolving to work