Case Study
Brainerd Compressor, Inc.
Brainerd Compressor, Inc. In 1951 A.G. Brainerd started a business to provide commercial service and filter changing in Memphis and the Mid-South. To answer the need he found for compressors when servicing Heating, Venting, and Cooling (HVAC) equipment, Mr. Brainerd began rebuilding his own compressors. Other service companies caught on, and began contracting The Brained Company for their own large air-conditioning compressor needs. Not too long after J. Howard Barton purchased The Brainerd Company and merged it with his Barton Service Company in 1971, he saw the need and growth potential of the compressor remanufacturing business and separated this into an existing company of its own: Brainerd Compressor. Barton and his brother Larry developed Brainerd Compressor into one of the largest a