Energy Magazine December 2014 | Page 67

Canada

Brothers Alan and Mark Kellett have been leading K-Line Group , a utility services provider , for more than 25 years . Though , as they put it , they ’ re just “ looking after it .”

K-Line was founded by their father , Glenn , in 1967 . Armed with years of experience at Ontario ’ s Hydro One and a strategic eye for business , he sold one of his properties in order to purchase two trucks — both of which are still owned by the company today — and began running operations out of the basement at his Scarborough home .
Glenn saw an opportunity to provide service at a time when utilities began outsourcing work to third-parties . What began as K-Line
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