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Our Company Motto – "Experience – Pride – Performance"

Experience

Benton-Georgia, Inc. has been a top contractor in the underground utilities industry for over 90 years and the overriding reason is Quality. Benton-Georgia, Inc. has earned the customer's complete trust because of this established and time-proven level of quality.

Pride

Benton-Georgia, Inc. employees take great pride in their work and strive daily to support the company’s mission statement; "To provide our customers with the absolute highest level of quality and value in utility construction, ensuring our employees are trained, challenged and respected thus providing them the opportunity to reach their full potential and to have a desirable quality of life."

Performance

Benton-Georgia, Inc. works diligently to ensure that the results of all efforts are at a level of quality that exceeds expectations.

  • Quality of overall service provided to the customer
  • Quality of employees and top management
  • Quality of expectations - "BGI does what they say they will do!"
  • Quality of compliance with every regulatory agency and customers
  • Quality of training given to our employees
  • Quality of life for our employees

Timeline

  • 1914

    The origins of Benton-Georgia, Inc. actually trace back to 1914 and was known as the R. J. Reid Construction Company and whose principals were R. J. Reid and H. E. Lowe. Their principal line of work was the reconstruction of bridges and culverts along railroad rights-of-way in Virginia and North Carolina. Mr. J. T. Benton was introduced to the firm as an "auditor" who was sent to work with the firm to look after the interest of the hardware company who had loaned materials to R. J. Reid.

  • 1918

    During the latter part of World War I the trio of Reid, Lowe and Benton remained together and traveled south following the railroad business along the Tennessee River to Florence, Alabama. It was then that the permanent offices were established in Birmingham, Alabama.

  • 1920's

    During the 1920's the company remained entrenched in the railroad business constructing trestles and laying and removing track. The company began working all over the southeastern United States.

  • 1930

    In 1930 W. K. "Pete" Zeis, Sr. joined the company and it was later in the 1930's that Pete actually began the laying of gas distribution pipe. Pete was also directly responsible for some very large projects with Mobile Gas Services Corporation that included river and swamp crossings.

  • 1945

    As the second World War was waging the firm was still involved in railroad work but had diversified into gas, water lines and stripping coal in Alabama.

  • 1946

    Shortly after the war, 1946, Pete Sr. was sent to Atlanta to oversee two gas line crews that were engaged in a four month project. It was then that Pete Sr. started the relationship with one of the largest natural gas distributors in the southeast, a relationship that remains extremely robust today.

  • 1950's

    The company went through some ownership changes during the 1950's as Mr. Benton became a partner with R. J. Reid and then took sole ownership after Mr. Reid's death in 1956.

  • 1961

    A new company emerged as Benton Contracting Company, Inc. The company officers were Benton, Sr., Zeis and Benton, Jr. The firm managed to obtain significant work from Mobile Gas Services Corporation and became thoroughly entrenched in the natural gas distribution business.

  • 1969

    Mr. W. K. "Pete" Zeis, Jr. began his tenure at Benton in 1969 and managed to work in the Chattanooga, Dalton and Newnan areas during his first few years. The company was awarded a significant amount of work from their largest customer in the Newnan area and thus the Newnan office was established. Pete was then promoted to General Superintendent of the Georgia Division of Benton Contracting.

  • 1975

    The company began to work in the Telecommunication industry by contracting work for BellSouth.

  • 1976

    As the company grew it was decided that Douglasville was a more appropriate location for its corporate headquarters and the company relocated in 1976. This location remains the corporate offices today.

  • 1988

    The current ownership structure was created in 1988 when brothers Pete and Steve Zeis bought the company and changed the name to Benton-Georgia, Inc. (BGI.) Pete and Steve are utility construction professionals who actually worked a combined 30+ years for the previous Benton organization years before assuming ownership. Both brothers are at the helm today, now totalling 64 years of experience, and they share the same kind of work ethic that has earned the company the reputation that is held in high regard by their peers in the industry.

  • 1996

    Benton-Georgia, Inc. continues its work in the telecommunications industry by working with AT&T installing fiber optic and copper cable. The cable television cable installation market is also initiated during this time frame.

  • 2002

    Benton-Georgia, Inc. begins work in the power industry by working with a local EMC providing customer with turnkey solutions for their underground and overhead utility installation.

  • 2004

    The company now has over 100 utility crews at its dispatch and offers turnkey solutions to the underground utility market by providing paving, boring and engineering services to the customers. Benton-Georgia, Inc. is regarding as not only the largest utility contractor in Georgia, but also the best.

Letter from the President

Dear Friend,

As a businessperson, I am sure that you have heard that customer satisfaction is key to corporate success. At Benton-Georgia, Inc, there is no doubt that it is the ongoing relationships with our many valued customers that stand out in my mind as our single greatest achievement. It personally brings me great satisfaction when our relationship with a customer grows to the place where they view us as an asset to be used to aid in the accomplishment of their goals.

Given that business grows more competitive every day, the pressure to reduce cost, improve quality and increase profits is always on the rise. Many of us in the business world have sought out strategic alliances with cutting edge companies that can add value to our organizations. My goal is that you come to view Benton-Georgia, Inc. as just such an asset.

I particularly enjoy working with customers that come to us with unique or difficult projects that together we develop innovative and efficient means to bring these projects to successful completion for all parties involved.

We at Benton-Georgia, Inc. have come to the realization that each person in our organization must commit to serving our clients with an attitude of passion, excellence and the highest level of integrity. We believe that it is this commitment that has resulted in obtaining impeccable references and an impressive list of clients representing top companies in a wide range of industries.

Thank you for taking the time to consider Benton-Georgia, Inc. We welcome the opportunity to get to know you and learn how we can best serve you and your organization. We look forward to working with you on your current or future design and construction projects.

Sincerely,

Pete Zeis
President and CEO

Management

The responsibility for the day-to-day management of our company belongs to the following key people

Customers

Customers include water, sewer, gas providers and more. We can provide references on request.
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