History of Loman Garrett

Loman Garrett was established in the mid-1940s, when Orville Garrett spotted an opportunity in a budding industry with the liquidation of a heating equipment wholesale company in North Carolina. In the 1950s, he purchased Loman Supply company from Henry Loman, formally establishing the Loman Garrett brand. The company grew steadily throughout the 1960s thru the 1990s as residential airconditioning became a necessity for homes in the southeast. The company expanded with twelve retail stores and over a hundred employees spanning the southeast by the early 2000s. As time went on, commercial units became the focus of the business, as schools in the southeast began to require HVAC systems installed for the first time. The expansion continued into other commercial applications with increasing volume coming from new technology, such as data and telecommunications. Today, the company is operated by the third generation of the Garrett family, with a team that has years of industry experience and a laser focus on HVAC solutions for school systems, telecommunications, data centers, and energy storage solutions. Though our technical applications and product knowledge have expanded greatly, our client-focused principles, instilled since the company was founded by Orville Garrett, remain at the core of our business.