Service Experts Celebrates Bryant Heating & Cooling’s 100th Anniversary With $75,000 Grant To Make-A-Wish Foundation
On April 4, 2022 Bryant Heating & Cooling Service Experts announced a $75,000 gift to Make-A-Wish® Foundation Canada in celebration of the centre’s 100 years in business in Windsor, Ontario. The funds will go directly toward granting wishes to children diagnosed with critical illnesses.
Bryant Heating & Cooling Co. Ltd., founded in early 1921 by the Bryant family of Windsor, originally specialized in the manufacture of automated stoking systems for coal-fed boilers. The company grew significantly during the 1920s and 1930s, and by the outbreak of World War II, Bryant was one of the largest employers in the City of Windsor.
As the 1940s came to a close, innovation in the heating and cooling industry led the Bryant family to sell the business to one of their long-time employees, who shifted the company’s focus to residential air conditioning over the next four decades. Bryant has been affiliated with Service Experts since 1998.
“Service Experts has a long history of giving back to the communities where we operate. Make-A-Wish Foundation Canada does such meaningful work to support children diagnosed with critical illnesses, and we’re honored to support that work with this gift in celebration of the Bryant centre’s centennial milestone.”
Randall Barnes, Regional Marketing Manager – Service Experts
Every year, approximately 27,000 children are diagnosed with a critical illness. Make-A-Wish seeks to renew hope, uplift spirits, and encourage the belief in the impossible by giving kids the strength to fight against — and even overcome — a critical illness.
Make-A-Wish fulfills a unique mission of creating life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses. Service Experts are proud to be in their fifth year of supporting Make-A-Wish. To date, the company has donated the organization more than $1 million to the organization, resulting in more than 100 wishes granted.
Rosie and Lydia are two of many recipients of such wishes. Rosie is an 8-year-old who was diagnosed with Leukemia in 2018, and wished to have a big koala bear playhouse, and Lydia is a 17-year-old who was diagnosed with a rare bone marrow failure disorder when she was 11. Lydia wished to have a French Bulldog and named the dog “Wish.”
“We are grateful to Service Experts for this generous gift,” states Meaghan Stovel McKnight, CEO of Make-A-Wish Canada. “Their support will help us continue our mission to create life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses, many of whom view the wish as a pivotal moment in their healing journey and a much-needed source of hope and joy for their entire family.”
Founded in 1996, Service Experts is a leading provider of HVAC repair, maintenance, new equipment sales and related services to residential and commercial customers in 31 states in the U.S. and three provinces in Canada. Headquartered in Richardson, Texas, Service Experts is one of North America’s largest heating and air conditioning service companies, with 91 locations serving approximately 2,500 homes and businesses, on average, each working day. HVAC services include residential HVAC service and replacement; ancillary residential home services, including plumbing, indoor air quality and energy audits; commercial HVAC service, maintenance and replacement for both light commercial customers and large-scale national retail accounts.
