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Founded: 1905 (as Companhia Força e Luz Cataguazes-Leopoldina)
Founders: José Monteiro Ribeiro Junqueira, João Duarte Ferreira, Norberto Custódio Ferreira
Founded in Cataguases, Minas Gerais, by three local entrepreneurs diversifying out of the region's coffee economy; brought electricity to Cataguases and Leopoldina before it reached Rio de Janeiro. Still controlled by the founding families' descendants (the Botelho family) as Energisa, Brazil's largest privately-owned electric utility by customer count.
