Guardian Protection Services, Warrendale, Pa., announced that Complete Home Security and Services of Fresno, Calif., joined its authorized dealer program. Complete Home markets to the California Central Valley and will expand its coverage via the opening of a second office in Visalia, located 40 miles south of Fresno, within the next 30 days.
Cook Security Group successfully completed a third party SOC 2 Type 2 audit, which it said demonstrated the company’s dedication to comply with today’s heightened information security regulations.
NorthStar Alarm Services LLC, Orem, Utah, increased its credit facility to $80 million, doubling its facility since the company’s recapitalization 20 months ago, with Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, and The Beekman Group.
As its 65th birthday approaches, Guardian Protection Services, Warrendale, Pa., has refused to “act its age” and rest on its historic laurels. In 1950, Guardian Alarm Systems of Pittsburgh Inc., the former identity of Guardian Protection Services, was solely focused on the installation of security systems for jewelry stores. The name and the breadth of services offered both changed in 1975, when current CEO, Russell Cersosimo, bought the business and created Guardian Protection Services.
Both the residential and commercial markets saw growth this year, due in large part to economic recovery, huge growth in interactive services/integration and increasing user awareness on the home side.
I’ve come across a wide variety of characters and business owners since I (Alex) opened a marketing agency at the age of 20 in Las Vegas. But it is the travel industry that taught me the valuable lesson of never letting a hot lead go cold.
The mouse and rat action around our properties continues. Two years ago it was the summertime invasion of the Chicago rats into the backyard of the bunker in Bucktown. This problem was eventually subdued with the installation of a Maginot line of steel sheets and cement on the fences facing the alley. There is a price to be paid for living in a neighborhood that is chock-full of wonderful restaurants; the presence of tossed foodstuffs is heaven for the Chicago Rattus norvegicus.
I’ve come across a wide variety of characters and business owners since I opened a marketing agency at the age of 20 in Las Vegas. But it is the travel industry that taught me the valuable lesson of never letting a hot lead go cold.
A dispute which began in February 2004 between Security Alarm Financing Enterprises Inc. (SAFE), San Ramon, Calif., and the former Secure US Inc., Morgantown, W.V., concluded, with all of the former assets of Secure US being sold to satisfy SAFE’s more than $1 million judgment.
As a business person in a position of authority, you should always strive to operate as leader. You may never know the positive impact you may make on someone who is silently watching.
