Whelan Security Enters Pennsylvania Market and Prepares for Additional Expansion In Wisconsin

St. Louis - Whelan Security, one of the industry's foremost respected providers of contract security staffing services, has expanded into Pennsylvania at the request of the Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM), headquartered in Decatur, IL. ADM, one of the world's largest agricultural processors, recently celebrated the opening of a new 500,000 square foot facility on 74 acres in Hazleton, Pennsylvania which will handle ADM's East Coast cocoa operations including bean grinding, chocolate production, and cake milling. Whelan Security has been hired to provide security staffing services to the facility.

In addition, Whelan Security is preparing to expand into Wisconsin prior to the New Year. The expansion into Wisconsin comes at the request of Tishman Speyer, one of the leading owners, developers, operators, and fund managers of first class real estate in the world. Since its founding in 1978, Tishman Speyer has acquired, developed and managed a portfolio of over 115 million square feet and more than 92,000 residential units valued at more than $76 billion in total value across the United States, Europe, Latin American and Asia. Whelan Security has been awarded a regional contract to provide security staffing service to a large portfolio of facilities throughout Chicago, IL and Milwaukee, WI.

"We are delighted to announce our expansion into Pennsylvania and Wisconsin," said Prentice Robertson, Executive Vice President and COO of Whelan Security. "We are equally delighted with both major contract awards and the opportunity to partner with two world class organizations whose values are so closely aligned with our own. Both markets offer tremendous opportunity for additional expansion and are a continuance of our strategic growth plans which are beginning to expand beyond our core markets in the Central and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States."

WHELAN SECURITY: With headquarters in St. Louis, Whelan Security is a privately owned and operated security firm providing outsourced and contract security staffing services to corporate headquarters, Class A office buildings, financial institutions, educational campuses, industrial and distribution facilities, medical facilities, retail shopping centers, residential communities, and sensitive government facilities throughout the Central and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States (including Missouri, Illinois, Kansas, Tennessee, Minnesota, Mississippi, Texas, Louisiana, Colorado, New Mexico, Michigan, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Northern Virginia, and Washington DC). Founded in 1949, Whelan Security currently employs more than 3,750 full-time employees and currently ranks within the top fifteen security companies in the country, placing it within the top 1% of the industry. In addition, the company also ranks as one of the top 10 privately owned contract security companies operating in the U.S.