Whelan Security Named One of Top Privately Owned Companies in St. Louis for 2007

St. Louis—Whelan Security Co., headquartered in St. Louis, was recently included in the listing of the Top 150 Privately Held Businesses in St. Louis as ranked and listed by the St. Louis Business Journal.

As previously announced, trade publications had also recently announced that the company ranked, once again, as one of the largest contract security companies operating in North America and within the top ten privately owned contract security companies operating in the United States.

“With such an impressive listing of privately owned companies in the St. Louis metropolitan area, this is quite an honor for our company and my family,” said Greg Twardowski, President of Whelan Security. “Although we have quietly enjoyed significant success expanding our business throughout the industry, we have never forgotten and will never forget our roots here in St. Louis. We are sincerely grateful to our loyal St. Louis customers who continue to offer additional expansion opportunities to us; and we are deeply committed to our incredible team of professional security officers assigned to contracts throughout the St. Louis metropolitan area.”

WHELAN SECURITY: With headquarters in St. Louis, Missouri, 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, New Mexico, Michigan, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Maryland, Delaware, Northern Virginia, and Washington DC). Founded in 1949, Whelan Security currently employs more than 3,500 full-time employees and currently ranks within the top fifteen security companies in the country, placing it within the top 1% of the industry.