While a recent poll suggests 12 per cent of Lower Mainlanders will leave town during the Olympics, a Kerrisdale-based security company is seeing a dramatic surge in their home-watching business during the games.
Mike Jagger, president of Provident Security, said multiple requests are coming in daily from west-side Vancouver homeowners who are leaving town during the Olympics.
One of those competitors, Mike Jagger, president and CEO of Vancouver-based Provident Security, disagrees. The acquisition of one large monitoring company by another shifts the security landscape, providing new opportunities for smaller companies to distinguish themselves.
“There’s now one giant company and alternatives. As long as you’re an alternative that’s distinct, that’s a good thing,” said Jagger, following news of the acquisition.
PROWLER PROOFING: “We’re not solving crime,” said Michael Jagger, who forfeited police career plans to found the fast-response, ever-patrolling Provident Security & Event Management Corp. “We’re giving [thieves] a good reason to stay away.”
Rebecca Bligh works for Provident Security, a fast-growing alarm company in Vancouver. “Men and women work in all positions from senior managers, to installation to guard services. I work in sales and have done so for five years,” she said. “Typically, people are surprised to see a female arriving to provide a walk-through and subsequent quote,” Bligh added