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Up Close - Up Close - February 14, 2013
Contractor grows with shift to facility protection focus
Perimeter Security Group also acquires Cd'A fence company

By Mike McLean
Of the Journal of Business

Brenda Blood, president of Perimeter Security Group, says the company has tripled its sales during the past two years by focusing on security contracts.
Brenda Blood, president of Perimeter Security Group, says the company has tripled its sales during the past two years by focusing on security contracts.
—Staff photo by Mike McLean
As the residential construction market collapsed in the Inland Northwest in 2008, Brenda Blood decided she had to steer MAC Industries Inc., a North Idaho automated gate company she had just bought, in a different direction.

So she created a new division called Perimeter Security Group that would focus on antiterrorism protection at government and industrial facilities.

"I knew we had to have something to be excited about," says Blood, the company's president. "Proje...


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