American Commercial Security Services Contracts with Equity Office Properties Trust.Business Editors HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 22, 2001 American Commercial Security Services (ACSS ACSS Africa Center for Strategic Studies ACSS Aluminum Conductor Steel Supported (cable) ACSS African Crop Science Society ACSS Association of Computer Support Specialists ACSS Aviation Communication and Surveillance Systems ), a wholly-owned subsidiary of ABM Industries Incorporated (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :ABM ABM: see guided missile. ABM - Asynchronous Balanced Mode ), has commenced a multi-year, multi-million dollar contract with Equity Office Properties Trust Equity Office Properties Trust, headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, is the largest owner of office buildings in the United States. It was formed in 1976 by Samuel Zell [1] and in February 2007, was acquired by the Blackstone Group for $23 billion plus the assumption of (NYSE:EOP). ACSS will provide professional security services for all of EOP's portfolio in Houston, Texas, including five properties that encompass more than 2.5 million square feet. "This contract expands our existing relationship with EOP," said John Moore, president of American Commercial Security. "We welcome this opportunity to provide additional state-of-the-art security service for their facilities," he added. "We've received overwhelming positive feedback from our customers about the quality and caliber of security service provided at the ACSS-partnered properties in our other cities," said Mark Kidd, vice president, Property Management, Equity Office Properties Trust, Houston Region. "Customer satisfaction is our primary objective and ACSS provides the right security solutions to help us achieve this goal in Houston," he added. Equity Office Properties Trust is the nation's largest publicly held office building owner and manager, with a portfolio of 670 buildings comprising 125 million square feet in 24 states and the District of Columbia District of Columbia, federal district (2000 pop. 572,059, a 5.7% decrease in population since the 1990 census), 69 sq mi (179 sq km), on the east bank of the Potomac River, coextensive with the city of Washington, D.C. (the capital of the United States). . Equity Office has an ownership presence in 38 Metropolitan Statistical Areas and in 146 submarkets, enabling it to provide a wide range of office solutions for local, regional and national customers. American Commercial Security is one of America's largest security service specialists. Based in Houston, Texas, ACSS has over 5,000 employees and 30 branch offices across the country. ABM Industries Incorporated is the largest facility services contractor listed on the New York Stock Exchange New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) World's largest marketplace for securities. The exchange began as an informal meeting of 24 men in 1792 on what is now Wall Street in New York City. . With annualized annualized Of or relating to a variable that has been mathematically converted to a yearly rate. Inflation and interest rates are generally annualized since it is on this basis that these two variables are ordinarily stated and compared. revenues in excess of $1.9 billion and more than 60,000 employees, ABM provides air conditioning, elevator, engineering, janitorial, lighting, parking and security services for thousands of commercial, industrial, institutional and retail facilities in hundreds of cities across North America. In addition to American Commercial Security, the ABM Family of Services includes American Building Maintenance, Ampco System Parking, Amtech Elevator, Amtech Lighting, ABM Engineering, ABM Janitorial and CommAir Mechanical. |
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