R4 Services LLC, has acquired Monster Shred, Inc. Champaign, Illinois, the destruction company will expand R4’s geographic reach and will add mobile shredding for their current document management clients. 

Trisha Rooney, CEO, R4 Services said that “in Champaign, DeKalb and Northern Illinois,  it will continue to service the destruction clients and grow the client base, while in Chicagoland area we will offer mobile shredding to our current clients and continue innovation in the fields of records management, document scanning and destruction services.”

R4 President Sean Rooney says “the company we have purchased has been a well run, profitable operation where the owner clearly recognized the value of a larger client base and market, like R4’s team member’s ability to expand their footprint and service offerings. We are firmly committed to the proper integration of the company into R4 Services to benefit all of the clients”

R4 serves 800 clients in the Illinois and Chicagoland area, providing a suite of records management services that includes records storage and document management, secure destruction and scanning services. R4 is a 23 year old majority women owned company and is committed to the document management industry’s growth and innovation.

Read more about R4 in a profile of the company that appeared in the Summer of 2014 issue of Storage and Destruction Business SDB Magazine or on our company’s website www.R4services.com or follow us on Facebook and Twitter R4 Services.

R4 has three records centers located near the Chicago Central Business District with easy access to all major expressways and minutes into the Loop. All R4 facilities feature state-of-the art security and safety systems, as well as strict procedures to protect your company's information assets. The largest of the three facilities feature 250,000 square feet of storage on five acres of land and is constructed of concrete walls and floors with a full basement. Our second facility includes nearly 137,000 square feet and full basement. Our third and newest facility is a single story structure of 70,000 square feet and includes the same security and fire protection offered by our larger facilities including:

• 24/7/365 closed circuit, monitored surveillance system including infrared motion detectors and door contacts
• 24/7/365 monitored fire detection system that includes sprinkler pipes, sprinkler heads, control panels and fire pump
• Monitored door policy to control unauthorized access

Our climate-controlled vault adheres to strict fire resistant construction standards of the American National Standards Institute and the National Fire Protection Association. Designed to preserve and protect sensitive data and to provide secure video and film storage, the R4 vault is equipped with an independent HVAC system and is computer-monitored to maintain a temperature of 65 to 68 and relative humidity between 35% and 45%. Key pad entry, motion detectors, CCTV and an FM-200 fire suppression system offer state-of-the-art security and protection.

You're 23 years old and fresh out of college. What do you do? Take a year off to "figure things out?" Jump on the corporate bandwagon and get a job with a company in your field of expertise? Not if you're Trisha Rooney.

An entrepreneur at heart, her goal was to turn a real estate investment into a company she could call her own. The real estate included a warehouse located just south of the Loop in Chicago. With the purchase of the building came what would become her first records center customer. A Chicago law firm was renting space in the warehouse to store their legal files and retrieving files on their own as needed. Trisha offered to retrieve files for the attorneys if they would call ahead and she would have them ready for pickup. It wasn't long until she was delivering the files to the firm. A spark was ignited. Trisha began to ask her friends and family what they actually do with their records. After much research, determination and sheer hard work as a one-woman sales force, she persuaded other firms to give her a try. Soon, Trisha and R4 Services were in full swing. With its doors opening in 1993, R4 Services has grown from one young entrepreneur's aspiration into a company of over 35 employees and almost 1.2 million boxes in three record centers with over 500 customers.

At R4, a family has been created. Trisha attracted young, hardworking employees to join her team and nurtured an environment of loyalty. These single, hardworking post-college employees are now the mid-thirties moms, dads, husbands and wives that are still calling on customers, taking orders and delivering boxes.

The R4 family extends beyond its employees and includes Trisha's immediate family as well including her brother Sean, a Notre Dame graduate, who heads up R4's Destruction Services in Chicago Division.

The business has grown tremendously since it started in 1993. Today, you can still talk with a Rooney when you call and we are still committed to providing the best service by investing in the best technology and people. It's just how we do business.