If you don't want a rant please skip this post.

I read a press release today that Mike Boehringer and Mike West had launched a new company today called 3GS, LLC. Their goal is to "form the largest independent document destruction company." It sounds nice enough but if you are the largest you are no longer an independent by most peoples use of independent. Is Shred-it an Independent? How about Iron Mountain? If not then where do you draw the line. Is it 5 locations? 20? 200? What if it was one shredding location operated by Haliburton? Is that independent?

I think it is time to stop using the word independent altogether. It is meaningless marketing gobbly gook.

Now go have a great 4th of July Holiday.


Update on 7/9

3GS has acquired Safe Shredding of Mobile, AL. I would say they are no longer independent.