Document Shredding Business Plan

Executive Summary

Theft, vandalism, and industrial espionage are becoming ever increasing security problems. There are too many horror stories resulting from confidential information getting into the wrong hands. Today's information explosion can be devastating to a business. With the increased use of office copiers and computers, staggering amounts of sensitive information is being generated and carelessly discarded.

Security First Shredding is a professional paper shredding company, providing the most secure, efficient, simple and cost effective plan available for destroying a company's confidential information. Security First Shredding provides complete on-site and off-site document destruction services. Security First Shredding will service companies in the Madison area. The company has experience in product destruction as well as the shredding of microfilm, microfiche, credit cards, computer tapes and other forms of media storage.

A certificate of destruction will be provided with each invoice. We also offer recycling programs for non-confidential documents.

Janet Wilson, co-owner of Security First Shredding, has ten years of experience in the field of document destruction.  She has worked for both Shredd-All and Capital Shredding in New York, before moving to the Madison area last year.

Security First Shredding will have two state-of-the-art disposal trucks that can shred documents at the business site or transport it to a recycling center for disposal.

1.1 Mission

The mission of Security First Shredding is to provide a cost-effective document disposal service that protects our customers demand for security.

1.2 Objectives

Security First Shredding's objectives are as follows:

• Achieve sales goal during first year of operation.
• Achieve a customer base of 100 companies.
• Increase sales by 15% during the second year of operation.