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North American Security and Crisis Response Leader Acquires Mena International Group, Extending its Expertise to Latin America

CLEVELAND, OH — August 14, 2012 — AFIMAC, a North American leader in corporate security and crisis response has announced its acquisition of Mena International Group, specialists in security, investigations and crisis response within Latin America. The buy-out comes just two weeks after AFIMAC announced its corporate merger of AFI International and IMAC Global, a move intended to streamline its services across North America. This flurry of alliance and acquisition activity signals a major growth and expansion phase for the well-recognized and elite group of security companies.

Through the acquisition of Mena International, AFIMAC will now further extend its reach into Latin America in order to better serve those companies with multi-regional operations. Latin America is a very important market for AFIMAC’s global clients and, based on its superior reputation, Mena was selected as the best security partner that could bring access, security expertise and experience across the region.

About AFIMAC
Combining the strengths of AFI International and International Management Assistance Corporation (IMAC), AFIMAC Global is a leader in the provision of comprehensive corporate security and contingency planning services through North and South America and also offers global services. Its diverse capabilities include executive protection, labor dispute planning & response, cargo security & escorts, disaster & emergency response, corporate investigations, workplace violence assessment & response. With a distinguished management team and highly skilled personnel, AFIMAC Global is well known for its high quality service delivery and immediate responsiveness. www.afimacglobal.com

About Mena International Group
With services spanning from investigations, crisis management, executive protection and emergency response, Mena International Group is recognized as the premier trusted security service provider for companies across Latin America. www.menasecurity.com

For media inquiries, please contact Kathy Hungerford, AFIMAC, 1-800-554-4622

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Ohio-based AFIMAC has achieved HRCI approval for several of the courses offered at its IMAC Online Training Academy. Human resources professionals will now receive HRCI accreditation towards their Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) designation upon successful completion of any of these unique, professionally-relevant courses, available at www.imac-training.com.

The courses pre-approved by the HR Certification Institute (HRCI) have been designed expressly to further the careers of HR professionals, and include pragmatic subject matter developed by some of the industry’s top security professionals. Most popular of the accredited courses include an overview of workplace violence, nonviolent confrontation, high-risk terminations and work stoppage management.

Launched in early 2011, the IMAC Online Training Academy is unique in the practical and applicable nature of the training it provides. The IMAC security education team brings together respected experts who will instruct primarily on the realistic application of field-tested concepts and tactics to ensure students get relevant knowledge and techniques to equip them to succeed in the industry today. In addition to its more than twenty courses geared to HR professionals, the school also provides workplace violence training for security professionals and corporate executives.

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IMAC’s Web-Based Platform Veritas, Shortens the Distance Between the Field and the Corporate Office

Cleveland – January 31, 2011 – Ohio based AFIMAC  is pleased to announce the launch of Veritas, an IMAC developed and implemented web-based management platform that allows its field operations teams to share documentation and video critical to our clients and their operations in virtually real time.  This ‘intelligence on demand’ service is available immediately for all IMAC clients.

Using Veritas, field staff can directly upload important documentation and video quickly and securely for immediate viewing by executives, support staff, clients and legal.  This gives IMAC clients an unprecedented opportunity to react more quickly to changing conditions and make the most informed decisions on fast breaking security matters.

“Our new platform shortens the distance between the field and corporate office,” says IMAC president Peter Martin. “It is a superbly designed document sharing program that can shave hours, even days, off security reaction times – with all the built-in privacy controls to keep proprietary information secure.”

Some highlights of the Veritas Document Management Platform include:

• SSL encryption - to keep communications private and secure
• Different tiers of access - based on role of the user - information can be restricted to certain groups
• Online address book – for all important contacts, on and off the job site
• Easy and secure document sharing – including contracts, training manuals and cost projections, incident and change reports
• Immediate online video sharing – replacing need to copy and mail tape to legal staff

“Veritas is just one more way we are trying to improve the speed and efficiency of corporate security,” says Martin. “With the instant video sharing capability and cutting edge incident management functionality, we are moving our field operations teams to the next level of professional responsiveness and informed decision making.”

IMAC Executives Embrace Multiple Social Media Platforms to Share Knowledge as Part of Powerful New Web Presence

CLEVELAND, Jan. 24 /PRNewswire/ - Ohio based AFIMAC  has strengthened its online presence with the launch of a new optimized website and its significant foray into social media, including executive blogs, LinkedIn, Twitter and RSS feeds.  The new web portal is online now at www.afimac-us.com and provides links to social media sites, feeds, blogs and an online training platform.

Highlights of the new website include easily downloadable corporate brochures, strong document sharing functionality and easy access to both IMAC’s proprietary software Veritas and the popular online training academy where individuals can receive a certificate that could be used towards association certification in a wide range of professional HR and security topics.

“Our new site and social media presence will help us more clearly define our services and communicate our expertise to companies across America,” says IMAC’s vice president of marketing, Stephen Anderson.  “Not to mention some state of the art functionality like access to our online training, service capability videos and brochures you can download and print in seconds to take into that last minute meeting.”

The site is also seamlessly linked to IMAC’s new social media presence which includes Twitter, LinkedIn, RSS feeds and blogs that the IMAC executives have committed to writing themselves. Topics will include business continuity planning for labor disputes, disaster planning and response, workplace violence, high risk security operations, corporate executive protection programs and everything in between.

“We believe when you are an expert in the industry there is a responsibility to make that expertise accessible to your clients,” says Peter Martin IMAC president.  “These online outlets will allow us to freely share that expertise and thoughts on industry happenings on a regular basis.”