Tag: Chance Allred
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A Platinum Protection founder goes solar
April 4, 2012Tess Nacelewicz
Chance Allred, one of the founders of Platinum Protection, has come home to Vivint again—in a way.
Platinum, a summer-model sales company based in American Fork, Utah, in February this year abruptly laid off virtually all its employees and shut down its summer sales program. The company, founded in 2006, hasn't talked publicly about the reasons why, but it appears to be in severe financial distress.
Since then, Vivint, a summer-model giant based in Provo, Utah, has hired about 130 of the unemployed...
Platinum's founders consolidate ownership
August 4, 2011Tess Nacelewicz
AMERICAN FORK, Utah—The four main founders of Platinum Protection, one of the major Utah-based summer-model companies, now own 100 percent of the company after recently buying out an investor, according to CEO Andrew Kindfuller.
The founders' complete control over Platinum, a five-year-old company based here, will ensure its continued growth, Kindfuller said.
“It's very positive and they're quite pleased,” he said of the development.
Platinum announced July 20 that the Jacobson...
Platinum Protection 'breaking mold'
March 3, 2011Martha Entwistle
AMERICAN FORK, Utah—Platinum Protection, one of the major Utah-based summer-model companies, will recruit two-thirds of its sales reps from outside the Utah Valley, Platinum CEO Andrew Kindfuller told Security Systems News.
“We're breaking the mold,” Kindfuller said, referring to the fact that a majority of sales reps that work for summer-model companies are recruited from Brigham Young University and other Utah universities.
“We're really focused on being a national company,...