At the end of last year we forecast that the start of 2012 would offer little or no change in demand for physical security systems and that acquisition, alliance and sentiment about the future would be optimistic but sober. The first 2 months have borne this out; no announcements of billion dollar acquisitions, major investments or other inspiring market shaping news. Even the market research companies are toning down their forecast with few double digit growth expectations for 2012. Whilst January and February have been without dramatic news it has been pretty positive, proving yet again that this is a robust business and a safe port in the financial storm. The best measure to assess the state of the market is to review the financial reports of the major players and in the last 2 months the public companies have been publishing their 2011 accounts and future expectations; these have been encouraging. Axis yet again […]