M&A data collected by Memoori over the last 18 years shows that the Physical Security industry has gone through 4 cycles of growth and decline sometimes exaggerated by a number of billion dollar deals in one year, or increased activity from Private Equity or buyers outside the physical security industry. Memoori’s annual world report The Physical Security Business 2020 – 2025, shows that in 2019/2020 (12-month period from Oct 2019 to Sept 2020) the value of mergers and acquisitions fell to $2.91Bn a reduction of approximately 12% on the 2018/2019 figure. The average annual value of M&A deals over the last 13 years was $6.71Bn, and we believe it will take some time to achieve this level of activity again. Whilst in the last 18 years there has been a general upward trend in consolidation within the industry, we have previously experienced volatile changes in M&A activity before. The industry underwent a major restructuring during […]