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Physical Security Industry 1st Quarter Disappoints as Consolidation and Funding Slow Down

Despite marginal growth and a lack luster financial performance by suppliers across the industry in 2010, consolidation increased by 75% on its 2009 figure that had already picked up from its precipitous fall in 2008. Similarly new investment in the supply side also increased rapidly in 2010. So with a forecast improvement in trading conditions it was naturally assumed that the trend in both consolidation and investment would continue its upward trend in 2011 and beyond. The 1st quarter results analysed in our monthly Executive Brief “The Physical Security Industry in 15 Minutes” show that both consolidation and investment has slowed down significantly. In the first quarter of this year the number of acquisitions is 20% down on the same period of 2010 when Tyco made a $2 billion acquisition of Broadview Security. Whilst the number of investments has halved compared with the same period of 2010. We predicted at the beginning of this year […]

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