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Physical security business in 2012 will look to emerging markets, new technologies and M&A activity. ‚ In the last two years, the physical security industry has given nothing short of a stellar performance. While it will continue to defy gravity in 2012, its performance will decline in some important measures. Future Growth From Bric Countries – […]

This is part 1 of a 2 part synopsis of Memoori’s study “Survey of the Security Business 2010”. This our 2nd annual review about the world’s business for physical security equipment. Its objective is to bring together valuable statistics about the business size, shape and structure across 3 main segments; Access Control, CCTV / Video […]

The value of deals completed in 2010, identified and analysed through our monthly Executive Brief “The Physical Security Industry in 15 Minutes” was $7.98 billion; a growth of almost 75% on 2009. This is the highest value ever recorded and is 28% higher than the previous record set in 2005 and 2007. This is a […]

Well it was always going to be difficult to follow on from last month, when the industry posted the biggest monthly acquisition spend on record and not surprisingly it has failed to keep up this pace. But nevertheless, consolidation continues at a high rate and this month has thrown up some interesting trends that are […]

The value of transactions this month is the highest ever recorded for a single month during the last three years, with two purchases each being over a billion dollars. Acquisition transactions in September were 25% up on the same period in 2009, which incidentally was the highest number recorded in that year. Consolidation activity for […]

Almost a year ago, we forecast for 2009 a slowing down in merger and acquisition activity, but more ‘stock for stock’ deals and a significant growth in alliances. Alliance arrangements have grown in abundance and ‘stock for stock’ mergers have increased but not to the extent that we anticipated. However, the volume of mergers measured […]

Merger and acquisition in the security industry is holding up well and continues to defy the global trend of a rapid decline in activity across developed. This month the volume of trade has continued at the same level as that achieved in the first quarter of 2009 and that is in an environment of a […]

Whilst global mergers and acquisitions have declined rapidly in the first quarter of the year, deals in the physical security industry have held up relatively well. Comparing the last quarter of 2008 with the first quarter of 2009, activity measured by numbers of deals has remained steady, whilst demand in sales of security equipment has […]