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Canon Video Surveillance Business 2021 Examined
April 13th, 2022Mobotix Repositions Video Surveillance Business & Updates Strategy
March 23rd, 2022
COVID-19 Helps Drive Growth for Video Surveillance as a Service (VSaaS) in 2020
Memoori’s World Market 2020-2025 Report on the Physical Security business shows that all types of organizations across the world are investigating how they can leverage the Cloud to host security systems. Video surveillance and access control business suppliers have been building up VSaaS & ACaaS services over the last decade and more recently major software […]
Building the Security Business Through Merger & Acquisition; Has it Delivered?
Memoori have been collecting and analysing global M&A data in the Physical Security Industry covering the last 18 years. This article looks at the trends that have taken place over this period driven by the need for consolidation built around innovative products that deliver solutions. We review the impact M&A has had on developing winners […]
Long Term Strategy Defines the Axis Communications Deal
Within 9 months Canon has acquired two of the world’s leading edge suppliers in Video Surveillance technology. That’s not been done before! There are a number of reasons why Canon have adopted this acquisition strategy. One is based around business culture in Japan and Scandinavia and the other is thinking about the long term implications […]
Canon’s Strategy for Video Surveillance Unfolds as they Acquire Axis Communications
Canon + Axis + Milestone = The New Dominant Player in Video Surveillance Technology The Board of Directors of Canon Inc. and Axis Communications have announced today that Canon has made a public offer to the shareholders of Axis to transfer all of their shares in Axis to Canon for a consideration of SEK 340 […]
The Milestone Acquisition and its Importance to the Video Surveillance Business
When the world leader in open Video Management Software (VMS) is acquired it’s not surprising that it results in many hundreds of column inches of widely differing opinions; usually surrounding the impact it could have on VMS and the wider implications for the IP Video Surveillance industry. Some of this discussion has focused on “Why […]
Lars Thinggaard, Milestone Systems CEO, Discusses Innovation in Video Surveillance and Security
We recently sat down with Lars Thinggaard, CEO of Milestone, to discuss innovation in video surveillance and the future of the security industry. 1. Where will the major innovations in Video Surveillance come from in the next 5 years? In the next five years, some of the major innovations will come in the way surveillance […]
Alliance and Partnership is Playing a Major Role in Winning Market Share in the Security Business
In a presentation at the beginning of this year by Fredrick Nillson GM of Axis Communications he remarked that: “In a tough economy it becomes even more important to evaluate the partners you work with. Do you want to invest in a long-standing partner, or one who runs the risk of not being around in […]
Economic & Financial Climate Thaws Opening up a Buyer’s Market for Private Investment and Strategic Acquisition
The bumper start in January was always going to be a hard act to follow and M&A; activity in February by comparison shows a dramatic decline. We recorded 4 deals in February compared with 5 transactions in the same month of 2009. However in both the metrics of volume and value, acquisition activity is well […]
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