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Motorola Solutions Video Surveillance Business Examined
March 6th, 2023Exploring Motorola’s Acquisition of Ava Security & 2021 Financials
March 4th, 2022
Motorola Solutions Purchases Envysion, their 5th Acquisition in Video & Access Control
Motorola Solutions continues its strategy of investing in its video surveillance and analytics business with the purchase of Envysion, a US physical security provider for the retail sector, for $124 million net of cash on 2nd November. Envysion’s loss prevention offering for quick-service restaurants, convenience, and specialty stores is a cloud-based solution. It integrates video systems […]
Motorola Solutions Acquires Pelco for $110M in Cash, Continuing Video Investment Spree
Motorola Solutions continued its video acquisition binge this week with the purchase of Pelco for $110 million in cash. It marks their third video surveillance acquisition in the last two years, as they continue to try and position themselves among the industries top tier suppliers. It comes less than two months after their acquisition of […]
Strategic Acquisitions Dominate Security M&A; Whilst Major Conglomerates & External Buyers lose their Appetite
In the last 6 years M&A activity within the security industry, has for the most part been driven by the major conglomerates through strategic buys to acquire new technology, expand their product range, or improve focus on particular vertical markets and regions in the world where demand is growing. However within the last 4 years […]
Homegrown Suppliers still Dominate the Chinese Security Market but are Things about to Change?
The Physical Security Industry has undergone significant structural changes in the last 3 years and this accelerated in 2012 driven by the need to combat the worst trading conditions for decades. The structure of the business has morphed not just to compensate or accommodate but also to meet and beat the challenge and deliver growth. […]
Security Industry M&A – April 2011 came in with a Roar but went out with a Whimper
The first quarter results analysed in our monthly Executive Brief “The Physical Security Industry in 15 Minutes” showed that both consolidation and investment had slowed down significantly. In the first quarter of this year the number of acquisitions were 20% down on the same period of 2010 when Tyco made a $2 billion acquisition of […]
Survey of the Security Business 2010 – Strategy, Drivers, Valuation & the Investment Market
Strategic Drivers In the last two years M&A; activity has been driven by strategic buys, particularly by the major global security companies, major defense companies and from outside the security business – IT and communication companies and more recently validation, authentication and biometric companies. This dynamic will continue to apply in 2011 and beyond. http://memoori.com/physical-security-2010 […]
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 […]
2009 Review of Consolidation in the Physical Security Industry
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 […]