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What Makes a Winner in the Security Industry
August 3rd, 2010What’s Driving Consolidation (And What it Means for Integrators)
February 9th, 2010The Security Business is not Taking up the Opportunity to Achieve Growth and Consolidation Through Mergers
July and August are traditionally slow months for acquisition activity. We saw the completion of 8 deals, the same number as realised in 2008. However with the exception of Google’s purchase of ON2 Technologies, at just over $100m, none of the other 8 deals cost more than $20m, whilst in 2008 the value of deals […]
Consolidation in the Electronic Security Industry- 2009 to 2015
We have in two previous articles on mergers and acquisitions in the physical security manufacturing, industry, published in A&S; International, reviewed consolidation from 2000 to 2008 and benchmarked the value of companies purchased against high technology and growth. In the January issue we reviewed entrepreneurship in the IP Video sector analysing the distribution by company, […]