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What’s Behind the Sale of Johnson Controls Air Distribution Business?
June 24th, 2024Exploring M&A Trends in the Physical Security Market
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Robots for Guarding and Facility Management in Commercial Real Estate
Robotic technologies are changing the security landscape in commercial real estate. Two recent examples highlight the trend for incumbent players to partner with startups to maximize innovation and to ensure the effectiveness of this complementary technology in protecting the occupants of large facilities. ADT Commercial has recently established its own Innovation Lab based in Dallas, Texas […]

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 […]

Building the Physical Security Business Through Merger & Acquisition
Based on M&A data collected over the last 17 years on the Physical Security industry, our annual report shows a general upward trend in consolidation of the industry over this period with 4 cycles of rise and fall sometimes exaggerated by a number of billion dollar mega deals. In 2017 mergers and acquisitions at $6.213Bn […]

Correctional Facilities Can Be Smart Buildings Too
Smart technologies can help buildings cut energy costs, increase their value and help them be better at whatever they are trying to do. By using smart technology to serve the specific objectives of a building; schools can teach better, offices can be more productive, and hospitals can cure more people. If your building is a […]

Building Technology Suppliers Strengthen Digital Innovation through Accelerator and Incubation Hubs
This article was written by Daphne Tomlinson of Tomlinson Business Research. The announcement by UTC on 20 March 2017 of a $300 million investment in a Digital Accelerator based in Brooklyn, New York is another example of the trend by building technology suppliers to step up their digital innovation efforts. The accelerator will serve as […]

2016 was a Mega Year for Security M&A but how will it Impact Business Structures?
The value of Merger and acquisition deals in the Physical Security Industry in 2016 went into the stratosphere on account of one deal. This deal of $16.5 billion between Johnson Controls and Tyco International will have a very significant impact on the wider Building Internet of Things (BIoT) business. Data we have collected from 2000 […]

Security Companies Invest in Disruptive Technology for Smart Buildings
This article was written by Daphne Tomlinson of Tomlinson Business Research. The major security systems companies are facing competitive pressure from a wave of smart building startups in the continuing race towards IoT. As a response to the potential threat, Tyco and Bosch have recently increased their investments in innovation through in-house R&D, early stage […]

Physical Security M&A Activity in the First 2 Months of 2016 Set a Record Unlikely to be Surpassed
Memoori has been charting Merger and Acquisitions in the world of Physical Security Manufacturing for the last 15 years and whilst it has been a continual roller coaster ride during that time, we have never experienced before such a dramatic rise in value of deals as we have in the first two months of 2016. […]