Security

Will COVID-19 Drive Physical Security Consolidation Through M&A?

Our world annual report on the Physical Security business has charted M&A activity since 2008. Over the last few months we have published a few articles analysing the various outcomes that COVID-19 has caused the business during the first quarter of 2020. In particular we have looked at areas of the business that by 2021 could come back to strong growth. In this article we take a look at the status of Merger & Acquisition (M&A) in 2019 and the changes that can be expected in 2020 / 2021 as a result of the problems caused by Covid-19. M&A data collected by Memoori over the last 18 years shows that the Physical Security industry, has gone through 4 cycles of growth and decline in the value of activity, sometimes exaggerated by a number of billion dollar deals in one year and occasionally deals carried out by businesses outside the physical security industry from the Defence, […]

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