The 2023 SDM 100 Companies’ Brands of Choice

Which manufacturers and distributors do the largest security dealers use? This SDM 100 brand-usage report details the top providers that earned their business in 2022.

Last year was one of many challenges for security dealers, including the 100 largest North American security companies ranked by their 2022 recurring monthly revenue (RMR) on the annual SDM 100 Report. Battered by supply chain woes, difficult-to-predict pricing and labor shortages, having a trusted supplier — in some cases more or different ones than in previous years — was critical to their success.

SDM asked each of the 2023 SDM 100 companies to share their top three manufacturers and top three distributors, based on volume purchased. The resulting lists featured here represent the wide variety of suppliers security companies in the installation and monitoring channel rely on to complete their projects.

These brand-usage lists were compiled from the 2023 SDM 100 Report. Out of the 100 companies ranked, 83 of them listed their manufacturing partners and 81 shared their distributor partners. SDM combined all of their responses, and ranked the manufacturers and distributors by the number of mentions each received. Beyond the top 9 manufacturers and top 7 distributors listed in order, mentions were distributed among a number of other suppliers.

Top Manufacturers Used by the SDM 100

Honeywell (includes the brands of Fire-Lite Alarms, Notifier, Silent Knight, System Sensor)

Johnson Controls Inc. (includes the Tyco Security Products brands of DSC, Software House and Qolsys)

DMP (Digital Monitoring Products)

Stanley Security (includes the brands of Sonitrol and 3xLogic)

Carrier (includes the brands of UTC, LenelS2 and Edwards/Kidde Commercial )

*Alarm.com

*Motorola (includes the brands Avigilon and Pelco)

*Resideo Technologies

OpenEye

*Tie. Companies are presented alphabetically

Security dealers ranked on the SDM 100 were asked to name their top three manufacturers in order of volume purchased from them. Their answers were compiled, and companies were ranked in order of how frequently they were cited. The top 9 reported vendors are presented here, after which there was a five-way tie between Axis, Brivo/Eagle Eye, Genetec, Digital Watchdog and Nortek Control, followed by mentions for a number of other providers.

Top Distributors Used by the SDM 100

Anixter

PSA Security Network

Scansource

Alarmax Distributors Inc.

*Security Equipment Supply

*Stanley Security/Sonitrol

*Tie. Companies are presented alphabetically

Security dealers ranked on the SDM 100 were asked to name their top three distributors in order of volume purchased from them. Their answers were compiled, and companies were ranked in order of how frequently they were cited. The top seven distributors are presented here.

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As the Editor-in-Chief of SDM, Karyn Hodgson is responsible for the overall editorial direction of the magazine, its supplements, e-newsletters and website. She works with the SDM editorial staff to develop content that helps security dealers and systems integrators operate successful businesses. Karyn represents SDM at trade shows and conferences, and directs exclusive research studies such as the SDM Industry Forecast. She also manages SDM’s Dealer of the Year and Systems Integrator of the Year Award programs. Karyn has an MSJ in Journalism (magazine publishing) degree from Northwestern University, and more than 25 years’ experience writing for and about the security industry. Contact Karyn with article ideas.