HOW DO YOU DEFINE SUCCESS? Each May SDM features the SDM 100 (link to story) — a ranking of the top 100 security dealer companies measured by their RMR the previous year.

Around the country in every major metropolitan market is an SDM 100 company that worked long and hard to get where it is today. These are the 100 largest U.S.-based security companies — as ranked by their recurring monthly revenue (RMR) — on the annual SDM 100 Report.

Habitec Security, ranked No. 52 on the SDM 100, was selected as one of The Blade’s Toledo, Ohio Top Workplaces for the fourth time. 

Securitas Electronic Security, the 2019 SDM Integrator of the Year ranked No. 11 on the SDM 100, has acquired the customer contracts and certain select assets of iVerify.US, a full-service interactive security company providing life safety, loss prevention and brand protection. 

Supreme Security Systems Inc., a private electronic security company ranked No. 53 on the SDM 100, today announced its acquisition of T&R Alarm Systems Inc. As part of this acquisition, Supreme will absorb its 300 customers in the New Jersey area and five T&R employees.

Over a 15-month period, Sonitrol has opened new franchises and expanded current markets in eight states including Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Connecticut, Massachusetts, California and Florida.

The security industry looks to the SDM 100 — a group of the 100 largest security companies ranked by their recurring monthly revenue (RMR) — as a wellspring of industry trends and operational best practices.

FE Moran Security Solutions, headquartered in Illinois and a nationwide provider of electronic security, life safety and monitoring systems, today announced the acquisition of MidCo Inc.

AFA Protective Systems Inc., ranked no. 23 on the SDM 100, has been awarded a multi-year fire alarm inspection contract at JFK airport by The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. 

ADT Inc. today announced that Jim DeVries, currently president of ADT, will be promoted to chief executive officer to succeed Tim Whall, who will be retiring on November 30, 2018.