Diebold Incorporated, North Canton, Ohio, announced Thomas W. Swidarski, president and chief executive officer, is stepping down from the company and its board of directors, effective immediately.
Dynamark Security Centers partnered with Check Video to offer its dealer base new opportunities for product installations and ways to increase RMR. Check Video’s video surveillance and alarm verification solutions will now be available through First Action Security Team, the product division of Dynamark Security Centers.
Vicky Rutherford, owner and chief executive officer of Rutherford Controls Intl. Corp., a privately held, family-owned business for almost 90 years, announced that she agreed to sell RCI to The Dorma Group.
William (Bill) Cooper IV died at home on Dec. 4, 2012. Per the Central Station Alarm Association, Cooper passed away peacefully and surrounded by loved ones
The Custom Electronic Design & Installation Association (CEDIA) asked qualified security installation companies, “What percentage of your firms’ residential sales were generated from projects in new homes versus existing homes in 2011
The Security Industry Association (SIA) confirmed three new members to the SIA board of directors. The new board members were elected unanimously during SIA’s annual membership meeting that was held December 2012 at SIA’s headquarters in Silver Spring, Md.
B Safe Inc., Wilmington, Del., a 30-year-old regional provider of security and fire alarms to Del., N.J., and Pa. continued its rapid growth program with the acquisition of five local companies in 2012.
AT&T announced plans to commercially launch AT&T Digital Life in eight markets this March. The company began testing out its all-digital, wireless-based home security and automation service in Atlanta and Dallas during the summer of 2012 and is now getting ready to roll it out nationwide.
SIA will soon announce a committee of experts that will share its technical expertise with the administration and Congress as they work to adopt new school security initiatives.