3VR, the video intelligence company, announced that the CrimeDex online collaborative network of more than 3,000 fraud, loss prevention and law enforcement professionals partnered with the Wireless Loss Prevention Council (WLPC), a network of retail wireless loss prevention professionals, to facilitate the sharing of information related to organized retail crime syndicates and serial retail criminals.
The Electronic Security Expo (ESX) will return to the location of its birth in 2012, as the education and networking event for security integration and monitoring companies heads back to the Nashville Convention Center.
Siemens appointed Matthias Rebellius to lead the company’s Building Technologies (BT) Division of the Infrastructure & Cities Sector in the United States, effective June 1, 2012. Rebellius will succeed Andreas Schierenbeck who has chosen to leave the company to pursue other opportunities.
Axis Communications held an official grand opening celebration on April 12 for its new North American headquarters with a private cocktail event for local partners in the state-of-the-art Axis Experience Center.
Axis Communications, Chelmsford, Mass., announced that four HDTV-quality AXIS Q6035-E PTZ Dome Network Cameras were used to monitor race day activities at the Athletes’ Village and finish line for the 116th running of the Boston Marathon on April 16.
UTC Climate, Controls & Security closed on the sale of its fire and security branch operations in the U.S. to Comvest Investment Partners, a private equity fund of the Comvest Group.
Bosch Security Systems Inc. announced that Climatec Building Technologies Group, Phoenix, Ariz. was awarded a new 2012 Ford F-150 SVT Raptor truck as the grand prize in the company’s Ticket to Ride promotion, which has been in place since October 2011.
Mark your calendars for the annual Electronic Security Association Day on Capitol Hill, April 17 and 18, in Washington, D.C. Members from across the country will gather to meet with their congressional representatives and staffs to discuss issues that are critical to the security industry and public safety.
UPDATED - Audax Group, an investor in lower-middle market companies, completed the acquisition of Tri-Northern Holdings Inc., d.b.a. Tri-Ed / Northern Video Distribution.