For a show that was on track to have record attendance, having to postpone ISC East due to Hurricane Sandy and quickly reschedule it during the holiday season was a powerful blow. Many did not know what to expect from ISC East this year. But spirits were high during the first day.
Hurricane Sandy and its aftermath posed complex challenges for security companies: from the interminable lines at gas stations putting service vehicles out of commission to damages to their own facilities. Even so, security companies on the East Coast and across the country are working double- and triple- -time to get back to work and get people’s security systems working again. And they are doing so with the help of committed employees and of the security industry community.
Monitronics International Inc., Dallas, received two Platinum MarCom Awards for outstanding creative achievement in the categories of Direct Mail/Direct Mail Campaign and External Newsletter/Industry.
SDM is deeply saddened to note the passing of Dale Elliott. Elliott was the president of Allstate Security Industries Inc. for 45 years. He lived from October 10, 1938 to October 19, 2012.
Protection 1, Romeoville, Ill., recorded its second straight year of triple digit national account growth, in part because of the customer-centric offerings provided to national account customers.
Geoffrey T. Craighead, CPP, will serve as president in 2013 of ASIS International (ASIS), an organization for security management professionals worldwide.
Two recently introduced bills — Senate bills 1291 and 1292 — would create a separate set of licensing requirements in Michigan for IP-enabled security systems, and also circumvent existing statutes that are currently followed by BFAAM members and other providers, stated two industry associations.
A just-released report from IMS Research, Wellingborough, U.K., predicts that the security systems market in the Americas will grow at an average rate of 7 percent per year to more than $30 billion by 2016.
As many systems integrators may have noticed, the number of large-scale government and enterprise implementations isn’t what it used to be, which can make it difficult to compete in a market that’s growing more competitive all the time.
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