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Schneider Electric Trims 50 Pelco Jobs, Cites Weak Economy

September 28, 2011

Pelco by Schneider Electric cut 50 jobs due to a turbulent economy and rising material costs, the company announced Wednesday.

Evergreen Fire & Security Lands $250M Contract to Protect DoD Facilities

March 16, 2011

A five-year, $250 million contract will allow Evergreen Fire & Security to install electronic security systems at U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) sites and non-DoD federal agencies ...

Exceeding Expectations

September 1, 2010

If there is a positive to come out of the recession it is how it has effectively acted as a wake-up call for companies to place a greater emphasis and urgency on responsive customer service.

Security Dealers React to Record Low New-Home Sales

August 26, 2010

Sales of new single-family homes fell 12.4 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 276,000 units in July, according to data released by the U.S. Commerce Department on Wednesday ...

New Study Pinpoints How to Save, Make More Money

August 5, 2010

A year ago, SSI’s inaugural Operations & Opportunities Report (OOR) exposed the best ideas installing security company managers had for slashing costs and elevating profits. Since then, that guile has translated into an 11-percentage-point rise in gross margin. Now, the 2010 OOR delivers more incisive business intelligence ...

41 Reasons Why Companies Are Better Off Despite Recession

July 20, 2010

The upcoming annual Big Ideas Issue (August) of SECURITY SALES & INTEGRATION features the 2010 Operations & Opportunities Report (OOR).

Report: Monitoring Fees for U.S. Households Increased 15% Since 2007

May 12, 2010

Home security companies have avoided the worst of the recession due to a stable core of consumers...

IMS: Global Fire Market Won't Recover Until 2012

May 5, 2010

Stricter legislation and advancement in technology, coupled with a rebound in new construction, are forecast to generate new opportunities in the fire industry.

SentryNet Hosts 2010 Conference Down in the Delta

April 15, 2010

SentryNet will host its 2010 Annual Dealer Conference, “Beyond the Recession Blues"...

Video Surveillance Market Battles Though Economic Downturn

September 3, 2009

The world market for video surveillance equipment is expected to grow by 3 percent in 2009 despite the economic turndown ...

Pelco Asks 2,000 Employees to Take 2 Weeks Off

June 11, 2009

In an effort to reduce operating costs and ease surplus inventory, Pelco will impose furloughs for many of its U.S.-based employees for ...

Pelco Restructures Global Sales Operations; Trims 17 Jobs

May 14, 2009

Pelco announces it has consolidated all of its sales operations functions into a single Global Sales Operations team that will be managed by ...

Sour Economy Can’t Dampen Spirits at CAA Winter Convention

February 1, 2009

The flagging U.S. economy may have been a central point of many discussions at the California Alarm Association (CAA) Winter Convention & Western Security Conference in ...

Advice for Sales Managers in Trying Times

February 1, 2009

The electronic security industry has proven it is not entirely immune to the more than year-long recession. With good leads and ...

Top 4 CEOs Size up 2009

January 1, 2009

With one of the most tumultuous economic and political years thankfully in our rearview mirrors, we can turn our attentions to ...

Recurring Revenue as Recession Resistance

June 1, 2008

There was a time when it was a night watchman who sounded the alarm when a fire broke out. It was his job to patrol industrial and commercial facilities as well as city streets. Today, it’s an automatic fire alarm system that detects the fire, alerting the authorities in one of several ways.

Integrators Design Profitable Plan

April 1, 2008

An intriguing market development in these tough economic times is fleshed out in SECURITY SALES & INTEGRATION’s fourth annual Systems Integrator Study. The survey results show a majority of companies, based on size, are grouping in the middle echelon. Fewer companies now populate near the bottom rung, and same goes for ...

All the Numbers and Names You Need

December 1, 2007

When the electronic security industry failed to grow like gangbusters immediately after 9/11 it became abundantly clear that economics is the most powerful force known to humankind. Even in the wake of the most heinous single attack ever carried out on U.S. soil and the advent of the war on terror, funding proved as difficult to track down as Osama Bin Laden and bureaucracy proved as hard a nut to crack as al-Qaida. Ultimately, and dishearteningly, the slumping economy...

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