Most Popular Brands Among the 2016 SDM 100

Which suppliers do the largest security dealers use? This SDM 100 brand-usage report lists the top 13 manufacturers and top nine distributors that earn the business of the top security companies in the installation and monitoring channel.

The SDM 100’s Top Manufacturers — Asked to name their top three manufacturers in order of volume purchased from them, these are the top 13 vendors supplying the SDM 100. Manufacturers are listed in order of how frequently they were cited by the SDM 100.

The SDM 100’s Top Distributors — Asked to name their top three distributors in order of volume purchased from them, these are the top nine companies supplying the SDM 100. Distributors are listed in order of how frequently they were cited by the SDM 100.

The security industry looks to the SDM 100 — a report of 100 of the top security companies ranked by their recurring monthly revenue (RMR) — as a wellspring of industry trends and operational best practices. So, which manufacturers and distributors are behind the SDM 100, supporting them with the products, solutions and services that help make them successful?

SDM asked each of the 2016 SDM 100 companies to disclose the top three manufacturers and top three distributors that earn their business, based on volume purchased. The resulting lists, shown here, reveal that the largest security companies rely on a wide variety of suppliers. These lists demonstrate not only diversity in the technology they sell, but also demonstrate that security companies are capitalizing on trends in integration, analytics, connected home technologies, interactive services, alarm communications, and more.

These brand-usage lists were compiled from the 2016 SDM 100 Report. Earlier this year, SDM 100 companies were instructed to list their top three suppliers (both manufacturers and distributors) in order of volume purchased from them. Of the 100 companies ranked on the SDM 100, 85 of them provided this information. SDMcombined all of their responses, and ranked the manufacturers and distributors by the number of mentions each received, with the manufacturer or distributor receiving the greatest number of mentions listed first, and so on. After the top 13 manufacturers and top nine distributors, mentions were distributed fairly equally among a broad number of suppliers and therefore, were unable to be listed here.

Laura Stepanek is an SDM contributing writer. Laura was the Editor of SDM from 2001-2020 and first joined the publication in 1984. She holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Barat College of DePaul University.

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