AlliedBarton Security Services and Universal Services of America finalized the merger to form Allied Universal, a security services and solutions company. The new organization, with more than 140,000 employees, is the largest security services company in North America, the company reported.
On August 17, 2016, Johnson Controls shareholders voted to approve the previously announced merger with Tyco. In a final count of the voting results, 97 percent of votes cast at a special meeting voted in favor of the transaction.
Doyle Security Systems Inc., a regional provider of residential and commercial security, life safety and medical monitoring systems, has announced the acquisition of all alarm accounts from Murphy’s Lock and Alarm.
B Safe Inc., a regional provider of security and fire alarms to Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, has acquired Eyes On You Security of Bear, Delaware.
ADS Security (ADS), a regional electronic security and automation company headquartered in Nashville, Tenn., and ranked No. 21 on the SDM 100, achieved $3 million in recurring monthly revenue earlier this year.
Select Security, ranked No. 37 on the SDM 100, has purchased Bluemont, Va.-based 5 Star Security. This purchase expands Select Security’s presence in the Northern Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C., suburbs.
ADS Security (ADS) has acquired customer accounts from Alarm Specialists of Cocoa, Fla. The purchase adds approximately 1,600 accounts — 60 percent residential and 40 percent commercial — to the ADS Melbourne customer base.
Nortek Inc. has signed an agreement and plan of merger with Melrose Industries PLC to be acquired by Melrose for $86.00 per share in cash — an estimated total enterprise value of approximately $2.8 billion.
