The top manufacturers and distributors used by SDM 100 dealers.

Maybe it’s the Annapolitan in me, but when I looked through all the comments from this year’s SDM 100 (link to article) companies detailing the challenges they had faced in 2021 — and predict to continue facing in 2022 — my mind went immediately to an image of rough seas.

SDM is now accepting surveys for the 2022 SDM 100 Report. Surveys must be submitted by Monday, March 1, 2022 for your chance to qualify. 

SDM 100 COMPANIES operate in a wide variety of geographical and vertical markets, including both residential and commercial business, and education, government, commercial and institutional customers.

HOW DO YOU DEFINE SUCCESS? Each May SDM features the SDM 100 (link to story) — a ranking of the top 100 security dealer companies measured by their RMR the previous year.

Around the country in every major metropolitan market is an SDM 100 company that worked long and hard to get where it is today. These are the 100 largest U.S.-based security companies — as ranked by their recurring monthly revenue (RMR) — on the annual SDM 100 Report.

Habitec Security, ranked No. 52 on the SDM 100, was selected as one of The Blade’s Toledo, Ohio Top Workplaces for the fourth time. 

Securitas Electronic Security, the 2019 SDM Integrator of the Year ranked No. 11 on the SDM 100, has acquired the customer contracts and certain select assets of iVerify.US, a full-service interactive security company providing life safety, loss prevention and brand protection. 

Supreme Security Systems Inc., a private electronic security company ranked No. 53 on the SDM 100, today announced its acquisition of T&R Alarm Systems Inc. As part of this acquisition, Supreme will absorb its 300 customers in the New Jersey area and five T&R employees.

Over a 15-month period, Sonitrol has opened new franchises and expanded current markets in eight states including Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Connecticut, Massachusetts, California and Florida.