Ridgefield Park, N.J.-based Samsung Techwin’s North American sales force rang in the new year in Memphis, Tenn., with a kick-off meeting co-hosted by ScanSource, Samsung’s “Distributor of the Year.” After a Jan. 16 tour of ScanSource’s warehouse facility, the Samsung sales and marketing leadership team and manufacturer’s representatives settled in to hear the latest outlook for 2012 from Samsung, the global supplier of video surveillance and security.
New York-based DGA Security Systems recently announced the selection of Braveheart Sales Performance Ltd. to provide innovative sales team development services and growth planning for its commercial sales team.
Siemens Building Technologies Division announced that it gave Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) $100,000 to support the construction of the school’s Fire Protection Engineering Lab. In recognition of the gift, WPI named the Fire Protection Engineering building’s conference center after Siemens to honor its leading role in supporting the advancement of fire and smoke detection technology and its underlying scientific study, the institution said.
PSA Security Network®, Westminster, Colo., an electronic security cooperative, announced the first round of Premier Partners in its new Premier Partner Program.
HID Global, provider of solutions for the delivery of secure identity, announced it successfully completed the world’s first university pilot of NFC smartphones carrying digital keys. The pilot was implemented using the company’s SIO technology, a key feature of its award-winning, next-generation iCLASS® SIO-Enabled (iCLASS SE™) credential and reader platform.
G4S Secure Solutions Inc. became a corporate partner with the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators Inc. (IACLEA). The G4S partnership, under a program developed to honor IACLEA’s 50 years of service, will support initiatives to enhance campus public safety at higher education institutions around the world.
The Electronic Security Expo (ESX) released the conference program for its 2012 event, featuring more than 50 educational sessions across seven tracks.
The 2012 conference program includes the new NexTech seminars, which focus on installation, integration and business model development for technologies increasingly being used by security integration and monitoring companies, such as automation, networking and A/V.
All throughout the security industry, there's plenty of "green" activity to celebrate.
January 30, 2012
Join SDM from now through Earth Day on April 22, 2012 as we work to highlight "green" efforts from around the industry in a special "green" April print edition of SDM and in a special "green" website launching March 1st.
A series of acquisitions, new branch openings and increase in staffing that ASG, Beltsville, Md., describes as “explosive growth” can be further characterized as an extraordinarily controlled and calculated explosion. In the past year, not only did ASG acquire two companies, grow its RMR base by 16 percent, set a “300 strong” sales force goal and open two new branches; the company managed that growth with a level head, putting its customers first and always keeping the big picture in mind.
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