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For the sixth year in a row, the Central Station Alarm Association (CSAA) has awarded The Protection Bureau of Exton, Pa., CSAA Diamond Certification.

When CEO Tim Whall and GTCR turned Chicago-based Protection 1 back into a private company, they had a couple of goals: to leverage its existing national footprint and build up all its channels, specifically national accounts.

ADS Security (ADS), Nashville, Tenn., acquired the customer accounts of Advanced Electronic Solutions of Opelika, Ala. and Guardian Security of Decatur, Ala. These purchases further ADS’ pursuit of growth across the Southeast.

Nationwide Digital Monitoring Co. of Freeport, N.Y., just launched a Mobile PERS offering for its dealers.

Applications for the 9th Annual CSAA Excellence Awards Program are now online.

With new players such as AT&T, Comcast, Verizon, Cox and, potentially, Google, as well as a do-it-yourself market, which some think is growing three times as fast as the professionally installed market, who wouldn’t consider security an attractive market and wonder, Who are the winners going to be?

Monitronics, based in Dallas, took home two Bronze Stevie Awards at the eighth annual Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service, given each year to recognize achievements in sales, contact center operations and customer service.

Registration is now open for SentryCon, SentryNet’s 19th annual dealer conference. The 2014 event will be held April 22-24 at Harrah’s in Tunica, Miss.

Services the company has in place to help dealers grow/expand their businesses include GSM (AlarmPath, DSC, Honeywell, Telular, DMP); Mobile MASWEB; Spanish-speaking operators on all shifts; funding programs; dealer programs; Videofied video verification; and PERS programs, including cellular PERS for standard and mobile PERS including GSM capability.

To accommodate this growth, Acadian has added medical alarm dispatchers, alarm dispatchers and alarm consoles to its Lafayette, La., central station, in addition to moving its Baton Rouge, La., location to a larger facility.