The COVID-19 crisis has created both challenges and opportunities for security dealers. Security distributors have stepped up to reinvent training, as well as the equipment purchase process.

Control4, the smart home brand for SnapAV, today announced the Control4 dealers and distributors awarded for exemplary project work, business growth and commitment to their customers at its annual dealer party at Integrated Systems Europe 2020.

AlarMax Distributors Inc. is the PowerHouse Alliance’s newest distributor member. As of Jan. 1, the new member will join the national distributor consortium bringing the total warehouse location count to 54 spanning over 850,000 square-feet nationwide.

VIVOTEK, an IP surveillance solution provider, has partnered with Esentia Systems Inc. The Baton Rouge, La.-based company will distribute VIVOTEK’s complete product line throughout the United States, effective immediately.

The PowerHouse Alliance announced Professional Audio Associates (Pro Audio) as its newest distributor member. With Pro Audio’s two northeast warehouse facilities, the PowerHouse Alliance now has more than 800,000 square feet of warehouse space across 41 locations nationwide.

Custom Electronic Supply, a wholesale distributor of security electronics based in San Jose, Calif., was acquired on August 30 by security distribution veterans Jason Dennis, Lannie Green, Matthew Green and Danny Cranford. 

Doyle Security Products, a longtime Midwestern locksmith wholesaler based in Minneapolis, is the latest company to join the ABLOY USA distributor network. The stocking distributor services customers in Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North and South Dakota and Wisconsin.

As part of a continuing initiative to expand its local presence across the U.S., SnapAV has acquired Custom Plus Distributing, a regional distributor on the West Coast. 

ABLOY USA continues to bolster its distributor network and has reached an agreement with New York City-based Standard Wholesale Hardware to sell high security padlocks and cylinders and other supplies to locksmiths. Supplying the community since 1945, Standard Wholesale Hardware services the Tri-State area of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.

Last week, the 11 PowerHouse Alliance distributor members celebrated their tenth year as a national consortium, convening for their seventh annual National Sales Meeting alongside more than 30 vendors in preparation for CEDIA Expo and the second half of 2019. The meetings concluded with the announcement of four new board members who will collaborate in leading the group going forward.