Security Products

This report covers 140+ private produc-ers and suppliers of security products and equipment, and examines the role private firms play within the US industry. Each company profiled was interviewed re-garding their product lines, sales and/or employment.

Market Overview presents the eco-nomic factors which will dictate growth in the US security products industry, and contains Freedonia industry demand fore-casts to 2004.

Industry Structure provides market share for the leading private and public companies in the security products indus-try, and analyzes private company merger and acquisition activity. The report also contains listings of private producers by key product and by state.

Company Profiles the main body of the report profiles private companies active in the industry. (See inside pages for sample profiles.)

Save hours of time researching difficult to find private company information and identifying players in key product and market segments. Freedonia has used its vast resources of published and propri-etary information, as well as one-on-one interviews, to identify and profile more than 140 privately-held companies in a specific industry. Companies are orga-nized by product and/or market in easy-to- read tables.

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Private firms in the $11.3 billion US security products industry manufacture mechanical or electronic security equipment, with some integrated into the production of both.

One private manufacturer had total security product sales in ex-cess of $500 million in 1999 and accounted for five percent of the US electronic security product market. An additional five private firms each have electronic and/or mechanical security product sales in excess of $100 million.

Private security product firms have been in engaged in merger and acquisition activity both as purchasers, as well as targets of such activity. In late 2000, one of the leading private electronic security companies agreed to be acquired by one of the largest public security companies.

California, Florida, Illinois, New Jersey, New York and Texas have the highest concentrations of pri-vate security products operations, with over 100 each.

US demand for security products is forecast to increase seven per-cent per annum to $15.9 billion in the year 2004.