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    Select Security acquires U.S. customers of Canada-based Alarm Force

    June 20, 2017
    Move will nearly double company's customer base
    Related To: Select Security
    Select Security has announced it has entered into an agreement to purchase the United States subscribers from Toronto, Canada based AlarmForce.
    Select Security has announced it has entered into an agreement to purchase the United States subscribers from Toronto, Canada based AlarmForce.

    Select Security recently announced that it has entered into an agreement to purchase the United States subscribers of Toronto, Canada-based AlarmForce.

    The acquisition, which is expected to close later this month, will add approximately 28,000 customers, bringing the total number of Select Security customers close to 60,000. The deal will also expand the company’s territory in Ohio, North Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Virginia, Minnesota, California, New York, Texas, Colorado, and New Jersey.

    “We look forward to quickly welcoming our newest customers and team members into the Select Security family,” said Select Security President Steve Firestone. “Our integration team will start immediately ramping operations so we can introduce them to the Select Security story.”

    “It has been a pleasure working with the leadership team at AlarmForce to close this deal, and I look forward to releasing more information on this acquisition and our integration plans in the near future,” said Select Security Founder and CEO Patrick Egan.

    Founded in 2003, Select Security has multiple local offices serving nearly 30,000 customers across North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, and offers integrated security and fire alarms, video surveillance, access control, along with home security, life safety, and convenient home automation systems. Select Security offers monitoring services through its network of four Secure Operation Centers that are each UL-listed, Factory Mutual (FM)-approved, and have earned Five-Diamond certification from The Monitoring Association (TMA).