Tag: Mace
Select Security partners with Mace to launch national DIY product
June 16, 2016Paul Ragusa
LANCASTER, Pa.—Select Security, a super-regional based here, is partnering with Mace, best known for its pepper spray, to launch a DIY product nationally in 2016.Select Security's founder and CEO Patrick Egan said that teaming up with Mace to launch a DIY product is key to its success nationally.“This is a whole different channel for us, and there was no way we were going to enter the DIY space without a strong, recognizable brand name,” Egan told Security Systems News. “The...
On Location: Central Station with Security Partners
April 15, 2015Spencer Ives
LAS VEGAS—Security Partners officially opened its fourth central station here, following its November announcement, and now its dealers are going to offer a line of exclusive Mace-brand products, Mike Bodnar, company president, told Security Systems News.The Mace line of products will give Security Partners dealers new ways to increase RMR while also utilizing the recognizable Mace brand, John McCann, Mace Security CEO and president, told SSN. One of the new products will be a diesel tank monitor...
Mace raises $8.3m
August 11, 2011Martha Entwistle
HORSHAM, Pa.—With most of its legacy issues settled, Mace recently raised $8.3 million through a rights offering to existing shareholders, and now has money in the bank to execute its growth strategy.
“We're quite happy with the outcome,” Mace CEO Dennis Raefield told Security Systems News. “We settled a whole lot of open issues—as you know the company had a troubled past with problems with the ex-CEO and the Environmental Protection Agency. We've settled those, and...
SSN poll takers favor national monitoring license
May 12, 2011Daniel Gelinas
YARMOUTH, Maine—While there were strong opinions on both sides, a recent unofficial poll conducted by Security Systems News showed a clear majority of respondents favored national licensing.
Nearly 70 percent of poll respondents felt a national license would aid the monitoring industry, while about 20 percent felt national licensing was not the answer, and another roughly10 percent felt licensing of any kind was unneeded.
SSN asked readers to voice their opinion on ongoing efforts to...
Mace, dogged by legacy issues, makes progress
December 2, 2010Martha Entwistle
HORSHAM, Pa.—Mace CEO Dennis Raefield has steered clear of the speaker circuit in the past two years as he's concentrated on resolving some of Mace's well-publicized problems. With most of those headaches behind him now, and solid indications that the company is getting “very close to the break-even stage,” Raefield has plans to speak at the Imperial Capital Security investor conference in a couple weeks.
“Now I'm going to start getting out in the public market and making...