Tag: retail
ZeroEyes research reports trend of increased gun incidents during holidays
November 14, 2024SSN Staff
PHILADELPHIA — ZeroEyes revealed that its Holiday Gun Incidents in Retail Facilities Report has identified a disturbing trend involving gun-related violence in U.S. retail locations.
The research by the Gun Violence Research Center shows that, during the 2022 and 2023 holiday seasons, from Black Friday to New Year’s Eve, retail settings including malls, grocery stores, convenience stores, and gas stations experienced a large spike in gun-related incidents, with an average of five per...
Axis unveils upgraded Boston Experience Center
June 12, 2024SSN Staff
CHELMSFORD, Mass. — Axis Communications is celebrating the grand re-opening of its Axis Experience Center (AEC) in Chelmsford, MA.
The upgraded Boston-area AEC has been renovated to include additional meeting spaces, an expanded lab, a demo room, and design studio. As the home to Axis’ Americas headquarters, the Chelmsford AEC serves a variety of local industries including retail, education, transportation, biopharma, and more, providing on-the-ground support for organizations using...
Poll respondents assess risk of theft, cyberattacks & more
April 23, 2024Ken Showers, Managing Editor
YARMOUTH, Maine - A majority of respondents to a recent SSN News Poll report that enhanced physical security and surveillance is the best answer to the rising problem of retail theft, while some wonder if that constitutes a sufficient response.
Among this month’s questions we discussed the rising problem of retail theft from organized crime groups and best practices to combat this trend. Most respondents, 60%, feel that enhanced physical security and surveillance is the best answer...
Interface Systems adds new leaders to its executive team
November 28, 2023SSN Staff
ST. LOUIS – Interface Systems has announced the appointment of Sean Foley to the role of chief revenue officer and Sunita Mani to the role of chief marketing officer.
The company said that Foley has been instrumental in building Interface’s Customer Success organization in the past decade and spearheaded some of the largest deals in their history. In his new position, he will be responsible for leading Interface’s national and regional sales, account management, and customer...
Netwatch proactive in crime deterrence, finding new markets
April 10, 2023Ken Showers, Managing Editor
LAS VEGAS - Security trade shows offer attendees a glimpse at a number of effective monitoring solutions. One provider, Netwatch North America, touts being proactive rather than reactive. “Leave now or dispatching police kind of thing - nine times out of 10 that works,” said Netwatch’s Justin Wilmas.
Wilmas is the president of Netwatch North America, and the company's voice is reaching a different kind of audience to prevent crime before it can incur costs. He spoke with...
Axis acquires video analytics provider Cognimatics
June 7, 2016Martha Entwistle
STOCKHOLM—Several days after purchasing an audio company, network video giant Axis Communications on June 3 acquired Cognimatics, a video analytic provider that specializes in retail applications.Based in Lund, Sweden, Cognimatics was founded in 2003 and has 12 employees, two of whom are based in the U.S.In an email interview with Security Systems News, Axis VP Americas Fredrik Nilsson described Cognimatics as a “leading company of store-optimizing solutions targeting the retail sector.”The...
Comtronics goes retail with alarm sales
November 13, 2013Martha Entwistle
JACKSON, Mich.—Comtronics is the latest security company to take alarm sales retail. In the first quarter of 2014, it will begin selling residential alarm systems through a Verizon retail store that the company owns.“We're pioneering an initiative to sell alarms out of our Verizon retail store,” John Campau, Comtronics CEO, told Security Systems News. The full-service security company has a separate cellular division—it owns a Verizon retail store—here in Jackson, Michigan.Campau...
Vector: National accounts in play; we want them
October 6, 2011Martha Entwistle
Vector Security says national accounts customers are “in play” due to acquisitions and corporate break-ups. And, Michael Grady, Vector Security's EVP told me, in an email interview that Vector is poised to expand its national account business for a number of reasons: Vector is still privately owned and it has money in the bank (something Vector president Pam Petrow talked to me about recently when Vector got a new $225m credit facility.) Also in Vector's favor, he said, is its move,...