By admin | Published:
February 2, 2011
ADT Security Services (ADT) was founded in 1874 by Robert Roebling Clowry as American District Telegraph. At the time, ADT was a consolidation of 57 different telegraph companies. Through the years, the business went through different ownership and business concentrations as technology advanced. In the 1920s and 1930s, they began to specialize in things such as fire and burglar alarms. At the time, the company was run by AT&T. In the 1960s, it became publicly owned and started to provide home alarm services in large cities, such as New York City. In 1997, the company was purchased by Tyco International. Over the last 130-plus years, ADT has branched to over 30 different countries and employees tens of thousands of people.
In recent news we were made aware of the buyout of Broadview Security, formerly known as Brinks Home Security, by Tyco International who is the parent company of ADT Security. The purchase of Broadview Security was for a total of almost two billion dollars, which makes it the largest acquisition of any security system company in history. In light of this history making transaction it is easy to see that ADT security is by far the largest and most respected name in home security. Here in South Florida it does not take much investigation to confirm this, all you would have to do is drive down any road in any neighborhood and you would get a firsthand view of the immense impact that ADTs Authorized Dealer Program has had by noticing how every other house has in front of it an ADT yard sign. The only way that ADT has been able to saturate the home security market all over the United States is with the help of their ADT Authorized dealers.
