Driving Forces and Opportunities

Outsourcing. Increased wealth. Rapid industrialization of developing nations. These forces shape our world and our growing market, and are responsible for a noticeable shift across many segments towards private security solutions. This presents a world of opportunities, but also carries new risks and greater overall responsibility for our customers’ interests.

Growing Trends

There are a number of positive market trends creating further opportunities to grow our market. Businesses are discovering that outsourcing security services can help cut costs and conserve valuable resources while offering comparable quality. Government organizations are responding by re-thinking security issues through deregulation and privatization. The result is new legislation allowing private security companies to act more freely, taking on many roles previously handled by police or other public authorities.

Other Market Forces

Our customers are becoming increasingly aware of security threats. In a business world where day-to-day operations rely heavily on digital controls and tight delivery schedules, a disruption of even a few hours can have far reaching consequences to the wider business. With so much at stake, the business world depends heavily on market leaders like Securitas to provide innovative and cost-effective solutions. 

Combinations of other factors also contribute to a rapidly changing market. Being at the forefront of the industry, Securitas is leading the way in the use of new technology for more modern security solutions. We see such technology not as a replacement, but as a complement to modern manned guarding, allowing for better judgement calls and quicker response times.