G4S Ireland Acquires Leading Alarm Monitoring Business
14 July 2011
Ireland’s leading security solutions business, G4S Secure Solutions Ireland (G4S), has further strengthened its position in the Irish security sector by acquiring certain assets of one of Ireland’s top monitoring businesses, Alarm Monitoring Services Ltd (AMS) also trading as “i-watch”
The acquisition will allow G4S to continue to develop its business across the Irish CCTV, patrol and response and keyholding sectors and meet the growing demand for security among Irish businesses and organisations. The acquisition allows G4S Secure Solutions expand its business and offer a stronger, more effective and comprehensive security service to some 40,000 businesses, organisations and enterprises across Ireland.
AMS, which is owned by its founder Tim O’Shea, has 30 employees based at its monitoring centre in Citywest, Dublin from where it manages around 15,000 end users. As a result of the acquisition G4S Ireland’s alarm response unit based in Killester, Dublin will move to the AMS premises in Citywest, where a state of the art alarm monitoring centre will be expanded in 2012.
Niall Feely, Managing Director, G4S Secure Solutions (Ireland) commented: “We are very pleased to welcome Tim and the AMS team to G4S. This is a very important acquisition for us which allows us to expand our business and offer a stronger, more effective and comprehensive security service to some 40,000 businesses, organisations and enterprises across Ireland. Security issues are a growing source of worry to Irish businesses and it is important for us, as the industry leader, to continue to expand our business and bring greater security and reassurance to our customers.”
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G4S is Ireland's leading security and service solutions company, specialising in outsourced business processes and facilities in sectors where a wide range of security and safety risks are considered a strategic threat. In operation in Ireland since 1968 it has over 3,000 employees nationwide with main offices in Dublin, Cork, Limerick and Athlone.
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G4S is the world’s leading security solutions group, which specialises in outsourcing of business processes in sectors where security and safety risks are considered a strategic threat. G4S is the largest employer quoted on the London Stock Exchange and has a secondary stock exchange listing in Copenhagen. G4S has operations in over 125 countries and more than 625,000 employees. For more information on G4S, visit www.G4S.com