From Security System NewsPROVO, Utah–In business as a full-service alarm company for only about four years, ApxAlarm is a young company by any standard. Among the growing ranks of the summer-model alarm companies, however, in sales/security terms, Apx is an elder statesman–the model, in some ways, for the summer-model surge. Apx has been around the [...]
PROVO, Utah–ApxAlarm–which emerged as a major player in the home security market in 2006 by generating upwards of 90,000 accounts–is well into its 2007 summer selling season, and Apx executives say they’re on track to sell 130,000 accounts this summer.
Looking beyond this year, the company is considering expanding into Mexico and abroad.
Apx’s business model utilizes [...]
PROVO, Utah–ApxAlarm, an independent residential security company that made its mark last year by generating upwards of 90,000 new accounts (see “Apx generates accounts” in the November 2006 issue of Security Systems News), has expanded its data center and doubled its inside sales staff. Underway for about three months, the project was completed March 5. [...]
PROVO, Utah–”Who are these guys?” If you hear that question in a conversation about home security, the guys in question will likely be ApxAlarm. A new player in the market, ApxAlarm is generating a lot of accounts and a lot of attention this year.
This summer, ApxAlarm executives say they sold 90,000 accounts, putting them, [...]
Todd Pederson, president and CEO, and Keith Nelleson, executive vice president and chief financial officer, are childhood friends from Idaho who both went to Brigham Young University. Pederson founded APX Marketing in 1992. Nelleson joined Pederson at Apx in 1996 after graduate school and working Deloitte & Touche for a few years. In 1999, they [...]
PROVO, Utah–ApxAlarm tends to shun publicity, but it’s attracted the attention of some major investors who believe that the company’s unique business model is a winner.
Earlier this summer, the company sold 50 percent of its business to three private equity firms, Goldman Sachs and Jupiter Partners, both of New York, and Peterson Partners of [...]
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.–Security Networks expects to boost its residential customer base in the Southeast this summer thanks to an affiliation deal with APX Alarm Security Solutions.
“We expect this deal will create 10- to 15,000 new customers in our Southeast region this summer,” said Rich Perry, president of Security Networks.
The four-month deal, terms of [...]
