
By 2015, the company had grown to have 180 employees and had around 200,000 customers in the United States, and was acquired by Monitronics for $67 million. In 2010, Johnson hired CEO Brad Morehead. Initially, SafeMart distributed home security products from third-party manufacturers. The company was founded in 2002 under the name Safemart by Chris Johnson, a former Kansas paramedic. In 2015, Monitronics acquired LiveWatch, a Kansas-based company that sold security alarm and home automation systems for DIY installation. In 2013, MONI purchased Security Networks, a network of about 225 security dealers, for $507 million to diversify its service offerings and enter into the developing and complementary DIY home service category. As of 2015, it was the second largest security alarm monitoring company in the United States, behind ADT. It was funded mostly by ABRY Partners until it was sold to Ascent Media in December 2010. customers and businesses, as well as financing, technical training and product solutions to dealers within the industry. Monitronics International was founded in Dallas in 1994 to provide alarm monitoring services to U.S. In 2010 Broadview Security was merged into ADT, which became a standalone company in 2011. The company was rebranded as Broadview Security in 2009 with a massive and controversial advertising campaign.

(doing business as Brinks Home) is an American company that offers home security systems.īrink's had a business line in home security named Brinks Home Security that accounted for 15% of Brinks revenue in 2008 it decided that year to spin the business off, in order to focus on its other businesses.
