Secom Co., Ltd. (セコム株式会社) is a Japanese security company[1][2] headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. It has operations in Japan, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Taiwan, China, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, and Myanmar.[3]
History
The company was founded in 1962 and operated under the name Nippon Keibi Hosho until 1983.[4] It initially offered security services such as patrolling services and static guard services.[5]
In 1966, the company developed Japan’s first on-line security system. In 1983, Nippon Keibi Hosho adapted the name Secom, which was originally used only as a brand name of the company. The Secom name "was coined as a contraction of 'security' and 'communication', the concept of this brand was to build 'a new security system collaborating people and science'”.[5]
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References
- Lock 'em up. (Secom is benefitting from Japan's growing security systems industry) The Economist, 27 July 1991, retrieved 22 June 2018^
- Leo Lewis. Selling safety gets serious: security giant Secom soars on a mix of media hype and menace Japan Inc, 1 January 2004, retrieved 22 June 2018^
- What we do^
- Akira Ishikawa, Tai Nejo. Top Global Companies in Japan World Scientific, 1999^
- Origin of the Secom brand and company name Secom, retrieved 2020-04-03^