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Consolidation Outlook for 2009

Will the credit crunch stop the flow of capital?

There are two major forces that have over the last 5 years brought about a reshaping of the structure of the security industry. The first is a rapid consolidation process that is particularly rife when a business is young, immature and growing fast. The second is a heady cocktail of converging technologies brought in from the even faster growing Web services, IT and digital electronic industries. These technologies require companies to have a much larger minimum economic size in order to be viable. It is inevitable that these new technologies will continue to penetrate the business and accordingly consolidation through mergers and alliances will become more intense in the future. However, the credit crunch now combined with the meltdown in the world¡¯s financial markets, the scale of which has never been realized before, is slowing down the consolidation process. This article reviews the impact that mergers and acquisitions have had on this industry in the last five years and the future consolidation process.

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