The Protector Group has been acquired by the Argenbright Group. It will join Amberstone Security under the Argenbright umbrella retaining its own identity and will complement Amberstone by providing security monitoring services and IoT-enabled integrated security solutions into the construction and critical national infrastructure sectors.
Argenbright will utilise Amberstone Security and The Protector Group as its portfolio companies, both delivering services across varied industry sectors, whilst also enabling the cross pollination of people, services, and solutions to protect and nurture both brands’ loyal, and growing client base.
This acquisition will transform both Amberstone and The Protector Group across the UK and Europe, and help further service delivery to existing clients, whilst expanding both businesses into new sectors and verticals.
“There are a lot of parallels between the two businesses in that we are both entrepreneurial market disruptors who have always looked to change the narrative of the security industry and make the services on offer even more bespoke and customer-centric”, said Jason Trigg, Managing Director of Amberstone. “This investment will provide cutting-edge solutions to realize Amberstone’s strategy and extend our leadership in providing its clients with innovative, IoT-enabled integrated security solutions. Combined with Protector, we have an opportunity to accelerate our growth across retail, logistics, distribution, construction and critical national infrastructure sectors to become the largest privately held security services group in the UK in the short to medium term.”
“As a part of Argenbright’s global expansion, we had made an investment in Amberstone to support Jason and his leadership team to establish our presence in the UK market,” said Karan Ishwar, CEO of the Argenbright Group. “The Protector Group acquisition adds key capabilities in IoT-enabled integrated security solutions, a strong leadership team and entry into key sectors of construction and critical national infrastructure to take our UK security business to the next level. We welcome Ken Slater, CEO and Tracy Virgo, CFO as part of the Argenbright family and look forward to working with them to serve their customers including critical national infrastructure projects such as HS2. We are bullish about the UK security market and are looking to grow the business both organically and inorganically to propel us into a top five industry player in the UK.”
