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Elvey Security Technologies - 58 years of driving the standards ... with an instinct for security

Elvey Security Technologies, South Africa's leading supplier of electronic security products, celebrates 58 years of service excellence to its extensive clientele.

While Elvey does not sell a product, but rather a service, the company believes that good service implies having excellent products, and has ensured that this is achieved by establishing solid relationships with its premier suppliers.

Elvey has established relationships with corporations in other parts of the world, including Optex (Japan), Alarmcom (Switzerland), Caddx (USA), DSC (Canada), Samsung (Korea) and many others, all of whom have always been involved in the creation, development and manufacture of the industry's most reliable security systems and software.

Elvey successfully listed as Elvey Security Technologies, on the main board of the JSE Securities Exchange in May 1999. The listing was well accepted by major institutions. In February 2001, the JSE-listed company, Hudaco, announced that it had acquired the majority of the shares in Elvey Security Technologies. The company now forms an important part of the Hudaco Group. With Hudaco's financial strength, expertise in distribution and its extensive branch network, Elsec's growth prospects are certainly expected to enhance.

Elvey is currently represented at branch level throughout South Africa, in all the major city centres as well as in Windhoek in Namibia and Harare in Zimbabwe.

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Products

From day one, Elvey Security Technologies has scoured the world to source a complete range of the most advanced and effective security technology available.

Consequently, it is now able to provide a complete range of electronic security systems and software including monitoring equipment, access control and intruder detection products with an annual turnover in excess of R200 million, to the southern African security industry.

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The group's customer base consists of businesses that install electronic security, CCTV, access control, fibre-optic equipment and monitoring companies. Equipment is sourced from various leading international manufacturers under exclusive distribution agreements.

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Elvey Security Technologies is a proud distributor of: Alarmcom, Caddx, DSC, Fiber Options, GSC Systems, Kalatel, Optex, Pentax, Pyronix, RDC, Sony, Samsung and Visionline.

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Key personnel

In order to deliver quality service, quality people are needed. Elvey Security Technologies' management team is characterised by a unique combination of knowledge and expertise. The team members have a wealth of experience and proven track records.

Elvey's Board of Directors drive the vision, the strategic direction and focus that the company believes in so strongly. They bring to the company a perpetual flow of ideas to help identify client needs and new areas of business and industry growth. They possess an exceptional ability to put themselves in their client's shoes, understand their requirements and deliver them with genuine concern for the quality of the outcome.

The executive directors of Elvey's trading division, Elvey Security Technologies, have all signed contracts to stay onboard to pilot the growth of this dynamic company for the next few years. Under the leadership of CEO Jack Edery, the well-established team of Andrew Stead (managing director), Dave Waywell (director) and Wayne Krahner (director) looks forward to a period of sustained rapid growth in all aspects of this important niche industry.

Support with a difference

Elvey Security Technologies has an extremely solid resource base with highly experienced consultants and specialist personnel. The team consists of dedicated, energetic professionals who understand the direct relationship between their clients' success and their own.

The company believes that it operates truly as a family business in which all staff members form part of that larger family. When providing innovative solutions, Elvey's sales teams are always one step ahead. That is because they combine wide-ranging industry expertise with peerless understanding of industry dynamics needed to achieve the company's aggressive goals of satisfying client requirements both today and in the future.

Delivering value

Elvey Security Technologies is, in essence, a people-oriented organisation. Working as an integral part of your team, we bring together technical expertise, innovative products, domain knowledge of your industry and proven methods that enable us to meet and exceed clients' expectations. "We are determined to further our collective efforts to achieve a real customer-first policy, by creating and swiftly delivering superior value to our customers," says Stead. "Through these efforts we wish to build trusting and long-lasting relationships. Our company is large enough to undertake and achieve the highest levels of service yet small enough to maintain and provide personal commitment to our clients," he concludes.

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