Securitas AB

Securitas AB
Company typePublic (Aktiebolag)
Nasdaq StockholmSECU B
ISINSE0000163594[1]
IndustrySecurity
Founded1934; 90 years ago (1934)
HeadquartersStockholm, Sweden
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Jan Svensson (Chairman)
Magnus Ahlqvist (President & CEO)
ServicesSecurity services (security guarding and mobile patrolling), monitoring, consulting and investigation
RevenueDecrease 107.954 billion kr (2020)[2]
Decrease 3.829 billion kr (2020)[2]
Decrease 2.416 billion kr (2020)[2]
Total assetsDecrease 59.127 billion kr (2020)[2]
Total equityDecrease 17.707 billion kr (2020)[2]
OwnerGustaf Douglas, companies and family (10.9%; 29.6% votes)[3]
Melker Schörling, company and family (5.4%; 11.6% votes)[3]
Number of employees
Decrease 355,000 (2020)[2]
SubsidiariesPinkerton, Protectas SA, Paragon Systems, Cobelguard NV, Staysafe, Allcoopers Limited, Central de Alarmas Adler, Zvonimir Security, Protectas AG
Websitesecuritas.com
Securitas office in Canada

Securitas AB is Swedish group devoted to security services, such as security guarding, mobile patrolling, monitoring, investigation and related consulting services.[3] The group is headquartered in Stockholm and had over 300,000 employees in 53 countries worldwide as of 2016.[3] Securitas AB is listed at Nasdaq OMX Stockholm in the Large Cap segment.

Securitas AB owns and operates the Swiss security company Protectas AG in Switzerland,[4] where there is a pre-existing, separate security company called Securitas AG, part of the Swiss Securitas Group.

Since 1999, Securitas AB has been the parent company of Pinkerton, a historically significant American detective agency.

  1. ^ "SECU B, SECURITAS B, (SE0000163594)".
  2. ^ a b c d e f "Annual Report 2016" (PDF). Securitas AB. pp. 4, 29.
  3. ^ a b c d "Annual Report 2016" (PDF). Securitas AB. pp. 21, 58, 62, 135.
  4. ^ "Securitas AB mit neuem globalen Markenauftritt". www.protectas.com (in Swiss High German). Retrieved 2023-10-04.