News Release

EMC Security Moves 20 Points in National Ranking

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 26, 2007

Contact Greg Brooks, 770/266-2307

LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. - EMC Security, a provider of residential and commercial security services and residential home technology, moved from 74th to 54th in total sales volume among the top 100 security firms in the nation as ranked by Security Distributing & Marketing (SDM), a security industry publication.

Each year since 1990, SDM has surveyed the largest security dealers in the United States, tabulated the results and ranked the firms from largest to smallest in a report called the SDM 100. The SDM 100 measures the size of the consumer market captured by electronic security service providers.

EMC Security was first ranked in the SDM 100 in 2003 as 76th in gross revenue. This year, SDM for the first time ranked security firms according to recurring monthly revenue with EMC Security placing 55th.

“The change in our ranking is a direct result of the growth in the number of customers we serve, as well as the addition of GreyStone Power Corporation to our partnership last year,” says Vince Raia, EMC Security president.

EMC Security began offering local service and monitoring in June 1998. It ended its first year of operation with just 200 subscribers.

A joint venture of Jackson Electric Membership Corporation, Walton Electric Membership Corporation and GreyStone Power Corporation, EMC Security installed 7,170 new systems (monitored and non-monitored) during the year, growing to 20,000 subscribers.

While U.S. security firms covered by the report averaged a four percent increase in customers served in 2006, EMC Security's customer base grew 54 percent. During the same period, revenue growth among the majority of security firms covered in the SDM 100 reported a modest five percent, while EMC Security's revenue increased 39 percent.

“We built our subscriber base by offering a product the way the public wants it (no contract for monthly monitoring), offering that product at a reasonable price and backing it up with outstanding customer service,” says Raia. “Since we've never purchased subscribers from other security companies, we truly are a homegrown operation.”

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