Secom

{{Short description|Japanese security company}}

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| name = Secom Co., Ltd.

| logo = SECOM logo.svg

| logo_size = 220px

| type = Public (K.K)

| traded_as = {{tyo|9735}}

| image = SECOM (headquarters 1).jpg

| image_caption = Secom HQ in Shibuya, Tokyo

| foundation = {{start date and age|1962}}

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| area_served = Worldwide

| location = Tokyo, Japan

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| industry = Security

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| homepage = {{URL|https://www.secom.co.jp/english/|www.secom.co.jp}}

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Secom Co., Ltd. (Japanese: セコム株式会社, Sekomu kabushikigaisha) is a Japanese security company{{cite news|url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-11016849.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180622193230/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-11016849.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 June 2018|url-access=subscription|title=Lock 'em up. (Secom is benefitting from Japan's growing security systems industry)|date=27 July 1991|newspaper=The Economist|access-date=22 June 2018}}{{cite news|url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-112130243.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180622220331/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-112130243.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 June 2018|title=Selling safety gets serious: security giant Secom soars on a mix of media hype and menace|last=Lewis|first=Leo|date=1 January 2004|work=Japan Inc|access-date=22 June 2018}} headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. It has operations in Japan, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Taiwan, China, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, and Myanmar.{{cite web | url=https://www.secom.co.jp/english/business/#anc-network | title=What we do }}

History

The company was founded in 1962 and operated under the name Nippon Keibi Hosho until 1983.{{cite book|last1=Ishikawa|first1=Akira|last2=Nejo|first2=Tai|title=Top Global Companies in Japan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XI5pDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA100|year=1999|publisher=World Scientific|isbn=981238684X|page=100}} It initially offered security services such as patrolling services and static guard services.{{Cite web |url=https://www.secom.co.jp/english/corporate/vision/brand.html |title=Origin of the Secom brand and company name |website=Secom |access-date=2020-04-03 |archive-date=1 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201101145524/https://www.secom.co.jp/english/corporate/vision/brand.html |url-status=dead }}

In 1966, the company developed Japan’s first on-line security system. In 1983, Nippon Keibi Hosho adapted the name Secom, which was originally used only as a brand name of the company. The Secom name "was coined as a contraction of 'security' and 'communication', the concept of this brand was to build 'a new security system collaborating people and science'”.

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