Securitas AG
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1907 |
| Seat | Zollikofen , Switzerland |
| management | Beat Glutz von Blotzheim (Chairman of the Management Board) Armin Berchtold (CEO Securitas Group) Hans Winzenried (Chairman of the Board of Directors) |
| Number of employees | 7000 |
| Branch | Security service |
| Website | www.securitas.ch |
The Securitas AG is a 1907 founded Swiss family business in the area of security services with headquarters in Zollikofen BE.
It is part of the Securitas Group Switzerland and not to be confused with the Swedish company Securitas AB , to which the Swiss competitor Protectas SA belongs.
Regional offices are located in Basel , Bern , Geneva , Lausanne , Lugano , Lucerne , Neuchâtel , Olten , St. Gallen , Thun and Zurich . Securitas AG has 25 additional branches throughout Switzerland.
Services
- Guarding services (area guarding , separate guarding , building guarding, holiday guarding )
- Event services ( event security)
- Security services ( security services , property and value protection, personal protection , prisoner transport , theft prevention)
- Traffic services ( traffic regulation , control of stationary traffic, track safety )
- Intervention and central services (intervention services, central services, key finder tokens and depository)
history
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Foundation and first expansion (1907–1920)
Building on the rival company of the same name, the advocate and Colonel Jakob Spreng from Bern founded Securitas AG in 1907. At first she fought against resistance from the police, who saw their sovereignty endangered by the private company. The first major customer was the Swiss Federal Railways , which had the stations of larger Swiss cities guarded.
In 1914, the company was commissioned to monitor the site and control access to the state exhibition in Bern.
Despite the outbreak of the First World War and the associated general conscription , the company was active nationwide. Jakob Spreng died on November 27, 1917 at the age of 54, and his successor Alfred Geiser took up the post as General Director. In 1919, the company was awarded the federal contract to secure Swiss food transports to war-damaged eastern states.
In 1907 - eleven years before the establishment of the Swiss Accident Insurance Fund (SUVA) - accident insurance for employees was introduced. This was followed in 1918 by the health insurance and widows and orphans' funds , in 1925 by the pension fund and in 1934 by the unemployment insurance .
The 1930s
After the death of General Manager Alfred Geiser, Jakob Spreng jun. 1928 the management. The Great Depression , triggered by the New York stock market crash in October 1929, also left its mark on Securitas.
The newly founded League of Nations engaged Securitas AG as an organization and security service at its headquarters, the Palais des Nations in Geneva.
World War II and 1950s
With the outbreak of the Second World War , more flexibility was required from Securitas: Due to the increasing number of break-ins and thefts during the blackout , the precincts were manned several times and the controls increased. To bridge personnel bottlenecks caused by drafted employees, their wives sometimes took over the nightly rounds.
In 1943 the first Swiss collective labor contract was drawn up between the VHTL union and Securitas AG. In that year, the company's own family compensation fund was also created, which paid employees child allowances until the same was legally introduced . In 1948, the subsidiary Securiton AG was founded, which produced alarm devices with this name for windows, doors, cash registers and “specially prepared window and Montreschen”.
Jakob Spreng junior died on November 18, 1958. at the age of 65, his son Manuel Spreng took over the office of general director. In 1959 the first real company vehicle, a Citroën , was purchased.
1960s to 2000
Securitas Express AG was founded in 1963, specializing in the transport of money and valuables. The national exhibition EXPO in Lausanne followed in 1964, at which female employees were also involved for the first time. Because of the uniform, the Securitas women were called "Les Anges bleus" or "The blue angels". In 1968 the TUS Telecommunications and Security Interest Group was founded; a project by Securitas and Cerberus, the aim of which was to implement a reliable transmission system for alarm and status signals.
Based on the TUS35 transmission system , Securitas set up the first on-call point in Basel in 1969, “as the nerve center of the new alarm network”. This alarm center made it possible to receive a wide variety of messages in a differentiated manner and to forward them to the responsible bodies.
In 1972, the Securitas Express AG valuables transport division was sold to the internationally established MAT Transport AG . Since then, Securitas has been offering escort protection for the transport of valuables, but no longer does it itself.
During the 1990s, Securitas AG was the first security service company to be certified according to ISO 9001 . In 1993, she introduced an internal specialist certificate , which served as a model for the federal specialist certificate for security specialists.
In 1996, Samuel Spreng was appointed General Manager by the Securitas AG board of directors and took over the operational management of the Securitas Group on January 1, 1997. He succeeded his brother Manuel in the role of General Director and Chairman of the Management Board. Until his death on February 9, 1999, he was responsible for managing the Board of Directors. The successor in the role of Chairman of the Board of Directors was taken over by Samuel Spreng, General Director and Chairman of the Management Board was Hans Winzenried.
21st century
In 2002 the corporate image was modernized.
In 2003, a Securitas employee on behalf of Nestlé infiltrated the Waadter attac group under a false name in order to collect information. At the time, the group was working on a book about the Nestlé group. Securitas Secretary General Reto Casutt confirmed this and justified it with "terrorist defense". For this unauthorized infiltration, the company was sentenced by a Vaudois civil court in 2012 to pay each of the eight victims 3000 Swiss francs.
On the occasion of the Annual General Meeting on June 7, 2013, the long-time Chairman of the Board of Directors Samuel Spreng resigned from his position due to age, but will remain a member of the Board of Directors. His successor in office is the previous delegate and CEO Hans Winzenried. Claude Thomann is the new Vice President of the Board of Directors.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Richard Diethelm, Christina Leutwyler: Securitas sniffed at Attac. In: tagesanzeiger.ch. June 13, 2008, archived from the original on July 31, 2008 ; Retrieved June 28, 2008 .
- ↑ Der Spiegel, issue 13 of March 25, 2013, p. 68
- ↑ Nestlé and Securitas convicted of espionage. In: http://www.nzz.ch . January 25, 2013, accessed January 13, 2014 .