Vanderbilt, the safety and security product company, has announced its international headquarters in Wiesbaden, Germany.
The company’s plan to establish its headquarters in Germany was aired last October when the company announced it signed a Purchase Agreement to acquire Siemens’ Security Products, part of the Siemens Building Technologies business. The acquisition is scheduled to close by the end of the first quarter of 2015.
The new head offices, in a 3,466-square-foot modern office block, will provide its sales offices in 17 European countries with corporate support functions formerly provided by Siemens corporate entities in those countries. The facility houses executive management, group finance and controlling, and support staff, and is less than 15 minutes away from Frankfurt Airport.
Joe Grillo, CEO, Vanderbilt, said: “Vanderbilt Industries is focused on continuing and improving its support of its long-term relationships with technology partners, end users, distributors and integrators within the European market and throughout the world. Establishing our international headquarters in Germany is a major step toward facilitating stronger relationships with our customers abroad and ensuring the success of our long-term growth strategy of expanding market reach. It will also provide the basis for significant incremental growth in new international markets over the next several years.”
Siemens SP consists of products in the access control, intrusion alarm, and video surveillance categories, which complement Vanderbilt Industries’ fully integrated product offerings. The acquisition includes such brands or systems as SiPass Integrated, SiPass Entro, pictured; Omnis, Bewator and Cotag in access control; and Alarmcom and Europlex in the intrusion alarms. Visit www.vanderbiltindustries.com.
