FORTY-FIVE PER CENT OF THE security industry improved their company’s performance last year, according to financial analysts Plimsoll Publishing. Plimsoll’s new analysis, 2nd Edition 2002, has been strengthened to appeal to the non-accountant in understanding company performance figures.

Its new UK Security analysis, covering 1,000 companies, is its most comprehensive analysis to date. One of the new features awards each company with one of three mood indicators or faces to represent improvement or decline in performance.

The three performance indicators are good mood (393 companies improved significantly); bad mood (360 companies declined); and passive mood (126 companies remained unchanged).

Remarkably, 393 companies analysed showed an improvement in performance. “Most might see this as amazing,” said David Pattison, senior analyst at Plimsoll. “Yet the irony here is how so many in the industry can be seen as smiling when there is so much poor economic and business news about. I believe this figure proves that management are in control in these companies.”

This 1154-page comprehensive publication guarantees that anyone who spots a missing company will receive that company’s analysis free of charge.