Securitas AG
 
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| Private company | |
| Industry | Security |
| Headquarters | Zollikofen, Switzerland |
| Services | Security services (security guarding and mobile patrolling), monitoring, consulting and investigation |
| Website | www |
Securitas AG is a Swiss family company providing security services with head office in Zollikofen, regional offices in Basel, Bern, Geneva, Lausanne, Lugano, Lucerne, Neuchâtel, Olten, St. Gallen, Thun and Zürich as well as 25 other branches all over Switzerland.
Securitas AG is part of the Swiss Securitas Group and not to be confused with the Swedish company Securitas AB, which owns the Swiss competitor Protectas AG.
Based on the insolvent company of the same name, Bernese Advocate and Colonel Jakob Spreng founded Securitas AG in 1907. First major customer are the Swiss Federal Railways with a guarding contract for railway stations in major Swiss cities, followed by public occasions like the "Eidgenössisches Schützenfest", a Federal shooting match, in Bern in 1910, where Securitas forms a detachment with the local fire-brigade and police forces.
With the Schweizerische Landesausstellung, the Swiss National Exhibition in 1914 in Bern, the company awards its most considerable contract at the time: 200 guards guarantee for area surveillance and access control. Despite the outbreak of World War I with its respective loss of manpower due to general conscripion, Securitas AG is now established throughout Switzerland. In the years 1917 and 1919, contracts with the organisers of the Swiss trade fair in Basel and the Comptoir in Lausanne follow. These institutions count to the company’s regular customers until today. On. November 27, 1917, Jakob Spreng dies age 54, and his successor Alfred Geiser enters upon the office as General Manager.
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