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Our history – over 50 years providing electronic systems to our customers.
Our organization was first created in 1960 under the name of Pye Telecommunications, based in Cambridge. The company grew and started to concentrate on the early use of CCTV and was renamed Pye TVT in 1966. Following on diversification into other areas, the company re-branded itself to Pye Business Communications in 1969 and was subsequently purchased by Philips Electronic and the new company Philips Business Communications was launched. During the period up to 1986, the company grew in expertise and specialisation in areas such as CCTV, Public Address, Traffic Lights and other areas. In 1986, the company re-branded itself to Philips Communications & Security, aligning the name with it's now core products of CCTV and communication systems that covered Public Address, Intercoms, Radio Paging, Voice Recording and Conference Systems. In 1987, Philips aligned a group of companies under Philips Scientific, covering a number of business to business market areas.
In 1997, Philips Communications & Security was split into two parts, one to concentrate on the product distribution and the other, named Philips Projects, was to become the system integrator for al the Philips product range. During this time the company was involved in many prestigious projects, delivering multi technology solutions covering sound, vision, light and computer systems. These covered many market areas from large screen vidiwalls in shopping centres to visitor information systems in botanical gardens and interactive displays in museums.
In July 2000, Tyco International acquired Philips Projects, re-naming the company Tyco Integrated Systems to reflect the wide portfolio of skills and electronic systems that the company delivered. Tyco International was one of the fastest growing companies in the World at this time and the new company doubled it's size in the next year. Following a company review, it was decided to bring more market focus to the company and in July 2002, it was split into two parts, one remaining under the TIS banner was to concentrate on traffic & transportation and public area surveillance and the other part was transferred into the ADT part of Tyco International to concentrate on security CCTV systems.
In December 2005, a new group of companies called Tyco Fire & Integrated Solutions was formed across Europe and Tyco Integrated Systems was amalgamated into this group, and traded as Tyco Traffic & Transportation as this was the key market place it addressed. During 2009, Tyco Traffic & Transportation re-branded to Tyco Integrated Systems to reflect the growing diversification that it's leading IP CCTV system, Mosaic, was addressing.
Tyco International today
On 29th of June 2007, Tyco spun off its electronics and healthcare businesses into two independently publicly held companies. Tyco Electronics and Covidien (formerly Tyco Healthcare) now operate totally separately from Tyco, with their own board of directors, CEO management and staff and financial structure.
The new Tyco International is a leading provider of fire protection, security and safety products and services, flow control products as well as electrical and metal products, with annual revenues of more than $18 billion. We are passionate about delivering quality, innovation and performance to make our customers lives easier, safer and better. Take a further look at what we’ve got to offer and you’ll see what makes Tyco such a vital part of your world.
115,000 people
Revenue $18.2 billion (2007)
Operating in over 60 countries
Serving customers in over 100 countries
Providing thousands of vitally important products and services
Historic Timeline
1960 - Pye Telecommunications
1966 - Pye TVT - First traffic surveillance CCTV cameras installed
1969 - Pye Business Communications
1970 - Philips purchases the company and it becomes Philips Business Communications
1986 - Philips Communications & Security
1987 - Joins Philips Scientific Group of Companies
1997 - Philips Projects - A multi discipline integrator for all Philips Electronics products
2000 - Tyco International purchase the Philips Projects group and it becomes Tyco Integrated Systems Ltd
2000 - September -TIS purchases Orbis CCTV and amalgamates into the new company.
2002 - TIS business is divided into two to concentrate on Transportation market, passing the security systems part over to ADT.
2006 - Wormald Ansul (UK) Ltd changes its name to Tyco Fire & Integrated Solutions (UK) Ltd and brings Tyco Integrated Systems Ltd under its umbrella, renaming the company Tyco Traffic & Transportation
2009 - Following diversification into other areas, the company renames to Tyco Integrated Systems.
