The Brink's Company (BCO)

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Exchange: NYSE       Sector: Services       Industry: Security & Protection Services

The Brink's Company is a security and protection company headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, United States. Its core business is Brink'€™s, Incorporated; it spun off its Brink'€™s Home Security operations into a separate company in 2008. Its services include cash-in-transit armored vehicle transportation; automated teller machine services, including cash replenishment, monitoring and forecasting capabilities, deposit pick-up, and processing services; and secure logistics services for valuables, including diamonds, jewelry, precious metals, securities, currency, high-tech devices, electronics, and pharmaceuticals. The company also provides cash logistics services, including money processing and cash management; deploying and servicing ‘intelligent’ safes and safe control devices, including its patented CompuSafe; integrated check and cash processing; and check imaging. In 2005, the company reported a total of 54,000 employees and operations in more than 50 countries. The company emerged from The Pittston Company and changed its name to The Brink'€™s Company in 2003. The Brink's Company was founded in 1838 and is based in Richmond, Virginia.