IML Security
The Firm
IML, trading as Island Master Locksmith, describes itself as a provider of comprehensive security solutions and physical security integration, and it buys locksmiths as operating businesses rather than as customer lists.
Its own release on the Massachusetts purchase says what a retiring locksmith actually wants to know. The acquired business continues under its own brand as an IML company, every former employee was hired, and operations out of the original retail offices continue uninterrupted. Real estate is not mentioned, which for a leased storefront is the ordinary shape.
What It Buys
Farmingdale, New York. A physical security integrator buying regional locksmiths and keeping their names and their people, which is the rarer of the two exits in this trade.
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Confirmed Deals
1 deal traced to announcements by IML Security, 2025, newest first. Firms that announce every deal show a fuller run here than firms that report acquisitions as quarterly counts, so read this as the evidence that clears the bar rather than as the firm's whole record.
Nothing newer has cleared the bar in 16 months, against a registry whose newest confirmed deal is August 6, 2026. A gap past 12 months can mean the firm has slowed, or that it has stopped announcing; treat it as a prompt to check its own newsroom before assuming either.
- Serv-U Locksmiths of Western Massachusetts · April 3, 2025
A Springfield, Massachusetts locksmith kept under its own brand, with every employee hired and its offices open.
In Its Trades
Trades it buys
The other confirmed bidders
No second firm is confirmed in this trade from a primary source. That is the edge of the evidence, not proof the field is clear: Buyers lists which trades rest on a single confirmed firm and why.