Armored market designs 15% growth in 2018

On average, 60000 people are victims of homicides in the country annually. The number feeds the sense of insecurity of the population and, consequently, you can reheat the shielding segment – market that shrank 19.72% between 2016 and 2017, but already designs 15% increment to the accumulated this year. According to data from the Brazilian Association of Blindadoras (Abrablin) last year, around 15000 vehicles were armored in Brazil. Although the thread has slowed down during this period, the historical series – calculated by the entity since 1995 – this amount is the third largest on record, only behind 2015 and 2016, when about 18000 cars were coated with shielding material. For 2018, about 17,500 vehicles, throughout the national territory, shall be equipped with this type of protection. For personal safety expert Roberto Costa, The First consulting, the escalation of urban violence in Brazil has expanded largely the target audience of this market. "Until the late 1990, who had armored car was Rico. Today, the middle class has also opted for this kind of protection, "he says. Today, the average cost to bulletproof a car is around £ $50000. The consultant States that "in addition to the screening service, there are also for users to search for employees who specialize in security and to know driving an armored vehicle, which requires some special care." Costa remembers that there are three types of armor: level I, IIA and IIIA. The latter, according to him, is the most common in the Brazilian market, because that's exactly what offers-within categories of vehicle protection allowed by law – greater user protection of high calibers. In the same vein, as regards occupation of users overall, 67% are businessmen and executives, 14% 9% judges, politicians, artists and 8% 2% are divided among other professional areas (see the chart). Currently, the Country has about 198,000 armored cars running, with the two largest markets in this segment are the States of São Paulo (73.99%) and Rio de Janeiro (8.45%). In the opinion of the President of the Abrablin, Marcelo Christiansen, especially in the State of Rio de Janeiro, this market should grow more than in other regions of Brazil. "Last year, shields in Rio de Janeiro has increased 30%. In 2018, should have 20% advance, "he says. He says that, with the increased levels of crime across the country, the demand for armored vehicles used also rose. Today there are 250 blindadoras in Brazil. Fluminense market Experiencing a period of State of exception, public security in Rio de Janeiro, which was already in crisis in recent years, had to receive support from the army, through a federal intervention to try to contain the escalating violence, factor It has also spurred the market. One of the examples is the Blocker Shields. "The increase was 10% in the number of popular armored cars here," said the shop owner, Kripal Lopes, who noticed, from 2015, greater demand for vehicle armouring. According to him, the more armored vehicle model is the Corolla sedan, Toyota; and, with the cars, the most popular appear are: Fiesta, Hb20 and Etios. On average, the Blocker makes such services 30 per month. Projecting an increase in demand, by the end of the year, 30%, Lee plans to open a unit in the Northeast and Southeast. In Brazil, according to Abrablin, in 2017, more vehicles equipped with shielding material were: Corolla (Toyota), Compass (Jeep), XC-60 (Volvo), X 1 (Bmw) and Discovery (Land Rover). Another company that has seen the demand for this type of service on the river jump and expanded the business was the Safe Guard. According to the Director Marco Aurelio Fornazari, last year, the blindadora arrived in Sao Paulo. "We decided to open another drive [the State capital] both for commercial production-related issues," he says. According to the Executive, the upturn started in more visible in 2015. In Rio de Janeiro, he tells that blindadora performs about 15 of monthly services.