WHAT LED TO THE MERGER we united our systems and were able to monitor one company. For our WITH UCEM? to start operating as one company and customers it is also much easier to Both UCEM and MCM have a history that has simplified things quite a lot. contact one company with one in Spain. UCEM was actually the first order management system and one lock company in Spain, founded in However, the process of a merger does portfolio with a full range of solutions. Mondragón, and MCM was also set not finish in one year. For example, up in Mondragón in 1932 by people we’ve got one range of locks by MCM WHAT IS THE MARKET LIKE FOR who came from UCEM. Telesco, and another from UCEM and some SECURITY LOCKS IN SPAIN? our third brand, had its own of them are quite similar, so now we It depends on the market segment. legacy in Barcelona. have the job of unifying the models As with everywhere, there is a lot of and components in order to work competition but we see that there are UCEM was the first to join DOM more efficiently. The Spanish market possibilities to grow with our Security in 2011 and then, in 2013, is familiar with all our historic brands mechanical products, mainly with Telesco integrated into UCEM and so we have to take this next phase of wooden door manufacturers and relocated from Barcelona. unification carefully. locksmiths, and there’s also a large Meanwhile, back in 1968, MCM had market for access control solutions. moved down to nearby Vitoria-Gasteiz The merger has been very helpful where logistics were easier. because it is much more effective So, when MCM joined DOM in 2015, the decision was made to move UCEM to the same facilities in Vitoria too. For some time we had two companies in the same factory led by one management and sales team. However, we’d been operating as two cultures, with two different VATs, two different invoices and two different ERP systems. Finally, in 2021, 64 | Best of DOM