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Big Technologies

August 2026

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CEO Ian Johnson has clearly grabbed BIG by the scruff of its neck. Having settled the Buddi litigation, BIG is now going off ramp in the US where it has bagged six new wins across four states just since April, and the pipeline is growing by the minute. Its next-generation AlcoTag and AlcoBreath are also starting to fly off the shelves. There are 1,800 AlcoTags and 100 AlcoBreath units out in the field, with another 350 breath units being deployed next quarter. Yes, gross margins might dip a bit because the US market is a fragmented, lower-margin dogfight, but BIG has a massive cost-cutting program running in the background. In Latin America, BIG also renewed a three-year contract in Guatemala right on the heels of a massi ...

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