Founded in 1828, Bureau Veritas (BV) is a world leading third-party service provider widely recognized by governments and international organizations around the world. The Group went public in Paris in October 2007.
Bureau Veritas has around 75,000 employees located in more than 140 countries and regions, serving 400,000 clients from various sectors. The Group serves its clients in the evaluation of quality, health, safety, environmental protection and social responsibility and offers third-party inspection services and technologies to help its clients meet the challenges in the fast-growing information age. Bureau Veritas has 1,400 laboratories and offices across the globe, and holds over 900 national and international qualifications in multiple industries. In 2017, the company’s revenues reached €4.689 billion.
In mainland China, Bureau Veritas runs three businesses (Consumer Products; Marine; Commodities, Industry and Construction), employs 15,000 people and has 99 offices and laboratories in 55 cities. It serves more than 20,000 domestic and foreign companies including major state-owned enterprises such as CNOOC, Sinopec, and the China Three Gorges Corporation, as well as other leading enterprises such as WISCO, Shougang, Wuxi Little Swan, and Guangzhou Metro. Many world renowned enterprises are also among the clients of Bureau Veritas, including Électricité de France S.A., SONY, Carrefour, L'Oreal, HP, IBM, Alcatel, Omron, EPSON, Coca-Cola (Shanghai), and Shell.
In January 2018, Bureau Veritas held four high-end symposiums in Beijing, Tianjin, Xi’an and Shenyang under the theme of “Quality Defines the Future – From Excellence to Prominence”, discussing overall quality management and lean production in the new business era with more than 300 representatives from over 250 companies.
In the future, Bureau Veritas will continue to help Chinese companies respond to the increasingly severe challenges in quality, safety, environmental protection and social responsibility, and facilitate industrial restructuring and upgrading with its services in quality inspection. Bureau Veritas will make full use of its expertise, international certification and global network to provide firm support for China's strategy of enhancing the Chinese economy's strength by putting quality first and implementing the Belt and Road Initiative.