Company Overview

Business Description

Sector
Industrials
Industry
Professional Services
Headquarters
France FR
Employees
80 449
IPO date
Oct 23, 2007

Bureau Veritas is a testing, inspection, and certification company. It helps businesses prove that products, equipment, buildings, and operating processes meet safety, quality, and regulatory standards. Its work includes laboratory testing, factory and site inspections, audits, and issuing certificates that confirm compliance.

The company sells these services to a wide mix of customers, including manufacturers, energy companies, construction firms, ship operators, and governments. Customers pay for independent checks that help them reduce risk, pass regulations, win contracts, and keep products moving through supply chains. Bureau Veritas makes money mainly by charging for inspections, tests, audits, and ongoing certification work.

What makes its business model distinctive is its role as a trusted third party. Bureau Veritas does not usually make the products it examines; it sits in the middle of global trade and industry, acting as an outside verifier. That gives it a steady role wherever buyers, regulators, or insurers want objective proof that something is safe, compliant, or fit for use.

Bureau Veritas SA Investor Relations

Address
Immeuble Newtime, 40/52 boulevard du Parc
Neuilly-sur-Seine, Ile-De-France
France

Business Segments

Industry

Provides testing, inspection, and technical services for factories, plants, energy sites, and other industrial operations.

Customers and revenue model

Buildings and Infrastructure

Inspects and certifies buildings, construction projects, transportation assets, and public infrastructure.

Customers and revenue model

Commodities

Description, customers and revenue model

Consumer Products

Description, customers and revenue model

Certification

Description, customers and revenue model

Marine and Offshore

Description, customers and revenue model

Management

Ms. Hinda Gharbi M.Sc.

Chief Executive Officer

Biography unavailable

Mr. Francois Chabas

Executive VP of Finance & Group CFO

Biography unavailable

Mr. Philipp Karmires

Executive VP and Chief Digital & Information Officer

Biography unavailable

Mr. Laurent Brunelle

Head of Investor Relations

Biography unavailable

Ms. Beatrice Place Faget

Executive Vice-President of Group Legal Affairs & Internal Audit

Biography unavailable

Mr. Juliano Cardoso

Executive Vice-President of Corporate Development & Sustainability

Biography unavailable

Mr. Michael Hardy

Vice President of Sales

Biography unavailable

Ms. Maria Lorente Fraguas

Executive VP & Chief People Officer

Biography unavailable

Mr. Laurent Louail

Executive Vice President of Commodities, Industry & Facilities - South & West Europe

Biography unavailable

Mr. Matthieu de Tugny

Executive Vice President of Marine & Offshore Division

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