Description
SGS (formerly Société Générale de Surveillance (French for General Society of Surveillance )) is a Swiss multinational company headquartered in Geneva, which provides inspection, verification, testing and certification services. Its 98,000 employees operate a network of 2,650 offices and laboratories worldwide. It ranked on Forbes Global 2000 in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2020 and 2021.
The core services offered by SGS include the inspection and verification of the quantity, weight and quality of traded goods, the testing of product quality and performance against various health, safety and regulatory standards, and to make sure that products, systems or services meet the requirements of standards set by governments, standardization bodies or by SGS customers.
