TÜV SÜD is an international service corporation focusing on consulting, testing, certification and training. At over 600 locations, primarily in Europe, North America, Asia Pacific, TÜV SÜD Group employs approximately 16,000 staff. In 2010, sales revenues totalled EUR 1.55 billion, roughly 30 per cent of which were generated abroad. TÜV SÜD Group is headquartered in Munich

Munich

Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...

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Germany

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Business segments

TÜV SÜD views its role as that of a process partner supporting its clients throughout the entire value chain. Its service range includes the testing and certification of industrial plants, the testing of consumer products (such as clothing, sports equipment or toys) to ensure their safe functioning in compliance with official standards, and the provision of management system certification and occupational health and safety services. TÜV SÜD is proactively involved in international climate-change projects and supports the automotive industry in the design, development and global approval of new technologies.
The company is known as a provider of roadworthiness and exhaust emission testing for cars and motorbikes. Since early 2009, via its participation in TÜVTURK, the group has also taken charge of vehicle inspection in Turkey.

Company history

Today's TÜV SÜD Group originally started out as a technical private-sector regulatory body to the minimization of technical risks: from 1866, steam boiler operators in various industrial centres throughout Germany founded the private-sector regulatory bodies known as "Dampfkessel-Überwachungsvereine“, with the purpose of ensuring the safety of industrial plants. The areas of activity gradually expanded in step with technological progress (including electricity, motor vehicles, fire safety, power plants, lifts, cable cars, nuclear power stations, environmental protection, product safety, management systems).

1990s
Subsidiaries established in numerous European countries

1995
TÜV becomes a stock corporation

1996
Merger of TÜV Bayern Sachsen, TÜV Hessen and TÜV Südwest to form TÜV Süddeutschland

2005
TÜV SÜD Chemie Service established

2006
TÜV SÜD AG acquires PSB Group in Singapore, the testing company PetroChem (USA) and Kermi Kft. (Hungary)

2007
TÜV SÜD starts to establish a network of 189 test stations for roadworthiness testing in Turkey

2008
Initial and periodic inspection of plants and installations now offered throughout Germany

2009
Launch of Turkey-wide vehicle inspection by TÜVTURK, a joint venture of TÜV SÜD and two Turkish partner companies

2010
Take-over of US-based Global Risk Consultants (GRC), thus becoming market leader in independent property loss control consulting

International branches

Since the 1990s, TÜV SÜD has established branches outside Germany. Today, international business in the Strategic Regions Europe, Americas and Asia Pacific is conducted by almost 50 national and international subsidiaries. The CEE region is controlled from Prague

Prague

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, while the headquarters of the Americas Region is at Peabody (MA) and of the Asia Pacific region in Singapore

Singapore

Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...

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2011 TÜV SÜD AG is the winner of the "Best of European Business" award. The renowned accolade was created by Roland Berger Strategy Consultants to honour companies and top managers. TÜV SÜD received the award for its successful business operations in Asia Pacific, particularly the ASEAN-5 countries.

External links

• http://www.tuev-sued.de/en/ TÜV SÜD web site
• http://www.tuev-sued.com International portal of TÜV SÜD subsidiaries