SGS

SGS (formerly Société Générale de Surveillance) is a multinational company headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, which provides inspection, verification, testing and certification services. It has 94,000 employees and operates 2,600 offices and laboratories worldwide. It ranked on Forbes Global 2000 in 2015, 2016 and 2017. Its core services 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.