TÃœV SÃœD
TÜV Süd (own spelling TÜV SÜD ) is an internationally active German service company headquartered in Munich. It's a corporation.
According to its origins, the company is a technical inspection organization; it offers with its emphasis on testing and certification of a wide range of services. At the end of 2012, the TÜV Süd employed almost 19,000 employees worldwide and annual sales of 1.82 billion euros.
Description
Fields of work
TÜV Süd has more than 800 locations throughout Germany, Europe, America and Asia. Around 38 percent of sales are generated abroad. The range of services in addition to technical tests, consultations, reports and tests are also the areas of training and certification. Even in the traditional services - general inspection ( " inspection sticker " ), system testing, product testing or expert advice - is the TÜV Süd operates.
The working fields were parallel to the development of technology gradually expanded (including electric power, motor vehicles, driving licenses, power plant engineering, fire protection systems, cable cars, railways, passenger lifts, nuclear power plants, environmental protection, management systems, product safety, land valuation and structural engineering ). Current important topics are electric mobility, renewable energy and information security. In addition, was the gradual internationalization within the EU and other markets such as dieTürkei or Korea.
Brand, logo, image
TÜV Süd benefited from the very high level of awareness of the brand TÜV. The group's logo ( " Octagon " ) represents a modified octagonal inspection sticker
To further Fostering of the image a three-dimensional logo was introduced in 2005. The new corporate slogan "More security. Added value. " (In English " Choose Certainty. Add Value. " ) Is part of a" value-added "campaign made public.
At the 40th International Film and Video Festival in Hollywood TÜV Süd the " Gold Camera Award 2007" won with his image film " What are the real people? ". In the category "Public Relations: Corporate Image ", the first place of more than 1,200 applicants from 24 countries was achieved. The 2010 Annual Report of the company was awarded a red dot design award.
Independence
TÜV SÜD is an independent operating company - in addition there are in Germany TÜV Rheinland and TÜV Nord as another competing nationally and internationally Participate companies. The independence of these companies is much of the population and many customers the company is not aware of. "MOT " is often perceived as a company with regional appearances.
Investments
TÜV Süd is a corporation. 74.9 percent of the shares are owned by the registered association TÜV Süd, which has about 13,500 members; the remaining 25.1 percent are TÜV Süd Stiftung. Both organizations have transferred their rights to share the TÜV Süd AG to the independent TÜV Süd Shareholders' Committee GbR, headquartered in Munich. Members of the association TÜV Süd include the energy companies E.ON, Vattenfall and EnBW. The company is a member of the Association of Technical Inspection Agencies.
History
2003 TÜV Hanse was founded; The majority shareholder is TÜV car service. Opened in 2004, TÜV SÜD Life Service, the Northern Region.
The year 2005 saw the founding of TÜV SÜD Chemie Service, in the same year, the TÜV Süd took over 75 percent of the shares in LSG - Hygiene Institute and the LSG ELAB from the Lufthansa Service Gesellschaft ( LSG Sky Chefs ). 2006 the PSB Group was acquired in Singapore, also in the U.S., the testing service provider EST Testing Solutions of Michigan and Petrochem Inspection Services from Texas.
The proposed acquisition of the world's known as " ships' fourth largest classifier Germanischer Lloyd ( GL) should complement the portfolio to a new business and affect the brand image positively. However, the adoption of the GL and the entry of the TÜV Süd in the maritime business failed on 15 December 2006.
At the beginning of 2007, efforts were made to a merger of the two companies TÜV SÜD and TÜV Nord. Was to discuss the common name " TÜV Europe". After newspaper reports had already confirmed the merger and announced in September 2007, announced on 27 August 2007, the two companies continue to want to remain independent.
In August 2007 TüvTurk received, a joint venture company of the TÜV Süd with Turkish partners, Dogus and Akfen, green light for the construction of the comprehensive vehicle inspection in Turkey. TÜV Süd operates in Turkey in stages checking vehicles a. 2011 checked by TÜV Süd more vehicles in Turkey than in Germany.
In February 2008, confirmed TÜV SÜD and TÜV Rheinland to want to merge. TÜV SÜD and TÜV Rheinland were together the second largest in the world behind testing and inspection of listed Swiss Societe Generale de Surveillance. End of August 2008, the two companies have withdrawn its application for approval of the Federal Cartel Office, as this had signaled, unable to support the merger as planned. In December 2008, the merger plans were finally abandoned.
Mid- 2010, the division was disbanded man. The this segment ranges subsumed Management Service, Product Service and Academy form the new business certification since 2010. The TÜV SÜD Life Service with the area people and technology ( work safety, occupational medicine and occupational psychology ) and MPU (medical psychological examination after license loss ) belongs since 2012 to the business field mobility. The third major business of the company provides services to the industry.
2006 bought by the TÜV Süd, the British company " Nuclear Technology". On 29 October 2009 the Korean nuclear companies GNEC was purchased.
TÜV Süd takes over in 2011, ten international companies, including companies based in Japan, South Africa, Canada, the UK, Italy and Germany. 2012 companies in Brazil (food safety ), South Africa (elevator test) and the United Kingdom were purchased (wind energy).
Criticism
A report by the television magazine contrasts criticized the representatives of the TÜV Süd to exert strong influence on the nuclear power supervision of the State of Baden- Württemberg in the control of nuclear power plants in 2010. Specifically, it was asked in an interview with Oskar Grözinger of the country's nuclear regulatory control procedures after the nuclear power plant Phillipsburg. In critical questioning of Mr. Grözinger by the reporter the interview was abruptly terminated by representatives of the MOT, which attended the interview.
Furthermore, it is mentioned in the same report that the TÜV Süd obtained by the Orders, which consist of the security controls of nuclear power plants, a three-digit million turnover. When considering a potential shutdown of nuclear power plants because of safety concerns there may be a conflict of interest. In the same contrasts report mentions that in 2008 a working group of the Federal Ministry of the Environment issued an opinion on the monitoring of nuclear power plants. This comes to the conclusion that a too large operators near the TÜV Süd affects the quality and independence of the verification of nuclear power plants.
On March 5, 2013 Frontal21 has been criticized on ZDF from the magazine, which should have been issued excessive valuation report for property of the S & K Group of companies in the wake of the alleged fraud, the S & K group. TÜV Süd disputes this on the grounds that these reports were intended only for internal purposes and not in client meetings of the S & K group had been permitted to be used.
The ARD program Monitor reported on June 6, 2013 to lax controls of the TÜV Süd in garment factories in Bangladesh. There are social standards and working conditions are monitored via the BSCI seal of the local factory workers. TÜV Süd pointed out that the aforementioned reports in the report from the year 2010 and are outdated.