Global laboratory testing and inspection service Bureau
Veritas, based in France, said it recently purchased Kuhlmann Monitoramento Agrícola (KMA), a Brazilian firm that monitors and
audits services for the agricultural food sector.
KMA operates two laboratories in Brazil’s agricultural
production regions and brings a client portfolio of key international companies
in the agri-food and chemical markets. Displaying robust growth in the recent
past, it has thrived on Brazil’s healthy agriculture sector.
KMA CEO Eduardo Kuhlmann said he was satisfied with the acquisition, saying it will be good for
employees, strengthen customer relations and facilitate development of new
services.
"The addition of KMA enables us to diversify our
activities in Brazil and makes Bureau Veritas a market leader in one of the
biggest agricultural markets in the world in upstream services,” Bureau
Veritas CEO Didier Michaud-Daniel said from the firm’s hub in France.
“This move also supports our strategic ambitions in the agri-food sector on a
global scale."
Bureau Veritas operates
eight affiliated businesses worldwide, comprising marine and offshore
interests, industry, construction, commodities and products, government
services and trade as well as in-service inspection and certification.
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