In 2012, the Company established TÜV SÜD Sec-IT – through the acquisition of Acertigo AG – to expand its already successful services related to e-commerce, data protection and penetration tests.

Technical inspection associations have been pioneers for new technologies since the first industrial companies were set up.

With the former Federal Minister of the Economy Michael Glos in attendance, TÜV SÜD completes the largest acquisition in the company’s history.

Republika Srpska Chamber of Commerce organized a “Food safety” seminar on 15.12.2016, in cooperation with TÜV SÜD Academy partner, TMS Academy.

The Chamber of Commerce of the Republic of Srpska, in cooperation with TMS Academy from Belgrade, a partner of TÜV SÜD Academy, organized a seminar on “food safety” today at the Chamber.

Reminding many car drivers of the hexagonal sticker on their vehicle, TÜV SÜD’s blue octagon had been in use since the end of the 1990s for medical products.

TÜV SÜD’s presence on the World Wide Web began in 1998: The Group website, tuev-sued.de, launched simultaneously with specialised virtual service centres.

With 8,500 employees and 1.4 billion Deutschmarks in annual sales, the largest technical inspection association is formed in Germany.

Product Service generated further development in overseas business. Parallel to the growth in Germany, the first Asian subsidiaries were established in Hong Kong, Japan and Taiwan.

In March 1990, former employees of East Germany’s Office for Technical Inspections re-established the “Sächsische Überwachungsverein” (Saxon inspection association), which had originally been founded in Chemnitz in 1878, under the name TÜV Chemnitz (later known as TÜV Sachsen).