About us
QIMA is more than a testing, inspection, certification, and compliance company; we're on a mission to offer our clients smart solutions to make products consumers can trust.
With a global reach spanning 100+ countries, we serve the consumer products, food, and life sciences industries, supporting over 30,000 brands, retailers, manufacturers, and food growers.
We combine on-the-ground expertise with digital solutions that bring accuracy and visibility for quality, safety and compliance data.
What sets us apart is our unique culture: 6,000 Qimates live and make decisions every day by our QIMA Values. With client passion, integrity, and a commitment to making things simple, we disrupted the Testing, Inspection, and Certification industry.
What we do
Within the consumer products, food and life sciences industries we offer a full suite of services:
Testing: physical, chemical or cybersecurity performance testing. Assessing the characteristics and efficacy of products and materials, in our network of labs
Inspection: assessing the quality and quantity of production lots
Audit: visiting manufacturing, processing and food growing sites, to assess their conformity to quality or sustainability requirements
Certification: issuing certificates against accreditation scopes to attest that products, sites or people conform to given standards
Professional services: supporting our clients with technical advisory services, outsourced R&D, training or consulting
Software solutions: building innovative platforms and tools to help our client digitize their quality, safety and compliance processes
Innovation: providing state-of-the-art R&D to drive our clients’ business into the future
Our solutions help our clients:
Increase product quality and safety through their manufacturing cycle
Substantiate their marketing or technical performance claims
Reach their ESG and sustainability goals
Conform to regulations
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A story of growth, diversification & innovation
Founded in Hong Kong in 2005, QIMA now employs more than 6,000 employees in 70 offices and labs and operates in over 100 countries.
Originally focused on the consumer products industry, over the years we have expanded to cover the needs of clients in the food and life sciences industries, either by developing our own technology and services or through external acquisitions.
Here are some of the notable milestones on our journey:
2005: launch in Hong Kong under the name AsiaInspection
2007: recognized by the E-Business of the Year Award by Alibaba, and the SME of the Year Award of the French Chamber of Commerce in China..
2011: first entry in the food industry.
2012: expanding our service footprint in Africa and Latin America.
2015: the acquisition of ANSECO Group amplifies our global testing lab network with additional US and Hong Kong locations.
2016: acquisition of Produce Inspectors of America (PIA) to strengthen our food services, followed by WQS (2019), IBD (2021) and Certis (2022) to grow our food safety & certification capabilities.
2017: SASO accreditation, allowing us to offer product compliance services in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
2018: our rebrand to QIMA shines a spotlight on our global service footprint and full suite of quality and compliance services.
2019: entry in the life sciences field, with the acquisitions of BioAlternatives and Synelvia, followed by Newtone and Monasterium Lab in 2021 and 2022 leading CROs in the Cosmetics, Dermatology and Pharma/ Biotech industries.
2020: acquisition of NYCE to increase our Latin America footprint and testing & certification capabilities, followed by Hansecontrol in Germany, establishing our first large scale testing lab in Europe.
2021: we launch QIMAone, our SaaS platform allowing brands and retailers to collect quality data through their entire supply network.
2022: entry in cybersecurity testing with the acquisition of CCLab, followed by QuantiLAB and QwaliLAB (2023) to further grow our capabilities in the food & feed testing space and our entry in the commodity Inspection industry with CIS.
2023: acquisitions of QwaliLAB, a trusted partner in food and water analysis, and Control Quality, a leading provider of agri-commodity inspections in Brazil, to expand QIMA's capabilities in the food and agri-commodity sectors.
2024: acquisitions of efrac, a state-of-the-art Indian testing lab, and Skinpharma, a French clinical CRO dedicated to dermatology, enhancing QIMA's capabilities in food, pharma, and environmental sectors.
2025: acquisitions of APEX Science, a life sciences specialist in drug development; ECAS, a Turkish food certification company; and Recaldes, a Brazilian traceability expert, enhancing QIMA's capabilities in life sciences and food sectors, and welcoming TA Associates as a minority shareholder.
Digital intelligence meets human excellence
Since day one, we digitized the Testing, Inspection and Certification industry by taking it online, and invested heavily in our tech teams worldwide to help our clients manage quality, safety and compliance data quickly and easily.
Today, we offer our clients the best of both worlds by combining human and artificial intelligence to offer a predictive and risk-based approach to quality, safety and compliance. With collaborative software and professionals in the field, we unlock the value of supply chain data and help our clients in the consumer products, food and life sciences industries achieve quality excellence.
A note from our CEO
"As global trade continues to increase, and supply chains get increasingly complex, buyers from brands, retailers, importers need increased visibility and control over their manufacturing worldwide.
Our ambition at QIMA is to make it easier for our clients to control the quality and compliance of their product and suppliers through the use of our services and the real-time supply intelligence we offer them."