NSF International and Euro Consultants Group to Join Forces

NSF International, a global food safety auditing, training and consulting organization, is in the process of acquiring Euro Consultants Group (ECG), a food safety and quality service company based in Wavre, Belgium.

ECG, founded in 1990, promotes the one-stop shopping concept and values of flexibility and services across Europe, Africa and the Middle East, through 14 subsidiaries in nine countries: Belgium, France, Tunisia, Bulgaria, Romania, Canada, Morocco, Poland and the Ivory Coast.

As a result of the merger, NSF International will add food safety consulting, auditing, certification and training support throughout the EMEA region, targeting retailers, caterers, industries, private companies, and European and international institutions. ECG clients will have access to NSF International’s extensive range of services, to help food businesses protect their customers and their brands. The NSF Global Food Division provides expertise and accredited services across all supply chain sectors, including agriculture, animal feed and welfare, produce, processing, distribution, dairy, seafood, quality management software, retail and restaurants in more than 160 countries. 

EGC’s main service categories include:

• Consulting and monitoring: Regulatory affairs, strategy development, management and human resources management.
• Studies: Strategic positioning, commercial potential, feasibility studies, competitive positioning, benchmarking, customer satisfactions and market research.
• Audit and controls: Quality management systems audits (ISO, EFQM), hygiene, food safety and self-control audits (BRC, IFS, ISO 22000, SAC) and diagnosis (audits without standards or audits on specific issues).
• Training and coaching: Change management and skills improvement.
• Operational assistance for short-medium-long term assignments: Outsourced services (complaint management, sensory testing, product development and project management).
• Financing projects:  Help matching private organizations’ financing needs with project funders’ requirements to ensure private projects meet the expectations of the project funders.
• Development cooperation aid financed by funders: Food safety, food security, and access to market and financing for small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

The merger is expected to be finalized in the spring of 2016. More information will be available upon completion.

For more information, please contact Serban Teodoresco, global managing director of NSF International’s Consulting and Technical Group, at steodorescu@nsf.org  or 514-457-7029 or Dan Fone, director of global business development for food safety, at dfone@nsf.org or 734-214-6241.