| Type | Public limited company (LSE: ITRK) |
|---|---|
| Industry | Testing |
| Founded | 1885 |
| Headquarters | London, United Kingdom |
| Key people | Vanni Treves, Chairman Wolfhart Hauser, CEO |
| Revenue | £1,374.2 million (2010)[1] |
| Operating income | £227.5 million (2010)[1] |
| Net income | £139.0 million (2010)[1] |
| Employees | 25,000 (2010)[2] |
| Website | www.intertek.com |
Intertek Group plc (LSE: ITRK) is a global inspection, product testing and certification company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the largest tester of consumer goods in the world and has a network of more than 1,000 laboratories in over 100 countries.[3]
It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.
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The Company can trace its origins from a marine surveying business formed by Caleb Brett in the 1890s, a testing laboratory formed by Milton Hersey in Montreal in 1888 and a lamp testing centre established by Thomas Edison in 1896.[4] These businesses were all acquired by Inchcape during the 1980s and early 1990s.[4] In 1996 Inchcape Testing Services was acquired by Charterhouse Development Capital and was renamed Intertek.[4] The Company was divested by Charterhouse in 2002 when the business was first listed on the London Stock Exchange.[5] In April 2010, Intertek acquired Ciba Expert Services’ Environmental, Safety, & Testing and Regulatory businesses, including Cantox Health Sciences (Cantox) and Ashuren Health Sciences (Ashuren). [6]
| role | salary | bonus | total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wolfhart Hauser[7] | Chief executive officer | £534,000 | £872,000 | £1,406,000 |
| William Spencer[8] | Chief financial officer | £270,000 | £326,000 | £596,000 |
| Mark Loughead[9] | Chief operating officer | £310,000 | £340,000 | £650,000 |