Founded 1996
Applus+ Services, S.A.
Madrid, Spain
A Spanish testing, inspection, certification and engineering group whose Applus+ Laboratories division, inherited from a century-old Barcelona testing institute, performs materials and product testing for automotive, industrial and infrastructure clients across more than 65 countries.
- Headquarters
- Madrid, Spain
- Founded
- 1996
- Website
- www.applus.com
Notable facts
- Founded in 1996 in Barcelona with institutional backing from the Agbar (Aguas de Barcelona) Group.
- Incorporated LGAI (Laboratori General d'Assaigs i Investigacions), a testing laboratory originally founded in Barcelona in 1907, into the group in 2003, the same year the Applus+ brand launched globally.
- Listed on the Madrid Stock Exchange in May 2014, later added to the Barcelona, Bilbao, and Valencia exchanges, until a takeover by Amber EquityCo (jointly controlled by TDR Capital and I Squared Capital) at €12.78/share was authorized by Spain's CNMV in October 2024, with full ownership and delisting completed in early 2025.
- Operates in more than 65 countries with over 25,000 employees, reporting about €2.049 billion revenue in 2022.
Testing categories
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