{"id":15007,"date":"2025-01-28T09:44:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T09:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/?p=15007"},"modified":"2025-01-28T09:44:00","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T09:44:00","slug":"sgs-and-bureau-veritas-end-merger-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/?p=15007","title":{"rendered":"SGS and Bureau Veritas End Merger Talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SGS and Bureau Veritas (BV) have ended talks to negotiate a merger between the two companies. Each issued a press release today, January 27, reporting that the negotiations had ended.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;These discussions have stopped and did not result in an agreement despite a strong belief in the value of consolidation in the testing, inspection, and certification sector,&#8221; said Bureau Veritas. The company reported it, &#8220;Remains fully committed to its LEAP | 28 strategy to deliver a step change in growth and performance,&#013;<br \/>\nSource: NDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SGS and Bureau Veritas (BV) have ended talks to negotiate a merger between the two companies. Each issued a press release today, January 27, reporting that the negotiations had ended. &#8220;These discussions have stopped and did not result in an agreement despite a strong belief in the value of consolidation in the testing, inspection, and certification [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[45],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15007"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}