Ø Bureau Veritas was founded in Antwerp, Belgium in 1828.
Ø In 1829, the company was renamed Bureau Veritas and adopted the emblem of Truth as its official logo and edited its first Register of some 10,000 ships.
Ø In 1833 the head office was transferred from Antwerp to Paris, where a branch office was set up in 1830.
Ø In 1869  The company was quoted in Jules Verne novel - “20,000 Leagues under the Sea”.
Ø In 1874  The company was quoted in Jules Verne novel - “The Mysterious Island”.
Ø In 1875  The company was quoted in Jules Verne novel - “The Survivors of the Chancellor”.
Ø In 1910 a new service was created, "Control of Materials".
Ø The name “Bureau Veritas” entered both the French dictionary Larousse and Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Ø In 1922, the French government entrusted Bureau Veritas with the official control of airworthiness certificates for civil aircraft.
Ø Bureau Veritas created a Automobile service to check buses, coaches and trucks in 1927.
Ø In 1929 it established the "Control Service for Buildings & Civil Engineering".
Ø By 1932 Bureau Veritas had established its own laboratories at Levallois-Perret near Paris for metallurgical and chemical analysis, and the testing of building materials.
Ø Between 1980 and 1990 Bureau Veritas set up a number of new subsidiaries in response to specific needs.            
      Ø Bivac - In 1984  
      Ø BVQI - Now Bureau Veritas Certification - 1988,             
      Ø Veritas Auto - 1990.
Ø In 1995, two new corporate shareholders, CGIP and Poincaré Investissement, injected fresh impetus into Bureau Veritas activities.Wendel makes initial investment in Bureau Veritas in 1995.
Ø 1996 was an important year with a significant merger in France: Bureau Veritas acquired 100 per cent of CEP capital and became the French leader in conformity assessment of building construction.
Ø The acquisition of well-established US firm with testing labs in Asia - ACTS (Acts Testing Labs) in 1998.
Ø The acquisition of well-established US firm with testing labs in Asia - MTL (Merchandise Testing Laboratories) in 2001.
Ø Acquisition of the Weeks group (UK) in 2002.
Ø Integration of US laboratories in 2003.
Ø Wendel gets full control of Bureau Veritas in 2004.
Ø Acquisition of Berryman & Henigar and Graham Marcus (US) in early 2004.
Ø Acquisition in early 2005 of Linhart Petersen Powers Associates (US).
Ø In 2005, the acquisition of Clayton and NATLSCO (US).
Ø In the 2005 acquisition of Casella (UK).
Ø In 2006 Kilpatrik (Australia) was acquired.
Ø In 2006 IRC (Australia) was acquired.
Ø In 2006 Intico (Australia) was acquired.
Ø IPO in 2007.
Ø Mining Activity started in 2008.