Eurofins Group Overview
Eurofins Scientific is an international group of life sciences companies which provide a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries.
The Eurofins group is a global leader in food, environmental, pharmaceutical, cosmetics products testing and agroscience CRO services. It is also one of the global independent market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, CDMO, advanced material sciences and in the support of clinical studies. In addition, Eurofins is one of the leading global emerging players in esoteric and molecular clinical diagnostic testing. With over 50,000 staff across a network of more than 900 independent companies in over 50 countries generally specialized by end client markets and operating more than 800 laboratories, Eurofins offers a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products, as well as develop and carry out innovative clinical diagnostic testing services. The Group’s objective is to provide customers with high-quality and innovative services, accurate results on time and, when requested, expert advice by its highly-qualified staff.
Eurofins is committed to pursuing its dynamic growth strategy by expanding both its technology portfolio and its geographic reach. Through R&D and acquisitions, the Group draws on the latest developments in the field of biotechnology and analytical chemistry to offer its clients unique analytical solutions and a very large range of testing methods.
As one of the most innovative and quality-oriented international companies in its industry, Eurofins is ideally positioned to support its clients’ increasingly stringent quality and safety standards and the increasing demands of regulatory authorities and healthcare practitioners around the world.
Eurofins was founded by Dr. Gilles Martin in October 1987 with initially 4 employees. It went public in October 1997 on the Paris Stock exchange with 100 employees and celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2017 with 30 000 employees.
Our Group has been one of the fastest growing in Europe since it went public with an average annual growth exceeding 29% for the last 22 years.