AIB Europe celebrates 20 years of global expansion
This month marks the 20th anniversary of AIB International’s office debut in Europe. In the past two decades, AIB’s global network has expanded from its headquarters in Manhattan, Kan., to include regional offices in Europe, Latin America and Asia Pacific. With a dramatic increase in overseas audit and inspection demands and an ever-changing global market, AIB’s core value of providing highly educational inspection services to its clients continues to remain the same.
In the late 1980s, AIB began sending U.S.-based auditors to Europe to inspect bakeries and other facilities related to U.S. food producers. This work continued to grow with the addition of inspections for Dalgety, a major British food enterprise. Due to the increase in inspections related to Dalgety, U.S.-based auditors were being sent overseas on a rotational basis for three to four weeks at a time.