On the cusp of its centennial milestone next year, AIB International is celebrating the 25thanniversary of its European office. In the past two decades, AIBI’s global network has expanded from our headquarters in North America to include regional offices in Europe, Latin America, China, and Asia Pacific. With a dramatic increase in overseas audit and inspection demands and an ever-changing global market, AIBI’s core value of providing highly educational inspection services to our clients continues to remain the same.
In the late 80s, AIBI began sending US-based auditors to Europe to inspect bakeries and other facilities related to US food producers. This work continued to grow with the addition of GMP inspections, which required our US-based food safety professionals to travel overseas. By 1992, the demand had grown enough that plans to establish a European-based AIBI office were put in place. In January 1993, Betsy Blair, now Manager of Technical Services, opened the AIBI Europe office in a space leased from Leatherhead Food International.
For the first year, Betsy ran the office alone, but as business steadily increased AIBI Europe expanded their staff. Now AIB International has 5 regional offices with representatives in 28 countries across the globe.
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