Company Acquisition with QS-9000

[microflex]

Our company is in the initial process of acquiring another compnay that has QS-9000. My question is (if anyone knows) who keeps the QS-9000 certification. I know the cert is site specific so it should remina at the current site. The dilemma we are in is whether to purchase the compnay via shares or assets only. I believe either way we will have to have the auditor re-eval. the company as the name will probably change or become a division of. If anyone has knowledge one this please advise. Thanks

 

[SteelWoman]

I believe the cert, as you mentioned, stays with the site/organization, who is then responsible for notifying their registrar of a change in ownership and, at the next audit, of any changes to top management, processes, etc - if there are any. If you're just talking about a simple buyout, the registrar will at best just note the ownership change, at worst require some additional auditing or checking if there was the kind of change that warrants it. But again, it depends on how simple or complex a buyout you're talking about. Are you changing the scope? Changing major processes? Removing top management and replacing them with your own? Changing the quality function?

 

[Fitz11]

Cert stays

Even though many large multi-site companies register 1 facility to QS and then advertise the whole company as QS, which is fraudulent, a QS cert is for a specific site (or multi-site registration) , it can even be for a specific bay or machine which needs the QS registration, leaving the rest of the facility at ISO