About Bureau Veritas

Bureau Veritas supports footwear brands with our worldwide network of fully equipped laboratories and field service offices, which allows increasingly complex products to move to more markets, more quickly. We have many years of experience in assessing shoes for women, men and children, including products made using real leather, synthetic leather and plastics, among other materials.

Our knowledgeable footwear professionals are represented in national and international standard committees and can develop appropriate testing concepts based on each client’s specific needs – which may include educating production teams and supply chains; undertaking a comprehensive testing service; and advising on improvement opportunities to meet corporate and market entry needs of speed, quality and cost.

We’re ideally positioned to assist retailers, brands, manufacturers and importers in the challenging footwear industry to improve speed to market and reduce the total cost of achieving high quality, while also complying with safety and performance – and, in some instances, conformance (wireless) criteria.

The BFA is run for and by our members – by becoming a partner you join a network of some of the foremost businesses within the UK footwear sector. Whatever business products or services you are marketing, BFA members are always keen to adopt that which enhances their business, makes their operations more efficient or increases their profits.

The BFA hold regular networking events and themed webinars, where we encourage partners to take the reins and showcase their businesses and services to our membership. We also enable partners to have an input in what we say to the Government and we ensure they receive Whitehall’s responses first-hand.


Join Us
Partner Image