Welcome to Quality Digest's 1999 ISO 9000 Consultants Guide. In this special section, you'll find both a matrix listing and a directory of nearly 200 consultants specializing in standards including ISO 9000, QS-9000, ISO 14000, the CE Mark, VDA 6.1, AS9000 and QS-9000's Tooling and Equipment Supplement. You can download the matrix by clicking here. The directory starts below this introduction.

We contacted nearly 500 consultants by fax. Of those, 190 consultants responded. If your favorite consultant isn't listed, it's because they didn't respond to our faxes, or we didn't know about them.

As with all Quality Digest guides, the ISO 9000 Consultants Guide is in no way meant to endorse or exclude any particular organization. Rather, it's meant to be used as the starting point in the data-gathering process. Readers are encouraged to contact the companies directly for more information and to ask for--and check--references.

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