Lloyd's Register Quality Assurance Announces New Management Structure and Stronger Position for the Future.

HOUSTON -- Lloyd's Register Quality Assurance, Inc (LRQA), a member of the Lloyd's Register Group, and a leader in the provision of Business Assurance services, prepares for a stronger market position as it announces the restructuring of the management team in its North American business center. With an increasingly growing client base throughout the region, the restructuring will help LRQA sharpen its focus on building stronger client relationships and on leveraging its management teams' experience and expertise for entry into new markets.

Kunden Dhillon, appointed Vice President of Lloyd's Register Quality Assurance, Inc., will have full responsibility for business-center activities in the North American market and for implementing key strategies within the region. Dhillon, who joined LRQA in 1993, offers extensive experience in international client management, business development, and management system assessment. He joins newly appointed management for the areas of Client Services, Client Relationship, Business Process, Operations, and Marketing.

"As an integral part of our global 5-year strategy, redefinition of our North American management team offers the ability for us to leverage our strengths locally in support of global initiatives. Our new management team holds a wealth of experience, exceptional leadership skills, and a keen understanding, not only of LRQA's business, but of the business of our clients and the extensive markets we face," says Andrew Smith, Senior Vice President, Lloyd's Register Americas Management Systems.

"This improved structure allows us the opportunity to branch into new areas and lays the ground work to leverage our Business Assurance approach in a way that will enhance and position LRQA for the future," comments Smith. "We're enabling ourselves to be proactive, to look at things in a new way - with new ideas, new roles, and more innovative approaches."

NOTES TO EDITORS

1. LRQA is a leading global business assurance company and a market leader in the provision of assessment, certification, verification and training services in quality, environmental, health and safety, food safety, corporate social responsibility and security. LRQA works across global supply chains, serving a range of industrial, commercial and public organizations and business sectors worldwide, including manufacturing, automotive, aerospace, defense, engineering, chemical, medical, food and retail.

2. Lloyd's Register is an independent risk management organization. The Lloyd's Register Group works to help improve its clients' quality, safety, environmental and business performance throughout the world, because life matters.