sterling quality services ltd (SQS)
Manchester, United Kingdom
September 2025
Other renewable energy installation
Service with Minor Environmental Footprint
Australia,
Austria,
Belgium,
Canada,
China,
Czech Republic,
Denmark,
Estonia,
Finland,
France,
Germany,
Hungary,
India,
Ireland,
Italy,
Japan,
Luxembourg,
Malaysia,
Mexico,
Netherlands The,
Norway,
Poland,
Portugal,
Romania,
Saudi Arabia,
Singapore,
South Korea,
Spain,
Sweden,
Switzerland,
Taiwan,
Thailand,
Turkey,
United Arab Emirates,
United Kingdom,
United States,
Vanuatu,
Vietnam
SQS provides three core services to support quality and sustainability in global supply chains: 1. Vendor assessments & Inspection – On-site and remote inspections to verify product quality, compliance, sustainability and specification. 2. Expediting – Monitoring and reporting on supplier progress to ensure timely delivery and reduce risk. 3. Carbon Reduction Assurance – Analysis, scenario planning, tailored platform for managing carbon reduction and independent verification and support for ISO 14068 compliance, including Scope 1–3 emissions analysis and offset validation. Operating in 48 countries with over 2,000 inspectors, SQS combines deep industry expertise with innovative tools like AI-driven remote inspections. As a BCorp, we’re committed to ethical business, carbon reduction, and helping clients build resilient, responsible supply chains.
Overall B Impact Score
Governance 17.1
Governance evaluates a company's overall mission, engagement around its social/environmental impact, ethics, and transparency. This section also evaluates the ability of a company to protect their mission and formally consider stakeholders in decision making through their corporate structure (e.g. benefit corporation) or corporate governing documents.
What is this? A company with an Impact Business Model is intentionally designed to create a specific positive outcome for one of its stakeholders - such as workers, community, environment, or customers.
Workers 25.6
Workers evaluates a company’s contributions to its employees’ financial security, health & safety, wellness, career development, and engagement & satisfaction. In addition, this section recognizes business models designed to benefit workers, such as companies that are at least 40% owned by non-executive employees and those that have workforce development programs to support individuals with barriers to employment.
Community 25.2
Community evaluates a company’s engagement with and impact on the communities in which it operates, hires from, and sources from. Topics include diversity, equity & inclusion, economic impact, civic engagement, charitable giving, and supply chain management. In addition, this section recognizes business models that are designed to address specific community-oriented problems, such as poverty alleviation through fair trade sourcing or distribution via microenterprises, producer cooperative models, locally focused economic development, and formal charitable giving commitments.
Environment 16.6
Environment evaluates a company’s overall environmental management practices as well as its impact on the air, climate, water, land, and biodiversity. This includes the direct impact of a company’s operations and, when applicable its supply chain and distribution channels. This section also recognizes companies with environmentally innovative production processes and those that sell products or services that have a positive environmental impact. Some examples might include products and services that create renewable energy, reduce consumption or waste, conserve land or wildlife, provide less toxic alternatives to the market, or educate people about environmental problems.
What is this? A company with an Impact Business Model is intentionally designed to create a specific positive outcome for one of its stakeholders - such as workers, community, environment, or customers.
Customers 4.4
Customers evaluates a company’s stewardship of its customers through the quality of its products and services, ethical marketing, data privacy and security, and feedback channels. In addition, this section recognizes products or services that are designed to address a particular social problem for or through its customers, such as health or educational products, arts & media products, serving underserved customers/clients, and services that improve the social impact of other businesses or organizations.