The Institute for Marketecology (IMO) is an international certification and inspection agency founded in Switzerland in 1990. From the very beginning IMO has worked internationally. Our philosophy has always been to collaborate with the people living in the countries where it is operating or has had opportunities to operate. This approach has allowed IMO to open new offices through joint ventures with local individuals or organisations and has allowed it to support emerging local certification bodies seeking to create their own structure and to achieve accreditation. In this way, little by little, the developing idea of creating an organised structure for collaboration and exchange among all IMO offices, inspectors and representatives spread over the world. This network is now called the IMO Group, and its activities are coordinated by the IMO head office in Switzerland.