Robert Horton International was founded in 1978 in Avon, Connecticut, by Bob Horton. Even then he had a vision of creating a global organisation for executive search. During the 80s, various bilateral co-operation agreements were signed between European executive search companies and Horton International.
But it was only in 1991 that Horton International held its public "start-up meeting" in Paris with representatives from France, Italy, Spain, Germany, the UK and the USA as participants. Since the Paris meeting, more regular and ever better organised meetings have been held, both global and regional.
Since then, the number of affiliated companies has increased rapidly, and Horton International is now represented in nearly 50 locations round the world, by approximately 130 consultants, making Horton International one of the leading executive search consulting groups in the world.
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