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The 21st of January marked a huge milestone in Harvey Nash's history; it was our twentieth birthday!

During 1987 four entrepreneurs – including David Higgins and Tom Crawford who are still with the company – recognised a major gap in the UK recruitment place for a company that focused on quality of service, and Harvey Nash was born on the 20th January 1988.

Although Harvey Nash is so much bigger than it was in those early days, the passion to make things happen and the entrepreneurial spirit is as strong today as it ever was.

History of Harvey Nash

1988 Tom Crawford, John Harvey, David Higgins and David Treacher established a Retained Search business focused on senior executives in the IT function as demand for IT skills takes off. Much of it is advertised in the print media.

1990 Recognising the global trend to flexible working David Treacher establishes an IT Contracts Division, the first step towards a portfolio of services.

1991 The company expands into Stuttgart, Germany to diversify its geographic footprint and reduce dependence on the UK economy.

1993 Executive Search expands into generalist markets such as finance, retail and later, healthcare.

1996 Harvey Nash IT expands into Switzerland with an office in Zurich.

Based on how successful the higher quality contingent permanent recruiters in IT were doing,

Tom Crawford sponsors the acquisition of Mortimer Spinks.

Harvey Nash starts the UK's first internet job site with Robert Walters and Computer People, a joint venture called "Taps", sold to Stepstone in 2000 which became Stepstone's UK job board.

1997 Harvey Nash successfully floats on the London Stock Exchange

1998 Belgium, the Netherlands and France are added to the European footprint

2000 Expanded into the world’s largest technology market, the USA
Established offshore development centre Hanoi, Vietnam.

Harvey Nash acquired Impact Executives from PA Consulting Group

2006 Group successfully expands its footprint across the US as well as opening its first office in Scotland.

2007 Sweden and Denmark are opened up through the successful merger of Alumni in Stockholm.

SilkRoad in Ho Chi Minh City is Harvey Nash's second office in Vietnam also delivering BPO services

Dublin, Ireland is added to the Group through the acquisition of Rescon
TechDiscovery in Atlanta becomes the first high level Technology Consulting service to be offered by Harvey Nash