Horváth-Group

Horváth is an international, independent management consultancy with over 1,400 employees in locations in Europe, the United States, and others. The company carries out projects focused on performance management.

Consulting profile
Horváth provides management consulting services. Horváth is a member of the international Cordence Worldwide consulting network.

History
The company was founded in October 1981 by university professors Péter Horváth and Erich Zahn, as well as entrepreneur Hans-Georg Winderlich, as the IFUA Institut für Unternehmensanalysen. In the following years, former PhD students of Horváth entered the young company and later held important management positions: Bernd Gaiser, Michael Kieninger, Reinhold Mayer, Andreas Renner and Christof Schimank. After the death of Hans-Georg Winderlich and the separation of Erich Zahn in 1989, the company was continued as IFUA Horváth & Partner GmbH. Together with his partners, Péter Horváth encouraged the development of new control methods in his company. In the mid-1990s, he was involved in introducing the concept of the balanced scorecard in Europe.

In 2000, the company reorganized itself: Horváth AG was founded as a holding company of the Horváth & Partners group and issue areas, and industry expertise was bundled into competence centers. Péter Horváth took over the Chairmanship of the Board. The Board and the Partners are responsible for the management of the holding and its subsidiaries.

In 2006, the company became a member of Cordence Worldwide, an international network of independent consulting companies. In 2008, the company reached 400 employees, and the group surmounted €100 million in sales for the first time.

With offices in Riyadh (2015), Dubai (2018), Atlanta (2019), Rome (2021) and Copenhagen (2022), Horváth is currently represented with 13 offices in 9 countries and employs more than 1,400 people. With the shortening of the brand name from Horváth & Partners to Horváth, the brand identity changed in April 2021 with the introduction of the double rhombus trademark. In terms of turnover, Horváth is the fourth largest business consultancy with German origin, with the last sales of €300 million. With retroactive effect from 1 January, Horváth has taken over Interim-X, a Munich-based platform specialising in the placement of interim managers.

Awards
In the “Best of Consulting” competition run by the German economics magazine WirtschaftsWoche since 2010, Horváth was recognized for the twelfth time as one of the best management consulting firms in Germany in different categories.

Together with Statista, brand eins has examined the management consulting market for the eleventh time in a row and included Horváth among the best consultants of the year 2024, where we are represented in the ranking with a total of 14 consulting fields and industries.

Literature

 * Michael Buttkus, Ralf Eberenz: Performance Management in Retail and the Consumer Goods Industry. Springer 2019. ISBN 978-3-030-12730-5
 * Horváth: The Controlling Concept. Verlag Vahlen. ISBN 978-3-8006-5380-5