written like an advertisement . please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view . december 2013 learn how and when to remove this template message transearch international type limited company industry executive search founded april 2 1982 1982 04 02 headquarters london united kingdom number of locations 57 partner offices in 38 countries area served international website transearch.com transearch international is one of the leading executive search network organisations in the world . 1 headquartered in europe they have representation in the americas asia pacific europe middle east and africa . executive recruiter news ern currently rates the firm as the 10th largest global executive search firm . 1 transearch international is organized in partner offices by market expertise business function and geographic location . 2 3 4 contents 1 origins of the company name 2 history 3 milestones 4 see also 5 references 6 external links origins of the company name edit one of the firm s founders alain tanugi current chairman had a vision of creating a global network of wholly owned executive search firms operating under one brand . the name transearch is derived from this vision trans meaning through or transcontinental and search referring to the nature of the business executive search . history edit transearch international which founded on the april 2 1982 . the founding took place from 6 offices and 20 consultants who have given the brand name transearch . the network quickly grew to 25 offices in 1989 and in 1990 was ranked as the 10th largest executive search firm ito revenue globally by the executive recruiter news ern . in 1998 the network had 68 offices in 40 countries and was the second largest network worldwide in terms of office representation . when the dot com bubble burst in 2001 the majority of executive search firms faced a decline in demand for executive search services which lasted until about 2003 2004 depending on the location and the sector of specialisation . in 2006 transearch showed a 28.6 % growth almost 10 % higher than the average rate of growth for the executive search industry . in 2007 the transearch child fund was created . 5 milestones edit 1989 15 network members 1990 ranked as 10th largest search network globally by executive recruiter news ern 1991 alain tanugi takes over as chairman 1994 launch 1st website 1997 global billings exceed us 50million 1998 68 offices 40 countries second largest worldwide by global comparison 2003 open find a new partner offices in bangkok thailand and hong kong china 2005 open find a new partner offices in new york and new delhi 2006 open find a new partner offices in helsinki london 2006 28.6 % growth in revenues 2007 open find a new partner offices in warsaw mexico city st. petersburg and moscow 2007 global billings exceed us 12million 2007 ranked as 10th largest search firm globally by executive recruiter news ern . kennedy information executive recruiter news 2007 2007 25th anniversary 2008 ranked as 9th largest search firm globally by executive recruiter news ern . 1 2008 named in the 100 most influential headhunters in the world business week article 6 2011 open find a new partner office in nigeria 2011 57 partner offices 38 countries 2012 30th anniversary see also edit association of executive search consultants executive search recruitment onboarding references edit a b c http www.kennedyinfo.com executive recruiter news kennedy information executive recruiter news 2006 2007 2008 cite error invalid ref tag ; name kennedy defined multiple times with different content see the help page . transearch international expertise . http www.askgrapevine.com publications http nancygarrisonjenn.com headhunters.html http www.transearchchildfund.org http images.businessweek.com ss 08 02 0204 headhunters index 01.htm chan careers special report worlds most influential headhunters world % 27s most influential headhunters external links edit transearch international executive search and recruitment firm transearch child fund foundation assisting under privileged children in the third world child fund foundation project video of the opening ceremony of its first project which entailed building a school 100 km from hanoi in vietnam headhunters and how to use them nancy garrison jenn transearch international blog retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title transearch international & oldid 705497916 categories executive search firmscompanies established in 1982companies of the united kingdom1982 establishments in englandhidden categories pages with reference errorspages with duplicate reference namesarticles with a promotional tone from december 2013all articles with a promotional tone navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutsch edit links this page was last modified on 17 february 2016 at 21 14 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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