Mazars
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| Type | Société Anonyme |
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| Founded | Rouen, France (1940) |
| Headquarters | Paris,  France |
| Key people | Robert Mazars, foundator Patrick de Cambourg, Current CEO |
| Industry | Professional services |
| Products | Audit Chartered Accountant Consulting Financial advisory |
| Revenue |  €550 millions Euro (2006) |
| Employees | 5.600 (2006) |
| Website | www.mazars.com |
Mazars is an international accounting and audit firm, with its head office based in France.
Mazars employs 5,300 professional workers in 38 different countries in 2006[1]. Additionally Mazars has a network of correspondent partners in a further 20 countries employing 1,500 as well as a joint venture in the USA with nearly 6,000 employees.
Mazars is ranked as the fifth largest accountancy firm in Europe. Mazars operates as a single entity as a fully integrated partnership. This is still unusual for an accounting firm, and as such Mazars is the largest integrated partnership in the world. Some of the Big Four firms are moving towards a fully integrated structure, which may eventually mean they are larger.
In 2006, the global revenue of Mazars is over €550 millions Euro.
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[edit] History
[edit] France
The original Mazars firm was formed in Rouen, normandy in France in 1940, by Robert Mazars. Mazars stayed a local firm until 1980s when the new CEO Patrick de Cambourg started to internationalize the firm growing the business from 33 employees in 1977 to the global firm of today.
Mazars merged with accounting firm "Guérard Viala" to form "Mazars & Guérard" in 1995.
[edit] United Kingdom
On 1 September 1998 "Mazars & Guerard" merged with the British accountancy firm "Neville Russell" and traded, in the UK, for a number of years as "Mazars Neville Russell". In 2002, "Mazars Neville Russell", as well as its counterpart firms across Europe, changed the name to become simply Mazars. Mazars currently employs 1,000 people in 18 offices[2] in the UK and turnover is around €100m.[3]
"Neville Russell" was founded in 1900 by Charles Neville Russell to work principally with the insurance sector of the economy. Neville Russell developed a reputation in London of being specialists in this area.
[edit] Holland
In 2000 Mazars integrated "Paardekooper Hoffman" (of the Netherlands), which employed 800 people. In the Dutch audit market Mazars ranks as the sixth largest firm and contibutes more than 15% of the total global turnover.
Jan Paardekooper founded "Paardekooper & Hoffman" in 1927. The firm worked with large clients involved in the maritime and harbour businesses of Rotterdam.
[edit] Management
- Group Executive Board (2006-2009)
- Chairman : Patrick de Cambourg, French
- Member : Jos van Huut, Dutch
- Member : Philippe Castagnac, French
- Member : David Evans, British
[edit] Externals links
- (French) Official website in French
- (English) Official website in English
- (English) Official website in the UK
