Why We’re Different

The London office of Horton International is genuine in its claim to be different for a number of reasons. Firstly, we undertake to project manage every single assignment to pre-determined delivery deadlines, so that our clients know when results will be produced and can plan accordingly.

We commission fresh research every time we start a new assignment, thereby guaranteeing that our clients have the most up-to-date market information on which to base decisions. We do not simply recycle old research lists or rely on a well-used database. This fresh research is presented formally to the client, on a pre-determined date in the form of a Research Report which gives a detailed breakdown and description of all the targets we have looked at and provides an indication, by way of one-page summaries, of the most likely and suitable candidates to be considered.

In addition to the Research Report, we also provide regular Progress Reports which aid us in project managing the assignment and allow our clients to monitor our performance. We believe in working ‘with’ our clients, not ‘for’ them and we view all our assignments as a partnership.

We do not claim to work with ‘the majority of companies’ in a particular industry – quite the opposite. We work with only a small number of clients in any one sector, thereby allowing us to adhere to a very strong ethical policy towards our ‘off-limits’ list. We want to offer our clients the widest possible pool of talent available and this can only be achieved by having a very small ‘off-limits’ list. We aim to work with our clients time and again and are more focussed on building a solid, working, long-term partnership, rather than any quick-win solution.

Our fresh research combined with our project management based approach and commitment to achieving pre-determined deadlines, means that we genuinely are different and this results in an extremely high success rate.