Crowe history

1921 – Reputation in market grows.

1924 – Established a university training program for accountants in the hospitality sector.

Crowe Chizek was established in South Bend, Indiana, in 1942 by Fred P. Crowe Sr. and Cletus F. Chizek.

Following the death of Crowe in 1952, Chizek reorganized the firm as Crowe, Chizek and Company and two firm personnel, M. Mendel Piser and Fred P. Crowe Jr., became partners.

1960 – Horwath & Horwath International established to develop international business and relationships throughout member firms.

In 1962, the first legal partnership of Crowe, Chizek and Company was formulated with six founding partners: Chizek, Piser, Crowe Jr., Robert W. Green, Joseph A. Bauters and John J. Pairitz.

1963 – 21 member firms, 21 countries, 15 offices in the US, 4 offices in Latin America.

In 1966, a second Crowe office opened in Elkhart, Indiana.

1967 – Merger with Laventhol Krekstein Griffith & Co – becoming Laventhol & Horwath.

1972 – 13th largest international accounting organization in the world

By 1979, the firm had annual revenue of $5.6 million, 126 personnel and three offices.

M. Mendel Piser, one of the firm’s original founding partners, retired from his position as managing partner of the firm in 1982 and was succeeded by Ronald S. Cohen.

1989 – Firm name simplified to Horwath International.

1991 – Crowe Chizek, a Midwest accounting firm, joined the network.

1994 – First international accounting organization to have a Chinese member firm.

1996 -- Horwath ACF was created since then has grown to become one of the best accounting firm in Tunisia.

By 1999, Crowe had annual revenue of $144.9 million, 1,137 personnel and 11 offices.

2001 – Development of Pinnacle brand identity.

2005 – Over 100 member firms and nearly 20,000 people across the globe.

2008 – Member firms voted to change the firm’s name to Crowe Horwath international.

By 2009, Crowe had consolidated revenue of $575.9 million, 2,427 personnel and 25 offices.

After serving as Crowe’s COO for five years, Kevin McGrath became CEO at Crowe Horwath International, effective July 1, 2012.

Crowe was ranked on the InformationWeek 500 list for the first time, and made the list again in 2013.

2017 – Crowe Horwath network grows to become the 8th largest network in the world with over 765 offices in 130 countries and 35,000 people.

2018 – David Mellor from UK representative firm takes over from Kevin McGrath as CEO of the network and member firms voted again to change the firm’s name to Crowe Global.

By 2019, Crowe had consolidated revenue of $951.9 million, 4,568 personnel and 39 offices.

Crowe is a public accounting, consulting and technology firm in the United States with offices around the world and $926 million in revenue for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2020.