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A timeline of our history | 1849 | Harding & Pullein founded in England. Joined by Frederick Whinney | | 1859 | Whinney made a partner | | 1864 | Thomas Clarkson starts a trustee and receivership firm in Toronto | | 1894 | Arthur Young starts his first firm, Stuart and Young, in Chicago
Harding & Pullein renamed Whinney, Smith & Whinney | | 1903 | Alwin and Theodore Ernst form Ernst & Ernst in Cleveland, US | | 1906 | Arthur and brother Stanley form Arthur Young & Company in Chicago | | 1924 | Arthur Young allies with Broad Paterson & Co, England
Ernst & Ernst allies with Whinney, Smith & Whinney | | 1939 | Clarkson allies with Woods Gordon & Co to expand into management consulting | | 1944 | Clarkson Gordon & Company allies with Arthur Young & Co | | 1979 | Ernst & Whinney forms and becomes the fourth largest accountancy firm in the world
Arthur Young’s European offices join several large local European firms | | 1989 | Arthur Young merges with Ernst & Whinney to create Ernst & Young | | 2000 | Ernst & Young unveils a new, integrated global organization |
A timeline of our Greater China history| 1968 | Arthur Young, a predecessor to Ernst & Young, opens an office in Hong Kong | | 1981 | We establish a China representative office in Beijing and are one of the first professional services networks to set up operations in mainland China | | 1986 | Taiwan practice becomes a member of the Ernst & Young network | | 1992 | We establish a cooperative joint venture organisation in Beijing called Ernst & Young Hua Ming | | 2001 | Ernst & Young China practice merges with Da Hua CPA in Shanghai | | 2007 | We mark the opening of our 10th office in China, in Chengdu
We announce far-reaching globalisation moves. Our practices across 15 countries and territories integrate into a single Far East Area, part of which includes Greater China | | 2008 | We continue to expand rapidly in China to meet client needs, bringing the total number of locations to 14 in China, after opening in Hangzhou, Qingdao, Tianjin and Xiamen
We have a network of 20 offices in Greater China with 10,000 people | | 2010 | The Asia-Pacific Area has brought together five effective Sub-Areas — and has been operational since 1 July 2010 — creating a consistent and streamlined execution model |
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