MSD Partners, the investment firm that grew out of Michael Dell’s family office, has agreed to take a 50% stake in digital consulting firm West Monroe
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Europe’s largest economy is particularly vulnerable to shortages of key parts and raw materials because of its dependence on exports.
FRANKFURT — In Germany, where one in four jobs depends on exports, the crisis gumming up the world’s supply chains is weighing heavily on the economy, which is Europe’s largest and a linchpin to global commerce.
Recent surveys and data point to a sharp slowdown of the German manufacturing powerhouse, and economists have begun to predict a “bottleneck recession.”
Almost everything that German factories need to operate is in short supply, not just computer chips but also plywood, copper, aluminium, plastics and raw materials like cobalt, lithium, nickel and graphite, which are crucial ingredients of electric car batteries.
The auto industry has been hit the hardest. Opel, a unit of Stellantis, the company that owns Jeep and Fiat, said in September that it would shut down a factory in Eisenach until next year because of a shortage of semiconductors. The plant’s 1,300 workers will be furloughed.
More than 40 percent of German companies said they had lost sales because of supply problems in an August survey by the Association of German Chambers of Industry and Commerce. Europewide, exports would have been 7 percent higher in the first six months of the year if not for supply bottlenecks, according to the European Central Bank.
While every economy in the world is suffering from shortages, Germany is particularly sensitive because of its dependence on manufacturing and trade. Nearly half of Germany’s economic output depends on exports of cars, machine tools and other goods, compared with only 12 percent in the United States.
Because Germany is a nation of factories, “the impact is dramatic,” said Oliver Knapp, a senior partner at Roland Berger, a Munich-based consultancy.
The country is also facing a period of political uncertainty. Elections last month left no party with a clear majority, and there is a risk that whatever coalition government emerges will lack enough cohesion to act decisively.
Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. has turned its sights on the $300 billion business-to-business ecommerce and the direct-to-consumer side of retail as an area for new business growth and to help global clients tap customer insights.
Honda Motor Europe has signed IBM on a five-year deal that will see the latter company manage and run the former firm's finance and procurement operations across Europe.
The new offices, in Manchester, Edinburgh, Newcastle, Nottingham and Cheltenham are part of Bridewell’s growth strategy, enabling the company to meet an expected 50% increase in demand for its global cyber security services and 24×7 managed detection and responses services this year.
Innovative management consulting firm, Genioo, has announced the opening of the company's first London office, giving their growing UK team a base, whilst enabling the firm to access great talent and serve clients locally in the UK.
The KPMG Middle East and South Asia (MESA) region’s Board has announced the appointment of Nader Haffar as its Chairman, effective 1 October, 2021
KPMG has announced the appointment of Shepard (“Colie”) Spink, the former managing partner for A&M Capital Europe, as the new senior advisor to its UK Deal Advisory practice.
Accenture PLC said it acquired Advoco, a systems integrator for Infor EAM software-as-a-service for enterprise asset management.
Capgemini announced that it has been positioned as a “Leader” in the 2021 Gartner® Magic Quadrant for IT Services for Communications Service Providers, Worldwide for completeness of vision and ability to execute.
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It has been a difficult month for the car industry. Manufacturers such as Toyota and General Motors have announced sweeping reductions to their fall production schedules for want of parts, particularly semiconductors.
IBM has partnered with Atos, the closest thing it has to an equal in Europe, to help boost the digital transformation and cloud migration initiatives for banks and insurance companies in a project called Atos Cloud Centre of Excellence.
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The North West practice at Deloitte grew to almost 1,000 people in a financial year when the wider company's revenue reached almost £4.5bn.
Professional services firms in the UK have warned of growing “white collar” labour shortages as businesses fight it out for top talent amid the economic recovery from the coronavirus crisis.
Some City of London firms have even started to turn away work due to a lack of staff, according to business leaders.
ECG Management Consultants, a national healthcare consulting firm, has promoted company veteran Christopher Collins to the president. He remains based in Boston.