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Wipro announces that it is launching a strategic cybersecurity consulting offering in Europe

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Wipro announces that it is launching a strategic cybersecurity consulting offering in Europe

Wipro Limited, a technology services and consulting company, announces that it is launching a strategic cybersecurity consulting offering in Europe.

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Amethis promotes Toufic Khoueiry (ex-Strategy&) to partner

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Amethis promotes Toufic Khoueiry (ex-Strategy&) to partner

Private equity investor Amethis has promoted Toufic Khoueiry – a former consultant at Strategy& – to partner. He becomes the eleventh partner of the Paris-headquartered firm.

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Estee Lauder to buy fashion label Tom Ford in $2.8 billion deal

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Estee Lauder to buy fashion label Tom Ford in $2.8 billion deal

Estee Lauder Cos Inc (EL.N) said it agreed to buy U.S. fashion label Tom Ford for $2.8 billion, its biggest deal yet, adding a line of beauty products and apparel to the Clinique brand owner's portfolio.

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Global luxury goods market takes 2022 leap forward and remains poised for further growth despite economic turbulence

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Global luxury goods market takes 2022 leap forward and remains poised for further growth despite economic turbulence

The US and Europe are still leading while new luxury markets are emerging. In 2022, the luxury market generated positive growth for 95% of brands.

  • The global luxury market is projected to grow by 21% in 2022, reaching €1.4 trillion; the personal luxury goods market is expected to show accelerated growth of 22% to €353 billion

  • The personal luxury market is projected to see further growth of at least 3-8% next year, even given a downturn in global economic conditions, and to 2030, by when the market value is expected to climb to around €540-580 billion, a rise of 60% or more compared to 2022

  • Generational trends are a powerful driver, with ‘Gen Y’ and ‘Gen Z’ continue leading the growth this year, and spending by Gen Z and ‘Gen Alpha’ set to grow some three times faster than for other generations until 2030, by when they will make up a third of the market

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Boston Consulting Group Appoints David Webb Chief Sustainability Officer

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Boston Consulting Group Appoints David Webb Chief Sustainability Officer

Boston Consulting Group (BCG), one of the world’s leading management consulting firms, has named David Webb the firm’s Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO).

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PwC buys data consultancy Sagence

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PwC buys data consultancy Sagence

PwC US has acquired Sagence, a Chicago-based data management and analytics consulting firm.

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Capgemini wins DWP DevOps deal

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Capgemini wins DWP DevOps deal

Capgemini continues to deepen its relationship with DWP, one of the strategic accounts within its UK public sector business. It has won a contract, to deliver outcome-based DevOps Services to support the DWP electronic exchange of social security information (EESSI).

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HBR Consulting Fuels Continued Growth by Attracting Strategic Investment in Advisory Business from Renovus Capital

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HBR Consulting Fuels Continued Growth by Attracting Strategic Investment in Advisory Business from Renovus Capital

HBR Consulting (HBR), the legal industry's leading strategy, operations and technology consulting firm, is pleased to announce an agreement with private equity firm Renovus Capital (Renovus) as a strategic capital partner to acquire HBR's Advisory business, effective November 10, 2022.

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Kearney acquires OPTANO, a leading provider of AI-powered operations solutions

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Kearney acquires OPTANO, a leading provider of AI-powered operations solutions

Trusted advisor in operations consulting adds world-class provider of AI capabilities

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 Accenture to Acquire ALBERT After Completing Tender Offer

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Accenture to Acquire ALBERT After Completing Tender Offer

Accenture (NSE: ACN) is to acquire Japanese data science company ALBERT Inc. (President and CEO: Tokyo Stock Exchange Growth Market, Securities Code: 3906), after completing a tender offer. The acquisition will add a large team of data scientists to Accenture to further strengthen its data and AI capabilities for clients.

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MENA region records 524 M&A deals worth US$55.2b in 9M 2022

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MENA region records 524 M&A deals worth US$55.2b in 9M 2022

Top five MENA target countries by deal value were UAE, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Morocco and Oman

  • Domestic deals driving M&A activity in region, making up more than half of deal volume in the first nine months of 2022

  • Deal activity fueled by business-friendly reforms, rising oil prices and the easing of government travel restrictions

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Jason Miller joins AlixPartners as managing director in digital practice

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Jason Miller joins AlixPartners as managing director in digital practice

Jason Miller, an IT consulting expert based in Chicago, has joined AlixPartners as a managing director in the digital practice.

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Alvarez & Marsal launches digital agency arm 'A&MPLIFY'

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Alvarez & Marsal launches digital agency arm 'A&MPLIFY'

Management consultancy Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) yesterday announced the launch of Amplify (stylized as “A&MPLIFY”), the firm’s new digital agency arm.

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Analysys Mason names Giovanni Parenti leader of Milan office

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Analysys Mason names Giovanni Parenti leader of Milan office

Global management consultancy Analysys Mason has appointed Giovanni Parenti as partner and head of its Milan office.

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Oliver Wyman promotes Dominik Böhler to partner

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Oliver Wyman promotes Dominik Böhler to partner

Global management consulting firm Oliver Wyman has appointed a record-number of new partners worldwide, with Dominik Böhler the sole Dutch inclusion.

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Eurogroup Consulting promotes four to partner in France

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Eurogroup Consulting promotes four to partner in France

International management consultancy Eurogroup Consulting has appointed four new partners in its home market France.

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Inverto doubles down in home base Germany with two new offices

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Inverto doubles down in home base Germany with two new offices

European procurement and supply chain consultancy Inverto is doubling down on its German ambitions, simultaneously opening two new offices.

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Ross Evans joins PwC’s Risk Modelling Services unit as a Partner

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Ross Evans joins PwC’s Risk Modelling Services unit as a Partner

Ross Evans has joined PwC UK as a partner in the Risk Modelling Services (RMS) business unit within the Risk line of service.

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Bain & Company joins forces with Sylvera to accelerate growth of the voluntary carbon market and provide unparalleled transparency on carbon credit quality to businesses and investors

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Bain & Company joins forces with Sylvera to accelerate growth of the voluntary carbon market and provide unparalleled transparency on carbon credit quality to businesses and investors

Bain & Company today announced a strategic partnership with, and investment in, Sylvera, the leading carbon ratings platform helping to strengthen the transparency of carbon markets worldwide, boosting their accountability and credibility by applying robust proprietary analytics and independent ratings to carbon projects.

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Kearney acquires OPTANO, a leading provider of AI-powered operations solutions

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Kearney acquires OPTANO, a leading provider of AI-powered operations solutions

Kearney, the leading global management consulting firm, today announced that it has acquired OPTANO, a top European provider of AI-powered operations optimization solutions. Now operating as "OPTANO, a Kearney company," OPTANO will support Kearney on operations engagements, chiefly in AI-powered end-to-end supply chain projects and large-scale operations transformations while continuing working with its existing clients.

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