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Project management and consultancy group WYG has agreed to be taken over by US consultancy giant Tetra Tech for £43.4m. Under the terms of the offer made by Tetra Tech, WYG shareholders will receive 55p per share, representing a 244% premium on last Friday’s closing price.
Two experts with experience in investigations and financial fraud have joined FTI Consulting in Washington, DC, Houston, Texas, while there is a promotion in New York.
Oyster Consulting announced today that Mark O’Connor joins the firm as a Relationship Manager, expanding Oyster’s ability to provide consistent, high-quality compliance, outsourcing and software services to financial services industry clients.
Investment banking and strategy consulting are like avocados and quinoa: both attract the elite (or, in the words of one ex-McKinsey director, “insecure, deeply left-brain, hyper-intellectual, OCD over-achievers.”). Both pay well. Both involve some serious commitments of your time and some heavy academic achievements.
Global consulting firm Slalom has chosen Manchester as the location for its second UK office.
Partnering with over 200 solution providers including Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Salesforce, Microsoft, and Tableau, Slalom helps companies tackle ambitious projects and build new capabilities.
Slalom opened its first UK office in London in 2014.
“Manchester is a city of digital enterprise with strengths in a wide range of industries, including manufacturing, healthcare, utilities, and consumer services; which perfectly complements Slalom’s breadth of expertise,” said Dave Williams, Slalom UK Country Managing Director. “We’re looking forward to helping our clients solve their biggest challenges while we also invest in the local community.”
Based at Peter House, the Slalom Manchester office is looking to tap into the city’s talent pool as well as invest in the development of its existing team members to grow its UK reputation. The firm plans to employ over 200 people in Manchester by 2025.
“Greater Manchester is a hotbed for collaboration and innovation, making it the ideal location for pioneering businesses like Slalom,” said Tim Newns, Chief Executive of MIDAS, Manchester’s inward investment agency.
“There are strong complementarities between Slalom and Greater Manchester’s efforts to collaborate with companies going through digital transformation and supporting them to grow within the region. Establishing operations within one of Europe’s largest digital and technology clusters will provide the consulting firm with ample opportunities to join forces with the rapidly increasing number of world-leading brands that are choosing Manchester.”
Slalom Managing Director Paul Squire, who will move from the London office to head up operations in Manchester, said, “I’m excited about working with our clients in the North West of England, helping them deliver people-centric change, bring strategic solutions to life, and ultimately, love their future.”
Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Seattle, Slalom has grown to over 6,500 employees.
Sourced from Business Leader - written by Joanna Jones
Hugo Raaijmakers has joined global innovation and transformation consultancy PA Consulting (PA) as a partner based in Utrecht, The Netherlands
Ricardo PLC on Monday said it acquired Australia-based railway consultancy firm Transport Engineering Pty Ltd for a maximum of GBP28.9 million in cash.
FTI Consulting, announced the continued growth of its South African practice with the addition of a team of eight experts from Econex, a leading trade, competition and applied economics consultancy firm. The team will be led in Cape Town by Professor Nicola Theron, a Senior Managing Director who previously served as Econex’s Managing Director.
Netherlands Gasunie (Gasunie), a European gas infrastructure company, and Accenture (NYSE: ACN) have built and deployed a new digital natural gas transport management system (GTMS), designed to help better manage the Dutch gas grid, which transports natural gas, hydrogen and green gas from biomass.
One of the big stories in the marcomms industry over the past few years has been the rise of the consultancies – PwC, Accenture, Deloitte, Ernst & Young, Grant Thornton, McKinsey et al – as major players in the mergers and acquisition (M&A) space.
Accepting a job is like a legal marriage. You can usually leave at any time, but the associated costs can really add up. Job switching costs for an employee, both in time and money, are high. Firing, for a firm, is equally expensive. There’s the severance cost, the training costs, the cost of the burden placed on existing employees who have to temporarily pick up the slack. And in countries with rigid employee protection regulation, firing costs easily skyrocket.
While it goes without saying that every internship is unique, there are some points of commonality between internships at EY, Deloitte, PwC and KPMG. The workloads may vary - but the emphasis on training is huge.
Accenture Interactive is to acquire creative agency Droga5.
The deal will see Droga5, which has 500 employees spanning offices in New York and London, become a major part of the management consultancy's marketing and customer experience division.
Robert Quinn Consulting Limited (RQC) and Capricorn Fund Managers Limited (CFM) have partnered to create a unique new discretionary management regulatory hosting platform, Capricorn Regulatory Hosting.
MPs are calling for the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to aim for the full structural break-up of the Big Four firms into audit and non-audit businesses, along with a market cap and the use of joint audits, in order to tackle conflicts of interest, develop the market for challenger firms and increase professional scepticism
The median gender pay gap at KPMG, when taking into account the data for equity partners’ pay, has risen to 28% in the past 12 months
Cognizant has been named the number one service provider to the healthcare sector in HFS Research’s HFS Top 10 Healthcare Services 2018.
Health care is the improvement or maintenance of health through diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of illness, disease, injury, and other ailments or impairments, both physically and mentally in human beings.
Boston Consulting Group (BCG), one of the world's leading management consulting firms, announced today global sales of $7.5 billion for 2018, with underlying revenue growth reaching 19% at constant exchange rates.
NNIT A/S announces that it has acquired Halfmann Goetsch Partner AG (HGP). The acquisition provides NNIT with a stronger presence in European life sciences hubs Frankfurt and Basel, and strengthens its position as an international leading IT transformation partner for life sciences companies.
