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The latest news in the consulting industry in the UK. An overview of consulting news, research and firm updates.

The 25 most attractive UK business locations for FDI Foreign Direct Investment is a major component of delivering growth helping to drive GDP, foster innovation, enhance productivity and create jobs.
23 November 2015
Sales of small motorcycles and mopeds halves in 8 years Sales of small motorcycles and mopeds in Europe dropped by more than 60% between 2007 and 2014.
23 November 2015
Nationwide awards five year IT contract to Capgemini Building society Nationwide has hired Capgemini to support it with transforming its key IT infrastructure.
23 November 2015
Five lessons charities can learn from business strategy The recent collapse of Kids Company has shocked UK’s charity sector.
23 November 2015
McKinsey launches Next Generation Women Leaders McKinsey & Company has launched the ‘Next Generation Women Leaders Award’, a scholarship programme for talented women.
23 November 2015
Premier League and clubs add 3.4 billion to UK economy As football continues to grow, so does its economic impact – last season the Premier League, UK’s top football league and its clubs contributed £3.36 billion to the nation’s GDP.
23 November 2015
Kim Honess re-joins Benefits unit of Towers Watson Towers Watson has re-hired Kim Honess as its Head of Flexible Benefits Consulting, after she joined Mercer in 2010. In this capacity, she will put her flexible benefits experience of more than a decade to work to lead and grow the firm’s flex
23 November 2015
Britain attracts 800,000 football tourists, adds 1 billion Last year the UK pocketed €940 million from tourists who came to attend a football matches in its stadiums.
20 November 2015
Kilian Gourcuff re-joins M&A firm Capitalmind in Paris Capitalmind, a corporate finance firm with offices in France, Netherlands and Denmark, has bolstered its French team with Kilian Gourcuff.
20 November 2015
Steer Davies Gleave helps Kingston with cycling project Transport consultancy Steer Davies Gleave has helped the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames secure £30 million in funding as part of a wider scheme to boost the cycling landscape.
20 November 2015
EY appoints Omar Ali as UK Financial Services Leader EY has appointed banking expert Omar Ali as its new UK Financial Services Leader. Ali, who has been with the firm since 2001, will leverage his almost 15 years’ experience to help EY’s global clients adapt to the changing financial serv
20 November 2015
Accenture to equip 6.000 Africans with skills to succeed Accenture has, as part of its ‘Skills to Succeed’ initiative, donated $2.2 million to Plan Netherlands*, in the form of both funds and pro bono services.
20 November 2015
Demand for consulting growing, but changing rapidly Demand for consulting is growing, but is also changing rapidly writes Phil Dunmore, Head of Cognizant’s UK Consulting business.
20 November 2015
Comatch expands into freelancing hotspot Netherlands Comatch, a German digital platform for finding and staffing management consultants, has expanded its wings into the Netherland.
19 November 2015
Jason Warnes joins London office of Deloitte Digital Deloitte has named Jason Warnes as a partner in its design and development agency, Deloitte Digital. Warner joins from TH_NK and prior to that AKQA, where he was Managing Director, and brings 18 years’ marketing experience to the role./
19 November 2015
Grant Thornton Russia moves over to rival Baker Tilly Grant Thornton Russia has decided to merge with Baker Tilly Russaudit, the Russian member firm of Baker Tilly International*.
19 November 2015
Indian insurers spend 2.1 billion on IT and technology The IT budgets of Indian insurance companies for 2016 is heading towards $2.11 billion, as they spend more on IT products and services, research by Gartner shows.
19 November 2015
McKinsey partner Maria Fernanda Souto joins Qvartz QVARTZ, a management consultancy based in the Nordics, has bolstered its Norwegian partner team with Maria Fernanda Souto, who joins the Oslo office after more than ten years with McKinsey & Company.
19 November 2015
PwC: UK businesses still fail to take on cyber security Information security remains a key challenge for businesses around the world, as adversaries become more and more sophisticated.
19 November 2015
Baringa adds partner to its Energy practice in Germany Management consultancy Baringa Partners has appointed Christoph Müser as a partner.
18 November 2015
Capgemini launches TechFuture Women's Network To help women working in technology inspire a new generation, Capgemini, Apps for Good and Tech Partnership have launched the TechFuture Women’s Network.
18 November 2015
KPMG sets up at Interchange, start-up hub in Camden KPMG has set up shop in the new Interchange entrepreneurial hub in Camden, London. The new 84,000 sq. ft.
18 November 2015
Craig Radke leads Southeast region of RSM in the US Craig Radke has been promoted to the role of Managing Partner for RSM’s Southeast Region. In his new role Radke will be responsible for the further growth across a region that holds 24 of the firm’s offices and approximately 2,500 staff
18 November 2015
3 ways digital trust can engineer higher customer loyalty Accenture has identified three steps companies can take to preserve digital trust while rolling out Internet of Things (IoT) products and services.
18 November 2015
Global cosmetics market worth €181 billion, L'Oreal dominates The global cosmetics market has grown by 3.8% over the past ten years to €181 billion, a report from EY finds.
18 November 2015
R&D and innovation spend increasingly moving to China International businesses are increasingly choosing to move their R&D capacity to locations in Asia, with China emerging as the regions hotspot.
17 November 2015
Protiviti acquires US-based Decision First Technologies Global consulting firm Protiviti has acquired Decision First Technologies, a move which enables the business advisory to meet the growing demand for analytics, data warehousing and predictive analyti
17 November 2015
Built asset wealth in UK to reach 5.7 trillion by 2025 Total built asset wealth in the UK has a combined worth of around $4.8 trillion, research by Arcadis and the Centre for Economics and Business Research finds.
17 November 2015
Baker Tilly Ryan Glennon and Unit4 agree partnership Baker Tilly Ryan Glennon has agreed an alliance with Unit4, combining their strengths to offer Irish educational institutions, which are under considerable cost pressures, with a cost effective ERP s
17 November 2015
Barrie Berg joins global leadership of Eden McCallum Consulting firm Eden McCallum has added former Booz Allen Hamilton partner Barrie Berg to its global partnership.
17 November 2015
TimeLog expands operations into the Netherlands TimeLog, a software provider specialised in the management and IT consulting industry, has recently opened an office in the Netherlands, its fourth hub globally and second outside home base Scandinavia.
17 November 2015
Outsourcing veteran Elesh Khakar joins Alsbridge in UK Outsourcing advisor Alsbridge has boosted its UK team with Elesh Khakar, adding over 30 years of experience in sourcing and business IT management to its leadership. Khakar joins as a Managing Director in the UK office,
16 November 2015

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