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Consulting news in the UK | Page 370

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

Capgemini: Insurers struggle to please Generation Y Insurers are struggling worldwide with declining positive customer experience ratings, research by Capgemini and Efma shows. They are especially experiencing trouble to keep up with the increasing digital demands of Generation Y. To reverse the dec
09 March 2015
OC&C advises WorldStores on 25 million financing WorldStores, one of UK’s leading online furniture retailers, has received an investment of £25 million from a consortium of investors, led by US bank Goldman Sachs.
06 March 2015
Sia Partners grows sourcing footprint with deal Global consulting firm Sia Partners has recently acquired Sourcing France, a French-based procurement expert.
06 March 2015
KPMG Management Consulting adds 3 new CoEs The Management Consulting practice of professional services firm KPMG has launched three new global Centres of Excellence (CoEs).
06 March 2015
Consortium supports Indonesia with health care As part of the Indonesian government’s goal to provide all Indonesians with primary health care by 2019, under the right to Universal Health Coverage, a Dutch consortium has been charged with the execution of a feasibility study in the Yogyak
06 March 2015
Ecorys supports evaluation of Better Start initiative Consulting firm Ecorys has been selected to assist in the evaluation of Big Lottery Fund’s A Better Start initiative, set up to improve the life chances of thousands babies in the UK.
06 March 2015
Former PwC partner Jurga McCluskey joins Deloitte Deloitte has boosted its Immigration Practice in the UK with the appointment of former PwC Partner Jurga McCluskey. At Deloitte, McCluskey takes on the role of Partner and Head of the Immigration Services Group, a practice the firm aims at
06 March 2015
IT and training firms launch Lean IT Association A consortium of IT training and certification companies have launched a global association and performance standard for Lean IT.
05 March 2015
EFA selects Capita to lead education bursary schemes Capita has been reselected by the UK Education Funding Agency to manage three student support schemes. The schemes are set up by the Government to encourage students and adults to further educate themselves to improve their skills. The consulting f
05 March 2015
Grant Thornton appoints Business Development Senior Grant Thornton in the UK has appointed former PwC Manager Andrew Devonald as Senior Business Development Manager.
05 March 2015
PwC: European hotel business to flourish in 2015-2016 European hoteliers are expected to see higher growth in 2015 and 2016, PwC’s hotel forecast of 20 European cities shows.
05 March 2015
EY and Deloitte named best big company to work for Accounting and consulting giants EY and Deloitte have been named a 'Best Company to Work For' by the Sunday Times. The ranking recognises firms with the happiest and most motivated workforces. Sunday Times B
05 March 2015
A.T. Kearney: Banking transitioning to a digital world Banking is becoming dominated by tech savvy mobile technology using customers, a recent study by A.T. Kearney and Efma finds. Banks are finding themselves at different stages of preparedness for a potential new way of interacting with their custome
05 March 2015
Kienbaum and Berenschot agree Benelux partnership Global consultancy firm Kienbaum has agreed a partnership deal with Berenschot, a management consultancy based in the Netherlands.
04 March 2015
Former Logica advisor guilty to insider dealing Ryan Willmott, a former financial manager at IT-firm Logica, has pleaded guilty to insider trading. In the run to the deal, he irregularly dealt with shares, taking a profit of around £30,000.
04 March 2015
Gartner: 10 technologies to impact education in 2015 As traditional educational business models are expected to be challenged by digitalisation, educational institutions need to consider technologies from outside their industry, research by Gartner shows. The global research and consulting firm lists
04 March 2015
Harvard Professor boosts Cornerstone Research Harvard Business School Professor Stuart Gilson has affiliated himself with Cornerstone Research, a US-based economic consultancy. Gilson has been with Harvard for more than twenty years, and is regarded a leading expert in the area of financial ad
04 March 2015
Royal HaskoningDHV key in consent UK wind farms The UK Department for Energy and Climate Change has recently granted consent for the development of Dogger Bank Creyke Beck, the largest offshore wind farm of the world. Consulting firm Royal HaskoningDHV has played a key role in this consent by pr
04 March 2015
Four consulting firms win Pensions Age Awards Aon Hewitt, Capita, Crowe Clark Whitehill and Lane Clark & Peacock (LCP) have been recognised for their excellent performance as pension providers during the Pension Age Awards. The four firms were among the 18 consulting fir
04 March 2015
17 consultancies partner with Mobile World Congress Yesterday the Mobile World Congress kicked off in Barcelona. More than thousand executives and professionals active in the broader mobile ecosystem have travelled to Barcelona, Spain, to stay on par with the latest trends and development
03 March 2015
Consulting market of Germany grows to €25 billion The German consulting market has grown by 6% last year to a value of €25.2 billion, reveals recent research form the German association of management consulting firms.
03 March 2015
McKinsey: Online luxury fashion market booming Online luxury fashion sales are set to grow at a rate of 18% between now and 2018 in the UK and a whopping 70% in China.
03 March 2015
Arup assists in build of new UK mental health hospital Mersey Care NHS Trust recently opened its new mental health unit in Liverpool, called the Clock View. The new unit provides 80 beds for local patients and is designed to improve the wellbeing of its patients. Arup assisted Mersey Care in
03 March 2015
KPMG partner Madeleine Mattera joins Grant Thornton Grant Thornton recently boosted its Australian Financial Services Practice with the appointment of former KPMG partner Madeleine Mattera. At the firm, Mattera will take on the role of Head of Financial Services and Audit and Advisory Par
03 March 2015
BP selects Accenture to improve customer experience Oil & gas multinational BP has selected Accenture to help it improve its fuel customer experience. The consulting firm will do so by using its digital and advanced customer analytics that, allowing the international oil and gas company to gain
03 March 2015
BCG: The impact of new UK school holiday legislation Changes to the way UK school holidays are planned will come into effect in September.
02 March 2015
Age Lindenbergh boosts Alvarez team in Benelux Alvarez & Marsal has poached Age Lindenbergh from KPMG to be the firm’s Managing Director and leader of its Financial Services transactions team in Europe. Lindenbergh’s 15 years of experience advising financial institutions, includ
02 March 2015
Alternative finance market booming, grows to 3 billion Alternative financial markets in Europe came in at €2.9 billion in 2014, with a 144% growth since 2013, a recently released report between EY and the University of Cambridge reveals. With the UK providing the overlarge segment of
02 March 2015
The best outsourcing advisory firms of the world The IAOP has released its 2015 list of the ‘World’s Best Outsourcing Advisors’.
02 March 2015
Simon-Kucher & Partners triples revenue in decade 2014 has proven a record breaking year for Simon-Kucher & Partners.
02 March 2015
MCA and Raconteur to produce 3 special reports The MCA has extended its partnership with Raconteur. As part of the deal, MCA and its partners will contribute to three reports to be published as ‘specials’ in The Times.
27 February 2015
Five ways how drones can help police operations Drones may soon be found outside the scanner of Minority Report’s dystopia, or controlling “the real world” outside The Matrix, and come to police forces in the UK.
27 February 2015

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