City Moves: Who’s switching jobs in the Square Mile this week? March 4, 2022 City A.M.’s Millie Turner provides a roundup of the most important hires and job moves across the City, every morning. Email citymoves@cityam.com to be featured. MCA The Management Consultancies Association (MCA), a trade association, has announced that an EY veteran will be its next president. Yunus Ozler, EY UK&I energy and resources consulting leader and partner, who currently sits on the MCA [...]
Sanctions will force consultancies to drop Russian clients, consultancy trade body says March 2, 2022 The trade body for management consultancies has said the UK government’s sanctions on Russia and Belarus will “inevitably” mean some consultancies will be forced to cut links with some of their clients. In a statement, Tamzen Isacsson, Chief Executive of the Management Consultancies Association (MCA), said: “Our firms are strictly abiding by the updated changes [...]
Good times never seemed so good for Neil Diamond as he sells entire music catalogue to Universal Music February 28, 2022 Neil Diamond has sold his entire music catalogue to Universal Music, as well as 110 unreleased tracks, an unreleased album and archival long form videos, making him the latest musical icon to cash in on his hits.
UK consultancies are hiring fewer Oxbridge and Russell Group uni grads than a decade ago February 6, 2022 The UK’s management consultancies are hiring fewer Oxbridge graduates and fewer Russell Group university graduates than they were a decade ago, figures from the Management Consultancies Association (MCA) show. The proportion of young management consultants from the UK’s top-ranking Russell Group universities has dropped from heights of 73 per cent in 2011, to rates of [...]
Government under fire for splashing out tens of millions on rental cars at home and around the world December 28, 2021 The government has come under fire after it has emerged that the Ministry of Defence and a range of other departments spent millions on hire cars for staff. The Ministry of Defence alone splashes almost £13m, a Freedom of Information (FoI) request showed. Also, the Department for Transport spent more than £1.1m in the year [...]
Diversity drive? EY offers senior female staff golf lessons in bid to catch up with peers July 19, 2021 Diversity in senior positions is a problem all City leaders face, but one firm has taken the term “diversity drive” to new lengths. Female consultants at a London division of EY have reportedly been offered golf lessons so they don’t miss out on networking around the tee. Staff at leading professional service firms have identified [...]
UK management consultancy industry smashes forecasts with £12bn revenue July 5, 2021 The UK’s management consultancy industry has grown at double the rate expected for this year, with revenue hitting £12bn, according to the industry’s representative body. The report by the Management Consultancies Association (MCA) found exports have doubled, despite working from home orders across the UK. “The global attractiveness of the UK consulting sector, the second biggest in [...]
Consultants expected to be Covid-19 winners after bagging lucrative contracts January 20, 2021 The UK consultancy sector is expected to grow nine per cent in 2021, after the sector won lucrative contracts during the pandemic.
Dido Harding defends £1,000-a-day consultants for Test and Trace January 18, 2021 NHS Test and Trace boss Dido Harding has defended spending upwards of £1,000-a-day on consultants for the beleaguered contact tracing programme. During a grilling from the Public Accounts Committee, Harding told MPs she felt it was “appropriate” to bring in external help in “extreme emergency circumstances using short-term contingent labour and consultants for some of [...]
Small business advisers, your country needs you July 9, 2020 Like a rallying cry in 1940s war-time Britain, thousands of the UK’s business advisers have been called up to do their bit for Britain’s small businesses as part of a timely initiative we are launching today. The national effort is asking accredited advisers to sign up and lend their expertise for an hour a month [...]