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An overview of PwC global news:

United Kingdom

PwC set to return as Sainsbury's auditor Reports in the British press suggest supermarket giant Sainsbury’s is set to re-appoint PwC as its auditor. The move would come a decade after the firm was replaced in the role by Big Four rival EY.
13 March 2024
Middle East

Women returning from career breaks could add $385 billion to MENA Nearly half of working women in the MENA region have taken a career break at one point or another.
12 March 2024
United Kingdom

Spring statement does little to excite UK consultants What is expected to be the last budget before the 2024 general election has been dominated by discussions around the impact of tax cuts on small businesses and individuals.
12 March 2024
United Kingdom

UK consulting firms great and small lauded in national ranking The Financial Times has released the 2024 edition of its UK’s Leading Management Consultants ranking.
07 March 2024
United Kingdom

How chartered status can be a 'unifying voice' for UK consulting Since the launch of the Chartered Management Consultant award, many of the industry’s leading firms have signed up to help their professionals through the process.
07 March 2024
Australia

PwC installs Ro Antao as new leader of consulting business Big Four firm PwC has appointed Rohit (Ro) Antao as its new Consulting leader for Australia.
26 February 2024
Saudi Arabia

Consulting leaders speaking at Human Capability Initiative Organized for the first time, the Human Capability Initiative will be held at King Abdulaziz International Convention Center in Riyadh next week.
23 February 2024
United Kingdom

PwC UK launches UK tax AI assistant tool Professional services firm PwC has rolled out a new AI tool to assist its UK tax wing with its work for clients.
20 February 2024
United Kingdom

UK M&A activity in 2023 falls by almost a fifth The UK’s merger and acquisition activity plummeted over 2023, sinking to its lowest rate since the start of the pandemic.
16 February 2024
United Arab Emirates

Consultants powering knowledge at World Government Summit 2024 Taking place in Dubai this week, the World Government Summit is bringing leaders from business and government together to shape responses to some of the world’s most pressing issues and solutions.
12 February 2024
Australia

SAP unveils its top external partners in ANZ for 2024 SAP has announced the winners of its Australia and New Zealand Partner Excellence Awards for 2024, celebrating the achievements of its leading partners over the last year.
09 February 2024
Australia

Luke Sayers faces heat over PwC ‘whistleblower’ complaint Former PwC boss Luke Sayers has been arguably the star attraction of the endless Senate inquiries into the consulting sector, bringing a certain impish charm to proceedings while his contemporaries w
09 February 2024
Middle East

CEOs in the Middle East most positive in the world CEOs in the Middle East have a generally positive outlook on the economy, which is reflected in confidence for regional growth and aspirations in the company’s own path.
01 February 2024
United Kingdom

PwC and Quantexa partner to provide tech-solutions The UK wing of PwC has announced a new partnership with Quantexa, to give its clients the ability to understand and visualise their complex data.
31 January 2024
Australia

PwC called in for Godfreys and Melbourne Rebels administrations Facing separate but challenging market forces, rugby union club the Melbourne Rebels and vacuum cleaning retailer Godreys have both entered voluntary administration, with PwC called in on both.
30 January 2024
Middle East

Greener built environment could meet over 50% of net zero goals Pushing for innovations in sustainability within the construction sector and overall built environment in the Middle East could eventually allow countries to meet more than 50% of the net-zero greenh
29 January 2024
Australia

PwC appoints Thomas Bowden as chief transformation officer Former Canberra managing partner Thomas Bowden has been appointed as PwC’s next chief transformation officer, with oversight for the firm’s large-scale reforms in Australia.
24 January 2024
Europe

Investors suspicious of greenwashing in CSR reports A remarkable 94% of investors distrust sustainability reports created by corporations, with this huge majority suspecting the reports of touting unsupported claims, a practice known as ‘greenwashing’
24 January 2024
Canada

PwC Canada acquires property tax consultancy Equitable Value PwC Canada has acquired Equitable Value Inc., a Toronto-based property tax and valuation consulting firm.
24 January 2024
Middle East

PwC invests heavily in Middle East managed services business Building on significant expansion of its Managed Services business across the globe, PwC is now following suite in the Middle East with the plan to add over 1,000 staff to the arm’s current headcount
16 January 2024
Saudi Arabia

Consumers in Saudi Arabia are happier with their banks Customer sentiment for leading banks in Saudi Arabia has improved in the past year, according to a new study from PwC, which analyzed customer attitudes towards seven leading KSA banks.
16 January 2024
Middle East

M&A firms advise Gulf Capital on 'highly profitable' AmCan exit Gulf Capital has exited its stake in AmCan, the Middle East’s largest distributor of sports nutrition products for an unknown but “highly profitable” stake.
09 January 2024
United Kingdom

Value of the 100 biggest unicorns falls by $10 billion A new study from PwC suggest that the 100 most prominent unicorns in global business attracted $10 billion less from investors in 2023 than the last year.
22 December 2023
Australia

Most Australians don’t know or care about Big Four consultants A new survey has found that half of Australian voters believe the government should reduce its consulting spend on the Big Four. More intriguingly, more than a third don’t know who they are.
21 December 2023
United Kingdom

Half of UK organisations using transactions to keep up with change The UK M&A market looks set to pick up in 2024, with firms increasingly looking beyond organic growth to transform their operations.
14 December 2023
United Kingdom

UK’s largest listed companies contribute £90 billion in taxes A new study suggests that the UK’s largest listed companies contributed nearly £90 billion in taxes in the last financial year.
12 December 2023
Australia

KPMG and PwC welcome new chief executives in New Zealand The Big Four in New Zealand is in a period of transition, with Jason Doherty this month becoming CEO of KPMG and Andrew Holmes set to take over at PwC, both replacing seven-year incumbents.
05 December 2023
Saudi Arabia

Substantial progress booked at half-way mark of Vision 2030 In PwC’s latest report on Saudi Arabia’s progress towards Vision 2030, researchers look at where the Kingdom stands on key economic and non-economic objectives, as the country hits the half-way mark
02 December 2023
Australia

PwC’s Julie McKay among global top ten for diversity & inclusion Online specialist publication Sustainability Magazine has selected PwC Australia’s Julie McKay as one of the world’s leading figures for diversity & inclusion alongside nine of her global peers.
30 November 2023
United Kingdom

Consultancies warn autumn budget shortchanges SMEs While some leading consulting firms issued statements praising the implementation of new tax incentives for the mid-market, many more warned the measures did not go far enough.
28 November 2023
Australia

Big Four chiefs: Janet Truncale (EY) and Mohamed Kande (PwC) Big Four accounting and consulting firms Ernst & Young and PwC await new, culturally diverse global leaders, but both incoming chiefs face other internal culture challenges, especially in Australia.
22 November 2023
Asia

Agri-food sector in Asia can cut carbon emissions by 12% The Asian agri-food sector is a huge source of carbon emissions – but it has the potential to cut down emissions by 12% by 2030, which would be equivalent to the total amount of emissions from the en
21 November 2023

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