ÿþ<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" > <head></head><body> <!--- TC Header --> <table border=1 bordercolor=#0098ff width="706px" cellpadding=0 > <tr style="background-color:#0098ff;text-align:right;font-size:10pt;color:white"> <td colspan="2" style="font-weight:bold"><font face="Verdana">Top-Consultant.com's &nbsp; Management Consultants' Weekly Newsletter&nbsp;</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td bordercolor="#FFFFFF" style="font-family:verdana;font-size:10pt;" width="455px"> <div id="pane1" style="width:455px;padding:5px;border-right:solid 1px #0098ff"> <!--- date --> <div id="date1" style="font-size:8pt;color:#000080;font-weight:bold;padding:5px"> Thursday, 9nd October 2008 </div> <!--- advert1 --> <div id="advert1" style="background-color:#b7dbff;padding:5px;margin-top:5px"> <div style="padding-bottom:5px"><a style="font-weight:bold" href="http://www.top-consultant.com/UK/career/appointmentstwo.asp?ID=32472">Immediate Start for Business Improvement Consultants</a></div> <div><br>Immediate start for business improvement consultants in a new in-house consulting team. 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This represented a year-on-year revenue increase of US$3.4 billion and a growth rate of 16.2%, 9.5% in local currency. </div> <div style="font-size:8pt"><a href="http://news.top-consultant.com/UK/news_story.aspx?ID=5141" >Full article>>></a></div> <br /> <div style="font-weight:bold"><a href="http://news.top-consultant.com/UK/news_story.aspx?ID=5120">PwC 2008 revenues up 8%</a></div> <div>For the first time, tax and advisory accounted for more than half of PwC&#39;s global revenues, 51 per cent, compared with 48 per cent in FY2007 and 44 per cent four years ago. </div> <div style="font-size:8pt"><a href="http://news.top-consultant.com/UK/news_story.aspx?ID=5120" >Full article>>></a></div> <br /> <br /> <!--- advert3 --> <div id="Div5" style="background-color:#b7dbff;padding:5px;margin-top:5px"> <div style="padding-bottom:5px"><a style="font-weight:bold" href="http://www.top-consultant.com/UK/career/appointmentstwo.asp?ID=32338">Grant Thornton are looking for an Associate Director - Financial Management and Effectiveness</a></div> <div><br>For the right individual, this role offers the challenge of playing a central role in the growth and development of the Financial Management and Effectiveness team. 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