Xavier Colomes runs a digital marketing consultancy and splits his time between the UK and Spain.
The EC plans, agreed on Wednesday, envisage the forcible separation of the Big Four's audit services from their consultancy work – splitting up KPMG, Deloitte, Ernst & Young and PwC into two.
Split health care consultancy in two in 1997.
And Orchard splits his time between consultancy work in London (he has just helped oversee a refit of Harrods) and his cider barn at the end of a mossy, ferny lane above the banks of the river Wye in Gloucestershire.
Sara Lee has its eye on the company's range of ladies' underwear.PricewaterhouseCoopers, the world's largest accountancy firm, is said to be planning to split itself into three: accountancy, consultancy and other services.
John Philpott, director of The Jobs Economist consultancy, said the rise in employment was split roughly equally between employees and self-employed people, with 88,000 of the rise based on previously economically inactive people entering the labour market.
"The company probably has businesses that would like to give them the home delivery opportunity, but they dont want to have to split their packages up between FedEx and UPS," says Satish Jindel, president of transportation consultancy S.J. Consultancy.
Old-fashioned policing, such as less severe sentences for those who snitch, is proving effective: "These are criminal networks and there are known techniques for dealing with criminal networks," says Nils Gilman of Monitor 360, a consultancy.Amid this pressure the hacker underground, riven by squabbles and splits over personality and policy, has turned on itself.
"The region is split up into little fiefs called countries," says Jim Eckes of Indoswiss Aviation, a consultancy in Hong Kong.
Jill Berry, former headteacher and education consultant: @jillberry102 Jill is the former headteacher of Dame Alice Harpur School in Bedford and now splits her time working for the National College for Teaching and Leadership, doing educational consultancy work and a part-time doctorate in education.
