Tata Consultancy is part of the Tata group, a giant Indian industrial conglomerate.
"The more self-interested you are, the less I'm willing to trust you," said Mr. Peppers, whose consultancy is part of the Carlson Marketing unit of the Carlson Companies.
For Ben Little, co-founder of innovation consultancy Fearlessly Frank, this was part of the appeal of Monzo.
"This was supported by Roche as part of MHP's ongoing consultancy work for them and was part of John Melville's contribution to delivering the project," he said, adding that other organisations were also involved, including Nice.
The Hinduja brothers had long maintained that the money paid into Swiss bank accounts was part of a consultancy deal, not a kickback.
After studying in Mexico and running his own design consultancy, he attended Imperial College, where he was part of a team that developed a substitute for air-conditioning that gave 90% of the efficiency with 5% of the consumption.
But sponsorship is growing fast, rising by 11% a year for the past decade, according to Lesa Ukman, chairman of IEG, a consultancy that is part of WPP.
According to Ross O'Brien of Pyramid Research, a telecoms consultancy that is part of the Economist Group, in 1990 there were fewer than 10m telephone lines in China.
"It sounds like a parody," said Allen Adamson, managing director of the New York office of Landor Associates, a brand and corporate identity consultancy that is part of the Young & Rubicam Brands division of WPP.
"AOL had such a clear meaning in the early days of the Internet," said Allen P. Adamson, managing director of the New York office of Landor Associates, a brand and corporate identity consultancy that is part of the Young & Rubicam Brands unit of WPP.
