In January 1965 Harry Lange, an illustrator and designer for the aerospace industry, and Frederick I Ordway III, his partner in their General Astronautics publishing and consultancy company, were in a snowy New York for a meeting with their publishers.
Last year's Technology Fast 50 report, published by consultancy firm Deloitte, revealed the UK's 50 most rapidly growing tech companies had a combined annual revenue of £672m and an eye-watering average five-year growth rate of 1,382%.
"This could have been spurred by a deteriorating pound, with people more focused on domestic home improvements rather than spending on holidays abroad – which have become a lot more expensive since the Brexit vote," IMRG said, in its monthly sales snapshot published with consultancy Capgemini.
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Last year Hermann Simon, of Simon-Kucher & Partners, a consultancy, published an even more gripping sequel to his 1996 book on "Hidden Champions".
This month IHS Jane's, a consultancy, published satellite photographs showing China's rapid building this year of installations in the sea that could have military uses.
The official numbers have gaps, but independent analyses are helping to fill them McKinsey, a consultancy, published new data on enrolment on May 8th.
But the consultancy "published no adequate evidential basis for that figure", says Stephen Glaister, an academic who has followed the saga (and now sits on Tube Lines' board).
A report by the London-based Conflict Armament Research consultancy published on Monday found the group was using large captured US-made weapons and had access to anti-tank rockets supplied by Saudi Arabia to a moderate rebel group.
"Chinese consumers are becoming more and more brand-conscious, but less and less brand loyal," said Max Magni, head of McKinsey's consumer practice in China and co-author of a report on China's consumers, published by the consultancy in October.
