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Portfolio:
Revenue:
Offices:
Employees:
Products:
Market:
Competitors:
Graduate Schemes:
Recent events:

ATOS
Portfolio:
 international information technology services company -
 delivers consulting and technology services, systems integration and managed services
 market sectors: Manufacturing, Retail, Services; Public, Health & Transports; Financial
Services; Telecoms, Media & Technology; Energy & Utilities.
 Paris Eurolist Market
 operates under the brands Atos, Atos Consulting & Technology Services, Atos Healthcare,
Worldline and Atos Worldgrid.
 Board of Directors: 2 females - Lynn Paine & Aminata Niane
Revenue 2012: £8.8bil
Offices: 47 Countries (Global)
Employees: 70,000+
Graduate Schemes:
Recent events:

Bloomberg
Portfolio: connects influential decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas.
Our strength - quickly and accurately delivering data, news and analytics through innovative
technology - is at the core of everything we do.
Revenue:
Offices: 192, Global
Employees:15,000+
Products: Bloomberg Terminal, News, Professional Service, Tradebook, e-mail & IM service
Market: 310,000 organisations use it (Mainly financial & business professionals)
Competitors:
Graduate Schemes: Software Engineer & Business Analyst (UK/Australia)
Recent events:
 The Climate Group


Cisco
Portfolio: designs, manufactures, and sells networking equipment.
Revenue:$48.6bil
Offices: San Jose base, Worldwide
Employees: 66,000+
Products: Networking (Devices & management services), Security
Markets: Corporate scale to Home User
Graduate Schemes:
Recent events:

HSBC
Portfolio: HSBC Holdings plc is a British multinationalbanking and financial services company
Revenue:$75.6bil
Offices: London based, 7200 offices, 85 countries
Employees: 300,000+
Products: Commercial banking, Global banking & Markets, Retail Banking & Wealth Management,
Global Private Banking
Credit cards, consumer banking, corporate banking, investment banking, mortgage loans, private
banking, wealth management
Market: LSE, NYSE, SEHK, Euronext Paris, Bermuda SE,
Consumer Market: Corporation scale to Consumer
Competitors: Barclay's, Santander, Halifax
Graduate Schemes:
Recent events:
 The Clean Revolution - clean tech & energy. Green infrastructure
 The Climate Group - $100mil, 5-year commitment
 Restructuring during 2011-2013
 In 2005 it became the first bank and the first FTSE 100 company to become carbon neutral.



PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers)
Portfolio: is one of the largest, multinational professional services firm (Part of the Big Four). It was
formed after merger in 1998 b/w Cooper & Lybrand and Price Waterhouse
Revenue: £31.5bil
Offices: 159 countries, London based
Employees: 180,000+
Products: Assurance(improving info for decision makers), Tax Advisory, Consulting, Financial
Advisory, Actuarial, Legal
Market: FTSE 100
Competitors: Ernst & Young, KPMG, Deloitte
Graduate Schemes:
Recent events:

Vodafone
Portfolio: multinational telecommunications company, started in 1982 as a subsidiary of Racal
Electronics - a maker of military radio tech
Revenue: £46.4bil
Offices: London, Global (30 countries)
Employees:
Products: Fixed line and mobile telephony, Internet services, digital television
Market: LSE, FTSE100, NASDAQ
Consumer Market: Corporate to personal - 439mil subscribers
Competitors: China Mobile, Bharti Airtel, Orange,
Graduate Schemes:
Recent events:
 On 1 December 2011, it acquired the Reading based Bluefish Communications Ltd – an ICT
consultancy company. The acquired operations formed the nucleus of a new Unified
Communications and Collaboration practice within its subsidiary – Vodafone Global
Enterprise, which will focus on implementing strategies and solutions in cloud computing,
and strengthen its professional services offering.
 On 18 June 2012, Cable & Wireless' shareholders voted in favour of the Vodafone offer,
exceeding the 75% of shares necessary for the deal to go ahead.
 On 24 June 2013, Vodafone announced it would be buying German cable company Kabel
Deutschland. The takeover is valued at €7.7 billion, and was recommended over the bid of
rival Liberty Global
 On 2 September 2013, Vodafone announced it would be selling its 45% stake in Verizon
Wireless to Verizon Communications for $130 billion, in one of the biggest deals in corporate
history.

BP
Portfolio: found 1909, is British multinational oil and gas company. It is one of the six oil and gas
"supermajors".
Revenue: $388bil
Offices: London based, UK & US, Egypt, India etc totalling to 80 countries world wide. Trading office
(Canary Wharf, London) and headquarters (St James, London). Also has Aberdeen headquarters &
corporate campus.
Employees:85,000+
Products: Petroleum, Natural gas, Motor fuels, Aviation fuels, Petrochemicals
Market: LSE, FTSE 100 (primary), Frankfurt SE, NYSE (secondary)
Competitors: Shell, Exxon Mobile, Chevron, Conco Phillips, Total-Elf (S.A)
Graduate Schemes:
Recent events:
 fifth-largest energy company by market capitalization,[8]
 the fifth-largest company in the world measured by 2012 revenues, and
 the sixth-largest oil and gas company measured by 2012 production.
 Fall in largest oil company position due to the selling of assets to pay for Deepwater Horizon
payouts

EMC
Portfolio: is an American multinational corporation, foundedi n 1979
Revenue:$21.7bil
Offices: Massachusetts
Employees:60,000+
Products: offers data storage, information security, virtualization, analytics, cloud computing and
other products and services that enable businesses to store, manage, protect, and analyze data.Also
owns VMWare & Pivotal & RSA Security (Rivest-Shamir-Adleman)
Market: NYSE, S&P 500
Consumer Market: large FORTUNE 500 companies and small- and medium-sized businesses across
various vertical markets
Competitors: IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and Hitachi Data Systems
Graduate Schemes:
Recent events:
 In 2012/13 -the World's Most Admired Computer Companies
 Top 100 Global Innovators
 Best Multinational Workplaces in Europe
 score of 100 on the Human Rights Campaign 2012 and
 Score of 100 -Corporate Equality Index 2013

Morgan Stanley
Portfolio: is an American multinational financial services corporation, formed after the split of JP
Morgan & Co into commercial banking & investment banking (Morgan Stanley) was required. In 1962,
Morgan Stanley credits itself with having created the first viable computer model for financial analysis
thereby starting a new trend in the field of financial analysis.
Revenue: $32bil
Offices: New York, 1300 offices in 42 countries
Employees: 60,000+
Products: Investment banking, asset management, commercial banking, prime brokerage,
investment management, retail brokerage, commodities
Market: NYSE
Consumer Market: corporations, governments, financial institutions and individuals
Competitors: Merill Lynch, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs
Graduate Schemes:
Recent events:
 Morgan Stanley has long had a dominant role in technology investment banking and, in
addition to Apple and Facebook, served as lead underwriter for many of the largest global
tech IPOs, including: Netscape, Cisco, Compaq, Broadcast.com, Broadcom Corp, VeriSign,
Inc., Cogent, Inc., Dolby Laboratories, Priceline, Salesforce, Brocade, Google and Groupon. In
2004, the firm led the Google IPO, the largest Internet IPO in U.S. history. In the same year
Morgan Stanley acquired the Canary Wharf Group.
 On January 13, 2009, the Global Wealth Management Group was merged with Citi's Smith
Barney to form the joint venture Morgan Stanley Smith Barney. Morgan Stanley holds 51%
of the entity, and Citi holds 49%.[31] As of May 31, 2012, Morgan Stanley planned to
purchase an additional 14% of the joint venture from Citi

PA Consulting
Portfolio: PA Consulting Group is a consultancy. The chief idea, along the lines of Douglas
McGregor's 'Theory Y', was that by involving the worker in the process of change, greater gains could
be made both by the worker and the organisation. PA's first assignment was to train housewives to
assemble the tail gun section for the Avro Lancaster bombers, as part of Britain's policy of bringing
women into the factories in order to free-up male workers for the armed forces.

Revenue: $365mil
Offices: Europe, the Nordics, the United States, the Gulf and Asia Pacific
Employees: an employee owned company. 2,154 employees
Products: management consulting, technology and innovation
Market: private and public sector including local and national Governments and the defence sector.
Competitors:
Graduate Schemes:
Recent events:
 On 10 July 2013, PA announced that Jon Moynihan would retire as executive chairman at the
end of 2013
 PAVenture
 Management Consultancies Association (MCA) Management Awards In 2012, PA Consulting won
both the Innovation category and the Overall Platinum Award for its work with the UK Ministry of
Defence on the PANAMA project which supported the UK MOD to develop a remote controlled vehicle
based explosive device detection system for use in Afghanistan.
[40]
PA won a gold award at the 2010
MCA Awards for its work with the Identity and Passport Service (IPS) to procure a new passport
provider.
[41]

 UK IT Industry Awards PA won three awards at the UK IT Computing/BCS Industry Awards 2012. One
was for its work with the UK Met Office, creating the Weather Observations Website. The other two
awards are: ‘Best use of cloud services’ and ‘IT project demonstrating most effective use of
collaborative technology’.
[42]

 Computer Weekly European User Awards for Enterprise SoftwareIn June 2013 PA Consulting Group
and NHS England won the award for best cloud innovation tool for their work to develop a tool that
helps the NHS analyse its data more quickly and more efficiently.
[43]


Sky
Portfolio: a British satellite broadcasting, broadband and telephone services company headquartered
in London, with operations in the UK and Ireland.
Revenue: £6.7bil
Offices: London-based, across UK and Ireland
Employees: 22,000
Products: Direct-broadcast satellite, Pay television, broadcasting, broadband and telephony services
Market: LSE, FTSE 100
Competitors: Virgin Media
Graduate Schemes:
Recent events:
 Takeover by News Corp -following the News International phone hacking scandal, critics and
politicians began to question the appropriateness of the proposed takeover. The resulting
reaction forced News Corp. to withdraw its bid for the company in July 2011.

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