| | Oliver Wyman, the
international management
consulting firm, has
acquired Hemeria, a
Paris-based management
consultancy with
specialised expertise in
improving the
productivity and
competitiveness of
industrial and service
companies through the
application of
specialised consulting
skills and capabilities
in performance
improvement, supply
chain design and
performance
optimisation,
restructuring
programmes, purchasing,
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Hemeria's more than
80 employees will join
Oliver Wyman's global
practice groups serving
companies in the
automotive,
manufacturing, aviation,
aerospace, consumer
goods and retail,
defence, process and
surface transportation
industries. With this
acquisition, the Paris
office of Oliver Wyman
will welcome six Hemeria
partners, bringing the
total number of
Paris-based Oliver Wyman
partners to 48.
"This acquisition
further deepens our
ability to bring a wide | |
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knowledge and
capabilities to serving
our clients on their
most pressing and
intractable problems
related to operations
and manufacturing
excellence," said John
Drzik, chief executive
of Oliver Wyman Group.
"It not only deepens our
footprint in France and
Europe, but also offers
our partners and clients
around the world the
opportunity to tap into
a deep reserve of highly
differentiated and
specialised expertise
that Hemeria has
developed over the
years."
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Gilles Roucolle, a
partner in Oliver
Wyman's Paris Office
leading the integration
of Hemeria, said:
"Hemeria's strengths and
relationships will
reinforce our operations
management expertise at
a particularly critical
time for value creation
in industrial and
service companies
worldwide and further
establish our position
as a multi-specialist
firm among leading
international consulting
firms in the world. We
look forward to
welcoming our new
colleagues on board."
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Hemeria was founded
in 2002 and is led by
Bernard Birchler. The
firm's people and
capabilities
significantly broaden
Oliver Wyman's client
offerings, which reach
across the
manufacturing, process
industries, financial
services, packaged
consumer goods, retail,
telecommunications,
information
technologies, media,
tourism and utilities
industries.
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