Management consulting firms: ranked by the number of management consultants in L.A. County.

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The List - Deloitte Consulting and Cap Gemini Ernst and Young numbers one and two

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Management consulting firms: ranked by the number of management consultants in L.A. County.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

DELOITTE Consulting and Cap Gemini Ernst & Young retained their No. 1 and No. 2 positions on the list of largest management consulting firms. BearingPoint, formerly KPMG, made the biggest gains.

Through acquisition and internal expansion, BearingPoint increased the number of full-time consultants in L.A. County by 64 percent -- to 179 in 2002 from 109 in 2001, moving to No. 3 on the list from No. 7 last year.

For the firms on the list reporting both current year and previous year employment figures, the number of consultants fell 10.9 percent, to 1,791. Cuts at Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, which trimmed its ranks by 268 consultants, accounted exclusively for this loss. Excluding Cap Gemini, the list would have showed gains of 3.6 percent in L.A. County consultants.

Name changes were in vogue as consulting practices sought to distance from their accounting company roots. Other changes include Accenture (formerly Arthur Andersen's consulting group) and the impending change to Braxton by Deloitte Consulting later this year.

THE PACESETTER

DELOITTE CONSULTING

DELOITTE Consulting once again tops the list, with 4...

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