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The Management Consultancies Association has announced that BearingPoint (the management and technology consultancy) has joined as a member. BearingPoint is a leading European management and technology consulting firm, with over 3,000 staff and working clients in over 70 countries. For more details, read the full article.

Chris Cooper, founder and head of Challenge Consulting, has been elected President of the Management Consultancies Association, the trade association for UK-based consulting firms. Cooper takes over from Aimie Chapple of Accenture. For more details, read the full article.

ConsultingNews.com reports that EY’s UK advisory team has been shortlisted in 8 categories for the MCA Awards 2014, the highest number of shortlisted categories that EY has ever been nominated for. According to Consutling News the MCA Awards are the benchmark for quality within the consulting industry. If this is true, then this is a strong sign for EY. With Deloitte acquiring Monitor in 2012, and PwC set to merge with Booz & Co this year, this is likely to put the advisory businesses of the other two big accounting firms (KPMG and EY) under pressure. Do you think we will see more consolidation in the consulting industry in 2014?