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bjbj This week on Big4.com Ernst & Young Names Stephen Catlin UK Entrepreneur of 2011; Deloitte
Announces Strongest Growth Since 2008; Reports by KPMG and PwC; Drivers Jonas Deloitte Appointed
Selling Agent For Roade One and Blisworth Nominees; and Ernst & Young Named Best Corporate
Band . Each week Big 4.com covers key news, events, happenings, opinions and blogs relating
to all the Big Four accounting and consulting firms. You can view this video our website
and on Big4's channel on Youtube. So, let s start with this week's round-up of the top
news! Stephen Catlin, Chief Executive of International Insurer, Catlin Group, has been named Entrepreneur
Of The Year by Ernst & Young. Catlin competed with 42 other business leaders from companies
across the UK, and will move on to compete with more than 50 other global finalists at
the Ernst &Young World Entrepreneur of The Year awards in Monte Carlo next year. The
Catlin Group has 52 offices, operating in 22 countries, employing more than 1,600 people,
with a turnover of 2.6billion. This month, Deloitte announced the strongest revenue increase
since 2008. Deloitte member firms experienced growth across all three major geographic regions,
led by exceptional results generated in Asia Pacific and the Americas from a number of
developing markets, and across all functions and industry sectors. Commenting on the outstanding
results, Deloitte's Global CEO, Barry Salzberg said, the results underscore the strength
and resilience of the firm's diversified portfolio. Deloitte s total workforce now comprises 182,000
professionals worldwide. Deloitte expects to increase its total workforce to 250,000
professionals by Financial Year 2015. In a recent survey conducted by KPMG, global corporate
IT executives whose companies use a Cloud strategy agree that spending will rise increase
next year, with 17 percent indicating Cloud spending would exceed 20 percent of the total
IT budget in 2012. Bryan Cruickshank, KPMG head of Global IT Advisory, Management Consulting,
said the Cloud is transcending IT and widely impacts business operations. A third of survey
respondents said it would fundamentally change their business, which is significant considering
many organizations are still developing their Cloud strategies. PwC reports Australia and
Europe to be the strongest global leaders at reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The
report evaluates disclosures from over 404 of the world s largest companies, representing
81% of the Global 500. Australia s Westpac Banking Corporation was listed among the top
10 global companies on the report, together with other high performers such as BMW, Sony
Corporation and Philips Electronics. Companies with a strategic focus on climate change provided
investors with almost double the average total return of the Global 500 from January 2005
to May 2011. Drivers Jonas Deloitte, one of the UK s largest commercial property advisers,
has been appointed the selling agent for properties held by Roade One Nominees Limited and Blisworth
Nominees Limited. A total of eighteen commercial properties make up the portfolio including
industrial, office, high street retail and leisure properties. Deloitte partners, Phil
Bowers and Neville Kahn, were appointed Fixed Charge Receivers over the properties this
summer. Deloitte LLP is a UK member firm of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited, a UK private
company whose member firms are legally separate and independent entities. Earlier this month,eleven
members of Ernst & Young's Advisory performance Improvement professionals earned the title
Best Corporate Band in America in the FORTUNE Battle of the Corporate Bands. American PI
, a rock and roll band, was among eight finalists contending for the title at the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame in Cleveland. The event is held each year to salute the best amateur, company-sponsored
bands, and is presented by the National Association of Music merchants, FORTUNE magazine and the
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