Roland Berger Ltda

German-based Roland Berger & Partner GmbH is among the leading management consulting firms in Europe. With an emphasis on strategy consulting the company also offers advice in the fields of administrative, process, information technology (IT) and e-commerce, human resources, and marketing management. While Roland Berger & Partner is the company's executive search arm, it also operates its own market research institutes, the Roland Berger Institute for International Marketing Research GmbH and the IJF Institute for Youth Research GmbH. About half of Roland Berger's revenues come from industrial clients and about one-third from clients in the services sector. Roland Berger maintains 30 offices in 21 countries worldwide. International clients account for about 45 percent of the company's sales, and some 57 percent of the roughly 950 consultants are not German. Since a management buyout in 1998 Roland Berger is owned by the company's 120 partners and associate partners. Founder and CEO Roland Berger holds a 9.9 percent stake in the company.