LONDON, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – PwC’s Global Chairman Bob Moritz will present key findings of PwC’s annual survey of international business leaders at a press briefing in Davos, Switzerland, at 18:30 Central European Time on Monday 16th January 2017 (17:30 GMT/12:30 EST). The press briefing will also be webcast live allowing journalists who are not [...]
NEW YORK, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The New Year holds one thing for certain: uncertainty. As business leaders find themselves plagued by sluggish growth, increasing geopolitical tension, heightened regulatory scrutiny, and the rapid pace of digital change, 2017 is gearing up to be “the year of the question mark.” How can businesses achieve and [...]
LIMA, Peru, Nov. 17, 2016 (Korea Bizwire) — Over half the businesses in the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation’s (APEC) 21 economies (53%) surveyed by PwC this year plan to increase their investments over the next 12 months. This is despite reporting fragile confidence in prospects for revenue growth over the next year and disappointment with pace of progress on [...]
JAKARTA, Indonesia, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Economies around the world continue to make progress in simplifying and reducing the burden of tax compliance on businesses, says the latest edition of Paying Taxes 2017, a report by The World Bank Group and PwC. Released today, the report finds that the Total Tax Rate decreased by [...]
NEW YORK, Nov. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Established software companies in mature markets now face true competition, as well as partnership opportunities, in markets across the globe. But how do they survey the landscape for threats and opportunities? An infographic accompanying this announcement is available at http://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/3aec6a46-7a49-4b3f-97c6-bbaafae4211c PwC’s new ranking, Emerging Markets Top 30 Software [...]
LONDON, Oct. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — By 2020, companies will have shifted the majority of their R&D spending away from product-based offerings to software and service offerings, according to the 2016 Global Innovation 1000 Study from Strategy&, PwC’s strategy consulting business. The need to stay competitive is the top reason why companies cited a shift [...]
LONDON, Oct. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The PwC network reported total global gross revenues of US$35.9 billion for the fiscal year ended on 30 June 2016. At constant exchange rates (local currency), PwC’s total global revenues rose by over 7%. “The strength of our brand, the opportunities we provide for our people, the quality of [...]
LONDON, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — London claims pole position for the second time in a row in a comprehensive benchmarking study of 30 leading business centres globally, boding well for its ability to withstand post–Brexit competition on a number of fronts. Singapore comes second in PwC’s Cities of Opportunity Index; Toronto third, with Paris [...]
NEW YORK, Aug. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — With cloud computing rapidly reshaping the software industry, PwC has ranked the 25 Fastest Growing Cloud Companies to help understand what drives success when vendors move to the cloud. Released as part of PwC’s Global 100 Software Leaders research report, this first-time cloud-specific ranking suggests that no one [...]
NEW YORK, Jul. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – With no shortage of technological breakthroughs affecting businesses today and many more on the horizon, how can C-suites develop effective emerging technology strategies? For its new report, Tech breakthroughs megatrend, PwC evaluated more than 150 technologies globally and developed a methodology for identifying those which are most pertinent [...]