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Accenture is a professional services company that provides management consulting, technology consulting, systems integration and outsourcing services to corporations and governments. It was formed in 1989 as the consulting arm of Arthur Andersen, operated as Andersen Consulting until 2000, and is incorporated in Ireland with its head office in Dublin. The company organises its work around strategy and consulting, technology and operations services, and industry-specific practices spanning banking, insurance, health, public service, communications, energy, retail and software. It earns fees from multi-year managed services and outsourcing contracts as well as project-based consulting and implementation work for large enterprise clients. Accenture is a serial acquirer of small and mid-sized specialist firms in cloud, data and artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, digital engineering, marketing and design, and it adds capability in new geographies the same way. It also invests in early-stage and growth technology companies through its corporate venture arm, Accenture Ventures, and holds majority and minority stakes in joint ventures such as Avanade. Its shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

HCL Technologies Ltd provides enterprises with IT solutions. It focuses on offering Digital, Internet of Things, Cloud, Automation, Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Management, and Engineering services to solve business problems for clients. It offers solutions to a variety of industries, including Financial Services, Public Services, Consumer Services, Healthcare, and Manufacturing. It operates in three segments: IT and Business Services, Engineering and R&D Services, and HCL Software. The firm emphasizes consultation services for firms, intending to offer them digital and design solutions. The majority of the firm's revenue comes from the IT and Business Services segment. Geographically, it derives maximum revenue from the USA, and the rest from Europe, India, and the Rest of the world.

Experian is one of the leading credit bureaus in North America and the United Kingdom, providing the consumer information that is the basis for making lending decisions. The company also provides decision analytics, marketing data, and direct-to-consumer credit products and services. Roughly one quarter of the company's revenue is generated outside of North America and the United Kingdom, primarily in Latin America and Asia.

Cognizant Technology Solutions is a multinational IT services provider that offers a range of consulting and business process outsourcing services. Originally founded in India, the company is headquartered in the US and serves enterprise customers spanning the financial services, healthcare, and resources industries. With most of its workforce located in India, Cognizant leverages a global delivery model that helps clients outsource their IT needs to offshore labor.

Verisk is a leading data, analytics, and technology provider for property-casualty insurers. Verisk traces its history to Insurance Services Office, a nonprofit advisory organization founded in 1971 by US P&C insurers. ISO was formed as an association of insurance companies to assist with a variety of insurance use cases, such as reporting to regulators, defining policies, and determining independent premium rates. As the firm expanded its use cases, it became a for-profit company, renamed Verisk, and went public in 2009.Verisk’s single segment (insurance) provides underwriting solutions, including forms, rules, loss costs, and catastrophe modeling. For claims, Verisk’s solutions include property repair estimates and antifraud tools. About 83% of Verisk’s revenue is US-based.

Capgemini is a French IT services company with a global presence. The firm has over 450 offices globally, with more than half of its employees based in India. Capgemini provides services related to IT consulting, software application and technology services, infrastructure management, engineering research and development, and business process outsourcing.

Along with Experian and TransUnion, Equifax is one of the leading credit bureaus in the United States. Equifax’s credit reports provide credit histories on millions of consumers, and the firm's services are critical to lenders’ credit decisions. In addition, about 40% of the firm’s revenue comes from Workforce Solutions, which provides income verification and employer human resources services. Equifax generates about 25% of its revenue from outside the United States.

NRI was formed in 1988 through the merger of the original Nomura Research Institute and Nomura Computer Systems. Its core financial IT solutions segment (roughly half of revenue) acts as a de facto utility for Japan’s capital markets, running shared back-office platforms for major brokerages and banks. The industrial IT solutions segment builds supply chain and enterprise resource planning systems for retailers and manufacturers. These are supported by IT platform services (data centers) and a consulting business that originates digital transformation projects. Nomura Holdings, the parent of Nomura Securities, remains NRI’s largest shareholder with a 20% stake.

Leidos Holdings Inc is a technology, engineering, and science company that provides services and solutions in the defense, intelligence, civil, and health management, both domestically and internationally. The customers of the company includes the U.S. Department of Defense ("DoD"), the U.S. Intelligence Community, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security ("DHS"), the Federal Aviation Administration ("FAA"), the Department of Veterans Affairs ("VA"), and many other U.S. civilian, state and local government agencies, etc. The company is engaged in four reportable segments; National Security & Digital, Health & Civil, Commercial & International and Defense Systems. It provides a wide array of scientific, engineering and technical services and solutions across these reportable segments.

Bureau Veritas is a testing, inspection, and certification company. Its primary activities include testing products and materials, inspecting sites and equipment, and certifying products and systems to maintain global standards. Bureau Veritas is one of a handful of companies in the TIC sector that operate globally across numerous industries, including marine, industry, commodities, construction, and consumer products. Bureau Veritas was listed in 2007; it was previously privately owned by the Wendel Group, which retains a significant holding.

Aramark is an American food service and facilities services company headquartered in Center City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and listed on the New York Stock Exchange. It runs cafeterias, catering, concessions and facility management under contract for clients in education, healthcare, business, corrections, sports and leisure, including major league sports venues and most of the food served on Amtrak trains. It operates in the United States and Canada and in 14 other countries, including the United Kingdom, Germany, Chile, Ireland and Spain, and earns contract revenue for the services it provides, buying food and supplies from manufacturers and distributors such as Sysco. Aramark reported revenue of US$18.5 billion and net income of US$326 million for its 2025 fiscal year, with 278,390 employees. It was founded in 1936 by Davre and Henry Davidson as Davidson Brothers, a vending business for aviation plant workers in Southern California, became Automatic Retailers of America in 1959 and adopted the Aramark name in 1994. A group led by long-time chief executive Joseph Neubauer with CCMP Capital, Goldman Sachs, Thomas H. Lee Partners and Warburg Pincus took it private in a deal completed in 2007. In 2023 it spun off its uniform business as the listed company Vestis; John Zillmer has been chief executive since October 2019.

ELM Co is engaged in providing ready-made and customized digital solutions in many areas. Its ready-made solutions serve a broad segment of customers, who can subscribe to different packages of their choosing to meet their needs and suffice business requirements. The services offered by the company include Consulting, Data Analysis and Technical solutions. The segments are Digital Business, Business Process Outsourcing and Professional Services, out of which the majority are from the Digital Business segment.

Gartner Inc delivers actionable, objective business and technology insights that drive smarter decisions and stronger performance on an organization's mission-critical priorities. It delivers its products and services globally through three reportable segments - Business and Technology Insights, Conferences and Consulting. Insights equips executives and their teams from every Majority function, geography, industry and sector with actionable, objective insights, guidance and tools. Conferences provides executives and teams across an organization the opportunity to learn, share and network. and Consulting serves senior executives technology-driven strategic initiatives leveraging the power of Gartner's actionable, objective insight. The Majority revenue is derived from the Insights segment.

Rentokil Initial is a British pest-control and hygiene services group based in southern England, listed on the London Stock Exchange (RTO) and the New York Stock Exchange and a member of the FTSE 100. It was founded in 1925 by Harold Maxwell-Lefroy as a pest-control company and grew through acquisitions, including BET plc in 1996, which added laundry and washroom services under the Initial brand. The group reported revenue of £6,908 million in 2025 and employs about 58,000 people, with operations across Europe, Australasia, Southeast Asia, the Caribbean, South Africa, North America and India. Its largest transaction was the acquisition of Terminix Global Holdings, announced in December 2021 at $6.7 billion and completed on 12 October 2022, which made North America its biggest market and created a business with about 4.9 million customers. Integration of Terminix has taken longer than first planned and is now expected to finish in 2026.

Madison Air Solutions Corp is an HVAC and indoor air-quality technology company. Its segments are Commercial and Residential. It generates the majority of its revenue from the Commercial segment, which includes Commercial businesses that deliver well-engineered, custom, and semi-custom air quality systems to support process control, regulatory compliance, energy efficiency, and productivity in mission-critical environments; and the Residential segment, anchored by trusted brands like AprilAire, Broan-NuTone, Zephyr, and Others. Its geographic areas are the U.S, the Americas, Europe, and Other. The group generates the majority of its revenue from the U.S market.

BayCurrent Inc offers comprehensive consulting services in a wide variety of industries. It offers strategy Business Process Consulting, Information Technology (IT) Consulting, and System Integration. The strategy Business Process Consulting covers company or business strategy, M&A alliances, digital strategy, turn-around, globalization, innovation, and marketing or sales strategy. The IT Consulting includes IT strategy, governance, organizational improvement, cost optimization, architecture, asset evaluation, talent development, and Request for Proposal (RFP) creation. The System Integration handles system design, development, and infrastructure operation and maintenance.

Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp provides technology solutions in areas such as artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and related fields. The company serves U.S. federal government agencies, commercial clients, and select international customers. It also provides technologies to evolve defense missions and delivers solutions to warfighters in the digital battlespace. The domains includes Consulting Services- Delivering strategic, operational, and management consulting to transform organizations; Advanced Tech- artificial intelligence, cloud integration, and data platforms. Cybersecurity that protects critical national infrastructure, military networks, and sensitive government systems and Engineering Solutions providing mission-critical technical design and hardware integration.

Sodexo is one of the largest food service companies globally, operating in 45 countries with annual sales exceeding EUR 20 billion. Sodexo's model rests on operating on-premises catering facilities, rather than centralized industrial kitchens. Food services remain the largest business segment, contributing 66% of revenue in 2024. Sodexo has its own group purchasing organization, or GPO, Entegra, with annual purchasing of over EUR 37 billion. The company spun off its benefits and service business, Pluxee, and now focuses on food services and its second business, facilities-management services.

ISS AS is a provider of workplace and facility service solutions with a focus on cleaning, property, catering, support, security, and facility management. It has four segments: Financial services, Professional services, Technology, and Life sciences. Its core services offered to customers consist of cleaning, food, technical, and workplace services. Revenue is mainly generated in European end markets, with the majority earned in the United Kingdom.

Brookfield Business Partners LP is a business services and industrials company. It focused on operating businesses that are either low-cost producers and benefit from high barriers to entry. The company's operating segment includes Business services; Infrastructure services; Industrials and Corporate and other. It generates maximum revenue from the Business Services segment. Geographically operates in USA, Europe, Australia, Brazil, Canada, UK, Mexico and Other, majority of revenue is from UK.

DKSH Holding Ltd offers market expansion services in Asia. The company provides a range of services, including sourcing, market insights, marketing and sales, eCommerce, distribution and logistics, and after-sales support. It offers expertise and on-the-ground logistical support. The company operates in five business segments: Consumer goods, Healthcare, Performance Materials, Technology and Other (non-Business Unit). The majority of the revenue is derived from the Healthcare segment, which offers pharmaceuticals, consumer health, and over-the-counter health products, as well as medical devices, and also offers services including product registration, marketing and sales, and capillary physical distribution.

Elis SA provides rental-maintenance and circular service solutions to customers across the hospitality, healthcare, industrial, trade and services sectors. Its offerings include flat linen, workwear, washroom hygiene equipment, floor protection, cleanroom garments, pest-control services and other workplace well-being solutions. The company operates across Europe, Latin America and Asia.

FTI Consulting Inc is a firm that generates its sales by providing professional business advisory services to customers. The company operates through five segments, namely corporate finance, forensic and litigation consulting, economic consulting, technology, and strategic communications. The company generates the majority of its revenue from the Corporate finance segment. Customers of the company come from a wide array of sectors, including construction, energy and power, environmental, financial institutions, healthcare and life science, insurance, real estate and infrastructure, retail and consumer products, telecom, media, and technology. The majority of the company's revenue is derived from serving customers in the United States.

HD Hyundai Marine Solution is a South Korean ship and engine aftermarket services company that was established in 2016 by integrating the vessel service organisation of HD Hyundai Heavy Industries, and was formerly named Hyundai Global Service. It provides maintenance, repair and management services for ships and for engines installed on them, including warranty agency work for vessels built by the HD Hyundai group. Its business lines also include marine fuel bunkering, eco-friendly conversion and retrofit of vessels, and software-defined vessel solutions. Its customers are shipowners and ship managers worldwide, and it is part of the HD Hyundai group. The company is listed on the Korea Exchange, where it went public in 2024, and it earns revenue mainly from services and parts.

Sweco AB is an architecture and engineering consultancy. It offers multidisciplinary services in the following segments: buildings and urban areas; water, energy, and industry; and transportation infrastructure. Sweco’s architecture operations are integrated into all segments. The company's geograohical segments include: Sweden, Belgium, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Netherlands, UK, and Germany, and Central Europe.

Alliance Laundry Holdings Inc is designer and manufacturer of commercial laundry systems, serving diverse international markets. The company offers premium, durable laundry equipment under brands like Speed Queen, UniMac, Huebsch, Primus, IPSO, and others. It serves commercial laundry needs across healthcare, hotels, laundromats, and residential markets.

UniFirst Corp provides workplace uniforms and protective clothing in North America. Its products and services include designing, manufacturing, personalizing, renting, cleaning, delivering, and selling uniforms, protective clothing, industrial wiping and cleaning products, floor mats, facility service products, restroom and cleaning supplies, first aid cabinet services, safety supplies, and safety training. Its segments are Uniform & Facility Service Solutions, which generates maximum revenue, First Aid & Safety Solutions, and Other. The Uniform & Facility Service Solutions segment designs, manufactures, purchases, rents, cleans, delivers, and sells uniforms, protective clothing, and non-garment items in the U.S. and Canada.

Wuchan Zhongda Group Co Ltd is engaged in industrial investment, equity investment, asset management, investment management, management consulting, information consulting services. It is also engaged in car sales and leasing, e-commerce technology services, used car transactions and services.

Serco Group PLC helps governments and public-sector bodies deliver public services. The company generates revenue from four divisions; the UK & Europe division provides hospital management, welfare, business support operations, and defense services in the U.K. and Europe. The North America division provides professional, defense, technology, and management services to the U.S. and Canadian governments. The Asia-Pacific segment provides frontline services, defense, and citizen services in Australia, New Zealand, and Hong Kong. The Middle East division provides transport, defense, and health services in the Middle East. The company generates its key revenue from the U.K. & Europe divisions.

MITIE Group PLC is a U.K.-based company. The company's reportable segments include Technical services, Business services, Central Government & Defence, Communities, and Corporate Centre. The company generates the majority of its revenue from the technical services and business services segments. Geographically, the company generates a majority of its revenue from the United Kingdom.

Maximus Inc designs, develops, and delivers programs enabling people to access vital government services. It translates health and human services public policy into operating models that achieve outcomes for governments at scale. The company covers a broad array of services, including the operation of large health insurance eligibility and enrollment programs; clinical services, including assessments, appeals, and independent medical reviews; and technology services. The company operates through the following segments: U.S. Federal Services, U.S. Services, and Outside the U.S. A majority of its revenue is derived from the U.S. Federal Services segment, which engages with various U.S. federal government agencies to deliver clinical services, maintenance services, and technology solutions.

Alten is an engineering and technology consulting firm. The company provides design and research projects for the technical and information systems divisions of corporate clients in the industrial, telecommunications, and service sectors. Alten’s business consists of three operating segments: engineering and technology consulting; telecoms and networks; and information systems. The engineering and technology consulting segment contributes the majority of group revenue. Alten generates approximately half of its revenue in France with most of the balance derived in other European countries.

ABM Industries Inc is a provider of integrated facility solutions. It offers its solutions through five segments: Business and Industry, Manufacturing and Distribution, Education, Aviation and Technical solutions. The company derives the majority of its revenue from the business and industry segment, which encompasses janitorial, facilities engineering, and parking services for commercial real estate properties and sports and entertainment venues, hospitals, as well as vehicle maintenance and other services to rental car providers. The company mainly operates in the United States of America.

CBIZ Inc through its subsidiaries provides professional services advisors to middle-market businesses and organizations nationwide. Its business units have been aggregated into three practice groups: Financial Services, Benefits and Insurance Services, and National Practices. The company provides its services to various industries such as Banking & Financial Services, Commercial Real Estate, Construction, Health Care Manufacturing & Distribution NFP & Education, Private Client Services, Professional Services, Public Sector, and Technology & Life Sciences. It derives the majority of its revenues from the Financial Services segment and geographically from the United States.

Huron Consulting Group Inc is a professional services firm. The company provides expertise in technology, operations, advisory services, & analytics through three operating segments namely Healthcare, Education, and Commercial. Healthcare segment helps the firms to transform and innovate the delivery model to focus on patient wellness by improving quality outcomes, minimizing care variation and fundamentally improving patient and population health, Education segment provides management consulting and technology solutions, and Commercial segment is focused on serving industries and organizations facing disruption and regulatory change. It generates a majority of its revenue from the Healthcare Segment.

TIC Solutions Inc is a provider of tech-enabled Testing, Inspection, Certification and Compliance (TICC), engineering, and geospatial services. It provides mission-critical services that are essential to the safety, reliability, and efficiency of industrial assets, buildings and public infrastructure. The company's services are often non-discretionary and are driven by regulatory requirements, customer risk management policies, and the need to extend the useful life of critical assets. It operates in North America and serve both public- and private-sector clients. Its public-sector clients include federal, state, and municipal agencies, public utilities, and environmental regulators. Its private-sector clients span industrial, infrastructure, construction, and real estate end markets.

International Gemological Institute grades and certifies diamonds, coloured stones and jewellery through laboratories in many countries. Customers are jewellery makers, retailers and consumers. It is one of the largest gem grading firms worldwide, with its Indian listed arm based in Mumbai.

Badger Infrastructure Solutions Ltd is North America's provider of non-destructive excavating and related services, with operations in both the United States and Canada. Its key technology is the Badger Hydrovac, which is used predominantly for safe excavation around critical infrastructure and in congested underground conditions. The Badger Hydrovac uses a pressurized water stream to liquefy the soil cover, which is then removed with a powerful vacuum system and deposited into a storage tank. The company manufactures and designs its truck-mounted hydrovac units into its existing and future design and manufacturing processes. It provides services to contractors and facility owners in a range of infrastructure industries, general commercial construction and industrial cleaning services.

Engineers India is a state-owned engineering consultancy. It provides design, engineering, procurement and project management for oil refineries, petrochemicals, pipelines and other infrastructure. Customers are mainly public sector oil and gas companies. Headquartered in New Delhi.

HAZAMA ANDO Corp is a Japanese company which is mainly engaged in construction and construction-related business. The company has three reportable segments namely Civil Engineering, Building Construction and Consolidated Subsidiaries. The Civil Engineering services include surveys, measurements, planning, designing, execution, supervising, technical guidance commissioning, and consulting work. It also provides collection, handling, and disposal of waste, and consulting work relating to such business as well as an area development, urban development, and environmental improvements. The majority of the company's revenue comes from the domestic business in Japan.

Ipsos SA is a France-based market research and data analytics company. It provides research services across areas such as advertising, media, technology, public affairs, and consumer markets, using surveys and data analysis to generate insights. The company operates globally, with Europe as a key revenue contributor.

Clarivate Plc is a British-American information services and analytics company, headquartered in Philadelphia and London, that sells subscription data, analytics and workflow software to academia, government, intellectual property owners and life sciences companies. It formed in 2016 when Thomson Reuters sold its Intellectual Property and Science division to Onex and Baring Private Equity Asia, and it listed on the NYSE in 2019 through a merger with Churchill Capital Corp. Its products include Web of Science, ProQuest, Ex Libris, Derwent, CompuMark and Cortellis. It acquired CPA Global, an IP management software and services provider with about $575 million of revenue and 12,000 customers, in an all-stock deal valued at about $6.8 billion that closed in October 2020. For 2025 revenue was $2.46 billion, 88% of it recurring, with a net loss of $201.1 million and adjusted EBITDA of $1.00 billion. In 2026 it agreed to sell its Life Sciences & Healthcare segment to Altaris for $600 million, leaving Academia & Government and Intellectual Property as its two segments. Matti Shem Tov has been chief executive since August 2024.

GPS Participacoes E Empreendimentos SA is engaged in the provision of property security services, sanitation and cleaning services, indoor logistics services, electronic security services, implementation, operation and building maintenance, maritime hotel services on oil platforms, kitchen services and meal sales, highway maintenance services, and participation in companies through the acquisition of shares or capital quotas.

ICF International Inc provides professional services and technology-based solutions to government and commercial clients, including management, marketing, technology, and policy consulting and implementation services. Its services support clients that operate in four key markets that include Energy, Environment, Infrastructure and Disaster Recovery; Health and Social Programs and Security and Other Civilian & Commercial. The Company's majority clients are United States federal government departments and agencies. It operates in a single segment, which is providing professional services.

ASGN Inc is a provider of information technology (IT) services and professional solutions, including technology and creative digital marketing, across the commercial and government sectors. It operates through two segments, Commercial and Federal Government. The Commercial Segment, which generates the majority of the revenue, provides IT solutions to Fortune 1000 and large mid-market clients. The Federal Government Segment provides solutions in data and AI, cybersecurity, software and engineering, and enterprise platforms to agencies in the public and private sectors.

MLP SE is a holding company that provides consultation that covers all economic and financial aspects for private and corporate clients, as well as institutional investors such as old-age provision, wealth management, health insurance, non-life insurance, loans, banking, among others. The company has seven business segments namely, Financial consulting; Banking; FERI; DOMCURA; Industrial Broker; Deutschland.Immobilien and Holding.

Wintech Nano (Suzhou) Co Ltd is engaged in semiconductor third-party testing and analysis services.

Andersen Group is a San Francisco-headquartered provider of independent tax, valuation and financial advisory services to individuals, family offices, businesses and alternative investment funds. It is the listed holding company of Andersen Tax LLC, which began in July 2002 as Wealth & Tax Advisory Services, formed by former Arthur Andersen tax partners, and took the Andersen name in 2014. Andersen Group Inc. was incorporated in Delaware in April 2025 and listed on the New York Stock Exchange as ANDG after an initial public offering priced at $16.00 per share that closed on December 18, 2025. It reported 2025 revenue of $838.7 million and about 2,300 employees. In 2026 the group began buying firms from the Andersen Global network, signing 19 acquisitions across tax, legal, valuation and consulting representing about $190 million of annualized revenue. Andersen Global, the Swiss verein of independent member firms, is a separate organisation.