EY has acquired specialist strategy consultancy Greenwich Consulting in a move which the firm says forms part of its global growth strategy.

The 130 Greenwich Consulting employees - 80 of whom are located in France - will now be working with EY Advisory's teams to provide growth strategy, marketing, digital and data-analysis services worldwide.

Jean-Pierre Letartre, EY Chairman in France and EY CEO in in France, North Africa and Luxemburg said: 'We're proud to be associated with one of the best French consulting success stories of the last ten years. The combined operation will mean we are better equipped to meet our clients' expectations and able to offer some unique capabilities in innovation, market growth and business transformation.'

Created 12 years ago, Greenwich Consulting has experienced 35% growth per annum and had a turnover of €25m (£21m) in 2012. The company has seven offices in Europe, North America, Africa and the Middle East.

David Naim, Greenwich Consulting CEO, said: 'We're very happy to become part of one of consulting's world leaders, and one that has maintained a very strong entrepreneurial culture. This move derives from our shared corporate ambition: to accelerate our clients' growth, especially through judicious exploitation of data and digital tools, whilst being able to rely on EY's incredible pool of expertise and international network.'