BCG upgrades to bigger offices in Perth with a view to future growth
Global strategy firm Boston Consulting Group has relocated to new premises in Perth, taking up 1,350 square meters of space in the city’s QV1 tower to cater to its ambitions for future growth.
According to the firm, Boston Consulting Group currently has a team of around 50 advisers permanently based out of Perth, along with a considerable FIFO roster, but aspires to significantly ramp up its local number of professionals over the next five years.
“Western Australia is globally recognised for its strength in natural resources and its growing leadership in innovation and technology,” stated Asia Pacific chair Neeraj Aggarwal. “Our new office reflects BCG’s deepening commitment to the state.”
Aggarwal noted that the new, larger state-of-the-art office would also support an expansion of the firm’s suite of services to the local market, including cutting-edge technologies via its BCG X division, with the further aim of positioning Perth as a ‘destination office’ to attract both new talent and current BCG professionals from around the world.
After originally setting up shop in 2011, BCG currently has five managing directors and partners stationed in Perth, including office leader and original member Matthew Leach, with the local team predominantly focused on the state’s resources and mining sectors and serving large global players such as Rio Tinto and BHP.
Amusingly, that first office in 2011, staffed by a small team of imports from Sydney, Melbourne, NZ, and Germany, had a capacity for just fifteen people, before the firm almost immediately won a major mining contract and had to bring in an additional 80-plus professionals to support the project, prompting its shift to its last St Georges Terrace address back in 2013.
Speaking on its latest upgrade, Leach said: “Our move to QV1 is a milestone in BCG’s journey in Perth. It reflects not just our growth, but our deep commitment to Western Australia. With our new office, we are creating an environment that encourages collaboration, creativity, and flexibility – essential for solving our clients’ most complex challenges.”
“The persistence of both that original team and a few people who committed to fly to Perth each week to build the business laid the foundation for where we are today,” Leach added, with an official launch event held in the new office attracting a number of clients and BCG alumni.
Not a common player in the M&A space, one of the few acquisitions BCG has made globally in recent years was of Perth-based virtual modelling firm The Simulation Group, which it fully bought in 2019 before folding the tech company into its former advanced analytics brand BCG Gamma. The Perth upgrade follows BCG’s relaunch in New Zealand through an Auckland office in 2023.
