The Boston Consulting Group, Inc. (BCG) is a management consultancy firm that offers strategic advisory services. The firm provides branding, corporate development, globalization, operations management, pricing, organizational design, intellectual property, post merger integration, and human resources and knowledge management consulting services. Additionally, it offers reports publishing, invention analysis, benchmark, and outsourcing advisory services. BCG caters to consumer goods, financial services, telecommunications, e-commerce, energy, health care, travel and tourism, industrial goods, and information technology industries. The firm was founded in 1963 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts with additional offices in Amsterdam, Athens, Paris, London, Vienna, Zurich, Oslo, Moscow, Bangkok, Hong Kong, India, Tokyo, Singapore, Los Angeles, and New York.