Acquisitions

MADRID; April 8, 2019 – Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has acquired Spanish brand communications agency Shackleton. Headquartered in Madrid with offices in Barcelona and Santiago, Chile, Shackleton will become part of Accenture Interactive and expand its ability to design, build and run integrated brand experiences for clients in Spain, Latin America and beyond.

NEW YORK; April 3, 2019 – Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has entered into an agreement to acquire Droga5, one of the world’s most innovative and influential creative agencies. The New York-based agency will become part of Accenture Interactive, boosting its capabilities as an Experience Agency able to design, build and run customer experiences that grow brands and businesses.

COPENHAGEN; March 29, 2019 – Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has completed its acquisition of Hjaltelin Stahl, a leading Danish creative agency, known for its ability to create unique and consistent cross-media experiences for its clients. The award-winning Copenhagen-based agency is now part of Accenture Interactive, boosting its capabilities as an experience agency in the Nordic countries and beyond.

OSAKA; March 29, 2019 – Accenture (NYSE: ACN) announced it is acquiring select assets from Caltec Scube, an Osaka-based system development company. Caltec Scube’s mainframe modernization professionals will also join Accenture, strengthening the company’s application modernization capabilities to help clients overhaul their mission-critical legacy systems and transform into intelligent enterprises.

AMSTERDAM; March, 15, 2019 – Accenture (NYSE:ACN) has acquired Storm Digital, a full service digital marketing agency specializing in search, social and programmatic advertising services that transforms customer experiences through strategic, technological, analytical and creative solutions. 

NEW YORK and DUBLIN, Ireland; Mar. 5, 2019 – Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has agreed to acquire Enterprise System Partners (ESP), a consulting and manufacturing services provider for the life sciences industry that is headquartered in Cork, Ireland, serving clients around the globe. Upon close, ESP will join Accenture Industry X.0, which helps clients master the digital reinvention of industry, strengthening Accenture’s capabilities to transform manufacturing for pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device clients globally.

COPENHAGEN, March 5, 2019 – Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has entered into an agreement to acquire Hjaltelin Stahl, a leading Danish creative agency, known for its ability to create unique and consistent cross-media experiences for its clients. The award-winning Copenhagen-based agency will become part of Accenture Interactive and boost its capabilities as an Experience Agency in the Nordic countries and beyond.

LONDON; March 4, 2019 – Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has acquired ?What If!, a privately owned innovation firm that uses an experimentation-driven approach to help clients incubate new products, services, business models and organizational cultures.

NEW YORK; Feb. 14, 2019 – Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has completed its acquisition of Orbium, a management consultancy and technology services provider to the financial services industry, further strengthening its ability to provide innovative services to clients in the private-banking and wealth-management space globally. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

NEW YORK and TORONTO; Feb. 7, 2019 – Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has completed its previously announced transaction with Zafin, a worldwide leader in financial services software based in Canada, under which select professional-services employees at Zafin — based in Canada, India and the U.K. — have joined Accenture’s global Financial Services practice.