Accenture Identifies New Sales Models to Help Drive Profitable Revenue Growth in Selling Through Someone Else: How to Use Agile Sales Networks and Partners to Sell More
NEW YORK; February 19, 2013 – Accenture (NYSE: ACN) today announced the release of Selling Through Someone Else: How to Use Agile Sales Networks and Partners to Sell More, authored by Robert Wollan, Naveen Jain and Michael Heald, managing directors in the Accenture Sales & Customer Services practice. The book, published by Wiley, reveals how changes to sales strategies and execution models can help sustain profitable growth amid an increasingly complex and fast-evolving selling environment.
February 19, 2013
KPN Awards Accenture a Four-Year Contract to Provide Digital Managed Services
NEW YORK; Jan 28, 2013 – KPN, a leading telecommunications and IT services provider in The Netherlands, has awarded Accenture (NYSE: ACN) a four-year technology and management consulting contract to develop, build and maintain a full range of digital managed services in order to support KPN’s online domain and drive integration and standardization. Financial terms were not disclosed.
January 28, 2013
Accenture Strengthens Digital Marketing Capabilities With Acquisition of avVenta Worldwide
NEW YORK; Oct. 9, 2012 – Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has acquired avVenta Worldwide, a provider of digital production services to leading brands and agencies across multiple industries. The acquisition, which closed today, strengthens the broad range of marketing services Accenture provides to chief marketing officers (CMOs) – from the development of marketing strategy to the management of marketing systems and campaigns. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
October 09, 2012
Accenture Earns a Leader Position for Salesforce.com Implementation by Independent Research Firm
Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has been named a leader in the implementation of salesforce.com by Forrester Research Inc. Forrester, a leading industry analyst firm, evaluated a total of 11 companies, placing Accenture among the leaders. The ranking was contained in a May 2011 independent report titled, “The Forrester Wave™ Salesforce.com Implementation, Q2 2011”.
May 26, 2011
Consumers Juggling Home and Mobile Electronics Devices Would Welcome One Source of Technical Help to Manage it All, Accenture Survey Shows
NEW YORK, May 2, 2011 – Consumers who are juggling the use of their home-based and mobile consumer electronics devices would welcome integrated technical support to manage them, especially if they could turn to a single company for help, according to a study from Accenture (NYSE:ACN).
May 02, 2011
Consumer Electronics Ownership, Spending in Brazil Ranks Highest Among 8 Countries; Tops China, Germany and the U.S.
RIO DE JANEIRO; April 27, 2011– According to Accenture (NYSE: ACN) research across eight countries, Brazilians have the highest consumer electronics ownership and spending in 15 product categories. More than half (55 percent) of Brazilian consumers have bought a mobile phone during the past year, compared to the international survey average of 32 percent. Similarly, 40 percent of Brazilian consumers plan to buy HDTVs this year compared to 25 percent internationally; and 20 percent intend to buy 3DTVs this year compared to 12 percent internationally.
April 27, 2011
Anheuser-Busch InBev and Accenture Collaborate on Digital Merchandising Pilot
MOSCOW; April, 19, 2011 – Accenture (NYSE: ACN) is collaborating with Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev) on a digital merchandising pilot aimed at enhancing the efficiency of the leading global brewer’s merchandising activities at the point of sale, and increasing product sales. Financial terms were not disclosed.
April 19, 2011
Consumers of all Ages are Going ‘Over-the-Top’
NEW YORK; April 11, 2011 – The majority of consumers of all ages in seven major markets around the world are choosing to watch video content over the Internet via their televisions, PCs, smartphones and other electronic devices, according to Accenture’s (NYSE: ACN) Video-Over-Internet Consumer Usage Survey.
April 11, 2011
Accenture Adds Digital Mail to Postal Portfolio
LONDON; March 30, 2011 – Expanding its line of postal services, Accenture (NYSE: ACN) today announced it will enable postal agencies worldwide to offer digital mail – a digital version of printed mail securely delivered to an online mailbox – to their customers to recapture lost revenue from a steady decline in mail volumes and to compete against a growing number of independent operators currently offering digital mail direct to consumers.
March 30, 2011
Accenture Enables Mediaset to Launch Over-the-Top Services for TV, PC and Other Mobile Devices
NEW YORK; Feb. 22, 2011 – Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has built a leading edgesolution for Mediaset, Italy’s largest commercial broadcaster, that will enable the company to provide innovative Over-the-Top services for TV, PC and other devices as part of the Mediaset Premium offer. The solution will be launched today. Terms of Mediaset’s multi-year contract with Accenture were not disclosed.
February 22, 2011