ACN, Inc. is a Multi-level marketing (MLM) company that provides telecommunications and other services and also provides independent representatives an opportunity to form a home-based business. Based in Concord, North Carolina, USA, ACN began operations in the U.S in 1993 as American Communications Network. It extended operations to Europe in 1999 and to Asia-Pacific in 2004, and now operates in 23 countries, on 4 continents.[5] As a reflection of its international operations, it changed its name to just the initial letters ACN.[citation needed] The company is a member of the Direct Selling Associations in North America [6][7] and Europe.[8] In the United States, ACN is an accredited member of the Better Business Bureau, where it currently has an A rating.[9] In 2010, ACN was placed #21 on Direct Selling News' Global 100 list of the top 100 direct selling companies worldwide based on its revenue.
Accenture plc (Accenture) is a management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, which has offices and operations in more than 200 cities in 53 countries. Its business is organized in five operating groups and their 19 industry groups. Its five operating groups include communications & high tech, financial services, health & public service, products and resources. In November 2010, the Company acquired Knowledge Rules, Inc., a Philadelphia-based consulting company that focuses on implementing and integrating business solutions using Pegasystems Business Process Management (BPM) software.In November 2010, Ariba, Inc. completed the sale of its sourcing services and business process outsourcing (BPO) services assets to the Company. In January 2011, the Company completed its acquisition of CAS Computer Anwendungs- und Systemberatung AG (CAS).
Communications & High Tech
The Company is provider of management consulting, technology, systems integration and outsourcing services and solutions to the communications, electronics, high technology, media and entertainment industries. Its services and solutions include the application of mobile technology, broadband and Internet protocol solutions, advanced advertising solutions, cloud computing application architecture, product innovation and digital rights management, as well as systems integration, customer care, supply chain and workforce transformation services. Its Communications & High Tech operating group includes communications, electronics and high tech, and media and entertainment industry groups.
The Company’s communications industry group serves wireline, wireless, cable and satellite communications and service providers. It provides a range of services designed to help its communications clients increase margins, improve asset utilization, improve customer retention, increase revenues, reduce overall costs and accelerate sales cycles. It offers a solution portfolio designed to address business and operational issues related to sales and service channels, new product development, network functions, corporate functions and information technology.
The Company’s electronics and high tech industry group serves the communications technology, consumer technology, enterprise technology, semiconductor, software and aerospace/defense segments. This industry group provides services in areas, such as strategy, engineering services, enterprise resource management, customer relationship management, embedded software solutions, sales transformation, supply chain management, embedded software development, human performance and merger/acquisition activities, including post-merger integration. It also offers a suite of reusable solutions designed to address the industry’s business and operational challenges, such as new product development, customer service and support, sales and marketing, and global sales and operations effectiveness.
The Company’s media and entertainment industry group serves the broadcast, entertainment (television, music and movie), print, publishing and portal industries. It provides a range of services, including digital marketing, performance advertising, digital rights management, and digital content and media technologies to help clients manage, access, distribute and protect content across multiple platforms and devices. It also provides additional solutions through Origin Digital and Digiplug, specialized Accenture units that help content owners and distributors adapt business processes and systems to enable digital monetization.
Financial Services
Accenture’s Financial Services operating group focuses on its clients’ needs to adapt to changing market conditions, including increased cost pressures, industry consolidation, regulatory changes, the creation of industry standards and protocols, and the move to a integrated industry model. Its Financial Services operating group comprises banking, capital markets and insurance industry groups. Its banking industry group works with retail and commercial banks and diversified financial enterprises. It helps these organizations develop and execute strategies to target, acquire and retain customers; expand product and service offerings; manage risk; comply with regulatory initiatives; support integration related to mergers and acquisitions, and leverage technologies and distribution channels.
The Company’s capital markets industry group helps investment banks, broker/dealers, asset-management firms, depositories, exchanges and clearing. Its insurance industry group helps property and casualty insurers, life insurers, reinsurance firms and insurance brokers improve business processes, modernize their technologies and improve the quality and consistency of risk selection decisions. It offers a claim management capability that enables insurers to provide customer service, while optimizing claims costs, as well as industry insurance policy administration technology solutions that enable insurers to bring products to market. It also provides a variety of outsourcing solutions to help insurers improve working capital and cash flow, deliver permanent cost savings and improve long-term growth.
Health & Public Service
The Company’s Health & Public Service operating group comprises Public Service and Health industry groups. Through its connected health initiative, its health industry group works with healthcare providers, government health departments, policy-making authorities/regulators, managed care organizations, health insurers and other industry-related organizations to improve the quality, accessibility and affordability of healthcare. Its offerings address a variety of areas, including electronic health records and health information exchanges; back-office services for hospitals and health plans; sales and marketing; core administration services; health management services; claims excellence/cost containment, and corporate functions, including human resources, finance, procurement and information technology (IT).
The Company’s public service industry group provides services designed to help public-service entities around the world increase the efficiency of their operations, improve service delivery to citizens and reduce their overall costs to address budget deficits. It works primarily with defense, revenue, human services, health, postal, and justice and public-safety authorities or agencies, and its clients are national, state or local-level government organizations, as well as pan-geographic organizations. Its offerings help public-sector clients address some of their needs, including developing modern tax systems, which help increase compliance and improve revenues; ensuring the security of citizens and businesses, and improving the delivery of human services to eligible recipients.
Products
Accentues’s Products operating group consists of air freight and travel services, automotive, consumer goods and services, industrial equipment, infrastructure and transportation services, life sciences and retail. Its air freight and travel services industry group serves airlines, freight and logistics companies across all modes of transport, and travel services companies, including hotels, tour operators, rental car companies and cruise operators. It also offers industry-specific solutions, such as Navitaire for the airline industry and an end-to-end shipment-management solution for the freight and logistics industry.
Its automotive industry group works with auto manufacturers, dealers, retailers and service providers. It helps clients develop and implement solutions focused on product development and commercialization, customer service and retention, channel strategy and management, branding, buyer-driven business models, cost reduction, customer relationship management and integrated supplier partnerships. Its consumer goods and services industry group serves food and beverage, alcoholic beverage, household goods and personal care, tobacco and fashion/apparel manufacturers and agribusiness and consumer health companies worldwide. Its service offerings are designed to help these companies improve their performance by addressing critical elements of success, including large-scale enterprise resource planning (ERP) strategy and implementation, sales and marketing transformation, working-capital productivity improvement and supply chain collaboration. Its also help clients build operating models that facilitate end-to-end processes focused on improved outcomes for users, employees, customers and suppliers.
The Company’s industrial equipment industry group serves the industrial and electrical equipment, automotive supplier, consumer durable and heavy equipment industries. It helps its clients increase operating and supply chain efficiencies by improving processes and leveraging technology. It also helps clients generate value from strategic mergers and acquisitions. In addition, its industrial equipment industry group develops and deploys solutions in the areas of cloud computing, channel management, collaborative product design, remote field maintenance, enterprise application integration and outsourcing. The Company’s infrastructure and transportation services industry group serves companies in the construction, infrastructure-management (ports, airports, seaports and road-tolling facilities) and mass-transportation industries. It help clients develop and implement strategies and solutions to improve their information technology and customer-relationship-management capabilities, operate more-efficient networks, integrate supply chains, develop procurement and electronic business marketplace strategies, and manage maintenance, repair and overhaul processes and expenses.
The Company’s life sciences industry group works with pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical products and other companies across the life-sciences value chain, providing services, such as large-scale business and technology transformation, targeted business performance improvement and post-merger integration. Its area of focus includes research and development, supply chain, manufacturing, marketing and sales, and select back-office functions. In addition, it operates life sciences-specific business process and IT outsourcing services across all geographies in the global industry. Its retail industry group serves a range of retailers and distributors, including supermarkets, department stores, specialty premium retailers and large mass-merchandise discounters. It provides service offerings, which help clients address ways of reaching the retail trade and consumers through precision marketing; maximize brand synergies and cost reductions in mergers and acquisitions; improve supply chain efficiencies through collaborative commerce business models, and improve the efficiency of internal operations.
Resources
Accenture’s Resources operating group serves the chemicals, energy, forest products, metals and mining, utilities and related industries. Its Resources operating group includes chemicals, energy, natural resources and utilities. Its chemicals industry group works with a cross-section of industry segments, including petrochemicals, specialty chemicals, polymers and plastics, gases and agricultural chemical companies, among others. It helps chemical companies develop and implement business strategies, redesign business processes, manage change initiatives, and integrate processes and technologies to achieve higher levels of performance. Its energy industry group serves a range of companies in the oil and gas industry, including upstream, downstream, oil services and clean-energy companies. Its areas of focus include helping clients optimize production, manage their hydrocarbon and non-hydrocarbon supply chains, streamline marketing operations and third-party, enterprise-wide technology solutions. In addition, Its multi-client outsourcing centers enable clients to increase operational efficiencies and exploit cross-industry synergies.
The Company’s natural resources industry group serves the metals, mining, forest products and building materials industries. It help its clients, which include mining companies in the coal, iron ore, copper and precious metals sectors; steel and aluminum producers; and lumber, pulp, papermaking, converting and packaging companies, develop and implement business strategies, redesign business processes, manage change initiatives, and integrate processes and technologies to achieve higher levels of performance. Its utilities industry group works with electric, gas and water utilities worldwide to respond to an evolving marketplace. The Company’s work includes helping utilities transform themselves from regulated, and sometimes state-owned, local entities to international deregulated corporations, as well as developing diverse products and service offerings to help its clients deliver higher levels of service to their customers. These offerings include customer relationship management, workforce enablement, smart-grid development, supply chain optimization, and trading and risk management. It also provides a range of outsourced customer-care services to utilities and retail energy companies in North America.
OVERALL
Beta: 0.78
Market Cap (Mil.): $40,656.86
Shares Outstanding (Mil.): 714.91
Annual Dividend: 0.90
Yield (%): 1.58
FINANCIALS
ACN.N Industry Sector
P/E (TTM): 19.28 9.46 15.79
EPS (TTM): 26.55 -- --
ROI: 36.15 2.86 2.81
ROE: 60.25 4.62 5.15
Name Age Since Current Position
Green, William 57 2011 Chairman of the Board
Nanterme, Pierre 51 2011 Chief Executive Officer, Director
Craig, Pamela 54 2006 Chief Financial Officer
Rohleder, Stephen 53 2009 Group Chief Executive - Health & Public Service Operating Group
Cole, Martin 54 2006 Group Chief Executive - Communications & High Tech Operating Group
Frerichs, Robert 58 2009 Group Chief Executive, North America
Campbell, Kevin 50 2009 Group Chief Executive - Technology
Casati, Gianfranco 51 2006 Group Chief Executive - Products Operating Group
van't Noordende, Alexander 47 2011 Group Chief Executive - Management Consulting Growth Platform
Salvino, Michael 45 2009 Group Chief Executive - Business Process Outsourcing
Lumb, Richard 49 2010 Group Chief Executive - Financial Services Operating Group
Ollagnier, Jean-Marc 49 2011 Group Chief Executive - Resources Operating Group
Deblaere, Johan 48 2009 Chief Operating Officer
Coughlan, Anthony 53 2010 Principal Accounting Officer
Sweet, Julie 43 2010 Chief Compliance Officer, General Counsel, Secretary
Osborne, Jeffrey 45 2010 Chief Performance Officer
Collinson, Shawn 49 2011 Senior Managing Director - Growth & Strategy
Moody-Stuart, Mark 70 2002 Lead Independent Director
Dublon, Dina 57 2001 Independent Director
Lipp, Robert 72 2001 Independent Director
McGarvie, Blythe 54 2002 Independent Director
von Schimmelmann, Wulf 64 2001 Independent Director
Hightower, Dennis 69 2010 Independent Director
Kimsey, William 68 2003 Independent Director
Idei, Nobuyuki 73 2006 Independent Director
Magner, Marjorie 61 2006 Independent Director
Giancarlo, Charles 53 2008 Independent Director
Contact
1000 Progress Place
Concord, NC 28025-2449
Accenture plc (Accenture) is a management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, which has offices and operations in more than 200 cities in 53 countries. Its business is organized in five operating groups and their 19 industry groups. Its five operating groups include communications & high tech, financial services, health & public service, products and resources. In November 2010, the Company acquired Knowledge Rules, Inc., a Philadelphia-based consulting company that focuses on implementing and integrating business solutions using Pegasystems Business Process Management (BPM) software.In November 2010, Ariba, Inc. completed the sale of its sourcing services and business process outsourcing (BPO) services assets to the Company. In January 2011, the Company completed its acquisition of CAS Computer Anwendungs- und Systemberatung AG (CAS).
Communications & High Tech
The Company is provider of management consulting, technology, systems integration and outsourcing services and solutions to the communications, electronics, high technology, media and entertainment industries. Its services and solutions include the application of mobile technology, broadband and Internet protocol solutions, advanced advertising solutions, cloud computing application architecture, product innovation and digital rights management, as well as systems integration, customer care, supply chain and workforce transformation services. Its Communications & High Tech operating group includes communications, electronics and high tech, and media and entertainment industry groups.
The Company’s communications industry group serves wireline, wireless, cable and satellite communications and service providers. It provides a range of services designed to help its communications clients increase margins, improve asset utilization, improve customer retention, increase revenues, reduce overall costs and accelerate sales cycles. It offers a solution portfolio designed to address business and operational issues related to sales and service channels, new product development, network functions, corporate functions and information technology.
The Company’s electronics and high tech industry group serves the communications technology, consumer technology, enterprise technology, semiconductor, software and aerospace/defense segments. This industry group provides services in areas, such as strategy, engineering services, enterprise resource management, customer relationship management, embedded software solutions, sales transformation, supply chain management, embedded software development, human performance and merger/acquisition activities, including post-merger integration. It also offers a suite of reusable solutions designed to address the industry’s business and operational challenges, such as new product development, customer service and support, sales and marketing, and global sales and operations effectiveness.
The Company’s media and entertainment industry group serves the broadcast, entertainment (television, music and movie), print, publishing and portal industries. It provides a range of services, including digital marketing, performance advertising, digital rights management, and digital content and media technologies to help clients manage, access, distribute and protect content across multiple platforms and devices. It also provides additional solutions through Origin Digital and Digiplug, specialized Accenture units that help content owners and distributors adapt business processes and systems to enable digital monetization.
Financial Services
Accenture’s Financial Services operating group focuses on its clients’ needs to adapt to changing market conditions, including increased cost pressures, industry consolidation, regulatory changes, the creation of industry standards and protocols, and the move to a integrated industry model. Its Financial Services operating group comprises banking, capital markets and insurance industry groups. Its banking industry group works with retail and commercial banks and diversified financial enterprises. It helps these organizations develop and execute strategies to target, acquire and retain customers; expand product and service offerings; manage risk; comply with regulatory initiatives; support integration related to mergers and acquisitions, and leverage technologies and distribution channels.
The Company’s capital markets industry group helps investment banks, broker/dealers, asset-management firms, depositories, exchanges and clearing. Its insurance industry group helps property and casualty insurers, life insurers, reinsurance firms and insurance brokers improve business processes, modernize their technologies and improve the quality and consistency of risk selection decisions. It offers a claim management capability that enables insurers to provide customer service, while optimizing claims costs, as well as industry insurance policy administration technology solutions that enable insurers to bring products to market. It also provides a variety of outsourcing solutions to help insurers improve working capital and cash flow, deliver permanent cost savings and improve long-term growth.
Health & Public Service
The Company’s Health & Public Service operating group comprises Public Service and Health industry groups. Through its connected health initiative, its health industry group works with healthcare providers, government health departments, policy-making authorities/regulators, managed care organizations, health insurers and other industry-related organizations to improve the quality, accessibility and affordability of healthcare. Its offerings address a variety of areas, including electronic health records and health information exchanges; back-office services for hospitals and health plans; sales and marketing; core administration services; health management services; claims excellence/cost containment, and corporate functions, including human resources, finance, procurement and information technology (IT).
The Company’s public service industry group provides services designed to help public-service entities around the world increase the efficiency of their operations, improve service delivery to citizens and reduce their overall costs to address budget deficits. It works primarily with defense, revenue, human services, health, postal, and justice and public-safety authorities or agencies, and its clients are national, state or local-level government organizations, as well as pan-geographic organizations. Its offerings help public-sector clients address some of their needs, including developing modern tax systems, which help increase compliance and improve revenues; ensuring the security of citizens and businesses, and improving the delivery of human services to eligible recipients.
Products
Accentues’s Products operating group consists of air freight and travel services, automotive, consumer goods and services, industrial equipment, infrastructure and transportation services, life sciences and retail. Its air freight and travel services industry group serves airlines, freight and logistics companies across all modes of transport, and travel services companies, including hotels, tour operators, rental car companies and cruise operators. It also offers industry-specific solutions, such as Navitaire for the airline industry and an end-to-end shipment-management solution for the freight and logistics industry.
Its automotive industry group works with auto manufacturers, dealers, retailers and service providers. It helps clients develop and implement solutions focused on product development and commercialization, customer service and retention, channel strategy and management, branding, buyer-driven business models, cost reduction, customer relationship management and integrated supplier partnerships. Its consumer goods and services industry group serves food and beverage, alcoholic beverage, household goods and personal care, tobacco and fashion/apparel manufacturers and agribusiness and consumer health companies worldwide. Its service offerings are designed to help these companies improve their performance by addressing critical elements of success, including large-scale enterprise resource planning (ERP) strategy and implementation, sales and marketing transformation, working-capital productivity improvement and supply chain collaboration. Its also help clients build operating models that facilitate end-to-end processes focused on improved outcomes for users, employees, customers and suppliers.
The Company’s industrial equipment industry group serves the industrial and electrical equipment, automotive supplier, consumer durable and heavy equipment industries. It helps its clients increase operating and supply chain efficiencies by improving processes and leveraging technology. It also helps clients generate value from strategic mergers and acquisitions. In addition, its industrial equipment industry group develops and deploys solutions in the areas of cloud computing, channel management, collaborative product design, remote field maintenance, enterprise application integration and outsourcing. The Company’s infrastructure and transportation services industry group serves companies in the construction, infrastructure-management (ports, airports, seaports and road-tolling facilities) and mass-transportation industries. It help clients develop and implement strategies and solutions to improve their information technology and customer-relationship-management capabilities, operate more-efficient networks, integrate supply chains, develop procurement and electronic business marketplace strategies, and manage maintenance, repair and overhaul processes and expenses.
The Company’s life sciences industry group works with pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical products and other companies across the life-sciences value chain, providing services, such as large-scale business and technology transformation, targeted business performance improvement and post-merger integration. Its area of focus includes research and development, supply chain, manufacturing, marketing and sales, and select back-office functions. In addition, it operates life sciences-specific business process and IT outsourcing services across all geographies in the global industry. Its retail industry group serves a range of retailers and distributors, including supermarkets, department stores, specialty premium retailers and large mass-merchandise discounters. It provides service offerings, which help clients address ways of reaching the retail trade and consumers through precision marketing; maximize brand synergies and cost reductions in mergers and acquisitions; improve supply chain efficiencies through collaborative commerce business models, and improve the efficiency of internal operations.
Resources
Accenture’s Resources operating group serves the chemicals, energy, forest products, metals and mining, utilities and related industries. Its Resources operating group includes chemicals, energy, natural resources and utilities. Its chemicals industry group works with a cross-section of industry segments, including petrochemicals, specialty chemicals, polymers and plastics, gases and agricultural chemical companies, among others. It helps chemical companies develop and implement business strategies, redesign business processes, manage change initiatives, and integrate processes and technologies to achieve higher levels of performance. Its energy industry group serves a range of companies in the oil and gas industry, including upstream, downstream, oil services and clean-energy companies. Its areas of focus include helping clients optimize production, manage their hydrocarbon and non-hydrocarbon supply chains, streamline marketing operations and third-party, enterprise-wide technology solutions. In addition, Its multi-client outsourcing centers enable clients to increase operational efficiencies and exploit cross-industry synergies.
The Company’s natural resources industry group serves the metals, mining, forest products and building materials industries. It help its clients, which include mining companies in the coal, iron ore, copper and precious metals sectors; steel and aluminum producers; and lumber, pulp, papermaking, converting and packaging companies, develop and implement business strategies, redesign business processes, manage change initiatives, and integrate processes and technologies to achieve higher levels of performance. Its utilities industry group works with electric, gas and water utilities worldwide to respond to an evolving marketplace. The Company’s work includes helping utilities transform themselves from regulated, and sometimes state-owned, local entities to international deregulated corporations, as well as developing diverse products and service offerings to help its clients deliver higher levels of service to their customers. These offerings include customer relationship management, workforce enablement, smart-grid development, supply chain optimization, and trading and risk management. It also provides a range of outsourced customer-care services to utilities and retail energy companies in North America.
OVERALL
Beta: 0.78
Market Cap (Mil.): $40,656.86
Shares Outstanding (Mil.): 714.91
Annual Dividend: 0.90
Yield (%): 1.58
FINANCIALS
ACN.N Industry Sector
P/E (TTM): 19.28 9.46 15.79
EPS (TTM): 26.55 -- --
ROI: 36.15 2.86 2.81
ROE: 60.25 4.62 5.15
Name Age Since Current Position
Green, William 57 2011 Chairman of the Board
Nanterme, Pierre 51 2011 Chief Executive Officer, Director
Craig, Pamela 54 2006 Chief Financial Officer
Rohleder, Stephen 53 2009 Group Chief Executive - Health & Public Service Operating Group
Cole, Martin 54 2006 Group Chief Executive - Communications & High Tech Operating Group
Frerichs, Robert 58 2009 Group Chief Executive, North America
Campbell, Kevin 50 2009 Group Chief Executive - Technology
Casati, Gianfranco 51 2006 Group Chief Executive - Products Operating Group
van't Noordende, Alexander 47 2011 Group Chief Executive - Management Consulting Growth Platform
Salvino, Michael 45 2009 Group Chief Executive - Business Process Outsourcing
Lumb, Richard 49 2010 Group Chief Executive - Financial Services Operating Group
Ollagnier, Jean-Marc 49 2011 Group Chief Executive - Resources Operating Group
Deblaere, Johan 48 2009 Chief Operating Officer
Coughlan, Anthony 53 2010 Principal Accounting Officer
Sweet, Julie 43 2010 Chief Compliance Officer, General Counsel, Secretary
Osborne, Jeffrey 45 2010 Chief Performance Officer
Collinson, Shawn 49 2011 Senior Managing Director - Growth & Strategy
Moody-Stuart, Mark 70 2002 Lead Independent Director
Dublon, Dina 57 2001 Independent Director
Lipp, Robert 72 2001 Independent Director
McGarvie, Blythe 54 2002 Independent Director
von Schimmelmann, Wulf 64 2001 Independent Director
Hightower, Dennis 69 2010 Independent Director
Kimsey, William 68 2003 Independent Director
Idei, Nobuyuki 73 2006 Independent Director
Magner, Marjorie 61 2006 Independent Director
Giancarlo, Charles 53 2008 Independent Director
Contact
1000 Progress Place
Concord, NC 28025-2449
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