Accenture Completes Acquisition of Majority Stake in IMJ

Accenture (NYSE:ACN) has completed its acquisition of a majority stake in IMJ Corporation (IMJ), a full-service digital agency. The majority acquisition enhances the capabilities of Accenture Interactive in the local market, bringing together leading-edge creativity, deep knowledge in advanced digital technology and consulting capabilities from Accenture and IMJ to provide seamless, end-to-end digital marketing services. Financial terms are not being disclosed.

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“Digital services are a core capability we use to help drive the transformation of our clients and enable them to achieve business growth. The role digital marketing can play to enhance the customer experience through creativity and innovation is only increasing in today’s digital age,” said Atsushi Egawa, country managing director at Accenture Japan. “Accenture is expanding our global digital marketing capabilities that are offered to the market. Using our unique capabilities, Accenture will continue to provide superior digital services to our clients while collaborating with leading industry partners in our ecosystem.”

“Today, we celebrate our 20th anniversary. I am pleased to be able to continue our journey with a recognized leader like Accenture to further propel our growth in this milestone year,” said Shinji Takeuchi, President – Chief Executive Officer of IMJ. “Together, IMJ and Accenture will be the leading player in the digital marketing area, helping our clients to realize their business goals and create delightful experiences for their customers.”

Accenture Interactive offers a full suite of integrated digital marketing services, from experience design to marketing, content and commerce, focused on the digital customer agenda. It partners with leading brands to create engaging customer experiences with transformative results and was recently named the largest and fastest-growing digital agency network worldwide by Ad Age.

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries and all business functions – underpinned by the world’s largest delivery network – Accenture works at the intersection of business and technology to help clients improve their performance and create sustainable value for their stakeholders. With approximately 375,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture drives innovation to improve the way the world works and lives. Visit us at www.accenture.com.

About IMJ Corporation

With extensive knowledge and experience in strategic planning, data analytics and web integration services in the digital marketing field, IMJ provides a wide range of one-stop digital marketing services and solutions to realize the company’s vision of enriching the consumer experience through the power of digital.

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as a result of the company’s geographically diverse operations and its growth strategy to continue geographic expansion, the company is more susceptible to certain risks; adverse changes to the company’s relationships with key alliance partners or in the business of its key alliance partners could adversely affect the company’s results of operations; the company’s services or solutions could infringe upon the intellectual property rights of others or the company might lose its ability to utilize the intellectual property of others; if the company is unable to protect its intellectual property rights from unauthorized use or infringement by third parties, its business could be adversely affected; the company’s ability to attract and retain business and employees may depend on its reputation in the marketplace; if the company is unable to manage the organizational challenges associated with its size, the company might be unable to achieve its business objectives; any changes to the estimates and assumptions that the company makes in connection with the preparation of its consolidated financial statements could adversely affect its financial results; many of the company’s contracts include payments that link some of its fees to the attainment of performance or business targets and/or require the company to meet specific service levels, which could increase the variability of the company’s revenues and impact its margins; if the company is unable to collect its receivables or unbilled services, the company’s results of operations, financial condition and cash flows could be adversely affected; the company’s results of operations and share price could be adversely affected if it is unable to maintain effective internal controls; the company may be subject to criticism and negative publicity related to its incorporation in Ireland; as well as the risks, uncertainties and other factors discussed under the “Risk Factors” heading in Accenture plc’s most recent annual report on Form 10-K and other documents filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission. Statements in this news release speak only as of the date they were made, and Accenture undertakes no duty to update any forward-looking statements made in this news release or to conform such statements to actual results or changes in Accenture’s expectations.

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kentaro.kanda@accenture.com

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