Accenture
HELPING CONSUMER GOODS COMPANIES
ACHIEVE HIGH PERFORMANCE
Accenture is a global management
consulting, technology services and
outsourcing company.
Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities
across all industries and business
functions, as well as extensive
research on the world’s most successful companies, we collaborate
with clients in order to help them
become high-performance businesses and governments.
With more than 186,000 people
serving clients in over 120 countries,
Accenture generated net revenues of
$23.39 billion for the fiscal year ended
Aug. 31, 2008. We have offices and
operations in more than 200 cities in
52 countries, and in fiscal 2008, we
served 96 of the Fortune Global 100
and more than three-quarters of the
Fortune Global 500.
Having worked for decades with the
world’s most successful consumer
goods companies in home and personal care, food and non-alcoholic
beverages, alcoholic beverages, consumer healthcare and fashion segments we have the insight and
experience to help these organizations
come out on top.
We enable consumer goods companies to achieve high performance
through dynamic market conditions by
developing an in-depth understanding
of the consumers and their varying
needs; enabling sustained capabilities
through ERP, custom and emerging
technologies; optimizing supply chain
and cost structures; and offering a
unique mix of strategies that serve as
building blocks for accelerating growth
and sustaining long-term success. For
the past 10 years the Accenture Institute
for High Performance has applied rigorous academic research to the problems facing today’s businesses. We
define a high-performance business
as one that consistently delivers superior returns to its shareholders through
economic cycles, industry cycles and
changes in leadership.
An important byproduct of our
research has been insights into the
commonalities of high performance
in the consumer goods industry.
ACCENTURE
161 NORTH CLARK STREET
CHICAGO, IL 60601-3200
PHONE: (312) 693-3597
JAMES.B.COLEMAN@ACCENTURE.COM
WWW.ACCENTURE.COM/CONSUMERGOODS