During Thursday’s Current trade, Shares of Accenture Plc (NYSE:ACN), gain 0.02% to $98.08.
Accenture Plc (ACN) declared the acquisition of Brightstep — a provider of digital content and commerce solutions. The move is part of Accenture’s efforts to enhance its digital marketing capabilities. However, the company has not revealed the terms of the deal.
Based in Stockholm, Sweden, Brightstep was formed in 2001. Brightstep provides brand e-commerce and digital marketing services. Apart from this, its portfolio comprises technology development, and design and usability services. Furthermore, it provides services to improve the brand identity of its clients on the digital platform and enhance their online presence.
The acquisition will assist Accenture’s clients gain access to a greater number of professionals specializing in digital e-commerce solutions from Intershop, hybris software and Adobe.
Brightstep will join the Accenture Interactive platform, a part of the company’s digital marketing-services arm, Accenture Digital. Accenture Interactive was formed in 2009 to deliver managed consulting, technology and analytics services to chief marketing officers (CMOs).
Accenture plc provides administration consulting, technology, and business process outsourcing services worldwide. The company’s Communications, Media & Technology segment offers enterprise and industry-customized services in network engineering and integration, field force enablement, and IP network migration; provides online customer and enterprise relationship administration services; and assists customers in developing video-over-IP platforms, and transforming legacy broadcast platforms to digital.
Shares of Aon Plc (NYSE:AON), inclined 0.10% to $99.81, during its current trading session.
Aon Plc (AON) is a leading insurance and risk brokerage company globally. For insurance brokerage, Aon depends on dynamic financial analysis and securitization to enhance its capacities. This enables it to gain competitive advantage over other players in the industry, thereby making it one of the major insurance and risk brokers. Aon has been divesting non-core businesses to enhance its operating strength. The company divested one business in the Risk Solutions segment and another in the HR Solutions segment in the last stated quarter. These divestments led to a pretax gain of $19 million.
Aon has been upfront in adopting inorganic growth strategies like acquisitions and partnerships. The underwriting tie-up expansion with AXIS Insurance – a business segment of AXIS Capital Holdings Limited AXS – in May 2015 deserves mention as it allows Aon’s A&E Advantage program to provide professional liability insurance to architecture and engineering firms with billings up to $7.5 million. This tie up has benefited Aon by enhancing its professional liability portfolio and thereby, paving the way for more client acquisition. Moreover, the buyout of U.K.-based Kloud in Feb 2015 advanced Aon’s capacity to become the largest provider of Workday services in Europe. The company also boasts a strong cash position that assists it to implement efficient capital administration strategies, which in turn, boost shareholder confidence on the stock.
Aon plc provides risk administration services, insurance and reinsurance brokerage, and human resource consulting and outsourcing services worldwide. It operates through two segments, Risk Solutions and HR Solutions. The Risk Solutions segment offers retail brokerage services, counting affinity products, managing general underwriting, placement, captive administration services, and data and analytics; risk administration solutions for property liability, general liability, professional liability, directors’ and officers’ liability, workers’ compensation, and various healthcare products; and health and benefits consulting services comprising structuring, funding, and administering employee benefit programs. This segment also provides advisory services to technology, financial services, agribusiness, aviation, construction, health care, energy, and other industries.
Murphy Oil Corporation (NYSE:MUR), during its Thursday’s current trading session gained 0.51% to $41.16.
Murphy Oil Corporation (MUR) has planned its earnings conference call at 12:00 p.m. Central Daylight Time (CDT), on Thursday, July 30, 2015, to review second quarter 2015 earnings, which will be declared Wednesday afternoon, July 29, 2015.
Murphy Oil Corporation operates as an oil and gas exploration and production company worldwide. It explores for and produces crude oil, natural gas, and natural gas liquids. The company was formerly known as Murphy Corporation and changed its name to Murphy Oil Corporation in 1964. Murphy Oil Corporation was founded in 1950 and is headquartered in El Dorado, Arkansas.
Finally, Seventy Seven Energy Inc (NYSE:SSE), decreased -0.49%, to $4.06.
Seventy Seven Energy Inc. (SSE) has planned to release its 2015 second quarter operational update and financial results before market open on Wednesday, July 29, 2015. A conference call to talk about the results has been planned for the same day at 9:00 a.m. CDT. The telephone number to access the conference call is U.S. toll-free 844-867-9749 and international 901-300-3300. The conference ID for the call is 73494373
Seventy Seven Energy Inc. provides oilfield services in the United States. The company operates in four segments: Drilling, Hydraulic Fracturing, Oilfield Rentals, and Oilfield Trucking. The Drilling segment offers land drilling and drilling-related services, counting directional drilling for the oil and natural gas exploration and development activities. The Hydraulic Fracturing segment provides hydraulic fracturing and other well stimulation services.
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