Marriott Business Services, one of Blount County’s largest employers, has been transferred to Accenture, a management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company based in Ireland.
Marriott International Inc. and Accenture announced the “strategic collaboration” in a joint statement released Wednesday.
Terms were not disclosed.
Marriott Business Services is in Louisville, Tenn. and has 561 employees, making it the eighth largest employer in Blount County, according to the Great Knoxville Business Journal Book of Lists.
Employees were told of the transfer in a meeting Wednesday.
Marriott spokesperson Jeff Flaherty said in a telephone interview that Accenture “plans to retain all employees who choose to stay on.” Accenture expects to grow the Louisville operation, but has no specific growth goal at this time, Flaherty said.
According to the statement, Marriott Business Services and its employees will be transferred to Accenture, which will create a entity called Accenture Hospitality Services.
The transfer will begin in August and is expected to be completed by early September, the companies said. Marriott Business Services currently occupies two buildings near the intersection of Topside Road and Pellissippi Parkway.
Blount Partnership President and CEO Bryan Daniels said Accenture’s Louisville operation will be a “viable entity for a long time” and the existing campus has room to expand.
The Louisville operation will “become an Accenture center of excellence for finance and accounting business process outsourcing and provide those services to Marriott as part of AHS,” the companies said.
AHS also will provide management consulting, technology and business process outsourcing services to other companies in the hospitality industry.
“By combining the world-class financial processes developed by MBS with Accenture’s scale and cross-industry expertise, Accenture will create a new business service to help lodging and hospitality companies better target strategic outcomes, achieve greater agility and drive new growth areas,” Paul Loftus, global managing director of Accenture’s Hospitality Industry Group said in a statement.
Accenture, which has clients in 120 countries, had revenue of $27.9 billion in its 2012 fiscal year.
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