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Accenture South West Water is to shed up to 40 jobs at its call centre in Exeter, in order to outsource customer service operations to Accenture with the transfer of some of the work to Worthing, Tewkesbury and the Philippines. 17-Mar-2008 Unilever is expected to award a £500m global outsourcing contract to Accenture, covering human resources and payroll. 14-Feb-2006 Accenture is planning to shed up to 65 of the 375 jobs at its accountancy business in Aberdeen, following the renegotiation of a number of contracts. 18-Nov-2005 Accenture, the management consulting and outsourcing company, is planning to set up an office in Belfast. 21-Feb-2005 Accenture is to shed 180 jobs at its office in Peterborough, as some of its work for Thomas Cook is being outsourced to the Far East. 27-Oct-2004 Barclays is to outsource some of its IT operations to Accenture, in a £400m deal that will involve the transfer of about 900 staff. 24-Jun-2004 Sainsbury has announced a £550m deal to acquire Swan Infrastructure, the company set up by Accenture to operate its tills and IT systems, in order to save £25m a year. 30-Jan-2004 Accenture is expected to win a £450m software development contract from Barclays Bank, which will involve the transfer of about 1,000 jobs. 18-Dec-2003 BT has won contracts worth £1.6bn to develop an electronic patient care record for the NHS, while Accenture has won a £1.1bn NHS contract to modernise its IT infrastructure in the north-east. 09-Dec-2003 Accenture is to shed up to 30 jobs at its business consultancy in Aberdeen, which will affect staff in finance, accounting and administration. 06-Jun-2003 Accenture has shed 150 senior management jobs at its London-based management consulting business, as part of a cost-cutting programme. 08-Jul-2002 Accenture has won a £110m 10-year contract from Thomas Cook to set up an IT and finance service centre, which will involve the transfer of about 400 Thomas Cook staff. 02-Apr-2002 Accenture, the management and technology consultancy, has agreed to take 375,000 sq ft of office space at the Plantation Place development in the City of London, which is due for completion in 2004. 04-Oct-2001 The information above comes from the UK Activity Report Copyright UK Business Park 1995-2008