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Originally Posted by spiderplant
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Originally Posted by Stuart C
Companies often change their name if the old one has a bad reputation. Anderson Consulting were one of several Arthur Anderson companies involved in the Enron scandal. Rather than try and weather the storm, they changed their name to "accenture".
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Actually they changed the name before the Enron scandal, having fallen out with Arthur Andersen. Very fortuitous timing, all the same.
They're still commonly referred to as "Androids" though. |
That may be true, but they didn't heavily publicise the new name until Enron had happened.