Accenture Buys Orlade: If You Can’t Lift the Crane, Buy the Crew

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Accenture has never been shy about shopping, and on September 22, 2025, the consulting giant announced its intent to acquire Orlade Group, a French firm specializing in capital project advisory and project management. Orlade works with energy, utilities, rail, aerospace, and defense clients — basically anyone whose projects involve enough cranes, cables, and concrete to make an urban planner sweat. It’s a logical step for Accenture: when clients are asking for mega-projects, it helps to have a team that actually knows how to keep the steel beams from falling.

The deal is pitched as expanding Accenture’s capabilities in large-scale infrastructure and defense contracts, where precision, compliance, and cost control can mean the difference between a national headline and a national audit. Orlade brings on-the-ground expertise, seasoned project managers, and credibility in industries where “good enough” is never good enough. For Accenture, it’s another notch on the acquisition belt — though this notch involves safety helmets and engineering diagrams instead of cloud dashboards.

One might say Accenture has finally admitted what every homeowner already knows: if you want a job done right, you hire someone who has actually built something before. And while most of us are struggling to keep Ikea furniture standing, Orlade’s team has been keeping billion-euro defense and utility projects on track. It’s a merger that suggests consultants might not just advise on capital projects but occasionally finish one too.

Investors and clients will be watching closely, but in the meantime, Accenture can proudly claim it now owns more hard hats than a construction site — proof that in 2025, even in consulting, safety first still sells.

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