Deloitte Acquires N.B.’s Blue Spurs
FREDERICTON– National consulting firm Deloitte has acquired a New Brunswick tech firm, the company announced Tuesday.
Deloitte, which offers audit & assurance, consulting, financial advisory, risk advisory, tax and related services to public and private clients across industries, has acquired Fredericton-based Blue Spurs.
Founded in 2012, Blue Spurs Consulting builds custom technology solutions, develops and migrates services for Cloud, and hosts and maintains both applications and infrastructure, enabling clients to optimize their technology through custom solutions and managed cloud offerings.
Deloitte says the acquisition will expand its Cloud Transformation capabilities nationally and grow its presence in Atlantic Canada.
“It was a strategic acquisition and we looked all across Canada and we’re looking for opportunities to increase our capabilities and also to come up with new services,” said Sheri Penner, Deloitte Canada’s regional managing partner for Atlantic Canada, in an interview with Huddle. “It was a national decision and Blue Spurs just had a really great business, they had really great capabilities and they happen to be in the Atlantic, so it was a great win for us.”
Blue Spurs will bring along all 70 of its employees, who will now work under Deloitte Canada’s Consulting practice, specifically under its cloud engineering offerings.
“We’re excited to be joining Deloitte, as it opens up a new host of opportunities for both practices,” said Mike LeBlanc, CEO of Blue Spurs Consulting Inc., who joining Deloitte as a Consulting Partner, in a news release. “Leveraging Deloitte’s global access to lengthen our reach, coupled with our emerging technology focus, will provide real value to customers and open up new pathways to successful digital transformations.”
LeBlanc was unavailable for an interview with Huddle.
Though the deal will help grow the company nationally, Penner says she’s particularly excited for what it means for Deloitte’s Atlantic operations.
“I live in Saint John and I’m personally really excited that we have an acquisition that was genuinely determined by our national office to be the best thing in the country for us to acquire and it’s in New Brunswick,” she said. “It’s really important that the Atlantic is standing out that way and that we’re going to be taking this new acquisition and using them as a best practice across Canada to build our business.”