Software services giant Wipro Ltd is likely to lose business from its big client 186k, a former broadband telecoms unit of Lattice Plc which merged with National Grid Transco, vice-chairman Vivek Paul said.
Wipro announced a 100 per cent interim dividend (Rs 5 per equity share of face value Rs 5) for the year ending March 31, 2007.
The company's profit rose with better IT spending by global clients and a rise in high margin digital projects.
Among Indian IT outsourcing companies, Wipro is the first company to give a flat to 2 per cent growth expectation for the July-September 2009 (third) quarter. Joint CEOs Girish Paranjpe and Suresh Vaswani spoke to Bibhu Ranjan Mishra on the company's growth path.
Wipro COO A L Rao tells Business Standard how he plans to keep driving innovation at Wipro.
Wipro Ltd, a relatively late entrant in the lucrative information technology outsourcing market in Australia, is planning to hire more locals.
Wipro Limited Profit After Tax grew by 45% year on year (yoy) to Rs. 6.20 billion (Rs. 620 Crores), Total Revenue increased by 39% yoy to Rs. 31.43 billion (Rs. 3,143 Crores)
The move comes at a time when the company is looking to strengthen its position in soaps.
Global financial services giant Citigroup Inc on Tuesday sold its 100 per cent subsidiary Citi Technology Services Ltd to Wipro for $127 million. CTS is an India-based captive provider of information technology services and solutions to Citi entities worldwide.
Founded in 2006, PremjiInvest's assets under management are worth over $2 billion across India
The Maharashtra Food and Drug Adminstration has served a notice to Wipro for allegedly "misbranding and mislabelling" its baby oil.
Wipro, the Bangalore-based business conglomerate with interests in IT and FMCG, said it has succeeded in "convincing" one of its recently-won international clients, Australia's Origin Energy, about the circumstances under which the World Bank had imposed a ban on the company
With the developments in Satyam Computer unfolding shocking irregularities, Wipro Technologies, a NYSE-listed company, on Wednesday said this incident is one of its kind and is unlikely to affect the industry.
Wipro Ltd has informed BSE that the Board of Directors of the company vide the circular resolution effective February 13, 2003 resolved to issue and allot 2945 equity shares of Rs 2 each pursuant to exercise of stock options by eligible employees.
Wipro was the biggest gainer in the Sensex pack, rising 4.34 per cent, followed by HCL Tech, UltraTech Cement, Tata Steel, Tech Mahindra, NTPC, Infosys, Power Grid, Tata Consultancy Services and State Bank of India. Mahindra & Mahindra, ITC, Axis Bank, Nestle, Kotak Mahindra Bank and Asian Paints were among the laggards.
The company over the past two years has spent a little over $500 million (little over Rs 2,000 crore) for around a dozen acquisitions.
With George W Bush returning as the US president for the second successive term, Wipro Spectramind, the BPO arm of IT major Wipro Limited, is bullish about growth and adding 1,800 to the existing headcount every month at its facilities.
Wipro, the country's third-largest information technology (IT) services company, is asking non-billable employees unwilling to work on any project they have been assigned to leave immediately.
Domestic information technology services majors Tata Consultancy Services, Wipro Technologies and Tech Mahindra and global players like IBM and Japan-based NEC are among the 10 shortlisted companies for the Nandan Nilekani-headed Unique Identification Authority of India biometrics job.
India's third largest software services exporter ended the day 4.41 per cent lower at Rs 492.20 on the BSE after falling 8.41 per cent to Rs 471.55 in intra-day trade.
Three Indian companies Wipro, Tata Steel and Tata Power have been named among the World's Most Ethical Companies.
Govt expects to award contract to the lowest bidder by February.
From the Sensex pack, NTPC jumped nearly 4 per cent after the company posted over 23 per cent rise in consolidated net profit in the April-June quarter of 2023-24. Power Grid, Tech Mahindra, Tata Steel, Tata Consultancy Services, Wipro, Maruti and JSW Steel were among the other major gainers.
Wipro will announce its FY03 results on April 17, the company said in a release to the Bombay Stock Exchange on Tuesday.
Sources close to Mohamed Mushin say he regrets the indiscretion of purchasing the shares that he did, and even though it was perfectly legal, it gave the perception of conflict of interest, that his buying them under the Friends and Family IPOs seemed as it was a quid pro quo by the two companies that had secured handsome Bank contracts.
Wipro Technologies has signed an agreement to acquire Europe-based retail solutions provider, Enabler in an all cash deal.
The pace of the progress has been very slow over the last eight years.
More and more women are making their presence felt in jobs related to sciences, technology, and engineering across organisations.
Wipro Ltd on Saturday said it will fully acquire LD Waxsons Group, a Singapore-based fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) company for an all cash consideration of about $144 million (nearly Rs 790 crore).
Wipro Infotech, a leading provider of IT solutions and services, on Thursday announced the launch of its high-tech Global Service Management Centre in Mysore.\n\n
In a move towards gender inclusion, Tamil Nadu has partnered Godrej Consumer Products (GCPL) to offer a 5 per cent job reservation for LGBTQAI+ and people with disabilities at GCPL's upcoming fast-moving consumer goods manufacturing unit in Thiruporur in Chengalpattu district. According to industry experts and activists, while companies acknowledge transgender communities, this is the first time the entire spectrum of gender minorities, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning (one's sexual or gender identity), asexual and intersex, is receiving such a notable share of job participation in the private sector while signing memoranda of understanding with states.
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