The country's largest software firm Tata Consultancy Services and the Netherlands-based Nielsen Company on Thursday entered into an agreement for outsourcing a portion of Nielsen's IT and operations functions. It is a 10-year agreement valued at US$1.2 billion, TCS said.
Shares of Tata Consultancy Services on Wednesday plunged almost 4 per cent, wiping out about Rs 16,000 crore (Rs 160 billion) in investor wealth, after the IT major indicated to analysts that weak India business and lower working days could drag down March quarter growth rate.
For TCS, the retail business has been growing at 10-12 per cent over the last three quarters. On a year-on-year basis, the growth rate of the retail business has been impacted due to currency fluctuation and the general slowdown. In dollar terms, the retail business grew 51.6 per cent for the company last financial year.
The company has declared a dividend of Rs 7 per share.
TCS posted 20 per cent growth in revenues at Rs 5,012 crore (Rs 50.12 billion or $1.075 billion) for the year ending March 31, 2003 compared to Rs 4,187 crore (Rs 41.87 billion) in the previous fiscal.\n\n
Demand is driven by smaller deals in the US, larger ones in Europe.
While TCS will see demand in the US and Europe, its local business is likely to be hit on poor IT spending.
In dollar terms, its m-cap rose to $76 billion
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has been ranked the third most-valued IT services brand globally, after Accenture and IBM, according to a report by Brand Finance. Four Indian IT services companies -- TCS, Infosys, HCL and Wipro -- secured spots in the top-10 global tally.
Tata Consultancy Services has become the second-largest insurance business process outsourcing provider in the UK, after winning two deals worth 250 million pound (around Rs1,800 crore).
The TCS CEO spoke about the IT major's operations in Canada.
Tata Consultancy Services posted 29.93 per cent jump in consolidated net profit at Rs 2,369.83 crore (Rs 23.69 billion) for the third quarter ended December 31, 2010. The company has announced 200 per cent dividend. It has declared the third interim dividend of Rs 2 per equity share of Re 1 each.
Net direct tax collection grew 13.13 per cent to over Rs 21.26 lakh crore so far this fiscal aided by by higher advance tax mop up, government data showed on Monday. During the year, the government collected Rs 10.44 lakh crore from four instalments of advance tax as against Rs 9.11 lakh crore in the previous fiscal, registering a growth of 14.62 per cent.
Tata Consultancy Services has formed an alliance with United States-based ANSYS Inc., an innovator of simulation software and technologies, to optimize product development processes.
Tata Consultancy Services Ltd's initial public offering has been oversubscribed 5.46 times even as retail investors lined up at collection centres to submit applications on the last day of bidding.
"India is one of our focus markets, where we have crossed $500 million in (annual) revenue. Our India business has been growing in double digits for the last few years and we expect to continue this, as IT spending in the country is expected to rise further," said N Chandrasekaran, executive director and chief operating officer of the company. India contributed close to 8 per cent to the company's Rs 278.13 billion turnover in fiscal 2008-09.
While the current headcount reduction has more to do with slowing demand, the rise of artificial intelligence will impact jobs in the future.
TCS will manage Diageo's global IT infrastructure, data centres and servers, in addition to providing service desk support to employees, TCS said in a statement.
'Both campuses and talent should brace for a low-velocity campus hiring season that might extend into the off-campus period.'
The company made a net addition of 12,580 employees.
While Tata Consultancy Services, HUL, ITC and Infosys saw a rise in their market capitalisation (m-cap) for the week ended Friday, RIL, HDFC Bank, HDFC, Maruti Suzuki India, SBI and Kotak Mahindra Bank suffered losses.
The board of directors of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has revised the maximum salary limit of chief executive officer (CEO) and managing director N Chandrasekaran to Rs 10,00,000 per month.
From the 30 Sensex pack, Hindustan Unilever fell by nearly 6 per cent after the FMCG major reported a 2.33 per cent decline in consolidated net profit at Rs 2,595 crore for the second quarter ended in September 2024 impacted by moderation in demand from the urban market.
These graduates will have the opportunity to spend a year training and working for TCS at its Innovation Labs and software development centres across India between 2016 and 2020.
Further, as a part of its continued expansion plan across Latin America, TCS has set up its delivery centre in Argentina. This is the eighth centre for the company in the region at a cost of $2 million (around Rs 10 crore). The centre, spread over 10,000 square metres, will initially employ 250 professionals, but has the capacity to house 1,000 people.
Construction will commence in 2011-12 and be completed in three years. TCS is the second IT firm to set up such a facility after Bengaluru-based Infosys Technologies inaugurated its campus in Mysore last year.
Revenue of the Mumbai-based firm grew 11.4 per cent to Rs 38,172 crore in the June 2019 quarter, compared to Rs 34,261 crore in the same quarter of 2018-19.
Tata Consultancy Services Ltd on Thursday said it has acquired Sydney-based Financial Network Services, a core banking solutions vendor for $26 million.
Microsoft has bought 10 per cent stake in TCS China, a joint venture promoted by India's largest IT services firm Tata Consultancy Services and three state-owned Chinese companies.
India's largest software exporter Tata Consultancy Services has set up its fourth research lab in New Delhi.
From the Sensex stocks, Maruti Suzuki India, Tata Motors, JSW Steel, Larsen & Toubro, Tata Steel, Mahindra and Mahindra, Tata Consultancy Services, Tech Mahindra, HCL Technologies and Infosys were the laggards. HDFC Bank, Sun Pharmaceuticals, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Nestle India and Asian Paints were among the gainers.
Equity benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty settled lower for the sixth straight session on Monday due to heavy selling in bellwether stocks including HDFC Bank and Reliance Industries amid mixed trends in the global markets and outflow of foreign funds. Falling for the sixth consecutive session, the BSE Sensex tumbled 638.45 points or 0.78 per cent to settle at 81,050. During the day, it plummeted 962.39 points or 1.17 per cent to 80,726.06. The NSE Nifty slumped 218.85 points or 0.87 per cent to end at 24,795.75.
The good news is that salary hikes are expected, though it is uncertain when they will be implemented.
Over 6,500 would be recruited through campus recruitment.
Late Ratan Tata always ensured employees are taken care of along with the well-being of their families across the Tata Group companies, which shaped a number of leaders across the conglomerate, and there really was no one like him, Tata Sons chairman N Chandrasekaran said on Monday. Recollecting his association with Tata (86) who passed away last week, in a post on networking platform LinkedIn, he wrote, "Anybody who met Mr Tata came away with a story about his humanity, warmth, and dreams for India. "There really was no one like him."
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