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Wipro adds 35 clients, 3,091 staff in Q2
October 17, 2003 10:32 IST
Wipro added 35 new clients, out of which six were Fortune 1000
companies, in the quarter ended September 30, 2003. "While 15
customers were in R&D services, 20 were in enterprise services," an
official release said on Friday.
Wipro Q2 net up at Rs 215 crore
Vivek Paul, vice chairman of Wipro, said: "This quarter, we saw
customers demonstrating both growing confidence in our end-to-end
service model as well as an increased willingness to increase
spending."
"Our technology businesses continued to recover with sequential growth
of 16 per cent including telecom, which grew sequentially by 14 per
cent."
"Our IT businesses continued to demonstrate steady growth with
sequential growth of 12 per cent. Highlights in IT business were a 36
per cent sequential growth in technology infrastructure services, 22
per cent sequential growth in BPO and 19 per cent sequential growth in
package implementation."
Wipro has reported a net addition of 3,091 employees in the quarter
under review.
"We had 24,265 employees as of September 30, 2003, which includes
15,773 employees in IT services business and 8,492 employees in
IT-enabled services business. This represents a net addition of 3,091
people comprising of 1,061 in IT services and 2,030 people in
IT-enabled services," the release added.
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