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-1.5 (-1.93%) | Chairman's Speech (Hexaware Technologies) | Year : Dec '12 |
Dear Shareowners, Our stellar performance in the year 2012 has been well supported by all around growth in our focused areas. During the year, along with many others signifcant wins we added a large European Financial Services logo through a multimillion dollar deal. In addition to our traditionally strong service lines, we have witnessed healthy growth in Business Intelligence / Business Analytics (BI/BA) and in the newly launched Remote Infrastructure Management Services (RIMS) horizontal. It is heartening to see such a strong demand of our skill set in these areas as these emerging technologies provide platform for higher future growth. We continue to invest in emerging technologies such as enterprise mobility, social media, cloud computing and big data as we believe they ofer signifcant growth potential. We continue to leverage our strong technological expertise and domain understanding in our focus areas to serve our clients that can further our growth momentum. During the year, we entered into a strategic alliance with a multi-billion dollar company to establish a large secure Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Application Outsourcing services unit. This unit would operate on Build Operate and Transfer (BOT) model to serve its large base of global customers across multiple geographies and industry verticals. To augment our growth further, both from existing and new logos we have been making consistent investment by increasing the quality and quantity of our front ending teams, enhancing process and methodologies to boost their productivity and reach, creating dedicated mining teams at organizational level and undertaking slew of market development activities to further our brand image and recall. Well supported by these steps, we have been able to increase the average size of our top 10 client segment to USD 18 million in 2012 from USD 11 million in 2010. On new clients addition also we have been consistently adding 10-12 clients every quarter since last two and a half years. By end of 2012, we had an active client roster of 218 leading global corporates. Our investments in improving employee morale and productivity have also been bearing fruits in line with our expectation. During the year, the attrition was at a multi-year low single digit. We added 752 employees and our global headcount increased to 9,069 employees. In line with our corporate road map, we expanded our presence in our 27 acres Green Campus in Siruseri SEZ at Chennai. In Pune, we moved to a larger facility with a seating capacity of 700 employees. Further, 340 employees have been employed by Caliber Point Business Solutions, 100% wholly owned subsidiary of Hexaware at the SEZ campus at Nagpur. During the year, we made a further investment of Rs.744 million to improve and expand our physical and technical (IT) infrastructure that can cater to our current and future requirements. Our eforts were also well recognized by the industry. Amongst many other accolades, we were selected in the International Association of Outsourcing Providers® (IAOP®) Global Outsourcing 100® list. We were recognized for our all around global expertise and for our work in various domains including Human Resources Services, Transaction Processing Services and Air Transportation. Going ahead we are optimistic on 2013. While the global economy may continue to face sporadic challenges, we are confdent on our growth outlook as we believe that IT infuence would continue to increase in all major business decisions. Companies across the globe should continue to invest in IT to boost productivity, increase span, stay agile and tap emerging technologies. We continue to seek all organic and inorganic growth opportunities that are in line with our strategic plan and make business sense. We are confdent that our well chosen path of maintaining focus on select areas would augur well for the future of our company. am pleased to announce that this stellar performance has helped us reward our shareholders in a signifcant manner with a fnal dividend of Rs.1.20 per share (60%) on equity shares of X2/- each, subject to the approval of the shareholders. This brings the total dividend for the year 2012 to Rs.5.40 per share (270%) up from Rs.4.00 per share (200%) for the year 2011. As I conclude, I take this opportunity to acknowledge valuable contribution of our employees during the year and also thank our customers, investors and partners for their unwavering support. look forward to their continued trust and patronage as we step forward into yet another exciting year. Yours Sincerely, Atul Nishar Chairman |
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| Source : Dion Global Solutions Limited | |
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