The Directors are pleased to present their 48th Annual Report together
with the Audited Accounts for the year ended 31st March 2011.
FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS:
The Financial Results for the year are as under:
Zensar Technologies Limited
(Rs. Crore)
Year ended Year ended
31st March 2011 31st March 2010
Income from operations 567.00 497.08
Miscellaneous Income 24.82 8.15
Total 591.82 505.24
Profit Before Taxation 86.23 86.59
Profit After Taxation 88.48 84.15
Proposed Dividend 15.16 11.87
Transfer to General Reserves 75.00 75.00
Zensar Technologies and Subsidiaries (Consolidated)
(Rs. Crore)
Year ended Year ended
31st March 2011 31st March 2010
Income from operations 1138.29 952.76
Miscellaneous Income 28.37 8.28
Total 1166.66 961.03
Profit Before Taxation & Minority Interest 150.12 149.15
Profit After Taxation and before
Minority Interest 131.73 127.26
Minority Interest 0 (0.30)
Profit After Taxation 131.73 127.56
FINANCIAL RESULTS
During the financial year 2010-11, your Company recorded total income
of Rs. 591.82 Crore comprising Income from Software Development and
Allied Services of Rs. 567.00 Crore, and other income of Rs. 24.82
Crore. The Company recorded a net profit of Rs. 88.48 Crore reflecting
a growth of 5%.
On a consolidated basis, your Company has maintained steady growth with
Total income of Rs. 1166.66 Crore comprising Income from Software
Development and Allied Services of Rs. 1138.29 Crore and other income
of Rs. 28.22 Crore. The Consolidated Profit after Taxation was Rs.
131.73 Crore reflecting an increase of 3%.
BUSINESS UPDATE
The global economic downturn of the past year had an effect on the GDP
growth and employment in developed markets. However, based on pent-up
demand from the corporate sector and return of discretionary spending,
there was a surge in IT spending across markets, both traditional and
emerging.
In this environment, your company continued to retain its position as a
leading global organization in 2010, by increasing its competitiveness
through focus on innovation, emerging markets and non linear growth
strategies. Zensar was ranked amongst Indias top 20 software companies
by NASSCOM, which was possible due to the development of a set of
factors unique to Zensar that has multiplied the Companys value
proposition manifold. While the cost advantage that Zensar offered to
its customers remained as a constant, your company continued to focus
on customers business through unmatched service delivery across
multiple geographies. With customers also pushing for more
collaborative contracts where there is business metric performance
measurement and greater risk- reward sharing, Zensar continued to be
driven by the need to bring in strategic benefit to clients.
In the year - your company has continued to focus on cost control and
efficiency measures as customers continued to evaluate how investments
in IT impact can further business goals - ROI led transformation - was
a hallmark of most large contracts in the year. Services such as
virtualisation, consolidation, and managed services that focus on ROI
in the short term continued to drive opportunities for Zensar. Your
company continued to focus on alternative IT models - Cloud, on-demand
services and SaaS - in order to reduce hardware infrastructure costs
and provide scalability on demand for customers across segments.
In keeping with the trend in the global IT-BPO industry your Company
focused on multiple parameters such as Markets, Service Offerings and
Innovation. Growth in the
next two years is expected to be driven by new markets in SMBs, public
sector and government-influenced entities in India and SAARC region
which will become a priority customer base Service Offerings that are
high-end, deeply embedded in customer value chains and delivery is
expected to become location-agnostic leading to new opportunities such
as design services in manufacturing, Remote Infrastructure Management,
etc. Driven by the focus that your company has on expertise and
intellectual property, offerings are also expected to shift from
piecemeal, technology-centric applications to a range of integrated
solutions and higher-end services, spanning new service lines.
Your company is well placed to tap potential in the SMB sector and new
verticals (Healthcare, Utilities, Transportation), with their
experience in emerging markets, mature service capabilities, global
footprint and talent pool. Suitably exploiting these emerging
opportunities both in the global and domestic markets can help Zensar
double its revenue in 2 years. The emerging markets of India, South
Africa, Middle East, and Australia continue to be drivers of new
business for the Company and amongst the new wins in these territories
are, one of the worlds largest insurance groups with over 60,000
employees and serving in more than 170 countries, one of the leading
retailers in the Middle East with over 180 stores across the nation and
the biggest retailer in South Africa and the brand of choice of the
highest percentage of South Africans consumers.
Your company has also seen expansion of Zensars Global Delivery
Platform to cater to the growing demand of innovative technology
business solutions. Your company also launched its first Intellectual
Property Showcase Centre in Delhi to bring the complete range of
transformation services and easily deployable solutions to Indian
customers. Additionally, a third center in Hyderabad was also launched
to help support and develop solutions for both Global and Local
customers.
The companys expansion into cloud computing, analytics and new
geographic markets has provided for significant opportunity for revenue
growth. The development and execution of its end to end service
capabilities ranging from Applications Development and Maintenance,
Enterprise Services including package implementation, support and
business intelligence, Transaction Processing and Strategic Services
like Consulting, Testing and Infrastructure Management and end-to-end
process optimisation for clients ranging from the Fortune 100 and FTSE
100 in US, UK and Asia to small start-ups in South Africa and the
Middle East, has also helped in creating deep intellectual capital
around vertical market adding to its specialization of creating
enterprise applications for their customers.
Zensar acquired Akibia to build dual shore end-to-end capabilities for
Zensar in Infrastructure Management and
Information Security solutions for American and European clients. This
acquisition of Akibia furthers your companys mission to strengthen its
position in the critical and fast growing Infrastructure Management and
Information Security space by combining Zensars Remote Infrastructure
Management offshore services for global clients with Akibias United
States and European Data Center practice. This acquisition will
significantly expand Zensars addressable market and growth potential,
broadening solutions Zensar provides to the rapidly growing
Infrastructure markets. The combination will also expand Zensars
offering of mission-critical solutions to the enterprise customer.
Adding the capabilities of Akibia will further enhance Zensars
customer base for Datacenter services while there is an equal
opportunity to scale the Remote Infrastructure Management Services
business using Akibias large datacenter customer base. This enhanced
capability will allow bidding for projects that involve multiple
service lines. The acquisition of Akibia will also diversify Zensars
Information Security business by adding Akibias system integration and
consulting expertise in the fast growing network security, compliance
and risk management markets.
The Company has launch an improved version of SmartShop™ a complete
retail management software solution for emerging markets and has made
it available as a packaged product, ready to install and use for the
entire retailer spectrum- small store to medium/ large chain of
outlets. Zensar has also introduced AutoZenics™ a web-enabled system
that will enable SME clusters to take advantage of cloud computing
capabilities. Other innovative solutions include the Supply Change
Transaction Management (SCTM)-Xchange an online portal built for smooth
document exchange and understanding between the enterprise and
different suppliers, a multichannel insurance solution and Tzen a
testing solution hosted on the cloud are the other innovations that the
Company has built will be used to compete in a hyper-competitive global
economy - based on analytics, e-business, automation and cloud -all of
which are next generation business solutions for global enterprises.
The Companys focus on long-term commitment of developing business
relationships and uncovering radical shifts in business is the
underlying philosophy behind these innovations.
In this year Zensar received accolades from all segments of the
industry as an organization. Zensar - Akibia was awarded the
Platinum-Level Partnership for Extreme Networks 2010 for the second
year in a row. Your Company was awarded the Asia Responsible
Entrepreneurship Awards (AREA) Investment in People Award 2010 by
Enterprise Asia, a non-governmental organization in pursuit of
entrepreneurship development across the region. The Company has also
been awarded the Golden Peacock Award for Corporate Social
Responsibility in 2011.
ACQUISITION
During the Financial Year 2010-11, Zensar Technologies Inc., USA, a
wholly owned subsidiary of the Company acquired PSI Holdings Group Inc.
a limited liability company incorporated in Massachusetts, US and its
wholly owned subsidiaries namely (i) Akibia Inc, (ii) Aquila Technology
Corp; and (iii) Akibia B.V (hereinafter collectively referred to as
AKIBIA Group).
AKIBIA Group is a conglomerate in the IT services space providing Data
Center Management and Network Security Solutions. This acquisition will
significantly expand Zensars accessible market and growth potential,
broadening solutions Zensar provides to the rapidly growing
Infrastructure markets. The combination will also expand Zensars
offering of mission-critical solutions to the enterprise customer.
BONUS SHARES
During the Financial Year 2010-11, Company had issued 2,15,89,818 fully
paid up equity shares as bonus shares in the ratio of 1:1 i.e. one new
fully paid up equity share of Rs. 10/- each for every one fully paid
up equity share of Rs. 10/- each by way of capitalization of reserves.
To accommodate the capitalization of reserves as mentioned above, the
Authorised Capital of the Company was increased from Rs.30,00,00,000
(Rupees Thirty Crores) divided into 2,75,00,000 (Two Crores Seventy
Five Lac) Equity Shares of Rs.10/- (Rupees Ten) each and 2,50,000
Preference Shares of Rs.100 each to Rs. 50,00,00,000 (Rupees Fifty
Crores) divided into 4,75,00,000 (Four Crore Seventy Five Lac) Equity
Shares of Rs.10/- (Rupees Ten) and 2,50,000 Preference Shares of Rs.
100 (Rupees Hundred) each.
DIVIDEND
In view of your Companys profitable performance, your Directors are
pleased to recommend, for your approval, dividend on the enhanced
capital at the rate of Rs. 3.50 per share on the Equity Shares of Rs.
10/- each for the financial year ended 31st March, 2011. The Dividend,
if approved by the shareholders in the ensuing Annual General Meeting
would result in an outflow of Rs. 17.61 Crore including Dividend
Distribution Tax, Surcharge and Cess thereon. The Dividend would be
paid to those shareholders whose names appear in the Register of
Members on 13th July, 2011.
TRANSFER TO RESERVE
Your Directors propose to transfer a sum of Rs. 75.00 Crore to the
General Reserve.
FIXED DEPOSITS
Currently, your Company does not have any Fixed Deposit Scheme.
DIRECTORS
Mr. A. T. Vaswani and Mr. Arvind Agrawal retire by rotation at the
ensuing Annual General Meeting and, being eligible, offer themselves
for reappointment. Brief particulars of the Directors, their expertise
in various functional areas are given in the notice convening the
Annual General Meeting.
Mr. Niraj Bajaj was appointed Additional Director of the Company during
the year. Mr. Bajajs term expires on the date of the Annual General
Meeting. The Company has received a Notice pursuant to the provisions
of Section 257 of the Companies Act, 1956 for appointment of Mr. Niraj
Bajaj as Director of the Company liable to retire by rotation.
The Board of Directors recommends the appointment/re- appointment of
Directors as mentioned above.
COSERVATION OF ENERGY, TECHNOLOGY ABSORPTION AND FOREIGN EXCHANGE
EARNINGS AND OUTGO
The provisions relating to disclosure of details regarding energy
consumption, both total and per unit of production are not applicable
as the company is engaged in the services sector and provides IT and IT
related services.
Particulars prescribed under sub- section (1)(e) of Section 217 of the
Companies Act, 1956, read with the Companies (Disclosure of particulars
in the Report of Board of Directors) Rules, 1988, in respect of
technology absorption are set out in `Annexure A to this report.
Particulars regarding Foreign Exchange earnings and expenditure during
the year are given in Note 16 and Note 17 of Notes to Accounts
respectively. Particulars regarding R & D expenditure during the year
are given in Note 25 of Notes to Accounts.
DIRECTORS RESPONSIBILITY STATEMENT AS REQUIRED UNDER SECTION 217
(2AA) OF THE COMPANIES ACT, 1956
The Directors confirm that -
i) in the preparation of the annual accounts, the
applicable accounting standards have been followed and there has been
no material departure;
ii) appropriate accounting policies have been
selected and applied consistently and the Directors have made judgments
and estimates that are reasonable and prudent so as to give a true and
fair view of the state of affairs of the Company as at 31st March 2011
and the profit of the Company for the year ended 31st March 2011;
iii) proper and sufficient care has been taken for the
maintenance of adequate accounting records in accordance with the
provisions of the Companies Act, 1956 for safeguarding the assets of
the Company and for preventing and detecting fraud and other
irregularities;
iv) the annual accounts have been prepared on a going concern basis.
PARTICULARS OF EMPLOYEES
Information as per Section 217(2A) of the Companies Act, 1956, read
with Companies (Particulars of Employees) Rules 1975 are set out in
Annexure B to this report.
SUBSIDIARY COMPANIES
As per Section 212 of the Companies Act, 1956 (Act), the company will
make available annual accounts of the subsidiary companies and the
related detailed information to shareholders on demand. The annual
accounts of the subsidiary companies will also be kept for inspection
by any shareholder at the registered office of the company and of the
subsidiary companies concerned. Also, the company shall furnish a hard
copy of details of accounts of subsidiaries to any shareholder on
demand. The company has also given information relating to each of the
subsidiary Companies in the Annual Report in pursuance to Section 212
of the Act.
Consolidated Financial Statements of your Company along with its
subsidiaries, prepared in accordance with the relevant Accounting
Standards issued by The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India,
forms a part of this Annual Report.
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
Your Company continues to benchmark itself with the best-of-the-breed
practices as far as corporate governance standards are concerned. Your
Company has complied with regulations provided in clause 49 of the
listing agreement it has entered into with the stock exchanges. The
compliance report on various requirements under the said clause along
with the practicing Company Secretarys certification thereof is
provided in the corporate governance section of this report. In terms
of the Listing Agreement, the Management Discussion and Analysis Report
is annexed and forms a part of the Annual Report.
EMPLOYEES STOCK OPTION PLAN
Currently, the Company has two Employees Stock Option Schemes in force
namely, 2002 Employees Stock Option Scheme (2002 ESOP) and 2006
Employees Stock Option Scheme (2006 ESOP) for granting Term based and
performance based Stock Options to Employees. In the financial year
2010-11 Board of Directors approved
the adjustment in the exercise price and numbers of the outstanding
stock options under 2002 ESOP and 2006 ESOP with a view to retain ESOP
value consequent to issue of Bonus shares. Accordingly, numbers of
outstanding stock options in both the schemes were increased by 100%
and exercise price for each grant was reduced by 50%. Approvals from
Stock exchanges were obtained in this connection.
In the financial year 2010-11, 1,05,105 numbers of equity shares were
allotted under 2002 Employees Stock Option Scheme and 32,996 numbers
of equity shares were allotted under 2006 Employees Stock Option
Scheme. The Disclosures in compliance with Clause 12 of the Securities
and Exchange Board of India (Employees Stock Option Scheme and
Employees Stock Purchase Scheme) Guidelines, 1999 in this respect are
stated in Annexure C to this report.
AUDITORS
M/s Price Waterhouse, Chartered Accountants, Auditors of the Company,
retire at the ensuing Annual General Meeting and, being eligible, offer
themselves for re- appointment. The Company has received a Certificate
from the Auditors that they are qualified under Section
224(1B) of the Companies Act, 1956, to act as the Auditors of the
Company, along with the confirmation that they have a valid certificate
issued by the Peer Review Board of the Institute of Chartered
Accountant of India (ICAI).
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The Board places on record their appreciation of the contribution of
Associates at all levels, customers, business and technology partners,
vendors, investors, Government Authorities and all other stakeholders
towards the performance of the Company during the year under review.
For and on behalf of the Board
H.V. Goenka
Chairman
Place: Mumbai
Dated: 21st April 2011
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