YEAR EVENTS
2000
- Mahindra-British Telecom, a 60:40 joint venture between the
Mahindra group and British Telecom, shareholders approved a
proposal to raise funds through an initial public offer and an
employee stock option plan.
-The Company proposes to raise funds through an initial public
offer.
- The Company and Silicon Automation Systems Ltd (SASL) has forged
a strategic alliance to develop solutions and product markets using
the wireless application protocol (WAP).
- The Company's IPO is proposed to be of 53,18,633 No. of equity
shares
with a face value of Rs 2 each, at a price to be determined in
accordance
with SEBI guidelines for the fully book-built route.
2001
- Mahindra-British Telecom and the US-based Rockwell Electronic
Commerce
have entered into a 5-year strategic alliance and set-up a offshore
software development
centre in the city involving total capital cost of .5 million.
- Software firm Mahindra-British Telecom plans to lay off 300
employees, or about a tenth of its workforce, a company spokesman
told Reuters on September 25.
2004
-Gets Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) for the optical planning and
design solution that formed part of Marconi's Netscient Software
product suite - a trademark brand acquired by Marconi in 2001
-Mahindra British Telecom (MBT), the telecom software joint venture
between the Mahindra Group and British Telecommunications Plc (BT)
has announced the appointment of Premchand as chairman of
TeleManagement Forum's New Generation Operations Systems and Software
(NGOSS) Security Team.
-Mahindra British Telecom (MBT) has signed a solutions partner
agreement with UK-based Cramer, a major player in inventory-powered
back office automation for telecom service providers
-MBT has joined three International Systems Security Engineering
Association (ISSEA) as its corporate member
-Mahindra British Telecom (MBT), the IT services provider to the
telecom industry, has signed a global partnership agreement with
Netegrity , provider of identity and access management solutions
2005
-MBT launches new software for language conversion
-Cyclone Commerce join hands with MBT
-MBT acquires Axes Tech for mn
-MBT, MICO may sign MoU with Mahindra British
2006
-Tech Mahindra's IPO shares will be priced between Rs 315 and Rs 365
a share. The offer will open on August 1 and close on August 4. The
company plans to raise up to Rs 465 crore through the issue, which
offers 12.75 crore shares for sale. The company had reached critical
mass and it had decided that the time was right for the offer.
-The initial public offering (IPO) of Tech Mahindra, a joint venture
between Mahindra and Mahindra Ltd and British Telecommunications PLC,
was subscribed 1.26 times on the first day of the issue.
-Motorola joins hand with Tech Mahindra to form CanvasM
2007
- Tech Mahindra Ltd has announced their participation in Microsoft's
Connected Services Sandbox, a new program that brings together
systems integrators (SIs), independent software vendors (ISVs),
developers, network equipment providers, and telecommunications
service providers in a collaborative environment to develop and test
new communications services.
- Tech Mahindra Ltd has won a prestigious award for its outstanding
contribution, achievements in the telecoms industry and for continued
support to the OSS / BSS community. The award was announced by
Tolestrategies on April 25, 2007 on as a part of the Billing & OSS
World 2007 conference in Chicago.
-Tech Mahindra has signed an agreement for acquiring upto 100% equity
in iPolicy Networks, India, a wholly owned subsidiary of US based
iPolicy.
2008
-Tech Mahindra Ltd has appointed Mr. M Damodaran as an additional
Director of the Company in the category of Non Executive Independent
Director by Board of Directors of the Company at their meeting held
on July 22, 2008.
-Tech Mahindra signs five year application support deal with BT
Group
-Tech Mahindra joins hand with Microsoft
-Tech Mahindra wins 0m deal from BT
2009
- Tech Mahindra Ltd has appointed Mr. Ravindra Kulkarni and Mr. B H
Wani as Additional Directors of the Company in the category of 'Non
Executive Independent Director' by the Board of Directors of the
Company on March 30, 2009.
- Tech Mahindra has won the bid for Satyam Computer after bidding at
Rs 58 per share. Tech Mahindra would pay Rs1,757 crore for a 31 per
cent stake in Satyam. Tech Mahindra has secured complete funding to
acquire a 51 per cent stake in Satyam.
- Etisalat DB, formerly known as Swan Telecom, has decided to
outsource implementation of its software applications as well as IT
infrastructure to Tech Mahindra as part of a 0-million deal, which
is spread over the next 10 years. This is the largest IT services deal
that the telecom software vendor has bagged in the domestic market. |