Aegis, a global outsourcing services company and part of the Essar Group, has announced that it has been ranked fifth amongst top business process outsourcing (BPO) players in the country in Nasscom's recent annual BPO ranking, a jump of three places over previous year's ranking. With close to 40,000 employees on its roll, Aegis has also been ranked tenth in top employers amongst IT and BPO companies combine, again an improvement of two places over previous year.
"We are extremely happy to be recognised by our industry body Nasscom to be amongst the top five BPO players in the country. This ranking is an endorsement of our twin cylinder growth engine of organic and inorganic strategy. Aegis today is on the cusp on inflexion point as our service model has found widespread acceptance amongst customers and we look forward to a very exciting future," Aparup Sengupta, MD and global CEO, Aegis said.
"The year 2010 should be considered as a 'return-to-growth' year with marginal increase in budgets and essential enterprise IT spending. NASSCOM will continue to facilitate and collaborate to support the industry's growth, as it embarks in the next decade. We visualise a broadening of our role - one that entails greater collaboration across markets, sectors and within India," Som Mittal, president, NASSCOM said.
According to Nasscom, the Indian IT-BPO industry is expected to exceed ๖bn in FY'11 led by a 13% - 15% growth in exports and 15% - 17% growth in domestic consumption. The industry headcount addition is expected to double this year to touch 200,000 new employees.
Aegis has close to 40,000 employees working across 42 delivery centres in ten countries. In 2010, Aegis plans to hire 11,000 net associates across its centres.
