MIRA INFORM REPORT

 

 

Report Date :

18.07.2011

 

IDENTIFICATION DETAILS

 

Name :

HINDUJA GLOBAL SOLUTIONS LIMITED

 

 

Registered Office :

Hinduja House, 171, Dr. Annie Besant Road, Worli, Mumbai-400018, Maharashtra

 

 

Country :

India

 

 

Financials (as on) :

31.03.2011

 

 

Date of Incorporation :

13.01.1995

 

 

Com. Reg. No.:

11-084610

 

 

Capital Investment/ Paid-up Capital:

Rs. 205.892 Millions

 

 

CIN No.:

[Company Identification No.]

L92199MH1995PLC084610

 

 

TAN No.:

[Tax Deduction & Collection Account No.]

MUMT04679D

 

 

PAN No.:

[Permanent Account No.]

AAACT1763A

 

 

Legal Form :

A Public Limited Liability Company. The company’s Shares are listed on stock exchange.

 

 

Line of Business :

Providing Software Development IT Enabled Services.

 

 

No. of Employees:

19442 (Approximately)

 

 

RATING & COMMENTS

 

MIRA’s Rating :

A (68)

 

RATING

STATUS

PROPOSED CREDIT LINE

56-70

A

Financial & operational base are regarded healthy. General unfavourable factors will not cause fatal effect. Satisfactory capability for payment of interest and principal sums

Fairly Large

 

 

Maximum Credit Limit :

USD 26000000

 

 

Status :

Good

 

 

Payment Behaviour :

Regular

 

 

Litigation :

Clear

 

 

Comments :

Subject is a well established and reputed company having fine track. Financial position of the company appears to be sound. Directors are reported to be experienced, respectable and resourceful businessmen. Their trade relations are fair. Payments are reported to be regular and as per commitments.

 

The company can be considered good for normal business dealings at usual trade terms and conditions.

 

NOTES :

Any query related to this report can be made on e-mail : infodept@mirainform.com while quoting report number, name and date.

 

 

INFORMATION DECLINED BY

 

Name :

Mr. Ramesh

Designation :

Account Manager

Date :

16.07.2011

 

 

LOCATIONS

 

Registered Office :

Hinduja House, 171, Dr. Annie Besant Road, Worli, Mumbai-400018, Maharashtra, India

Tel. No.:

91-22-24960707

Mobile No.:

 

Fax No.:

91-22-24974208

E-Mail :

hamukhs@hindujagsl.com

marketing@hindujagsl.com

 

 

Corporate Office :

HGSL House No. 614, Vajpayee Nagar, Bommanahlli, Hosur Road, Bangalore-560068, Karnataka, India

Tel. No.:

91-80-25732620/ 50

Fax No.:

91-80-25731592

E-Mail :

marketing@hindujagsl.com

 

 

Branches :

Located at:

 

·         Bangalore

·         Chennai

·         Durgapur

·         Hyderabad

·         Mysore

·         Vashi, Navi Mumbai

 

 

Overseas Offices :

Located at:

 

·         North America

·         New Jersey, USA

·         Philippines

·         Mauritius

·         London, UK

·         Canada 

 

 

DIRECTORS

 

As on 31.03.2011

 

Name :

Mr. Ramkrishan P Hinduja

Designation :

Chairman

 

 

Name :

Mr. Vinoo S Hinduja

Designation :

Director

 

 

Name :

Mr. Dheeraj G. Hinduja

Designation :

Director

 

 

Name :

Mr. Anil Harish

Designation :

Director

 

 

Name :

Mr. Rajendra P Chitale

Designation :

Director

 

 

Name :

Mr. Rangan Mohan

Designation :

Director

 

 

KEY EXECUTIVES

 

Name :

Mr. Ramesh

Designation :

Account Manager

 

 

Audit Committee :

  • Mr. Anil Harish- Chairman
  • Mr. Rajendra P. Chitale.
  • Mr. Ramkrishan P Hindua

 

 

Compensation Committee:

  • Mr. Anil Harish- Chairman
  • Mr. Rajendra P Chitale
  • Mr. Dheeraj G Hinduja
  • Mr. Rangan Mohan

 

 

Investors’ Grievance Committee

  • Mr. Rangan Mohan- Chairman
  • Mr. Dheeraj G Hinduja

 

 

Committee of Directors:

  • Mr. Ramkrishan P Hindua- Chairman
  • Mr. Vinoo S Hinduja
  • Mr. Rangan Mohan

 

 

Name :

Mr. Partha D Sarkar

Designation :

Chief Executive Officer

 

 

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

 

 

 

Name :

Mr. Anthony Joseph

Designation :

Executive Vice President- Global Head- Human Resource

 

 

Name :

Mr. Ashwin U Hoskote

Designation :

Senior Vice President- Global Business Excellence

 

 

Name :

Mr. Deepak Rastogi

Designation :

Senior Vice President- Business Planning

 

 

Name :

Mr. Kanti Mohan Rusttagi

Designation :

Executive Vice President- Legal and Company Secretary

 

 

Name :

Mr. Narsimha Murthy B.N.

Designation :

President- North America

 

 

Name :

Mr. Partha De Sarkar

Designation :

Chief Executive Officer HSGL- Philippines

 

 

Name :

Mr. Pushkar Misra

Designation :

President and Chief Executive Officer HSGL- Philippines

 

 

Name :

Mr. Ramesh Gopalan

Designation :

Executive Vice President- International Operations

 

 

Name :

Mr. Sanjay Sinha

Designation :

Executive Vice Presient – M and A (HR) and New Initiatives

 

 

Name :

Mr. Sridhar Krishnamurthy

Designation :

Executive Vice President – Strategic Initiatives

 

 

Name :

Mr. Srinivas Palakodeti

Designation :

Chief Financial Officer

 

 

Name :

Mr. Subramanya C.

Designation :

Senior Vice President and Global CTO

 

 

Name :

Mr. Sudhir Kumar

Designation :

Vice President – Project and Planning

 

 

Name :

Mr. Subhankar Ghosh

Designation :

Vice President – Head Europe 

 

 

 

KEY PERSONNEL

 

INDIA

Name :

Mr. Ajay Bakshi

Designation :

Vice President – Process Improvement and Automation

 

 

Name :

Mr. Alby Jose

Designation :

General Manager- Operations

 

 

Name :

Mr. Anup Goel

Designation :

Associate Vice President Business Development

 

 

Name :

Mr. Avesh Kumar Jha

Designation :

Vice President – OD and Perforamnce and Management

 

 

Name :

Mr. Hasmukh Shah

Designation :

Vice President – Legal and Secretarial

 

 

Name :

Mr. Hemant Kapre

Designation :

Vice President –Trasition and Solutions Design

 

 

Name :

Mr. Hiro G Soneji

Designation :

Associate Vice President – Operations

 

 

Name :

Mr. Jayprasad Menon

Designation :

General Manager- Finance And Accounts

 

 

Name :

Mr. J Jessy Christin

Designation :

Vice President- HR

 

 

Name :

Mr. Kannan  Ramakrishnan

Designation :

General Manager – Technical Service Group

 

 

Name :

Mr. Karthikeyan S

Designation :

Vice President – Operations

 

 

Name :

Mr. Kedar Kulkarni

Designation :

General Manager- Taxation

 

 

Name :

Mr. Manikandan K

Designation :

Vice President – HRO Projects

 

 

Name :

Mr. Manu Jolly

Designation :

Vice President- Business Development and Operations

 

 

Name :

Mr. Mohanan P

Designation :

General Manager Administration

 

 

Name :

Mr. Mukund R S

Designation :

General Counsel

 

 

Name :

Mr. Rajaram Natrajan

Designation :

Vice President – Operations

 

 

Name :

Mr. Ramesh B S

Designation :

Associates Vice President- Finance and Accounts

 

 

Name :

Mr. Sajedah Kasim Shaida

Designation :

Vice President – Corporate Communication

 

 

Name :

Mr. Sapan Dhawan

Designation :

General Manager- BFS Vertical

 

 

Name :

Ms. Sapna Vaid

Designation :

General Manager- Learning Products

 

 

Name :

Mr. Siby Joy

Designation :

Vice President – Operations

 

 

Name :

Mr. Udayan M

Designation :

Vice president Operations.

 

 

 

PHILIPPINES

 

 

Name :

Mr. Antonio Dela Cruz

Designation :

Senior Vice President – Finance and Corporate Services

 

 

Name :

Mr. Bettina Salmo

Designation :

Senior Vice President- International Operations

 

 

Name :

Mr. Jocelyn D Padian

Designation :

Vice President – International Operations

 

 

Name :

Mr. Sandeep Marwah

Designation :

Senior Director –IT

 

 

Name :

Mr. Vida Candida S Arciaga

Designation :

Vice President- Human Resources.

 

 

`

NORTH AMERICA

 

 

Name :

Mr. Bryce Hayes

Designation :

Head- Sales

 

 

Name :

Mr. Carla Nolan

Designation :

Vice President- Human Resources

 

 

Name :

Mr. Deepak Rastogi

Designation :

Senior Vice President- Business Planning

 

 

Name :

Mr. Donna Malone

Designation :

President- Client Services

 

 

Name :

Mr. Gobinath Narayanan

Designation :

Controller – Finance

 

 

Name :

Mr. Mark Alpern

Designation :

Senior Vice President Sales- Canada

 

 

Name :

Mr. Narsimha Murthy B.N.

Designation :

President – North America

 

 

Name :

Mr. Polly Sappington

Designation :

Vice President- Finance Affina

 

 

Name :

Mr. Prasanna Kumar V

Designation :

Senior Vice President- Client Services

 

 

Name :

Mr. Ralph Wasner

Designation :

Vice President- IT and Communications

 

 

Name :

Mr. Srepathy V

Designation :

Vice President- Mergers and Acquisitions

 

 

Name :

Ms. Tina Carlson

Designation :

Vice President – Operations

 

 

 

UNITED KINGDOM

 

 

Name :

Mr. Charles Cooper Driver

Designation :

Chief Executive Officer – Carline

 

 

Name :

Mr. Gillian Denham

Designation :

Finance Director

 

 

Name :

Mr. Liz Parry

Designation :

Account Manager Director

 

 

Name :

Mr. Megan Neale

Designation :

Business Solutions Director

 

 

Name :

Mr. Richard Glanville

Designation :

Operations Director

 

 

Name :

Mr. Roger Beadle

Designation :

Sales and Marketing Director- Europe

 

 

 

MAJOR SHAREHOLDERS / SHAREHOLDING PATTERN

 

As on 30.06.2011

 

Names of Shareholders

No. of Shares

Percentage

(A) Shareholding of Promoter and Promoter Group

 

 

(1) Indian

 

 

Individuals / Hindu Undivided Family

4,286,985

20.82

Bodies Corporate

6,976,040

33.88

Sub Total

11,263,025

54.70

(2) Foreign

 

 

Bodies Corporate

2,778,927

13.50

Sub Total

2,778,927

13.50

Total shareholding of Promoter and Promoter Group (A)

14,041,952

68.20

(B) Public Shareholding

 

 

(1) Institutions

 

 

Mutual Funds / UTI

660,133

3.21

Financial Institutions / Banks

4,050

0.02

Foreign Institutional Investors

3,296,975

16.01

Any Others (Specify)

9,655

0.05

Foreign National

9,655

0.05

Sub Total

3,970,813

19.29

(2) Non-Institutions

 

 

Bodies Corporate

910,774

4.42

Individuals

 

 

Individual shareholders holding nominal share capital up to Rs. 0.100 Million

1,193,042

5.79

Individual shareholders holding nominal share capital in excess of Rs. 0.100 Million

395,941

1.92

Any Others (Specify)

76,701

0.37

Non Resident Indians

74,563

0.36

Trusts

2,138

0.01

Sub Total

2,576,458

12.51

Total Public shareholding (B)

6,547,271

31.80

Total (A)+(B)

20,589,223

100.00

(C) Shares held by Custodians and against which Depository Receipts have been issued

-

-

(1) Promoter and Promoter Group

-

-

(2) Public

-

-

Sub Total

-

-

Total (A)+(B)+(C)

20,589,223

100.00

 

 

 

BUSINESS DETAILS

 

Line of Business :

Providing Software Development IT Enabled Services.

 

 

GENERAL INFORMATION

 

No. of Employees :

19442 (Approximately)

 

 

Bankers :

·         Axis Bank

·         Bank of Baroda

·         Bank of America

·         Barclays Bank PLC

·         BNP Paribas

·         Canara Bank

·         Chinaturst (Phils.) Commercial Bank Cop

·         HDFC Bank

·         Comerica Bank

·         Hinduja Bank (Switzerland) Limited

·         HSBC Bank

·         Indusind Bank

·         State Bank of India

·         State Bank of Mauritius

·         Union Bank of Philippines

 

 

Facilities :

Secured Loans

31.03.2011

Rs. in Millions

31.03.2010

Rs. in Millions

Term Loan from a Bank

(Secured by a pari passu first charge on the fixed assets of the Company)

 

[Repayable within a year Rs. 90.000 Millions (Previous Year - Rs. 192.000 Millions)]

90.000

371.458

Cash Credit

(Secured by a primary pari passu first charge on the current assets of the Company both present and future and collateral pari passu first charge on the movable fixed assets of the Company)

[Repayable within a year Rs. 19.500 Millions (Previous Year - Rs.142.602 Millions)]

19.500

142.602

Total

109.500

514.060

 

 

 

Unsecured Loans

31.03.2011

Rs. in Millions

31.03.2010

Rs. in Millions

Term Loan from a Bank

[Repayable within a year Rs. 502.573 Millions (Previous Year - Rs. Nil)]

 

[Includes interest accrued and due Rs. 2.573 Millions (Previous Year - Rs. Nil)]

502.573

0.000

Total

502.573

0.000

 

 

 

Banking Relations :

--

 

 

Auditors :

 

Name :

 Price Waterhouse

Chartered Accountant

 

 

Enterprises where common control exists :

  • Impeccable Imaginations Private Limited (formerly known as Serendipity Films Private Limited)
  • Hinduja Group India Limited
  • Aasia Management and Consultancy Private Limited
  • Hinduja Ventures Limited
  • IndusInd Media and Communication Limited
  • Hinduja Healthcare Private Limited
  • Hinduja Realty Ventures Limited

 

 

Subsidiaries :

  • Pacific Horizon Limited, Mauritius
  • Hinduja Outsourcing Solutions India Private Limited (w.e.f. May 13, 2010)
  • Hinduja Global Solutions Inc., U.S.A. (formerly known as Source1 HTMT Inc., U.S.A.)
  • C-Cubed B.V., Netherlands
  • C-Cubed (Antilles) N.V., Netherlands
  • Customer Contact Centre Inc., Manila
  • HTMT Europe Limited, U.K.
  • Careline Services Limited, U.K. (w.e.f. June 21, 2010)
  • Hinduja TMT France, S.A.R.L
  • Affina L.L.C ., U.S.A
  • RMT L.L.C., U.S.A
  • Affina Company, Canada

 


 

CAPITAL STRUCTURE

 

As on 31.03.2011

 

Authorised Capital :

No. of Shares

Type

Value

Amount

 

 

 

 

25000000

Equity Shares

Rs. 10/- each

Rs. 250.000 Millions

 

Issued, Subscribed & Paid-up Capital :

No. of Shares

Type

Value

Amount

 

 

 

 

20589223

Equity Shares

Rs. 10/- each

Rs. 205.892 Millions

 

 

Note:

 

20,538,003 equity shares were issued for consideration other than cash pursuant to the Scheme of Arrangement

and Reconstruction for demerger of IT/ ITES business into the Company.


 

FINANCIAL DATA

[all figures are in Rupees Millions]

 

 

ABRIDGED BALANCE SHEET

 

SOURCES OF FUNDS

 

31.03.2011

31.03.2010

31.03.2009

SHAREHOLDERS FUNDS

 

 

 

1] Share Capital

205.892

205.892

205.380

2] Share Application Money

0.000

0.000

0.000

3] Reserves & Surplus

6205.983

5931.072

5443.280

4] (Accumulated Losses)

0.000

0.000

0.000

NETWORTH

6411.875

6136.964

5648.660

LOAN FUNDS

 

 

 

1] Secured Loans

109.500

514.060

870.214

2] Unsecured Loans

502.573

0.000

0.000

TOTAL BORROWING

612.073

514.060

870.214

DEFERRED TAX LIABILITIES

83.562

100.413

104.640

 

 

 

 

TOTAL

7107.510

6751.437

6623.514

 

 

 

 

APPLICATION OF FUNDS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FIXED ASSETS [Net Block]

1895.602

1949.871

1953.213

Capital work-in-progress

5.439

7.427

21.700

 

 

 

 

INVESTMENT

3910.177

3900.626

3900.557

DEFERREX TAX ASSETS

0.000

0.000

0.000

 

 

 

 

CURRENT ASSETS, LOANS & ADVANCES

 

 

 

 

Inventories

0.000

0.000

0.000

 

Sundry Debtors

1306.938

1305.008

795.230

 

Cash & Bank Balances

233.950

151.005

194.569

 

Other Current Assets

5.885

4.382

323.186

 

Loans & Advances

1087.168

679.188

647.065

Total Current Assets

2633.941

2139.583

1960.050

Less : CURRENT LIABILITIES & PROVISIONS

 

 

 

 

Sundry Creditors

428.967

357.282

318.894

 

Other Current Liabilities

304.789

297.965

329.365

 

Provisions

603.893

590.823

563.747

Total Current Liabilities

1337.649

1246.070

1212.006

Net Current Assets

1296.292

893.513

748.044

 

 

 

 

MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES

0.000

0.000

0.000

 

 

 

 

TOTAL

7107.510

6751.437

6623.514

 


PROFIT & LOSS ACCOUNT

 

 

PARTICULARS

31.03.2011

31.03.2010

31.03.2009

 

SALES

 

 

 

 

 

Operating Income

5448.797

4868.135

4447.646

 

 

Other Income

80.293

27.098

36.789

 

 

TOTAL                                     (A)

5529.090

4895.233

4484.435

 

 

 

 

 

Less

EXPENSES

 

 

 

 

 

Employee Costs

3247.788

2567.075

2391.175

 

 

Operating and Other Expenses

960.697

956.088

872.667

 

 

Exceptional Item- Income

0.000

[57.605]

106.140

 

 

TOTAL                                     (B)

4208.485

3465.558

3369.982

 

 

 

 

 

Less

PROFIT BEFORE INTEREST, TAX, DEPRECIATION AND AMORTISATION (A-B)      (C)

1701.054

1429.675

1114.453

 

 

 

 

 

Less

FINANCIAL EXPENSES                         (D)

55.876

76.475

85.866

 

 

 

 

 

 

PROFIT BEFORE TAX, DEPRECIATION AND AMORTISATION (C-D)                                       (E)

1264.729

1353.200

1028.587

 

 

 

 

 

Less/ Add

DEPRECIATION/ AMORTISATION                     (F)

380.449

336.038

281.459

 

 

 

 

 

 

PROFIT BEFORE TAX (E-F)                               (G)

884.280

1017.162

747.128

 

 

 

 

 

Less

TAX                                                                  (H)

132.374

65.730

127.988

 

 

 

 

 

 

PROFIT AFTER TAX (G-H)                                (I)

751.906

951.432

619.140

 

 

 

 

 

Add

PREVIOUS YEARS’ BALANCE BROUGHT FORWARD

909.830

535.309

338.510

 

 

 

 

 

Less

APPROPRIATIONS

 

 

 

 

 

Transfer to General Reserve

75.191

95.144

61.914

 

 

Final Proposed

411.784

411.784

308.070

 

 

Tax on Dividend

65.211

69.983

52.357

 

BALANCE CARRIED TO THE B/S

1109.550

909.830

535.309

 

 

 

 

 

 

EARNINGS IN FOREIGN CURRENCY

 

 

 

 

 

IT and IT enabled Service

4147.527

3528.278

3070.662

 

 

Interest Income

0.000

2.029

8.020

 

 

Sale of Fixed Assets

29.564

13.931

0.000

 

 

Other Income earned at overseas branches

2.465

2.935

0.000

 

TOTAL EARNINGS

4179.556

3547.173

3078.682

 

 

 

 

 

 

IMPORTS

 

 

 

 

 

Capital Goods

8.016

10.082

74.611

 

TOTAL IMPORTS

8.016

10.082

74.611

 

 

 

 

 

 

Earnings Per Share (Rs.)

 

 

 

 

Basic

36.52

46.32

30.15

 

Diluted

36.50

46.16

30.15

 

KEY RATIOS

 

PARTICULARS

 

 

31.03.2011

31.03.2010

31.03.2009

PAT / Total Income

(%)

13.60

19.44

13.81

 

 

 

 

 

Net Profit Margin

(PBT/Sales)

(%)

16.23

20.89

16.80

 

 

 

 

 

Return on Total Assets

(PBT/Total Assets}

(%)

19.52

24.87

23.40

 

 

 

 

 

Return on Investment (ROI)

(PBT/Networth)

 

0.14

0.17

0.13

 

 

 

 

 

Debt Equity Ratio

(Total Liability/Networth)

 

0.30

0.29

0.37

 

 

 

 

 

Current Ratio

(Current Asset/Current Liability)

 

1.97

1.72

1.62

 

 

 

LOCAL AGENCY FURTHER INFORMATION

 

DETAILS OF SUNDRY CREDITORS

 

(Rs. in Millions)

Particulars

31.03.2011

31.03.2010

31.03.2009

Sundry Creditors

 

 

 

— Dues to micro and small enterprises

--

--

--

— Dues to Creditors other than Micro and Small Enterprises

428.967

357.282

318.894

Total

428.967

357.282

318.894

 

 

REVIEW OF FINANCIALS

 

On a standalone basis, Total Income for the year ended 31st March 2011 (FY 2011) was Rs. 5529.100 Millions, an increase of 12.9% over the Total Income of Rs. 4895.200 Millions for the year ended 31st March 2010 (FY 20 0). Profit Before Tax (PBT) (pre-exceptional items) was Rs. 884.300 Millions, a decrease of 7.8% from Rs. 959.500 Millions in the previous Financial Year. The PBT Margin (pre-exceptional items) fell by 40 basis points to 15.9% in FY 2011 from 19.6% in FY 2010. Profit after Tax (PAT) for FY 2011 was Rs. 751.900 Millions as against Rs. 951.400 Millions in FY 2010. PAT Margin fell from 19.4% in FY 2010 to 13.6% in FY 2011.

 

On a Consolidated basis, Total Income was Rs. 11021.900 Millions in FY 2011 as against Rs. 9234.700 Millions in FY 2010, an increase of 19.4%. PBT (pre-exceptional items) was Rs. 1301.200 Millions in FY 2011 as compared to Rs. 1371.300 Millions in FY 2010, a decrease of 5.1%. PBT Margin (pre-exceptional items) was at 11.8% as compared to 14.8% in FY 2010. PAT was Rs. 1073.200 Millions in FY 2011 as against Rs. 1300.800 Millions in FY 2010. PAT Margin fell from 14.1% in FY 2010 to 9.7% in FY 2011.

 

The highlights of the year were:

 

Growth of 20.3% in Consolidated Revenues;

 

Employee headcount at 19,442 associates – a growth of 24.5% (Previous Year - 15,615);

 

Addition of 34 new clients – an increase of 47.2%, bringing the total to 106 clients at the end of the year;

 

Acquisition of Careline Services Limited, UK;

 

Addition of 7 new centres of which 3 centres are in India, 3 in the UK through Careline acquisition and 1 in the Philippines (Manila);

 

Setting up SEZ unit by Hinduja Outsourcing Solutions India Private Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company;

 

Consolidated PAT for FY 2011 - Rs. 1073.200 Millions translating into a Diluted EPS of Rs. 52.09 per share;

 

Cash and Cash equivalents as on 31st March 2011 - Rs. 6189.200 Millions translating to Cash and Cash Equivalents of Rs. 300 per share; and

 

Net Worth as on 31st March 2011 - Rs. 9988.300 Millions translating to a Book Value of Rs. 485 per share.

 

BUSINESS REVIEW

 

BPO INDUSTRY OVERVIEW

 

The Company focuses on ITeS BPO services within the broader IT/ITeS industry.

 

While the domestic market continued to demonstrate a strong performance with sustained growth in GDP, the key customer markets of North America and Europe displayed marginally improved signals of economic performance. This was evident in the resurgence in demand for business services in both traditional as well as emerging markets. While this was helped in part by pent-up demand from the corporate sector and the return of discretionary spending, the improved value proposition from service providers was a key catalyst in industry growth. FY 2011 has been a year in which the operating environment became more dynamic resulting in a heightened focus on innovation for suppliers. Apart from engaging current customers, service providers needed to attract and encourage first time buyers. This has brought about a shift in focus from rudimentary outsourcing models which deliver cost or talent leverage to higher value added services, innovation and transformation; the latter results in greater strategic benefits to clients.

 

The emergence of the newer, value added focus is evident in the manner in which the sector has begun to actively diversify beyond core offerings and markets through new business and pricing models, specialize in providing end-to-end service offerings with deeper penetration across verticals, transform process delivery through re-engineering and drive inclusive growth in India by developing targeted solutions for the domestic Indian market. All these factors helped India grow faster than its competitors, accounting for almost 90% of incremental growth in the global sourcing market.

 

GLOBAL SOURCING TRENDS

 

On the back of resurgence in global business spending, the IT services spend increased by 1.4% in 2010. Of this,

IT outsourcing grew by 2.4%. An ROI-led focus resulted in BPO sector growing by 4%, while software products rose by 3.7%. Within IT outsourcing, global sourcing grew by 10.4% in 2010 validating Industry’s integral position in service delivery chain.

 

The year saw wide ranging contract restructuring exercises and deal size reductions as buyers came to terms with new business models and budgetary constraints. With customers demanding more immediate value from IT and forward-looking strategies that support growth and innovation, service providers are adopting newer value focused methods incorporating operational excellence through ongoing innovation, diversification, renewed partnerships and alliances and recalibrated business models.

 

The BPO services market in Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) reached USD 8.6 billion in 2010, a 22.85% increase from 2009 revenue of USD 7 billion. By vertical, Banking, Financial Services and Insurance (BFSI), Communications, Government and Travel and Transportation were the largest consumers of BPO services in the region.

 

INDIAN IT - BPO PERFORMANCE

 

The sector is estimated to aggregate revenues of USD 88.1 billion in FY 2011, with the IT software and services sector (excluding hardware) accounting for USD 76.1 billion of revenues. Export Market:

 

• Export Revenues: Export revenues of the IT software and services sector (excluding hardware) are estimated to gross USD 59 billion in FY 2011 accounting for a 2 million workforce. The BPO segment of this sector grew by 14 per cent to reach USD 14.1 billion.

 

• Geographic focus: The year was characterized by a consistent demand from the US, which increased its share to 61.5% to retain its status as the pre-eminent market. Emerging markets of Asia Pacifi c and Rest of the World also contributed signifi cantly to overall growth.

 

• Vertical Markets: While the sector’s vertical mix is well balanced across several mature and emerging sectors, the year was characterized by broad based demand across traditional segments such as Banking, Financial Services and Insurance (BFSI), as well as across emerging verticals of Retail, Healthcare, Media and Utilities.

 

• Service Lines: The BPO segment grew by 14% to reach USD 14.1 billion and the year also witnessed the next phase of BPO sector evolution characterized by greater breadth and depth of services, process re-engineering, increased delivery of analytics and knowledge based services through platforms, strong domestic market focus and SME centric delivery models. Changing demand patterns led to a renewed focus on existing client relationships, mining for new clients and restructured operations to provide focused vertical solutions. Further, the Industry focused on achieving excellence in business process management and delivering strong transformational benefits creating revenue impact for clients.

 

DOMESTIC MARKET:

 

• Domestic Revenues: Domestic IT-ITeS revenues, excluding hardware, are expected to grow at almost 16% to reach USD 17.1 billion in FY 2011. IT services is one of the fastest growing segment in the Indian domestic market, rising by 16.8% to reach Rs. 501 billion, driven by localized strategies designed by service providers.

 

• Movement to Non-Metro Cities: Service Providers are beginning to reap the benefits of transitioning business from Tier I to Tier III cities. These destinations result in significant cost savings and are an attractive proposition for the price sensitive Indian market.

 

• Drivers of Growth: The Domestic market in India offers among the highest growth rates globally and is characterized by emerging sophistication as well as heightened competition. The growth of the Domestic BPO segment is expected to be driven by demand from emerging verticals, new customer segments and value based transformational outsourcing platforms in addition to voice based services. Strong economic growth, rapid advancement in technology infrastructure, increasingly competitive Indian organizations, enhanced focus by the government and emergence of business models that help provide IT to new customer segments are the key drivers for increased technology adoption in India.

 

• Government Initiatives: The Government sector has emerged as a key catalyst for increased IT adoption - through sector reforms that encourage IT acceptance. National e-Governance Programmes (NeGP) and the Unique Identification Development Authority of India (UIDAI) program are landmark programs that highlight the increased adoption of large scale IT infrastructure and IT enabled services by Central, State and Local governments.

 

INDIAN IT

 

BPO VALUE PROPOSITION and OUTLOOK

 

The top three slots in AT Kearney’s 2011 Global Services Location Index (GSLI) are occupied by three Asian

countries: India, China and Malaysia; with India a half-point ahead of China and a full point in front of Malaysia as per the report.

 

India has retained its position as the leading global off-shoring destination with a 55% share of the global IT and ITeS market in 2010 and been able to increase its market share in spite of competitive challenges presented by emerging off-shoring destinations. This has been made possible due to the development of a set of factors unique to India, which help to multiply its value proposition manifold. While the cost advantage has narrowed over the years, India enjoys the world’s largest pool of employable talent, a service delivery infrastructure across multiple geographically dispersed locations within the country and a supportive policy regime.

 

Indian IT-ITeS companies are expected to diversify their business from core markets such as the US and UK and

Indian IT companies have already begun to explore opportunities offered by other growing markets such as Mexico, Ireland, the Netherlands, the Philippines and Brazil. Though these fl ourishing markets are presently small, they are expected to drive the growth in future.

 

In addition, by concentrating on these markets, businesses can diversify their risks across regions. Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) units have played a vital role in fostering growth of the Indian IT-ITeS industry. The cessation of tax holiday after March 2011 could slow down future expansion proposals especially of smaller companies. However, larger companies are expected to alleviate the marginally higher taxes and narrowing returns through increased scale.

 

In future, the IT-ITeS industry is likely to go through a paradigm shift across five parameters: Markets - Growth will be driven by new markets - SMEs, Asia, public sector and government influenced entities will become a priority customer base.

 

Customers - Customers will demand ‘transformative’ value propositions that go beyond cost leverage. As technology creates virtual supply chains, customers will require a seamless experience across time zones and geographies and there will be an increasing demand for innovation and end-to-end transformation.

 

Service Offerings - Offerings that are high-end and deeply embedded in customer value chains will emerge. Services and delivery will become location-agnostic leading to new opportunities such as design services in manufacturing and Remote Infrastructure Management (RIM). Solutions for the domestic market will be a key focus area.

 

Talent - Government pressures to create local jobs and the need for local knowledge will alter the employee mix – a higher proportion of non-Indians with multilingual and localized capabilities. There will be a much greater focus on ongoing development of specialized skills and capabilities. Business models - Driven by a focus on expertise and intellectual property, offerings will shift from piecemeal, technology-centric applications to a range of integrated solutions and higher-end services, spanning new service lines (e.g., green IT). Additional productivity

improvements and the development of Tier II and Tier III cities as future delivery centres is expected to help enhance India’s competitiveness.

 

Other aspects of the Indian ITeS industry, besides the growing breadth and depth of the service portfolio that reflect its increasing maturity, include the increasing global delivery footprint and continuous emphasis on enhancing service delivery efficiency and productivity. Strong fundamentals, a robust enabling environment and enhanced value delivery capability are the hallmarks of the Indian IT-ITeS industry.

 

PERFORMANCE OF HINDUJA GLOBAL SOLUTIONS LIMITED

 

The Company continued its strong performance despite the uncertainty and volatility of the operating environment. The Total Consolidated Income for FY 2011 expanded by 19.4% to Rs. 110.219 Millions from Rs. 9234.700 Millions in FY 2010.

 

This performance was creditable in view of the challenges faced by the Company during the year, viz.:

 

o Appreciation of the Indian Rupee and Philippine Peso against the U.S. dollar;

 

o Pricing pressure in the domestic market by domestic telecom clients due to heightened competition and a continued reduction in ARPUs;

 

o Rising inflation leading to salary revisions and increase in employee attrition rates; and

 

o Phasing out of some of the Company’s tax benefits. This performance was due to initiatives undertaken by the Company to reduce cost of delivery in order to be more price competitive as it pursues more opportunities in the gradually improving operating environment.

 

During FY 2011, in India, the Company opened delivery centres in Tier III cities of Nagercoil and Guntur and set up a second center in Durgapur. The total seat capacity for the Company stands at 10,434 as of March 31, 2011. The Company has initiated steps to open a delivery centre in Siliguri in northern West Bengal and is examining the possibility of opening more centers in other parts of India.

 

The Company has set up its third Philippines delivery centre at Iloilo city with a capacity of 400 seats and spread across 25,000 sq. ft. The Company was one of the fi rst Indian BPO companies to enter the Philippines and setting up of the third delivery centre is a testimony to the excellent performance of the Company’s Philippines operations.

 

Apart from the Philippines operations, the Company’s international operations, viz. Affina, LLC (in the USA) and Careline Services Limited (in the UK) (acquired in June 2010) have performed well and have contributed to the overall profitability of the Company. The integration of Careline has progressed well and the Company is already discussing expansion plans with some of Careline’s key customers.

 

The Company will continue to pursue growth primarily from these three areas: -

 

Increase business volumes from the existing customers;

 

Increase business by approaching new customers in the existing verticals and markets; and

 

Identify and enter new verticals and markets.

 

The Company believes that this diversified business model would enable it to maintain growth and profitability in the coming years.

 

In future, the Company’s outsourcing projects are expected to be both operative and consultative in nature. It will need to work more closely with clients to better understand and evaluate strategies and business models and identify room for improvement. Despite an improved operating environment over the last couple of years, customers continue to be conservative with budgets and are keen to run leaner organizations in order to sustain the cost savings realized from measures taken in the aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2008. In order to respond to the dynamic macro-environment, the Company will concentrate on reducing costs, increase the diversification of its business across different markets / verticals, setup centres in best fit geographies and sustain best practices within the organization.

 

SUBSIDIARIES

 

Pacific Horizon Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company incorporated under the laws of Mauritius. Its principle activity consists of investments in overseas subsidiaries and investment of surplus funds. Pacifi c Horizon Limited owns 100% of the share capital of Hinduja Global Solutions Inc., USA, C-Cubed NV, Netherlands and HTMT Europe Limited, UK.

 

During the year, the total income was USD 5,714,604 as against USD 6,810,527 during the previous year and profit after tax was USD 4,100,355 as against USD 5,090,352 during the previous year.

 

Hinduja Global Solutions Inc., (Previously known as Source1 HTMT Inc.,) USA, a wholly owned subsidiary of Pacific Horizon Limited, Mauritius, specializes in marketing and provides both voice and non-voice related Customer Contact and Business Process Outsourcing services to its clientele. The name of the Company was changed from Source1 HTMT Inc. to Hinduja Global Solutions Inc. with effect from 29th June, 2010.

 

For FY 2011 Hinduja Global Solutions Inc., reported consolidated revenues of USD 169,259,605 and Net Income of USD 2,056,094.

 

Affina LLC., (and its subsidiaries RMT LLC and Affina Company) “Affina” was acquired in November 2006 by Hinduja Global Solutions lnc., USA. Affina operates in five cities in USA and Canada. Affina partners with Fortune 1,000 companies and government agencies to provide comprehensive Customer Relationship Management programs integrating inbound contact center, internet, database marketing, market research, close-loop lead management and fulfillment services

 

For FY 2011, Affina recorded total revenues of USD 85,139,154 as compared to FY 2010 revenues of USD 79,233,758 and Profit before Tax of USD 5,556,870 as compared to USD 6,087,256 in FY 2010. Apart from Affina LLC, Hinduja Global Solutions Inc., has a subsidiary called Hinduja TMT France.

 

HTMT Europe Limited is a UK based subsidiary which focuses on consulting services for BPO and call centre services and markets off shoring services to UK based clients. In June 2010, HTMT Europe acquired 100% stake

of the U.K. based Careline Services Limited thereby making it a wholly owned subsidiary of HTMT Europe with effect from 21st June, 2010.

 

Careline Services Limited is a leading contact centre servicing more than 20 marquee customers across verticals such as Government, FMCG, Financial Services, Automobiles, Telecom and Retail. Established in 1977, it offers a range of services for inbound and outbound interactions and has over 800 highly trained employees in London and Scotland. It handles in excess of 50,000 customer interactions every day across multiple channels and in 14 different languages.

 

For the period 21st June 2010 to 31st March 2011, Careline reported revenues of GBP 15,626,268 and Profit after tax of GBP 820,810. Hinduja Outsourcing Solutions India Private Limited (HOSIPL)

 

During FY 2011, the Company also acquired 100% equity stake of Hinduja Outsourcing Solutions India Private Limited (HOSIPL) making it a wholly owned subsidiary. HOSIPL has received necessary approvals from the Development Commissioner, Special Economic Zone (IT/ITeS), Karnataka, Bangalore and has set up a unit in Special Economic Zone (SEZ) at Global Village, Bangalore. HOSIPL’s SEZ unit, housed over an area of approximately 43,000 sq. ft., has a capacity of approximately 1,000 seats.

 

During FY 2011, HOSIPL has commenced partial operations with international clients from the health insurance and hospitality verticals and recorded revenues of Rs. 27.800 Millions.

 

MANAGEMENT DISCUSSION and ANALYSIS REPORT

 

OVERVIEW:

 

The financial statements have been prepared in compliance with the requirements of the Companies Act, 1956, guidelines issued by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) and Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) in India. The Management accepts responsibility for the integrity and objectivity of these financial statements, as well as for various estimates and judgments used therein.

 

The estimates and judgments relating to the financial statements have been made on a prudent and reasonable basis, so that the financial statements reflect in a true and fair manner the form and substance of transactions and reasonably present the state of affairs, profits and cash flows for the year.

 

MACROECONOMIC TRENDS:

 

FY 2011 started on an encouraging note as the Indian economy continued to display remarkable resilience to the lingering effects of the global recession in 2008- 2009. With estimated growth at 9%, the India growth story continued to outpace most other economies. The developed economies began to turn around and demonstrate some recovery towards the second half of the financial year.

 

The Indian economy continues to grow impressively on the back of strong domestic demand. Improved levels of savings and investment coupled with increased private consumption provide a critical component to the Indian growth story, contributing significantly towards GDP growth.

 

However, higher interest rates and the disconcertingly high levels of inflation towards the second half of FY 2011 threatened to hamper the growth momentum. While to a large extent, its effect was contained by a well sequenced and gradual withdrawal of monetary accommodation, inflation still remains an area of concern for policymakers.

 

The services sector continues to make a steady contribution to the Domestic GDP. The net inflows of FDI have remained a cause of concern. From over USD 25 billion in April-November 2009, net inward FDI slowed down to USD 19 billion in April-November 2011.

 

According to Moody’s, India’s local currency rating may be upgraded provided the Government meets the medium term fiscal targets. The Union Budget 2011 underlined the Government’s efforts to manage the fiscal deficit and it is expected that these actions will lead to an improved economic outlook for the country.

 

INDUSTRY OVERVIEW:

 

As per a recent NASSCOM report, the Indian IT/ITeS sector is estimated to aggregate revenues of USD 88.1 billion in FY 2011, with the hardware sector estimated to generate USD 12 billion of revenues and the IT software and services sector (excluding hardware) accounting for USD 76.1 billion of revenues. Of the total software and services revenues of USD 76.1 billion; exports are expected to be USD 59 billion and the balance USD 17.1 billion will come from the domestic market.

 

India’s IT and ITeS exports continue to play an important role for the country, accounting for 25% of India’s overall

exports, with 90% of these revenues largely derived from the USA and Europe. According to NASSCOM, India’s software and services exports are forecasted to post double digit export revenue growth in the range of 15% to 17%.

 

The BPO segment in the IT/ITeS sector, the segment that the Company focuses on, grew by 14% to reach exports of USD 14.1 billion in FY 2011.

 

Gartner estimates the Indian domestic BPO market to reach USD 1.4 billion in 2011, up 23.2 percent from 2010. This will be largely driven by demand from voice based services, in addition to adoption from emerging verticals, new customer segments and value based transformational outsourcing platforms. The domestic market will continue to make good progress and is expected to grow into a USD 1.69 billion market by 2012 and increase to USD 2.47 billion by 2014.

 

Improving market sentiment was visible in greater business volumes and commensurate increase in people, technology and process investments by customers. There continues to be broader acceptance of off-shoring and

outsourcing as a critical component of cost reduction strategies and this is helping the IT/ITeS sector. A recent Gartner survey found that a high proportion of respondents anticipated increased spending on external service providers. Thus, the growth opportunity available to the sector continues to remain sizeable.

 

Demand for outsourcing continues to permeate beyond the large global enterprises to the medium sized ones. Customer sophistication is increasing and service providers are increasingly required to provide consultative thinking, process redesign and automation to bring about improvements in the clients’ business processes.

 

Customers are also pushing for low-cost/offshore locations and launching projects with benchmarking initiatives that will enable them to closely monitor and measure service provider performance. Multi-sourcing is on the rise as customers are splitting the businesses they outsource into multiple deals based on parameters like sub-processes, outsourcing new business/process lines and experimenting with a range of cloud-based offerings. A maturing service provider community has demonstrated an ability to provide service benefits such as process re-engineering, continuous improvement, ability to support complex processes across time zones and has a track record of providing services at fixed prices despite rising wage costs in periods of soaring inflation. This has substantially increased customer confidence and the Company expects this to be a positive trend for Indian IT/ITeS service providers.

 

At the same time, there is emerging competition as several countries in the Asia-Pacific region are positioning themselves to be increasingly competitive to garner a higher share of the potential business. While India and China remain the leaders for offshore IT and BPO services, the outsourcing activities in countries like Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand and Indonesia are gaining traction and are slowly inching their way up as attractive destinations for outsourcing.

 

Africa is looking to develop itself into a high potential outsourcing and BPO hub which will greatly assist its development agenda.

 

The industry will need to focus on delivering additional value through global delivery models. Strong growth with focus on transformation and enhanced value proposition would be the guiding trend in the market. According to NASSCOM, the industry will witness healthy growth this year, led by growth in the core markets and supplemented by significant contributions from emerging markets. Growth drivers include a thrust on platform BPO, Analytics, Finance and Accounting, Remote Infrastructure Management, Application Development and Maintenance and Cloud Services.

 

To capitalize on domestic opportunity and to take advantage of the economies of scale and cost efficiencies and to create an environment for sustainable employment generation, there is a conscious shift for expansion across various non-metro cities in order to control costs and have access to a larger talent pool. The industry has made efforts towards the holistic development of the Indian economy and society creating employment, improving living standards, career and personal development and developing a social infrastructure, thus leading to a balanced regional growth.

 

This decade heralds a new beginning, a new ‘transformation’ for the industry. Business focus, delivery confidence and risk management shall be the key focal areas of transformative service delivery. Going forward, the outlook remains favorable with new emerging verticals like retail, healthcare and utilities providing a boost in growth in addition to the established sectors.

 

BUSINESS OVERVIEW:

 

HGS is one of the leading global BPOs and is among the largest, listed pure play BPOs in India. HGS excels in providing outsourcing solutions that include Back Office Processing, Contact Center Services and customized ITeS solutions to its global clientele comprising of several Fortune 500 Companies. The Company employed 19,442 persons worldwide at the year-end. For the financial year ended 31st March 2011, its consolidated income and profits after tax are Rs. 11,021.90 million (USD 248.52 million) and Rs. 1,073.21 million (USD 24.2 million) respectively.

 

OPERATIONAL REVIEW:

 

Fiscal year 2011 was a defining year for HGS, as it entered the second decade of its operations and crossed the milestone of Rs. 10000.000 Millions (Rs. 10 billion) in revenues. The Company registered healthy growth as consolidated revenues were up by 20.3% from Rs. 8,923.42 million in FY 2010 to Rs. 10,732.38 million in FY 2011. Consolidated Profit After Tax for the year was at Rs. 1,073.21 million compared to Rs. 1,301.10 million in FY 2010.

 

The Company has been able to deliver growth across almost all of its business verticals and in each one of its geographical markets. There has been a healthy performance in the domestic India business and continuous improvements in its overseas operations.

 

The Company has onshore presence in the United States through a subsidiary – Affina LLC, which was acquired

in FY 2007. Following the acquisition, HGS has been able to enhance Affina’s operating efficiency and its profitability has improved greatly. Affina brought with it an impressive list of clients across diverse industries with some relationships going beyond 20 years.

 

HGS has been able to offer its clients a blended business model, encompassing onshore, near shore and offshore delivery, resulting in new customers and business growth. As a result, Affina LLC continues to remain the leading contributor to revenue with a share of 38% of the total revenues.

 

Through Affina LLC, the Company is well placed to garner new business from the Healthcare Industry following

recent regulatory reform. Further, there has been increasing interest in off-shoring to the Philippines and to India from North American clients.

 

Company had identified the Philippines as a delivery centre due to its large English-speaking population, cultural affinity with the US, orientation towards service industry and regulatory support. The Philippines has proven to be a huge success for the Company and during the year, it was able to fully ramp up its second centre in Manila which has a capacity of 1,000 seats. The Company has also set up a third center in the Philippines, located in a Tier III city – Iloilo.

 

The acquisition of Careline Services Limited in the UK has proven accretive to the Company’s profit for the year. Careline continues to make a steady contribution to overall revenues and is gradually improving its profitability. With Careline, the Company is strategically positioned to gain further business in the European market.

 

The Company will leverage its experience in the Indian market of operating in different languages across cultural preferences, its track record with North American customers and the global delivery model as key selling points as it seeks to penetrate the European market.

 

The Company has already made good strides as it has received a strong acceptance from Careline’s existing client base. Some marquee clients have renewed their contracts and there is potential to scale it up further. The Company would focus on growing the UK business strongly and leverage it as a platform to expand into the rest of Europe.

 

Besides performing work off-shored from overseas market, the Company is also exploiting outsourcing opportunities from the India domestic market. Currently, the domestic telecom industry is a focus area where telecom operators have been facing heightened competition over the last couple of years. The declining ARPUs have led to enhanced negotiation for reduced pricing, mounting pressure on margins. This has resulted in slightly muted growth in the domestic market. However, with recent improvements in ARPUs and introduction of “3G” services, the prospects for the telecom outsourcing industry are set to improve. Further, there are prospects from other service industries like banking and finance, direct to home television, etc. for the services.

 

In the domestic market, the Company has taken steps to consolidate its position and generate employment opportunities even in Tier III cities, thus promoting sustained development. Around 61% of the Company’s consolidated revenues have natural currency hedges as the revenues and costs are in the same currency. The remaining 39% of revenues and related profits are exposed to USD-INR and USD Philippine Peso exchange rate variations. The Company mitigates the foreign exchange rate variation by taking forward cover as appropriate.

 

The Company takes pride in the high quality of its client base of approximately 106 clients, out of which many are Fortune 500 names, whilst the rest are also large enterprise clients. The Company continues to be successful in winning a high proportion of repeat business from existing clients, a barometer of client satisfaction with the Company’s services. A large percentage of maturing contracts continue to be renewed, providing stability to the Company’s financial performance.

 

During FY 2011, the Company successfully added 34 new clients, including about 26 clients added through Careline acquisition. The Company has 38 clients with annual billings in excess of USD 1 million. On the revenue front, the top 5 clients contribute about 44%, top 10 clients contribute about 62% and the top client contributes about 12% of the total revenues.

 

FY 2011 has been a significant year in the Company’s evolution. They continue to make further inroads into the existing verticals that they serve by responding to the changing needs of the clients and making sustained improvements in the performance.

 

SWOT ANALYSIS:

 

STRENGTHS:

 

Pedigree: The Company is part of the Hinduja Group, a leading industrial group with a rich heritage and diverse interests ranging from international trade, banking and finance to automobiles.

 

Vision: The Company has always benefited from the vision provided by its Board of Directors and its professional

management team who enjoy rich experience in the industry. The guidance provided at various stages has helped the Company to achieve impressive growth rates and reach its current position.

 

Global Delivery Model: With presence across six countries, the Company efficiently services various geographies. Customers get an option to choose from onshore and offshore centres for delivery.

 

Diversified Areas of Operation: The Company’s income is diversified across a range of geographies and industries and the Company is not overly reliant on a small number of customers. The Company earns revenues from the US, the UK and India markets and services the Healthcare, BFS, Telecom and Technology, Insurance, Consumer Electronics, Chemicals and Biotech verticals. This ensures that the overall business is not affected by adverse trends in any vertical.

 

Experienced Management Team: The experienced management team is a key competitive advantage. The management team has a track record of managing high growth businesses, possesses domain knowledge in the industries the Company serves and has relevant experience in the geographies in which it operates. Established Relationships with Large Global Companies: The Company works with several “Fortune 500” companies. Many of these relationships have strengthened over time as the Company obtains ongoing work from these clients and gains a greater share of their processing expenditure.

 

WEAKNESSES:

 

Business Mix: The Company has a high proportion of its revenue in voice based customer relationship management services. It is now shifting the focus to increase revenue from non-voice based services. Hence, the strategic plan of the Company calls for significant additional investments to achieve growth in non-voice based services. The Company recognizes the need to add new business processes and is exploring avenues to do so.

 

Susceptibility to Currency Fluctuation: The Company caters to multiple clients across various countries. It also deals in multiple currencies across its global operations. To the extent that it incurs costs in the same currency as revenue, as is the case with domestic delivery to clients in the US and in India, there is a natural hedge.

 

However, for the offshore delivery of the US business from India and the Philippines, the Company is exposed to fluctuations of foreign currency on its international income. The Company hedges the related currency risk, using basic financial products, to reduce its exposure to these fluctuations.

 

High rate of Attrition: The Company is in a people intensive business. The nature of the industry as well as the scale of business requires a large workforce. Due to a constantly evolving environment as well as the requirements of competition, it is faced with a high rate of attrition within its employee base. The Company has undertaken steps to manage these challenges and ensure business continuity. Further, the Company has been able to keep attrition amongst its senior and middle management to a minimum

 

OPPORTUNITIES:

 

Develop New Client Relationships: In addition to expanding existing client relationships, the Company seeks to develop new long-term marquee client relationships across the verticals. The Company is particularly focused on building new relationships with industry leaders where potential opportunity is large and the Company can create a meaningful impact on customer businesses through its differentiated service offerings.

 

Expand Into New Markets: Historically, the outsourcing market in India has been export focused with a high proportion of revenues coming from the USA. The Company has been one of the pioneers to also focus on the India domestic market. Further, the Company has enhanced its presence in the European market during the year. Going forward, the Company sees exciting opportunities in markets of Latin and Central America, China and the Middle East.

 

Expand Global Delivery Capabilities: The Company believes that a multi-shore global delivery platform is critical for offering a long term viable business proposition to the clients. The Company has been an early mover in building significant onshore and near shore delivery capabilities in US and UK and continues to expand in these countries. The Company has also expanded its offshore delivery footprint to the Philippines and to several Tier III cities in India.

 

Inorganic Opportunities: The Company has a history of successful acquisitions. It is open to acquisitions that provide it with entry into new markets, add new clients or provide new process offerings. The Company has stringent criteria in place to evaluate acquisition opportunities. Further, it has put in place a dedicated MandA team to enhance its scope and pace of inorganic growth.

 

THREATS:

 

Competition from other Countries: Several other countries with low cost labor are proving to be tough competition. These countries have recognized the attractiveness of the BPO industry and the benefits offered by it to their domestic economies and are undertaking several initiatives to increase their competitiveness and represent themselves as favorable alternatives for prospective customers.

 

Regulatory and Political Risks: Protectionist measures adopted by developed countries like introduction of tariff or non-tariff barriers to outsourcing or the BPO industry to spur growth in their economies may seriously affect the industry.

 

Seasonal Fluctuations: Diversified business across various geographies and across different industries may still be affected in off season periods.

 

BUSINESS OUTLOOK:

 

According to NASSCOM, suitably exploiting opportunities, both in the global and domestic markets, can help India

reach USD 130 billion in IT-BPO revenues by FY 2015, a CAGR of 14%. By FY 2015, the Indian IT-BPO industry is expected to contribute about 7% of the annual GDP and create about 14.3 million employment opportunities.

 

Going forward, worldwide IT-BPO spending will benefit from the accelerated recovery in emerging markets which will generate a greater proportion of new spending. While the focus on cost control and efficiency will remain, customers are also evaluating how investments can achieve their business objectives, leading to an increase in project-based spending.

 

BPO spending is expected to be driven by analytical services, FandA and industry-specific BPO solutions. The industry is likely to go through a paradigm shift as growth will be driven by new markets, customers requiring different value propositions, increase in scale and complexity of the service offerings and the inclusion of a mix of employees with different skill sets.

 

By 2020, new segments, new verticals and new geographies will account for a large proportion of growth in the addressable market. India supply base is well placed to tap this potential, with their two decade long experience, mature service capabilities, presence in almost all verticals, global footprint and an abundant talent pool.

 

Further, the India supply base has also begun to look for expansion across various non-metros, with a view to control costs and have access to a larger talent pool. This expansion has resulted in development of smaller towns and cities, local talent pools and physical and social infrastructure. The government is also expected to be a key driver for increased adoption of IT-based products and solutions both through generating demand as well as providing the necessary regulatory support.

 

FINANCIAL OVERVIEW:

 

The offshore business, which is delivered through centres in India and Philippines, has grown strongly. During FY 2011, customers from United States, United Kingdom and India accounted for 77%, 11% and 12% of the total revenues respectively.

 

The additional centres in India and the Philippines help increase volumes and revenue. North America has exhibited robust growth on the back of the holiday season in the third quarter. There has been a sustained contribution from all of the other major geographies as well.

 

Revenue contribution from the top 3 verticals - ‘Telecom and Technology’, ‘Health Insurance’ and ‘Consumer Electronics’ has demonstrated a balanced performance.

 

Revenues from other verticals have also shown healthy growth rates. There was moderate growth in the Healthcare Provider side of the business in FY 2011 with higher new business volumes. The five delivery centres

of Affina have started operating at optimum capacity and the Healthcare reform in US is expected to add to the growth in the Healthcare revenue.

 

 

Contingent Liabilities in respect of:

 

(Rs. in Millions)

Particulars

31.03.2011

31.03.2010

(i) Service Tax demand raised by authorities against which appeal has been filed by the Company (Refer Note 1 below)

63.308

35.902

(ii) Other claims against the Company not acknowledged as debts (to the extent ascertainable)

8.024

0.479

(iii) Income Tax demand raised by authorities against which appeal has been fi led by the Company

133.631

--

(iv) Other matters (Refer Note 2 below)

1539.048

1404.281

 

 

Notes:

 

1. The Company has deposited an amount of Rs. 63.308 Millions (Previous year - Rs. Nil) with the service tax authorities, which is included in “Balance with Excise and Custom Authorities – Schedule J”.

 

2. Hinduja Ventures Limited has received income tax demand pertaining to IT/ ITES business aggregating Rs. 1539.048 Millions (Previous Year - Rs. 1404.281 Millions) in respect of period prior to October 1, 2006 which will be reimbursed by the Company pursuant to the Scheme of Arrangement and Reconstruction for demerger of IT/ITES business into the Company sanctioned by High Court of Judicature of Bombay and made effective on March 7, 2007. In this regard, the Company has paid Rs. 315.000 Millions (Previous Year - Rs. 135.000 Millions) to Hinduja Ventures Limited to discharge part payment of disputed Income tax dues pertaining to IT/ ITES business, which is included in the Advances Recoverable in Cash or in Kind or for value to be received. Hinduja Ventures Limited has fi led appeal against the said demand. In view of Management and based on the legal advice obtained, the Company has fairly a strong case for a favourable decision.

 

3. Future cash outflow in respect of above, if any, is determinable only on receipt of judgements/ decisions pending with relevant authorities.

 

4. Subsequent to the demerger of IT/ ITES business from Hinduja Ventures Limited into the Company, certificates in respect of tax deducted at source by the customers under the Income Tax Act, 1961 of India aggregating Rs. 131.503 Millions (Previous Year - Rs. 131.503 Millions) were received in the name of Hinduja Ventures Limited. In view of the Management, the Company is eligible for the benefits of such tax deducted at source since the services were provided by the Company. Further, certificates of tax deducted at source aggregating Rs. 1606.653 Millions (Previous year - Rs. 142.331 Millions) are in process of being collected from the customers.

 

 

Fixed Assets:

 

·         Computer Software

·         Commercial Rights

·         Land

·         Leasehold Land

·         Building

·         Leasehold Building

·         Leasehold Improvements

·         Office Equipments

·         Computers

·         Furniture and Fixtures

·         Vehicles

 

 


CMT REPORT (Corruption, Money Laundering and Terrorism]

 

The Public Notice information has been collected from various sources including but not limited to: The Courts, India Prisons Service, Interpol, etc.

 

1]         INFORMATION ON DESIGNATED PARTY

No records exist designating subject or any of its beneficial owners, controlling shareholders or senior officers as terrorist or terrorist organization or whom notice had been received that all financial transactions involving their assets have been blocked or convicted, found guilty or against whom a judgement or order had been entered in a proceedings for violating money-laundering, anti-corruption or bribery or international economic or anti-terrorism sanction laws or whose assets were seized, blocked, frozen or ordered forfeited for violation of money laundering or international anti-terrorism laws.

 

2]         Court Declaration :

No records exist to suggest that subject is or was the subject of any formal or informal allegations, prosecutions or other official proceeding for making any prohibited payments or other improper payments to government officials for engaging in prohibited transactions or with designated parties.

 

3]         Asset Declaration :

No records exist to suggest that the property or assets of the subject are derived from criminal conduct or a prohibited transaction.

 

4]         Record on Financial Crime :

            Charges or conviction registered against subject:                                                              None

 

5]         Records on Violation of Anti-Corruption Laws :

            Charges or investigation registered against subject:                                                          None

 

6]         Records on Int’l Anti-Money Laundering Laws/Standards :

            Charges or investigation registered against subject:                                                          None

 

7]         Criminal Records

No available information exist that suggest that subject or any of its principals have been formally charged or convicted by a competent governmental authority for any financial crime or under any formal investigation by a competent government authority for any violation of anti-corruption laws or international anti-money laundering laws or standard.

 

8]         Affiliation with Government :

No record exists to suggest that any director or indirect owners, controlling shareholders, director, officer or employee of the company is a government official or a family member or close business associate of a Government official.

 

9]         Compensation Package :

Our market survey revealed that the amount of compensation sought by the subject is fair and reasonable and comparable to compensation paid to others for similar services.

 

10]        Press Report :

            No press reports / filings exists on the subject.

 


 

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

 

MIRA INFORM as part of its Due Diligence do provide comments on Corporate Governance to identify management and governance. These factors often have been predictive and in some cases have created vulnerabilities to credit deterioration.

 

Our Governance Assessment focuses principally on the interactions between a company’s management, its Board of Directors, Shareholders and other financial stakeholders.

 

 

CONTRAVENTION

 

Subject is not known to have contravened any existing local laws, regulations or policies that prohibit, restrict or otherwise affect the terms and conditions that could be included in the agreement with the subject.

 

 

FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES

 

Currency

Unit

Indian Rupees

US Dollar

1

Rs.44.52

UK Pound

1

Rs.71.91

Euro

1

Rs.62.98

 


 

SCORE & RATING EXPLANATIONS

 

SCORE FACTORS

 

RANGE

POINTS

HISTORY

1~10

7

PAID-UP CAPITAL

1~10

7

OPERATING SCALE

1~10

8

FINANCIAL CONDITION

 

 

--BUSINESS SCALE

1~10

8

--PROFITABILIRY

1~10

7

--LIQUIDITY

1~10

8

--LEVERAGE

1~10

8

--RESERVES

1~10

8

--CREDIT LINES

1~10

7

--MARGINS

-5~5

--

DEMERIT POINTS

 

 

--BANK CHARGES

YES/NO

YES

--LITIGATION

YES/NO

NO

--OTHER ADVERSE INFORMATION

YES/NO

NO

MERIT POINTS

 

 

--SOLE DISTRIBUTORSHIP

YES/NO

NO

--EXPORT ACTIVITIES

YES/NO

NO

--AFFILIATION

YES/NO

YES

--LISTED

YES/NO

YES

--OTHER MERIT FACTORS

YES/NO

YES

TOTAL

 

68

 

This score serves as a reference to assess SC’s credit risk and to set the amount of credit to be extended. It is calculated from a composite of weighted scores obtained from each of the major sections of this report. The assessed factors and their relative weights (as indicated through %) are as follows:

 

Financial condition (40%)            Ownership background (20%)                 Payment record (10%)

Credit history (10%)                    Market trend (10%)                                Operational size (10%)

 


 

RATING EXPLANATIONS

 

 

RATING

STATUS

 

 

PROPOSED CREDIT LINE

>86

Aaa

Possesses an extremely sound financial base with the strongest capability for timely payment of interest and principal sums

 

Unlimited

71-85

Aa

Possesses adequate working capital. No caution needed for credit transaction. It has above average (strong) capability for payment of interest and principal sums

 

Large

56-70

A

Financial & operational base are regarded healthy. General unfavourable factors will not cause fatal effect. Satisfactory capability for payment of interest and principal sums

 

Fairly Large

41-55

Ba

Overall operation is considered normal. Capable to meet normal commitments.

 

Satisfactory

26-40

B

Capability to overcome financial difficulties seems comparatively below average.

 

Small

11-25

Ca

Adverse factors are apparent. Repayment of interest and principal sums in default or expected to be in default upon maturity

 

Limited with full security

<10

C

Absolute credit risk exists. Caution needed to be exercised

 

 

Credit not recommended

-

NB

                                       New Business

-

 

 

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This report is issued at your request without any risk and responsibility on the part of MIRA INFORM PRIVATE LIMITED (MIPL) or its officials.