TCS opens software centre in Mexico

New Delhi, May 30 (UNI) Top Indian IT company Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) today opened its first global delivery centre at Guadalajara in Mexico to employ some 500 engineers in this financial year and 1,000 more by 2012.

''We will hire 500 people for the Mexico centre in the short term and thousands more in the next five years, as we continue to build a strong high impact organisation in this region,'' said TCS Iberoamerica President Gabriel Rozman.

This is the first major investment in the country by an Indian IT firm, he said.

''We are impressed by the tremendous talent in this region, nurtured by a very strong education system. We will recruit the best people and train them extensively in the same high quality processes and methodologies that we so successfully use in our operations around the world,'' said TCS Mexico General Manager Ankur Prakash.

Over the last five years TCS has set up operations in 14 countries across Iberoamerica, including major centres in Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Uruguay, employing over 5,000 professionals in those countries and cater to over 150 clients.

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