ITES - BPO segment grows by 33.5 per cent in 2007

Hyderabad, Jul 14 (UNI) The Indian ITES-BPO segment has achieved 33.5 per cent growth, contributing 8.4 billion US dollars to software and services exports of 31.4 billion dollars in 2007.

In a press release here today, Kiran Karnik, President, NASSCOM, said the ITeS-BPO segment continued to grow at a scorching pace, to record export revenues of 8.4 billion dollars in 2007.

'We expect segment revenues to grow at around 30 per cent next year, to clock exports of 10.5 to 11 billion dollars in 2008. The Indian BPO sector has witnessed a significant transformation over the past decade', he added.

Announcing the top 15 third Party ITES-BPO Companies for 2006-07, he said Genpact, WNS Global Services, Transworks Information Services and IBM-Daksh have occupiued first, second, third and fourth positions in that order.

The rankings were based on the revenues for 2006-07 reported as per the annual NASSCOM survey on IT industry performance.

UNI