The Institute of Directors, a non-profit apex association of
company directors committed to improving the competitiveness of
Indian Business, has awarded WNS (Holdings) Limited (NYSE: WNS),
the Golden Peacock National Quality Award for the year 2011,
for its excellence in delivering transformational and cutting-edge
outsourcing solutions.
Jitender Mohan-WNS, Justice P.N.
Bhagwati, His Excellency K. Sankaranarayanan, Honorable Governor of
Maharashtra, Lt. Gen. Surinder Nath (Retd.), Keshav Murugesh-Group
CEO, WNS (Photo: Business Wire)
WNS, a leading provider of global Business Process Outsourcing
(BPO) services, was awarded this prestigious recognition at the
21st World Congress on Total Quality, being held from 28-30 Jan.,
2011, at Hotel Leela Kempinski, Mumbai, India. Keshav R. Murugesh,
Group CEO, WNS Global Services, received the award from His
Excellency K. Sankaranarayanan, Honorable Governor of Maharashtra,
in the presence of a distinguished gathering of business leaders,
quality connoisseurs, environmentalists, economists and policy
makers.
WNS was adjudged the winner after evaluating an exhaustive set
of parameters across overall strategic management and business
development, leadership, strategy, people development, process
management, employee and customer satisfaction, and business
results. The jury was chaired by Justice P.N. Bhagwati, former
Chief Justice of India and Member, UN Human Rights Commission.
“This award is testimony to the transformational path the company
is set on, and the clear edge it has over its competition in terms
of delivering a sustainable advantage,” said Manoj K. Raut, CEO,
Institute of Directors. WNS was earlier the proud recipient of the
Golden Peacock Eco-Innovation Award in the year 2009 for its Green
Lean Sigma program towards attaining carbon neutrality.
“WNS is indeed honored to be receiving the Golden Peacock
National Quality Award for business excellence and quality
standards. This award has been possible only because of the immense
faith our clients have imposed in our talent, domain expertise, and
innovative, outcome-based strategies,” said Keshav R. Murugesh. “It
is dedicated to each of our 21,000 innovative and passionate
employees who are focused on helping our global clients Outperform
in the marketplace,” he added.
About The Golden Peacock Awards
The Golden Peacock Awards (GPA) is a set of prestigious national
and global awards designed to improve productivity and quality in
organizations. It aims to promote business excellence by providing
a framework or criteria for assessment that is based on similar
principles as other awards throughout the world. The Golden Peacock
National Quality Award, named after India's national bird the
"Peacock", is awarded to organization in manufacturing and service
sector to encourage Total Quality improvements is a way to build an
organization’s brand equity on QUALITY.
About WNS
WNS (Holdings) Limited (NYSE: WNS), is a leading global business
process outsourcing company. WNS offers business value to 200+
global clients by combining operational excellence with deep domain
expertise in key industry verticals including Travel, Insurance,
Banking and Financial Services, Manufacturing, Retail and Consumer
Packaged Goods, Shipping and Logistics and Healthcare and
Utilities. WNS delivers an entire spectrum of business process
outsourcing services such as finance and accounting, customer care,
technology solutions, research and analytics and industry specific
back office and front office processes. WNS has over 21,000
professionals across 21 delivery centers worldwide including Costa
Rica, India, Philippines, Romania, Sri Lanka and United Kingdom.
For more information, visit www.wns.com
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attract and retain clients; technological innovation;
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actions and conditions in our operating areas; our dependence on a
limited number of clients in a limited number of industries; the
implications of the accounting changes and restatement of our
financial statements as detailed in our annual report on Form 20-F
for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2010 filed with the U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and any adverse
developments in existing legal proceedings or the initiation of new
legal proceedings; our ability to expand our business or
effectively manage growth; our ability to hire and retain enough
sufficiently trained employees to support our operations; negative
public reaction in the US or the UK to offshore outsourcing;
increasing competition in the BPO industry; our ability to
successfully grow our revenue, expand our service offerings and
market share and achieve accretive benefits from our acquisition of
Aviva Global Services Singapore Pte. Ltd. (which we have renamed as
WNS Customer Solutions (Singapore) Private Limited following our
acquisition), and our master services agreement with Aviva Global
Services (Management Services) Private Limited; our ability to
successfully consummate strategic acquisitions; and volatility of
WNS’s ADS price. These and other factors are more fully discussed
in our annual report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended March
31, 2010 filed with the SEC which is available at www.sec.gov. In
light of these and other uncertainties, you should not conclude
that we will necessarily achieve any plans, objectives or projected
financial results referred to in any of the forward-looking
statements. Except as required by law, we do not undertake to
release revisions of any of these forward-looking statements to
reflect future events or circumstances.
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