Infosys BPO Renews Contract With Alcoa

BANGALORE, India, August 25, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --

Infosys BPO, a leading player in the outsourcing services sector, today announced a five year renewal of its contract with Alcoa Global Business Services (GBS). Alcoa is the world's leading producer of aluminum and alumina with over USD 21 billion in revenues. Infosys BPO's partnership with Alcoa started in 2004 and has grown to include services across Finance and Accounting (F&A) and Knowledge Services (KS) processes.

Ritesh Idnani, COO, Infosys BPO, said, "We at Infosys BPO greatly value our long association with Alcoa, which is known for being a best-in-class finance organization. As a key partner enabling this, we continue to work with Alcoa to explore avenues of continually adding business value. The contract renewal for five more years is testimony to our collaborative partnership and delivery excellence." 

Today, Infosys BPO's engagement with Alcoa has reached a level of excellence and sustained performance that has helped enhance the competitive edge for Alcoa GBS; thereby enabling it to provide different types of services to Alcoa business units in a timely, accurate and cost-effective manner. This in turn, translates into profitable business for the company and good relationships with existing and potential customers.

About Infosys BPO

Infosys BPO Ltd. (http://www.infosysbpo.com), the Business Process Outsourcing subsidiary of Infosys Limited, was set up in April 2002. Infosys BPO focuses on integrated end-to-end outsourcing and delivers transformational benefits to its clients through reduced costs, ongoing productivity improvements, and process reengineering. Infosys BPO operates in India, the Czech Republic, China, the Philippines, Poland, Mexico, USA and Brazil and as on June 30, 2011 employed approximately 19,631 people. It closed FY 2010-11 with revenues of $426.8 million.

About Infosys Ltd.

Many of the world's most successful organizations rely on the 133,000 people of Infosys to deliver measurable business value. Infosys provides business consulting, technology, engineering and outsourcing services to help clients in over 30 countries build tomorrow's enterprise.

For more information about Infosys (NASDAQ: INFY), visit http://www.infosys.com

Infosys Safe Harbor

Certain statements in this release concerning our future growth prospects are forward-looking statements, which involve a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements. The risks and uncertainties relating to these statements include, but are not limited to, risks and uncertainties regarding fluctuations in earnings, fluctuations in foreign exchange rates, our ability to manage growth, intense competition in IT services including those factors which may affect our cost advantage, wage increases in India, our ability to attract and retain highly skilled professionals, time and cost overruns on fixed-price, fixed-time frame contracts, client concentration, restrictions on immigration, industry segment concentration, our ability to manage our international operations, reduced demand for technology in our key focus areas, disruptions in telecommunication networks or system failures, our ability to successfully complete and integrate potential acquisitions, liability for damages on our service contracts, the success of the companies in which Infosys has made strategic investments, withdrawal or expiration of governmental fiscal incentives, political instability and regional conflicts, legal restrictions on raising capital or acquiring companies outside India, and unauthorized use of our intellectual property and general economic conditions affecting our industry. Additional risks that could affect our future operating results are more fully described in our United States Securities and Exchange Commission filings including our Annual Report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2011 and on Form 6-K for the quarters ended September 30, 2010, December 31, 2010 and June 30, 2011.These filings are available at http://www.sec.gov. Infosys may, from time to time, make additional written and oral forward-looking statements, including statements contained in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission and our reports to shareholders. The company does not undertake to update any forward-looking statements that may be made from time to time by or on behalf of the company.

For more information, contact:
Neha Iyer
Infosys BPO Ltd., India
Phone: +91-8861257257
[email protected]

James Roger D'silva
Corporate Voice | Weber Shandwick
Phone:  +91-9880781969
[email protected]

SOURCE Infosys BPO Limited