Businessworld has an short article on how Aegis, the BPO arm of the Essar Group, is ramping up its focus on the domestic outsourcing business.
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Last week, Aegis, the ITES arm of the group, acquired Teletech Services, a BPO company jointly promoted by Bharti Group and Teletech of the US, for Rs 55 crore. The deal has catapulted Aegis to the market leader’s position, with a 35 per cent share in the telecom BPO space of customer lifecycle management, says Aparup Sen Gupta, MD and CEO of Aegis. Its rivals First Source and IBM-Daksh have 15-20 per cent share.
The deal added India’s largest cellular player Airtel as a client to the $180-million company, which is in a hurry to achieve a business size of $500 million in the next 24 months. The company executes back-end work for three of the top 10 global telecom companies, five of the top 10 Indian telecom players and a host of financial service and healthcare companies. With five million subscribers being connected a month, Aegis expects the business to grow at 20 per cent a year.
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