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Zensar Technologies Ltd, the listed IT arm of Mr Harsh Goenka controlled RPG Group, plans to expand its operations in China, in the next fiscal.
Plans are afoot to increase headcount in its Shanghai development centre, with an aim to cater the Chinese State-owned majors as well as smaller local players .
Zensar's Shanghai centre, currently, caters to some of its global electronics clients having manufacturing facilities in China. It caters to two large state-owned enterprises – one in Shanghai and another in Beijing - and a smaller client.
“For China we have two strategies. One is to cater to our global customers from there. We would also look at approaching the Chinese market for working with local multi nationals including state owned units,” Dr. Ganesh Natarajan, vice chairman and CEO of Zensar, told Business Line.
According to him, Zensar would offer a “suite of manufacturing and retail solutions” to large MNCs or state owned companies in China.
In case of others (catering to global customers), the company would look at “local application support” services.
The company is looking to add nearly four to five large and 10 smaller companies in its client list by March 2013.
The company is also planning to shore up its hiring to over 100 by March 2013. While 50-odd people will be recruited by the end of this fiscal, the remaining recruitments are likely to take place by March 2013.
Africa and LATAM
Zensar, Mr Natarajan said, will focus on strengthening operations in Africa and Middle East nations. It is also planning to set up a development centre - for “resourcing” or project training - in the Gulf Co-Operating Nations (GCC), Saudi Arabia or Jordan. A final decision on the location of the new development centre is likely to be taken in June 2012.
“The development centre will either be through a local partner or we can do it ourselves. We are currently is talks in this regard,” Mr. Nataraj said. On its Latin America expansion plans, he said that a decision on setting up a development centre in either Mexico or Chile, is likely to be taken in the “fourth quarter of the next fiscal (March 2013).”
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