Wipro to open third delivery centre in China

29 March 2007

Mumbai: Information technology major Wipro Technologies will open its third global delivery centre in China to cater to the growing needs of its multinational clients.

Wipro already has operations in China''s Shanghai and Beijing. The Wipro delivery centre has 250 employees in Shanghai and 50 in Beijing.

"We have aggressive plans for China," reports quoted Hiroshi N Alley, chief executive Japan & China operations and president Wipro Japan, as saying.

Alley recently joined Wipro in Tokyo to head China and Japan operations of the company.

"We are expanding our global footprints. We now have delivery centre in Shanghai and Beijing and once we scale up to about 400 to 500 people we are evaluating the third centre and are in the process of finalising it ," he said.

Wipro, which has been operating in Japan since 1995, is a late entrant to China, compared to other three top Indian IT majors - TCS, Infosys and Satyam.