BWI: WNS Inaugurates New European Headquarters in London

Press release from Business Wire India
Source: WNS
Wednesday, November 24, 2010 06:30 PM IST (01:00 PM GMT)
Editors: General: Consumer interest; Business: Accounting & management consultancy services, Advertising, PR & marketing, Banking & financial services, Business services, Information technology, Telecommunications; Technology
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WNS Inaugurates New European Headquarters in London


London, United Kingdom, Wednesday, November 24, 2010 -- (Business Wire India) -- WNS (Holdings) Limited (NYSE: WNS), a leading provider of global Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) services, inaugurated its new European Headquarters in London, on 17 Nov. 2010, to support its rapid expansion in the region. Group CEO, Keshav R. Murugesh and Board Member, Richard Bernays were present at the inauguration ceremony of the new office situated at the Malta House, 36-38 Piccadilly, London. A few months ago WNS also inaugurated its new delivery centre in Manchester.

"The U.K. is a very important market for WNS with more than 60 percent of our net revenue coming from Europe," said Keshav R. Murugesh, Group CEO of WNS Global Services. "WNS continues to invest significantly in sales and operations infrastructure in Europe. The new European Headquarters will support market penetration and growth in the U.K. market," he added.

WNS's new European Headquarters in London will serve its clients across verticals, including Travel & Leisure, Banking & Financial services, Insurance, Utilities, Telecommunications, CPG, Retail, Manufacturing and Healthcare.

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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CONTACT DETAILS
Sumi Gupta, Public Relations, WNS Global Services, +91 (22) 40952263, sumi.gupta@wns.com; pr@wns.com
Alan Katz, Investor Relations, WNS Global Services, +1 212 277-8183, ir@wns.com

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