Firstsource extends their contract with Barclays UK for $80-100 million

Friday, October 1st, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

SOURCE: Business Standard DATE: Oct 1st, 2010 BPO firm Firstsource Solutions today said it has bagged a five-year outsourcing contract, worth up to $100 million from the UK-based banking major Barclay Plc's ... Read more..

Crisil (Irevna) to buy Pipal for $13 m – KPO M&A news

Tuesday, September 28th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

SOURCE: The Hindu DATE: Sept 22nd, 2010 Crisil has signed an agreement to purchase the business of Pipal Research Corporation (Pipal), a leading player in the knowledge process outsourcing (KPO) industry for ... Read more..

Firstsource – Moving away from offshore only BPO model

Thursday, August 26th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

SOURCE: EconomicTimes DATE: August 25th, 2010 In an interview with FirstSource new CEO, Matthew Vallance the article talks about the future growth strategies FirstSource is looking to grow their BPO business ( ... Read more..

KKR to buy Firstsource controlling stake ?

Tuesday, April 13th, 2010 Posted in Market Data | No Comments »

SOURCE: Reuters DATE: Arpil 13th, 2010 KKR is looking to buy a controlling stake in Firstsource, an India based BPO provider. Firstsource has ownership stake from ICICI bank, Singapore based Temasek holdings ... Read more..

Firstsource adds news jobs in Derry, Ireland

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

SOURCE: Irish Times DATE: Nov 11th, 2009 Firstsource , an Indian based outsourcing firm is planning to expand their center in Derry,  North Ireland. More.. Read more..

ICICI looking to sell stake in FirstSource

Monday, November 9th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

DATE: Nov 9th, 2009 SOURCE: EconomicTimes ICICI is looking to sell a number of it's non core assets.  This is not new, ICICI has been trying to sell their stake for a ... Read more..

FACTS: Firstsource employee strength

Thursday, November 5th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

DATE: Nov 4th, 2009 SOURCE: Knowledge @Wharton Firstsource employee strength: 26,432 employees   20,890 employees based in India and 5,542 employees spread across the U.K., the U.S., the Philippines and Argentina. 25 operations centers in ... Read more..

Firstsource – going from growth to slow

Thursday, September 3rd, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

SOURCE: Forbes DATE: September 1st, 2009 The article talks about the change in strategy of Firstsource and how the investors in the firm are looking to find a way out. The firm ... Read more..

Firstsource announces outsourcing deal with Indian telecom operator Idea Cellular

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 Posted in DEALS, India | No Comments »

Firstsource Solutions, a leading India based business process outsourcing (BPO) company announced a five year deal to provide outsourcing services to Idea Cellular , the third largest private telecom provider ... Read more..

Firstsource recasts operations; goes in for decentralisation

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

SOURCE: EconomicTimes DATE: March 25th, 2009 ARTICLE BPO Firstsource Solutions has joined other firms such as Avesthagen and Bharti which have already announced or are set to announce a rejig of their organisational ... Read more..