Tuesday, April 30, 2013

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Maruti Suzuki: labour unrest
Voilence leaves India Inc. aghast
Some are calling it a conspiracy while others say that it is purely an issue between labour and management. But the bloodshed at Maruti Suzuki’s Manesar factory in Haryana, which claimed the life of one senior manager and injured close to 100 others, has triggered fears of the bad old days of stubborn trade unionism. While Maruti is counted among the best wage providers in the Manesar industrial belt, 40% of the workers at the Manesar plant are hired on a contractual basis. As such their salaries could be about 50% of the payout given to the regular workforce. With rising aspirations of a young workforce and the company’s continuous efforts on cost cutting, the simmering discontent eventually took an ugly turn. A similar kind of unrest at the same plant last year had cost the company a whopping Rs.25 billion. This time round the figure could be even higher as the company may have to keep the plant shut for more than a month. For a plant that on an average rolls out a car every 13 seconds, the loss would be staggering. The lockdown will also affect production of the company’s bestselling Swift Desire diesel car. Apart from financial losses, this kind of forced shutdown will also damage India’s ambition of becoming a global automobile manufacturing hub.

wipro: profitable quarter
Good news for IT sector
Indian IT service provider Wipro Ltd. announced a 18.37% y-o-y rise in its consolidated net profit of Rs.15.80 billion for the first quarter of the financial year 2012-13. Unlike its larger peer Infosys, whose earnings results have failed to excite the market, Wipro good numbers have brought cheer to the IT sector. The company says its clients are resorting to more and more outsourcing in an attempt to reduce their operational expenses, and Wipro is looking to gain from its clients’ spending. The company also said that in today’s complex business environment, global corporations are increasingly investing in transformational technology initiatives to improve competitiveness. Wipro sees this shift as an opportunity for it to lead this change and help customers differentiate in this fast evolving market However, the company has projected a flat growth of $1.54 billion revenue from its global IT services for the second quarter (July-September) of this fiscal. Also, despite the increase in its profit, the third-largest software firm of the country has hit some speed bumps in terms of revenue earned in dollar. The company recorded a 1.36% dip in terms of dollar revenue for the first quarter this fiscal. IT services revenue in dollar terms was impacted by $25 million due to cross-currency volatility. IT services business accounts for 78% of the company’s revenue and 93% of its operating income, which at 21% in the first quarter was 1% lower y-o-y but fractionally (0.3%) higher sequentially from 20.7% in the previous quarter. In the June quarter the firm also managed to bag 37 new customers and employed 2,632 new employees in IT services. India’s $100 billion plus export driven outsourcing sector is facing a tough time as big clients from Europe and North America have cut down their overall spending.


Source : IIPM Editorial, 2013.
An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri
 
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