Friday, July 6, 2007

Wipro buys Singapore's Unza for $246 mn

India's third-largest software services exporter, Wipro Ltd, has acquired Singapore's Unza Holdings Ltd for about $246 million in cash, the company said on Friday.

New York-listed Wipro, which also has interests in consumer care and lightings, expects to complete the 100 per cent acquisition by end-July, it said in a statement. Unza is a maker of personal care products with operations in over 40 countries. It has manufacturing plants in Malaysia, Vietnam, China and Indonesia. Wipro, which gets a bulk of its revenue by providing IT solutions and services such as systems integration, software application development and maintenance, has been buying up firms to accelerate growth.

(Source: Economic Times)

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