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EdgeVerve Systems

Infosys Ltd
Public
Traded as
INFY
INFY
BSE SENSEX Constituent
CNX Nifty Constituent
Industry IT services, IT consulting
Founded 7 July 1981; 36 years ago (7 July 1981)
Founder N. R. Narayana Murthy
Nandan Nilekani
S. Gopalakrishnan
S. D. Shibulal
K. Dinesh
N. S. Raghavan
Ashok Arora
Headquarters Electronic City, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
UB Pravin Rao (CEO & MD)
Services IT, business consulting and outsourcing services
Revenue IncreaseUS$10.208 billion (2017)
IncreaseUS$2.520 billion (2017)
Profit IncreaseUS$2.140 billion (2017)
Total assets IncreaseUS$12.854 billion (2017)
Total equity IncreaseUS$10.637 billion (2017)
Number of employees
Increase 200,364 (March 2017)
Divisions Infosys BPO Limited
Lodestone Management Consultants
EdgeVerve Systems
Website www.infosys.com

Infosys Limited (formerly Infosys Technologies Limited) is an Indian multinational corporation that provides business consulting, information technology and outsourcing services. It has its headquarters in Bengaluru, India.

Infosys is the second-largest Indian IT services company by 2016 revenues. On January 12, 2017, its market capitalisation was $34.38 Billion.


Name Change: The company changed its name to Infosys Technologies Private Limited in April 1992 and to Infosys Technologies Limited when it became a public limited company in June 1992. It was later renamed to Infosys Limited in June 2011.

An initial public offer (IPO) in February 1993 with an offer price of 95 (equivalent to 480 or US$7.50 in 2016) per share against book value of 20 (equivalent to 100 or US$1.60 in 2016) per share. The Infosys IPO was under subscribed but it was "bailed out" by US investment bank Morgan Stanley which picked up 1 28% of equity at the offer price. Its shares were listed in stock exchanges in June 1993 with trading opening at 145 (equivalent to 740 or US$11 in 2016) per share.

In October 1994, it made a private placement of 5,50,000 shares at 450 (equivalent to 2,100 or US$32 in 2016) each against book value of 10 (equivalent to 46 or 72¢ US in 2016) per share to Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs), Financial Institutions (FIs) and Corporates.


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