NEW DELHI: Sundaram Business Services (SBS), the BPO arm of non-banking finance company Sundram Finance, has picked up a majority stake in Professional Management Consultants (PMC) in cash to expand its service offerings.
The acquisition also doubles the employee headcount of SBS to 1,600.
"The idea behind acquisition was that PMC was also working in financial services space. It is also doing credit card and retail loan processing, an area where we were not present and with the acquisition we get this capability," Sundaram Finance Managing Director T T Srinivasaraghavan said.
"In PMC, we saw both business and cultural fit and this acquisition considerably strengthens SBS' ability to offer services across the entire spectrum of the banking, financial services and insurance space," he said.
Srinivasaraghavan, however, did not disclose the money Sundaram paid for the stake. "PMC had revenues of Rs 7.5 crore last year and we paid a fair price," Srinivasaraghavan said. SBS on the other hand revenues of Rs 17.5 crore last year.
PMC also brings with it a client list of top notch firms.
SBS has 20 clients but it is talking to 15 more prospective customers. "We hope to add 10 more clients by the end of this year," Srinivasaraghavan said.
Srinivasaraghavan said the company would also continue with its organic growth programme as planned. Though the operations of SBS and PMC are largely confined to Chennai, it also has a presence in Mumbai and Gurgaon.
He said if there is demand, the company would look at growing in cities other than Chennai.
While SBS continues to expand its base in India, the company will also seek to aggressively target the overseas BPO market including Australia, where it has already established a strong presence in the Accounting and Superannuation Funds administration space, he said.
