Kimberly-Clark Selects Tata Consultancy Services To Provide Global It Infrastructure Services

Published 18th January 2007

MUMBAI, India and DALLAS, Texas – January 16, 2007: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), (BSE: TCS.BO, NSE: TCS.NI), a leading global IT services and consulting firm, has signed a multi-year agreement to provide information technology infrastructure support to Kimberly-Clark Corporation’s (NYSE: KMB) operations in the United States, Europe, South America and the Asia Pacific region. Other terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

“Kimberly-Clark chose TCS to provide infrastructure support because of the compelling value that TCS brings to the table,” said Ian Maginnis, Kimberly-Clark vice president of business support delivery. “We believe this partnership with TCS will help us derive more value out of our IT investments, allow us to streamline the way we do our business globally, and enable us to better direct our resources on innovation, brand-building and other capabilities that will drive long-term sustainable growth.”

Services that TCS will provide include: service desk and data centre operational support, computer security, SAP basis, data network, desktop, voice, messaging and videoconferencing.

“By leveraging our large scale, we are able to provide cost effective solutions to our customers allowing them to focus their resources on critical business tasks,” said N. Chandrasekaran, executive vice president and head, Global Sales and Operations, TCS. “In addition, TCS is flexible enough to meet future business demands. Kimberly-Clark understands the value that we will deliver to their company and we are confident that this partnership will achieve the desired business results.”

In the December 2006 report by Forrester Research Inc. entitled, “The Forrester Wave™: Global Delivery Infrastructure Management For Europe, Q4 2006”, TCS was named a leader in the offshore infrastructure management services “with the broadest infrastructure management portfolio” among other India based service providers.

TCS has made significant investments and has delivered business effectiveness by aligning IT infrastructure to many of its global client’s business objectives. TCS provides end-to-end infrastructure solutions with a comprehensive set of offerings which help its clients extract enhanced value and business effectiveness from their IT investments.