WNS Wins the Golden Peacock National Quality Award – 2011

The Institute of Directors, a non-profit apex association of company directors committed to improving the competitiveness of Indian Business, has awarded WNS (Holdings) Limited (NYSE: WNS), the Golden Peacock National Quality Award for the year 2011, for its excellence in delivering transformational and cutting-edge outsourcing solutions.

Jitender Mohan-WNS, Justice P.N. Bhagwati, His Excellency K. Sankaranarayanan, Honorable Governor of Maharashtra, Lt. Gen. Surinder Nath (Retd.), Keshav Murugesh-Group CEO, WNS (Photo: Business Wire)

WNS, a leading provider of global Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) services, was awarded this prestigious recognition at the 21st World Congress on Total Quality, being held from 28-30 Jan., 2011, at Hotel Leela Kempinski, Mumbai, India. Keshav R. Murugesh, Group CEO, WNS Global Services, received the award from His Excellency K. Sankaranarayanan, Honorable Governor of Maharashtra, in the presence of a distinguished gathering of business leaders, quality connoisseurs, environmentalists, economists and policy makers.

WNS was adjudged the winner after evaluating an exhaustive set of parameters across overall strategic management and business development, leadership, strategy, people development, process management, employee and customer satisfaction, and business results. The jury was chaired by Justice P.N. Bhagwati, former Chief Justice of India and Member, UN Human Rights Commission. "This award is testimony to the transformational path the company is set on, and the clear edge it has over its competition in terms of delivering a sustainable advantage,” said Manoj K. Raut, CEO, Institute of Directors. WNS was earlier the proud recipient of the Golden Peacock Eco-Innovation Award in the year 2009 for its Green Lean Sigma program towards attaining carbon neutrality.

"WNS is indeed honored to be receiving the Golden Peacock National Quality Award for business excellence and quality standards. This award has been possible only because of the immense faith our clients have imposed in our talent, domain expertise, and innovative, outcome-based strategies,” said Keshav R. Murugesh. "It is dedicated to each of our 21,000 innovative and passionate employees who are focused on helping our global clients Outperform in the marketplace,” he added.

About The Golden Peacock Awards

The Golden Peacock Awards (GPA) is a set of prestigious national and global awards designed to improve productivity and quality in organizations. It aims to promote business excellence by providing a framework or criteria for assessment that is based on similar principles as other awards throughout the world. The Golden Peacock National Quality Award, named after India's national bird the "Peacock", is awarded to organization in manufacturing and service sector to encourage Total Quality improvements is a way to build an organization’s brand equity on QUALITY.

About WNS

WNS (Holdings) Limited (NYSE: WNS), is a leading global business process outsourcing company. WNS offers business value to 200+ global clients by combining operational excellence with deep domain expertise in key industry verticals including Travel, Insurance, Banking and Financial Services, Manufacturing, Retail and Consumer Packaged Goods, Shipping and Logistics and Healthcare and Utilities. WNS delivers an entire spectrum of business process outsourcing services such as finance and accounting, customer care, technology solutions, research and analytics and industry specific back office and front office processes. WNS has over 21,000 professionals across 21 delivery centers worldwide including Costa Rica, India, Philippines, Romania, Sri Lanka and United Kingdom. For more information, visit www.wns.com

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