HCL is a leading global Technology and IT Enterprise with annual revenues of US$ 6 billion.

The HCL Enterprise comprises two companies listed in India, HCL Technologies ( www.hcltech.com ) and HCL Infosystems (www.hclinfosystems.in) The 3 decade old enterprise, founded in 1976, is one of India's original IT garage start ups. Its range of offerings span R&D and Technology Services, Enterprise and Applications Consulting, Remote Infrastructure Management, BPO services, IT Hardware, Systems Integration and Distribution of Technology and Telecom products in India. The HCL team comprises 85,000 professionals of diverse nationalities, operating across 31 countries including 500 points of presence in India. HCL has global partnerships with several leading Fortune 1000 firms, including several IT and Technology majors. Developed the first indigenous micro-computer at the same time as Apple and 3 years before IBM's PC in 1978. This micro-computer virtually gave birth to the Indian computer industry. HCL's in-depth knowledge of Unix led to the development of a fine grained multiprocessor Unix in 1988, three years ahead of Sun and HP. Along with the swiftly growing software technology industry, HCL, which was hitherto known as the pioneer in modern computing made the advent into software development. HCL's R&D was spun off as HCL Technologies in 1997 to mark their advent into the software services arena. Today, HCL sells more PCs in India than any other brand, runs Northern Ireland's largest BPO operation, and manages the network for Asia's largest stock exchange network apart from designing zero visibility landing systems to land the world's most popular airplane. And this it does across 23 countries and across 360 service locations in India. Awards: In dia 's M ost Pr efe rre d Pe rso nal Co mp

ute r Br an d by C N B C A W A A Z Co ns um er A wa rd 20 07 India's 'No. 1 PC Vendor' consecutively for six years. HCL among the Top 3 IT companies for the last 3 years, DQ & IDC,Best Employer Survey, 'Best employer 2005' with Five Star Ratings 'Top 50 in ET Top 500 Companies' Listings for 2006

Top 21 companies in Business Standard 1000 Ranking 2006

Top 50 Fastest Growing Technology Companies in India & 'Top 500 Fastest Growing Technology Companies in Asia Pacific' by 'Deloitte & Touche'

'The Most Responsive Company 2005' - IT Hardware Category by The Economic Times - Avaya GlobalConnect

'7th IETE - Corporate Award 2005' for performance excellence in the field of Computer & Telecommunications Systems

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1977 Leading position on office .Automation and Laptops in India

1981 Scripting an era of computing across the Microprocessor

1985 Strategic relationship that has seen the computer evolve from a computing device

2004 Partnering in computing and providing IT Services

1996 Dominant position in mobile handset market in India. HCL partnered with Nokia to distribute their mobile phones in the burgeoning Indian market. Nokia today has more than 70% market share and the best service network in the country

2010 Xilinx is the world's leading provider of programmable platforms, with more than 50 percent market share in the programmable logic device (PLD) segment of the semiconductor industry (Source: iSuppli Corp.).