BWI: Wipro Enters into a Strategic Partnership with BJ’s Wholesale Club

Press release from Business Wire India
Source: WIPRO
Monday, July 27, 2009 08:54 PM IST (03:24 PM GMT)
Editors: General: Consumer interest; Business: Advertising, PR & marketing, Business services, Clothing & accessories, Commodities & materials, Electronic appliances & components, Household & personal care products & services, Information technology; Technology
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Wipro Enters into a Strategic Partnership with BJ's Wholesale Club
Signs a Five Year Agreement to Transform its IT Infrastructure and Applications

Bangalore, Karnataka, India and Natick, Massachusetts, United States, Monday, July 27, 2009 -- (Business Wire India) -- Wipro Technologies, the global IT services business of Wipro Limited (NYSE:WIT), today announced that it has entered into a five year agreement to provide IT data center and applications management services for BJ's Wholesale Club, Inc., a leading membership warehouse club headquartered in Natick, Massachusetts.

Under this agreement, Wipro will migrate BJ's Wholesale Club (BJ's) mainframe and open systems environment to its state-of-the-art data center in Omaha, Nebraska, thereby enabling BJ's to streamline their infrastructure solutions, provide operational flexibility and improve applications support while more efficiently managing the long-term IT spend.

Through this five year engagement, BJ's will also benefit from Wipro's extensive expertise in providing applications management and support, disaster recovery, enterprise security and compliance services.

"BJ's is in the business of providing our members value on brand-name groceries, consumer electronics, apparel, household items and seasonal products, and we do that by being as efficient as possible," said John A. Polizzi, Senior Vice President and CIO of BJ's Wholesale Club. "Our agreement with Wipro will help ensure that we can continue to meet our members' desire for value without sacrificing quality while adapting to changes as we grow."

Bhanu Murthy B M, Senior Vice President, Retail, CPG, Transportation, & Government, Wipro Technologies said, "We will draw on our extensive experience in transforming retail enterprises across the globe to deliver value to BJ's. We are excited to partner with BJ's, a highly successful retailer in their transformation journey."

"Wipro is committed to its strategic relationship with BJ's and will leverage our global infrastructure management experience, data centers in North America, global command centers and IT best practices to provide superior service and best value for the investment," stated Sameer Kishore, President and COO for Wipro's Data Center business unit.


About Wipro

Wipro Technologies, a division of Wipro Limited (NYSE:WIT) is the first PCMM Level 5 and SEI CMM Level 5 certified global IT services organization. Wipro Technologies was recently assessed at Level 5 for CMMI V 1.2 across offshore and onsite development centers. Wipro is one of the largest product engineering and support service providers worldwide. Wipro provides comprehensive research and development services, IT solutions and services, including systems integration, information systems outsourcing, package implementation, software application development, and maintenance services to corporations globally.

In the Indian market, Wipro is a leader in providing IT solutions and services for the corporate segment in India, offering system integration, network integration, software solutions and IT services.

Wipro also has a profitable presence in niche market segments of consumer products and lighting. In the Asia-Pacific and Middle East markets, Wipro provides IT solutions and services for global corporations. Wipro's ADS' are listed on the New York Stock Exchange, and its equity shares are listed in India on the Stock Exchange - Mumbai, and the National Stock Exchange. For more information, please visit our websites at www.wipro.com and www.wiprocorporate.com.

About BJ's Wholesale Club

BJ's Wholesale Club is dedicated to providing its members with high-quality, brand name merchandise at prices that are significantly lower than the prices found at supermarkets, supercenters, department stores, drug stores and specialty retail stores. BJ's offers low BJ's Member Pricing on a huge selection of groceries, top-brand apparel and accessories, small appliances, consumer electronics, fine jewelry, and other quality merchandise.

Headquartered in Natick, Massachusetts, BJ's Wholesale Club, Inc. is a leading operator of warehouse clubs in the eastern United States. The Company currently operates 182 clubs and 103 gas stations in 15 eastern states. Learn more about BJ's Wholesale Club or shop online at www.bjs.com.

Forward-looking and Cautionary Statements

Certain statements in this release concerning our future growth prospects are forward-looking statements, which involve a number of risks, and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements. The risks and uncertainties relating to these statements include, but are not limited to, risks and uncertainties regarding fluctuations in our earnings, revenue and profits, our ability to generate and manage growth, intense competition in IT services, our ability to maintain our cost advantage, wage increases in India, our ability to attract and retain highly skilled professionals, time and cost overruns on fixed-price, fixed-time frame contracts, client concentration, restrictions on immigration, our ability to manage our international operations, reduced demand for technology in our key focus areas, disruptions in telecommunication networks, our ability to successfully complete and integrate potential acquisitions, liability for damages on our service contracts, the success of the companies in which we make strategic investments, withdrawal of fiscal governmental incentives, political instability, war, legal restrictions on raising capital or acquiring companies outside India, unauthorized use of our intellectual property, and general economic conditions affecting our business and industry. Additional risks that could affect our future operating results are more fully described in our filings with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. These filings are available at www.sec.gov. We may, from time to time, make additional written and oral forward-looking statements, including statements contained in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission and our reports to shareholders. We do not undertake to update any forward-looking statement that may be made from time to time by us or on our behalf.

Media Contacts:

Wipro Technologies

India:

Radhika Mahadevan
Wipro Technologies
+91- 9945042603
radhika.mahadevan@wipro.com

Mangala Koti Singhal
Gutenberg Communications
+91 9686446789
mangala@gutenbergpr.com

US

Eric Belove
Wipro Technologies
+ 1 (732).216.6242
eric.belove@wipro.com

Lavanya DJ
Gutenberg Communications
+ (212).239.8740
lavanya@gutenbergpr.com

UK

Rahul Kadavakolu
+44 792 020 5496
rahul.kadavakolu@wipro.com

Shalini Siromani
Gutenberg Communications
+44.79.6066.3200
shalini@gutenbergpr.com



KEYWORDS
CONSUMER, MARKETING, BUSINESS SERVICES, CLOTHING, COMMODITIES, ELECTRONICS, HOUSEHOLD, TECHNOLOGY, 507685.BO

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