(Excl Ventures News.)ValueLabs, a Hyderabad-based business technology solutions provider, is
in the process of setting up a special economic zone (SEZ) at Kokapet on
the city outskirts with an investment of around Rs 200 crore to funded
through internal accruals, according to Ram Manjeri, senior
vice-president (sales and marketing).
We have already acquired seven acre of private land. The SEZ will
be developed in two phases with each phase comprising 500,000 sft of
office space, and will be completed within the next five years," he told
Business Standard.
The SEZ is part of ValueLabs'' plans to step up its focus on newer
business areas and almost treble its headcount to 10,000 in the next
three to four years. At present, the debt-free company has one own
campus and two leased facilities in Hyderabad, with a seating capacity
of 4,500, besides a 200-seater facility in Chennai and one centre in
Kuala Lumpur housing close to 100 professional.
Plans are afoot to open a 100-seater facility in Bangalore, which
should be up and running by the end of this financial year, Manjeri
said.
Stating that ValueLabs was morphing from a services-driven firm into a solutions-led company, he said it had identified seven areas - digital, healthcare, infrastructure services, quality assurance, business application services (BAS), marketing opps and banking - where it was investing big time in terms of people.
"Instead of going and acquiring companies, we are acquiring teams. The new teams for each of these seven proposed business units will join us this year and we will be ready to go to the market from next year," he said.
ValueLabs surpassed a revenue run rate of $84 million (approximately Rs 512.4 crore) during the last financial year, and expects this to touch $100 million (Rs 610 crore) this fiscal. While the US contributes close to 65 per cent to the company''s revenues, Asia-Pacific, Europe and West Asia account for 10 per cent, 20 per cent and around four per cent respectively.
To a query on whether the company has any plans to go in for an initial public offering (IPO), Manjeri replied in the negative. "We have been growing at a reasonable year-on-year growth of 25 per cent. If we execute well on our strategy, we could treble our revenue run rate in the next three years," he said.
According to him, India, a progressive market in terms of adopting new technologies, is also one geography that ValueLabs is planning to look at. "We will start using an outcome-based pricing model in India once our solutions mature," Manjeri added.
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