Infosys is an Indian multinational corporation that provides business consulting,information technology, software engineering and outsourcing services. It is headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka.[4]Infosys is the third-largest India-based IT services company by 2014 revenues,[5] and the fifth largest employer of H-1B visa professionals in the United States in FY 2013.[6] On 31 March 2014, its market capitalisation was 188,510 crores, making it India's fifth largest publicly traded company.

Infosys was co-founded in 1981 by N. R. Narayana Murthy, Nandan Nilekani, N. S. Raghavan, S. Gopalakrishnan, S. D. Shibulal, K. Dinesh, Venugopal and Ashok Arora after they resigned from Patni Computer Systems.

The company was incorporated as "Infosys Consultants Pvt Ltd." with a capital of Rs. 10,000 (roughly $250) in Model Colony, Pune as the registered office and signed its first client, Data Basics Corporation, in New York.

In 1983, the company's corporate headquarters was relocated to Bangalore.

ListingsInfosys made an initial public offer (IPO) in February 1993 with an offer price of Rs. 98 per share against book value of Rs. 10 per share. 

In October 1994, it made a private placement of 5,50,000 shares at Rs. 450 each against book value of Rs. 10 per share to Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs), Financial Institutions(FIs) and Corporates.

The share price surged to Rs. 8,100 by 1999 making it the costliest share on the market at the time. At that time, Infosys was among the 20 biggest companies.

The credit rating of the company is A- (given by Standard & Poor's on 13-Dec-2013).

Locations: Infosys has a global presence with 72 offices and 94 development centers in the United States, India, China, Australia, Japan, Middle East, and Europe.

Services

It provides software development, maintenance and independent validation services to companies in banking, finance, insurance, manufacturing and other domains.

One of its known products is Finacle which is a universal banking solution with various modules for retail and corporate banking.

Acquisitions

In December 2003, Infosys had acquired Australia-based IT service provider Expert Information Services for $23 million.

In December 2009, Infosys BPO acquired Atlanta-based McCamish Systems for about $38 million.

In January 2012, Infosys BPO acquired Australia-based Portland Group, provider of strategic sourcing and category management services, for about AUD 37 million.

In September 2012, Infosys acquired Switzerland-based Lodestone Management Consultants for about $345 million.

Current Shareholding

Shareholders (as on 31-Mar-2014) Shareholding[2]

Promoters group 15.94%

Foreign Institutional Investors (FII)42.10%

ADR 16.10%

Individual shareholders 09.95%

Banks, Financial Institutions and Insurance Companies 09.08%

Mutual Funds 04.58%

Others 02.25%

Total 100.00%

TATA MOTORS

Tata Motors Limited (formerly TELCO, short for Tata Engineering and Locomotive Company) is an Indian multinational automotive manufacturing company headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India and a subsidiary of the Tata Group. Its products include passenger cars, trucks, vans, coaches, buses, construction equipment and military vehicles. It is the world's seventeenth-largest motor vehicle manufacturing company, fourth-largest truck manufacturer and second-largest bus manufacturer by volume.

Tata Motors has auto manufacturing and assembly plants in Jamshedpur, Pantnagar, Lucknow, Sanand, Dharwad and Pune in India, as well as in Argentina, South Africa, Thailand and the United Kingdom.

Founded in 1945 as a manufacturer of locomotives, the company manufactured its first commercial vehicle in 1954 in a collaboration with Daimler-Benz AG, which ended in 1969. Tata Motors entered the passenger vehicle market in 1991 with the launch of the Tata Sierra, becoming the first Indian manufacturer to achieve the capability of developing a competitive automobile.

In 1998, Tata launched the first fully indigenous Indian passenger car, the Indica, and in 2008 launched the Tata Nano, the world's most affordable car. Tata Motors acquired the South Korean truck manufacturer Daewoo Commercial Vehicles Company in 2004 and purchased Jaguar Land Rover from Ford in 2008.

Tata Motors is listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange, where it is a constituent of the BSE SENSEX index, the National Stock Exchange of India and the New York Stock Exchange.

Tata Motors' principal subsidiaries include the British premium car maker Jaguar Land Rover (the maker of Jaguar, Land Rover and Range Rover cars) and the South Korean commercial vehicle manufactuer Tata Daewoo. Tata Motors has a bus manufacturing joint venture with Marcopolo S.A. (Tata Marcopolo), a construction equipment manufacturing joint venture with Hitachi (Tata Hitachi Construction Machinery), and a joint venture with Fiat which manufactures automotive components and Fiat and Tata branded vehicles.

ONGC

ONGC was founded on 14 August 1956 by Government of India, which currently holds a 69.23% equity stake. Key people:- D.K. Sarraf (Chairman and Managing Director of ONGC). Owner is Government of India.

SubsidiariesONGC Videsh:-

ONGC Videsh Limited (OVL) is the international arm of ONGC. It was started on 15 June 1989. It currently has 14 projects across 16 countries. ONGC holds 100% stake in ONGC Videsh Limited.

Presence of ONGC Videsh Limited (OVL) in Latin America:

Brazil  Colombia Cuba Venezuela 

Presence of ONGC Videsh Limited (OVL) in CIS & Far-East;

Vietnam  Myanmar  Russia  Kazakhstan 

Presence of ONGC Videsh Limited (OVL) in Africa;

Libya  Nigeria  Sudan & South Sudan  Mozambique 

Presence of ONGC Videsh Limited (OVL) in Middle East;

Iraq  Syria  Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited:

Joint Ventures

ONGC Tripura Power Company Ltd (OTPC) is a joint venture which was formed in September 2008 between ONGC, Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services Limited and theGovernment of Tripura. It is developing a 726.6 MW thermal power generation project at Palatana in Tripura which will supply electricity to the power deficit areas of the north eastern states of the country.

Product and Services

ProductRevenue (billion)

Crude Oil 562.38

Gas 168.88

LPG 31.48

Naptha 76.80

C2-C3 13.44

SKO 3.69

Others 1.59

Adjustments - 32.74

Total 825.52

Ranbaxy Laboratories

Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited (BSE: 500359) is an Indian multinational pharmaceutical company that was incorporated in India in 1961. The company went public in 1973 and Japanese pharmaceutical company Daiichi Sankyo acquired a controlling share in 2008. In 2014, Sun Pharma acquired the entire 63.4% share of Ranbaxy making the conglomerate world’s fifth largest specialty generic pharma company. Ranbaxy exports its products to 125 countries with ground operations in 43 and manufacturing facilities in eight countries.

Ranbaxy was started by Ranbir Singh and Gurbax Singh in 1937 as a distributor for a Japanese company Shionogi. The name Ranbaxy is a portmanteau of the names of its first owners Ranbir and Gurbax. Bhai Mohan Singh bought the company in 1952 from his cousins Ranbir and Gurbax. After Bhai Mohan Singh's son Parvinder Singh joined the company in 1967, the company saw an increase in scale.

Acquisition

In June 2008, Daiichi-Sankyo acquired a 34.8% stake in Ranbaxy, for a value $2.4 billion. In November 2008, Daiichi-Sankyo completed the takeover of the company from the founding Singh family in a deal worth $4.6 billion by acquiring a 63.92% stake in Ranbaxy. Ranbaxy's Malvinder Singh remained as CEO after the transaction.

On 7 April 2014 India based Sun Pharmaceutical and Japan based Daiichi Sankyo jointly announced the sale of entire 63.4% share from Daiichi Sankyo to Sun Pharma in a $4 billion all share deal. Under these agreements, shareholders of Ranbaxy, will receive 0.8 share of Sun Pharmaceutical for each share of Ranbaxy. After this acquisition, the partnerDaiichi-Sankyo will hold a stake of 9% in Sun Pharmaceutical. The combination of Sun Pharma and Ranbaxy creates the fifth-largest specialty generics company in the world and the largest pharmaceutical company in India.

HCL

HCL Technologies Limited is a global IT services company headquartered in Noida, India. It offers services including software consulting, enterprise transformation, remote infrastructure management, engineering and R&D services, and business process outsourcing (BPO). It was founded in 1991. The founders were Arjun Malhotra and Shiv Nadar.

HCL has offices in 31 countries to provide services across industry verticals, including aerospace & defense, energy & utilities, independent software vendors, manufacturing, professional services, servers & storage, automotive, financial services, industrial manufacturing, media & entertainment, retail & consumer, telecom, consumer electronics, government, life sciences & healthcare, medical devices, semiconductors, and travel, transportation & logistics.

Acquisitions

Company acquired Country Date

CapitalStream Inc U.S.A. 20-Feb-08

Liberata Financial Services United Kingdom

Control Point Solutions, Inc. U.S.A. 25-Aug-08

AXON Group Plc United Kingdom 15-Dec-08

UCS Group’s Enterprise Solutions SAP practice

South Africa 16-Jul-09

Operations

HCL has offices in 31 countries across the globe.

Australia, China, HongKong, India, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand,Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, UAE and Qatar are the places where offices are located.

In Europe, HCL has offices in Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway,Poland, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK.

In the Americas, HCL has offices in Brazil, Mexico, Puerto Rico and the USA.