Tata Consultancy Services Wins Gold SABRE for Executive Leadership Communications

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), (BSE: 523540, NSE: TCS), a leading IT services, consulting and business solutions firm announced that it had won the Gold SABRE Award in the Executive Leadership category at the North American SABRE awards ceremony in New York, USA.

The SABRE Awards, which recognize superior achievement in branding and reputation, are managed by The Holmes Group, a leading global publishing enterprise that provides knowledge, insight and recognition in the field of Public Relations.

TCS won the Gold SABRE Award in the Executive Leadership category for project "Rolling Thunder", the communications strategy and program that was implemented during the company's transition to a new Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, Mr N Chandrasekaran who took over the leadership role in October 2009.
"Our focused communications program has strengthened the company's reputation across the world. The Gold SABRE award for communications validates this approach to engage top tier of media organizations and influencers across the world," said Pradipta Bagchi, Vice President and Global Head, Communications at TCS. "Well planned, innovative communications programs can have significant impact on mind-share when executed properly and the credit for that goes to our committed global team and partners," he added.

"The Executive Leadership category recognizes campaigns that were designed to position or publicize the senior leadership of a company. TCS' focused program to position its new CEO on the world stage clearly stood apart as one of the best thought out and executed campaigns this year," said Paul Holmes, Editor-in-Chief of the Holmes Report.

Towards this objective, TCS had put in place an ambitious global communication and media campaign during September 2009 to March 2010 to introduce the new CEO to the global audience, to maximize visibility for the company and to ensure the success of the transition.

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About Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)

Tata Consultancy Services is an IT services, consulting and business solutions organization that delivers real results to global business, ensuring a level of certainty no other firm can match. TCS offers a consulting-led, integrated portfolio of IT, BPO, infrastructure, engineering and assurance services. This is delivered through its unique Global Network Delivery Model (GNDM™), recognized as the benchmark of excellence in software development. A part of the Tata group, India's largest industrial conglomerate, TCS has over 198,500 of the world's best-trained consultants in 42 countries. The company generated consolidated revenues of US $8.2 billion for year ended March 31, 2011 and is listed on the National Stock Exchange and Bombay Stock Exchange in India. For more information, visit us at www.tcs.com.