Indian outsourcing giant Wipro is expanding its operations in the United Kingdom, creating 500 new jobs in the process. Wipro revealed its expansion plans during Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown's visit to India last week. The company already has a 2,000-strong U.K. work force and plans to increase the head count by 500 in 2007 at its existing facilities in Reading and new sites in lower-cost parts of the United Kingdom, including Birmingham.
See "India's Wipro to create 500 new U.K. jobs", Andy McCue, The New York Times, January 23, 2007