Mumbai: Wal-Mart Stores Inc, the world's largest retailer, has picked three IT vendors including Infosys Technologies for multi-year contracts worth over USD 600 million, an Indian financial daily said on Friday.
The other vendors are Cognizant Solutions and UST Global, the newspaper said, citing an unidentified source close to the development.
Initially the three vendors are expected to earn 2.5 billion to 3 billion rupees (USD 54 million-USD 65 million) each annually, which will rise as Wal-Mart increases outsourcing more work.
Infosys and Cognizant, which will provide application development and support, are expected to get a larger share of the contract, the paper said.
UST will be responsible for testing these applications, it said.
"What is more important is that these three vendors have now got a ticket to be in the club of Wal-Mart's list of preferred vendors which will help them in growing this account in the long run," the paper quoted the source as saying.
"We do not comment on market speculation," a spokeswoman for Infosys said.
Wal-Mart's media relations director, John Simley, said in an emailed reply to the paper: "We have a large and growing business and productive relationship with many Indian companies. We do not comment on speculations about the nature of any business relationship."
A Cognizant spokesman also declined to comment, the paper said.
Bureau Report
First Published: Friday, December 04, 2009, 11:11