Completing the circle of transformation A long history celebrates Wipros journey as one of the most trusted global brands.

This trust extends to a series of products, services and solutions that cover diverse businesses - from consumer care to cutting-edge information technology innovations. Over the years, along with our business, our identity has undergone a transformation, adapting to the changing global dynamics. Heres a snapshot of our journey till date. Beginning Started off in 1945 as a vegetable oil manufacturer in Amalner, the Indian heartland of the state of Maharashtra. The company was called Western India Products Limited. Rise Diversified operations into hydraulics and information technology. Starts making moves in the global market and Azim Premji selects the name Wipro, derived from Western India Products. Consolidation In the 1990s Wipro built a reputation across domains for a series of products and services including consumer care (Wipro Shikakai, Wipro Baby Soft), branded hydraulic cylinders, products (Wipro branded PCs, laptops, peripherals), and IT (Wipro Technologies and Wipro Infotech), while forging strategic partnerships globally. In all these endeavors, the Wipro identity has been a powerful motivator in driving transformation in line with the worlds needs. A consensus has been built around our brand that is reflected in the definition of our identity.

Wipro Limited (BSE: 507685, NSE: WIPRO, NYSE: WIT) is a global information technology (IT) services company headquartered in Bangalore, India. According to the 2011 revenue, Wipro is the third largest IT services company in India and employs more than 122,385 people worldwide as of March 2011.[2] Wipro is ranked 31 globally in 2011 in the list of IT service providers.[3] It is 9th most valuable brand in India according to an annual survey conducted by Brand Finance and The Economic Times in 2010.[4] It provides outsourced research and development, infrastructure outsourcing, business process outsourcing (BPO) and business consulting services. The company operates in three segments: IT Services, IT Products, Consumer Care and Lighting. Wipro Technologies, the global technology and consulting services division of Indian conglomerate Wipro Limited.

History
The company was established in 1980 as subsidiary of Wipro Limited listed on New York Stock Exchange. Wipro was founded in 1945 by M.H.Hasham Premji in Amalner, Maharashtra, producing sunflower Vanaspati Oil and soaps. At that time, the company was called Western India Vegetable Products Limited (later abbreviated down to Wipro).[5][6] The company logo still contains a sunflower to reflect their original business. Over the years, Wipro diversified into several unrelated businesses on its own and through subsidiaries. These industries included soaps, wax, tin containers for packaging and crushing. Hasham Premji died in 1966, and was succeeded by his son Azim Premji. During 1970s and 1980s it shifted its focus and began to look into business opportunities in IT and computing industry which was at nascent stages in India at that time. Wipro was the first company which marketed the first indigenous homemade PC from India in 1975. Wipro's entry into the IT business was helped by lack of competition from IBM, which was asked to leave India by the government in 1977, following a dispute over investment and intellectual property. With its name and brand established, in the early 1980s, Wipro began selling through a dealer network and began assembling products made by such well-known companies as Canon, Cisco Systems, Epson, Hewlett-Packard and Sun. In 1966 Azim Premji, still the majority shareholder as the chairman of the company at the age of 21 and with the passage of time transformed it into one of the largest IT outsourcing services provider of the world. [7] By 2000, Wipro Technologies emerged as the largest publicly listed software exporter in India and the first software services provider to be assessed at SEI Level 5 in the world.[

Social Initiatives
Azim Premji Foundation Azim Premji Foundation is a not-for-profit organization with a vision to contribute to systemic changes in Indian education that facilitates a just, equitable, humane and sustainable society. The Foundation has engaged with over 2.5 million children in 20,000 schools across 13 States through a committed workforce of over 250 professionals and hundreds of paid volunteers since it's inception in 2001. The work of the foundation mainly focuses on the areas:
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talent development knowledge creation deep-on-ground institutionalized impact

Wipro Cares Wipro Cares is a social initiative by Wipro Technologies where employees voluntarily involve in various social causes in order to help people affected in crisis situations. The social initiatives also include providing education opportunities, health and wellness programs for the needy thus touching every level of society that needs support. The employees also maintain a blog that contains the activities being conducted at different locations by Wipro Cares. [

Achievements
Wipro won the Golden Peacock Innovative Service Award for effective service delivery using state of art technology in 2001. Wipro was awarded the India Manufacturing Excellence Award for its factory in Pondicherry in the large enterprises category by Frost & Sullivan. Wipro was awarded the prestigious ASTD BEST Awards for 2005 by the American Society of Training and Development. Wipro's Global Command Centre won the Marico Foundation and Business World's Innovation for India Award in 2006. The conglomerate was rated as the No.1 Network Integrator and No.1 Network Security Services Provider by Voice & Data Magazin