Satyam unveils results

Barely days before Tech Mahindra’s open offer for an additional 20% stake, Satyam Computer Services made public the unaudited financial details that it had shared with bidders earlier. In a filing with exchanges, Satyam said soon after founder B Ramalinga Raju confessed to perpetrating a Rs 7,000-crore fraud in early January, the company lost about $183 million in contracts from 56 clients up to March 26.

However, Satyam says it received new business orders from 215 mostly existing customers with contract values totalling $380 million during the same period. The company had a bank balance of Rs 373 crore at the end of March 2009, but outstanding bank loans worth Rs 469 crore.

In the quarter ended December 31, 2008, the company had a PAT of Rs 181 crore on revenues of Rs 2,206 crore. Figures for the same period the previous year were not available for comparison. In January, Satyam had a PAT of Rs 4 crore on revenues of Rs 647 crore, and for February, it had a PAT of Rs 52 crore on revenues of Rs 637 crore.

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Layoffs begin at Satyam, non-techies first to go

Though corporate affairs minister Salman Khursheed had hinted at government intervention, the first phase of layoffs has started at Satyam Computer Services. Trainers, HR and sales & marketing executives are being singled out for action by Tech Mahindra, Satyam’s new owner.

“The first phase of layoffs has started. In the second phase, employees who have been on the bench for less than three months would go away,” said an official source. It couldn’t be ascertained how many on the bench have been asked to leave. “Some senior executives on the bench are being offered almost 50% of their salary or an option to go on a sabbatical. Several benched senior executives have moved out,” the source said.

On Monday, commenting on media reports that 10,000 employees could be retrenched at Satyam, Khursheed had stated, “Layoffs is something we are not going to turn a blind eye to, as we have a relevant presence in decision making (in Satyam Computer Services.)”

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Satyam: no layoffs now, but salary cuts possible

Tech Mahindra chairman Anand Mahindra on Monday ruled out immediate job losses among the 45,000-odd Satyam employees but added that an integration team “is already in place in Hyderabad to decide on the staff strength” for the acquired company. Speaking at a press conference after the first detailed meeting with the staff of the company taken over by Tech Mahindra last week, he said, “Our immediate plan would be to retain current customers, win back businesses and retain the key 100 associates.”

The plans also include finding a CFO for Satyam, said Vineet Nayyar, CEO of Tech Mahindra. “We are on the lookout for a CFO, who would be decided in the next few weeks.” One of the first tasks of the new incumbent could be asking for a salary cut of at least 10% across all categories, a source close to the company said.

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Mahindras win bid for Satyam

Tech Mahindra, India’s sixth-largest software exporter, on Monday won the race for a 31% stake in embattled Satyam Computer Services for Rs 1,756 crore, at a bid price of Rs 58 a share.

Venturbay Consultants Private Ltd, a 100% subsidiary of Tech Mahindra, a part of the Rs 33,500-crore Mahindra Group, will acquire over 30 crore shares in Satyam for the 31% stake and an additional 20% through the mandatory open offer to the public.

The Satyam board will now recommend the winner to the Company Law Board for its approval.

The acquisition would catapult Tech Mahindra into the big league of IT services companies, with the likes of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Infosys Technologies and Wipro Technologies.

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