RCom gains as it sees strong growth in Indian Enterprise Business

Reliance Communications rose 2.02% to Rs 138.70 at 12:11 IST on BSE after the company said at the time of appointment of CEO of its India Enterprise Business that it expects 30% growth in revenue of the division per annum over the next 5 years.

The announcement was made during trading hours today, 6 September 2013.

Meanwhile, the S&P BSE Sensex was up 192.51 points or 1.01% at 19,172.27.

On BSE, 13.56 lakh shares were traded in the counter as against average daily volume of 45.18 lakh shares in the past one quarter.

The stock hit a high of Rs 139.65 and a low of Rs 135 so far during the day. The stock had hit a 52-week high of Rs 151.25 on 17 January 2013. The stock had hit a 52-week low of Rs 47.75 on 11 September 2012.

The stock had outperformed the market over the past one month till 5 September 2013, surging 11.99% compared with the Sensex's 1.06% fall. The stock had also outperformed the market in past one quarter, jumping 16.85% as against Sensex's 3.01% fall.

The large-cap telecom company has equity capital of Rs 1032.01 crore. Face value per share is Rs 5.

Reliance Communications (RCom) today, 6 September 2013, announced the appointment of Mr. Deepak Khanna as CEO of its India Enterprise Business. Mr. Khanna, a MBA from the Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies, Pune, has rich and varied experience of 25 years, of which the last 15 years have been in the telecom sector, a statement from Reliance Communications (RCom) said. Prior to joining RCom, Deepak has worked in leadership roles with Bharti Airtel and Tulip Telecom in this space.

Assuming his new responsibilities at the RCom campus in Navi Mumbai, Deepak said: "Reliance is ideally positioned in the enterprises domain, already serving over 45,000 large, medium and small enterprises, including nearly 850 of the top 1,000 corporates in India. We are committed to enhancing our market leadership, working as strategic partners with our valued enterprise customers, delivering a suite of world class products accompanied by flawless execution. We see exciting growth potential in the enterprise business in the years ahead, and expect to register 30% per annum compounded growth in this space in both, revenues and profitability over the next 5 years."

RCom's consolidated net profit declined 33.3% to Rs 108 crore on 7.5% growth in net sales to Rs 5246 crore in Q1 June 2013 over Q1 June 2012.

RCom has established a pan-India, high-capacity, integrated (wireless and wireline), convergent (voice, data and video) digital network, to offer services spanning the entire infocomm value chain.

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