Fighting coronavirus: It's a mixed bag for Indian firms in Britain

Jaguar Land Rover, a marquee entity of the Tata group, has been majorly hit by the freeze

Among Indian companies with a presence in Britain, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has sailed through virtually unaffected by the grim situation for businesses worldwide in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The company’s revenue in the financial year 2019-20 (FY20) increased 10.4 per cent year-on-year (YoY) in the UK and 14.6 per cent YoY in Europe. The Q4 YoY CC growth in the UK was 5.4 per cent and in Europe 11.9 per cent.

TCS, which has 19,000 employees in the UK and Ireland, had a solution in place called Secure Borderless Work Spaces (SBWS) before coronavirus struck. This facilitated