IndiaRetailBiz

Tesco HSC (Hindustan Service Centre), the global services arm of the world’s third largest retailer Tesco, has appointed Sandeep Dhar as its Chief Executive Officer. The appointment became effective from Thursday the 6th November, 2008.

The UK-based Tesco plc operates around 3,200 stores, employs over 400,000 persons, and services over 15 million customers every year. Tesco earns annual revenues of more than £45 billion.

Bangalore-based Tesco HSC, which was founded in 2004, currently employees over 3,000 persons who provide services in the areas of IT, business, finance and HR services to Tesco’s operations spread across Asia and Europe. It provides multiple geographical support from India to countries like the UK, Ireland, Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Turkey, Thailand, South Korea, Malaysia, China and Japan.

Tesco has announced its foray into India through ‘cash and carry’ subsidiary. It has also inked an agreement with Tatas to provide back-end and sourcing services to ‘Star Bazaar’ — their hypermarket food and grocery retail chain owned by their retail arm Trent Limited.

Dhar was earlier working with Sapient Technologies as its Managing Director of the India operations.