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Infosys Limited (formerly Infosys Technologies Limited) is an Indian multinational corporation that provides business consulting, information technology, software engineering and outsourcing services. It is headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://www.infosys.com/about/Pages/index.aspx )〕 Infosys is the second-largest India-based IT services company by 2014 revenues,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2496815 )〕 and the fifth largest employer of H-1B visa〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=INFOSYS LIMITED )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=INFOSYS TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED )〕 professionals in the United States in FY 2013. On 15 February 2015, its market capitalisation was 263,735 crores ($42.51 billion), making it India's sixth largest publicly traded company.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Infosys Market Cap (INFY) )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.bseindia.com/markets/equity/EQReports/TopMarketCapitalization.aspx?expandable=3 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Infosys Q2 Profit Rises to Rs. 3,096 Crore, Shares Jump on Bonus Issue. )〕 ==History== Infosys was co-founded in 1981 by CEO Narayan Murthy, Nandan Nilekani, N. S. Raghavan, S. Gopalakrishnan, S. D. Shibulal, K. Dinesh and Ashok Arora after they resigned from Patni Computer Systems. The company was incorporated as "Infosys Consultants Pvt Ltd." with a capital of 10,000 or in Model Colony, Pune as the registered office.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The amazing success story of Infosys )〕 It signed its first client, Data Basics Corporation, in New York.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Reports, Company History, Directors Report, Chairman's Speech, Auditors Report of Infosys )〕 In 1983, the company's corporate headquarters was relocated from Pune to Bangalore.〔 Change in name: The company changed its name to "Infosys Technologies Private Limited" in April 1992 and to "Infosys Technologies Limited" when it became a public limited company in June 1992. It was later renamed to "Infosys Limited" in June 2011.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=About Infosys )〕 An initial public offer (IPO) in February 1993 with an offer price of per share against book value of per share. The Infosys IPO was under subscribed but it was "bailed out" by US investment bank Morgan Stanley which picked up 13% of equity at the offer price.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=in.com )〕 Its shares were listed in stock exchanges in June 1993 with trading opening at per share.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Infosys )〕 In October 1994, it made a private placement of 5,50,000 shares at each against book value of per share to Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs), Financial Institutions (FIs) and Corporates.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.infosys.com/investors/shares/Pages/share-details.aspx )〕 In March 1999, it issued 2,070,000 ADSs (equivalent to 1,035,000 equity shares of par value of each) at per ADS under the American Depositary Shares Program and the same were listed on the NASDAQ National Market in US. The total issue amount was million. The share price surged to by 1999 making it the costliest share on the market at the time. At that time, Infosys was among the 20 biggest companies by market capitalization on the NASDAQ.〔 During July 2003, June 2005 and November 2006, it made secondary ADS issues of million, billion and billion respectively. In December 2002,Infosys transferred the listing of its American Depositary Shares (ADS) from the NASDAQ to the NYSE.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Infosys Celebrates Cross-Listing on NYSE Euronext London and NYSE Euronext Paris and Highlights Recent Transfer to NYSE )〕 The credit rating of the company is A- (given by Standard & Poor's on 13-Dec-2013). In February 2015, Infosys announced it would acquire the US automation technology company Panaya for around $200 million. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Infosys」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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