EskoArtwork opens subsidiary in Bangalore

EskoArtwork has opened a fully-owned subsidiary and Global Resource Center in India to support collaborative software and systems integration projects around the world, and to provide enhanced service to its expanding customer base within the booming Indian packaging, printing and publishing market.

The subsidiary will be led by Dinesh Chandra, pictured, who joined EskoArtwork in 1996 and has developed the company’s Indian operations since 2000. The main focus of the newly established Global Resource Centre will be to support sophisticated systems integration projects, currently originating mainly in Europe and North America. Chandra commented: ‘Unlike many other companies, EskoArtwork is not moving low-skill jobs to India. On the contrary, we are building a completely new business model around an enhanced service offering. We have chosen to base our new Global Resources Centre in one of the world’s fastest developing pre-production and IT market clusters. EskoArtwork has more and more collaborative software, systems integration and workflow management projects in the pipeline and we need access to top talent.’

EskoArtwork’s CEO Carsten Knudsen added: ‘We are deploying additional support and service activities to Bangalore for two reasons: first, because locating in Bangalore enables us to draw on a pool of world-class IT skills and technical support talent and second, because India itself offers huge market potential.’

Bangalore, known as the Indian subcontinent’s ‘Silicon Valley’  is India’s fifth largest city and accounts for a third of the country’s IT industry revenues. It is the corporate HQ for home-grown IT giants, as well as regional HQ for dozens of US, Japanese and European companies.