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Rising bankruptcies among global retailers to hurt Indian IT firms

Retail majors JC Penney, Neiman Marcus and Aldo Group collectively owe $8.7 million to TCS, say bankruptcy filings

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Indian software exporters generally run the entire back-end IT operations of maintenance and support for these traditional retail brands and undertake digitisation programmes to cut costs.

Sai Ishwar Mumbai
Indian information technology (IT) services companies are likely to face more pain. Crippled by the Covid-19 pandemic, US and global retail chains are increasingly filing for voluntary bankruptcies. Retail is the largest vertical for the Indian IT services companies after banking, financial services and insurance.

In 2019-20 (FY20), the top five Indian IT services companies derived around 14 per cent of their overall revenue from this vertical. “The Covid-19 pandemic has brought in unprecedented issues for the retail industry, which will trigger significant tech spend cut,” stated a BOBCAPS report. 

In this financial year, the top five Indian IT firms