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WNS Opens New Center in Europe

Monday, May 23, 2011

LONDON, May 23, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- WNS (Holdings) Limited (NYSE: WNS), a leading provider of global Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) services, announced the opening of its fourth office in Europe at Hyde Park Hayes, Middlesex, to support its rapid expansion in the region. This new facility will house WNS's consulting division, revenue recovery group, client partners and general administration for Europe.

"Europe is one of the largest markets for WNS, and we wanted to diversify our presence in the region. Hayes was our natural choice, being located in a professional business park that is well connected to Heathrow, Central London and three major UK motorways. The Hayes office takes us further along the road to 'One WNS' through enhanced collaboration to serve our ever-growing European business market," said Mr. Keshav R. Murugesh, Group CEO, WNS.

WNS's new Europe office will be an integration of its consulting arm in the UK and intends to serve its clients across verticals, including Travel & Leisure, Banking & Financial services, Insurance, Utilities, Telecommunications, CPG, Retail, Manufacturing and Healthcare.

The complete address of the new office is: WNS Global Services (UK) Ltd., HPH3, Hyde Park Hayes, Millington Road, Hayes, Middlesex, UB3 4AY; Contact No. 0845 266 8711

About WNS
WNS (Holdings) Limited (NYSE: WNS), is a leading global business process outsourcing company. WNS offers business value to 200+ global clients by combining operational excellence with deep domain expertise in key industry verticals including Travel, Insurance, Banking and Financial Services, Manufacturing, Retail and Consumer Packaged Goods, Shipping and Logistics and Healthcare and Utilities. WNS delivers an entire spectrum of business process outsourcing services such as finance and accounting, customer care, technology solutions, research and analytics and industry specific back office and front office processes. WNS has over 21,000 professionals across 23 delivery centers worldwide including Costa Rica, India, Philippines, Romania, Sri Lanka and United Kingdom. For more information, visit www.wns.com

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SOURCE: WNS (Holdings) Limited

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