Thales Group to expand India operations

CHENNAI: Thales Group, electronics and systems supplier to defence, aerospace and security segments, is to expand its captive software development centre in Chennai. The French company also plans to set up a maintenance centre for avionics in the country targeting domestic market.

Thales’ Chennai centre, which was set up nine months back and has 100 people at present, would recruit 300 software engineers by the end of 2008 and employ 1,000 people by the year 2010. It is set to become an R&D centre in its own right, developing software to support the entire range of Thales Group-wide solutions, a senior officials said.

Mr Reynald Seznec, senior VP (Operations), Thales Group told that the centre would rely on its Indian team to produce technologically-advanced products for its businesses worldwide.