Cargill to expand capacity of captive business operations in Bengaluru.

A year after the opening of its largest global captive business centre in Bengaluru, Cargill Inc, a privately held organisation that clocked $120.4 billion in revenue in 2015, is expanding to a new space, to be ready for occupation in May. Spanning across 84,000 sq ft, the new facility will add an additional capacity of 900 seats.

Inaugurated last January, the 65,000-sq-ft Bengaluru centre with a capacity of 600 seats, is one of six multi-function, business services centres located around the globe and a part of Cargill’s Business Services organisation created two years ago. The other five business services centres are located in Argentina, Bulgaria, Costa Rica, China and Brazil.

“We are absolutely thrilled with our decision to open a captive business centre in Bengaluru as it has delivered on all targets. Of the existing capacity of 600 seats, we have already filled up 550 and will hire 200 more by June. Our new building, that will seat 900 employees, will be inaugurated this May. We will also add another function to the existing five that the team is providing back-end services for, in November” Kathy Fortmann, President, Cargill Business Services, told BusinessLine.

Cargill has nearly 70 business units around the globe, where most of the end-to-end processes in multiple functional areas are executed very differently.

This was recognised as a huge opportunity for the company to improve service delivery, modernise and centralise processes across functions while reducing costs.

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