Hyderabad, IND: DQ Entertainment, one of the largest animation and gaming companies in India has been awarded the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific 2007 for the second consecutive year. The companies were ranked based on their steady growth rate, skilled manpower and expansion initiatives.
DQE was also ranked last year among the top 50 Technology fast companies in the Indian sector of the Deloitte rankings. The companies are ranked on different areas like software, communication & networking, computers & peripherals, instrumentation and many more with business locations in Taiwan, India, South Korea, Japan, Australia, Malaysia, Singapore, China, New Zealand and Thailand.
Deloitte Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific awards, now in its sixth year is an initiative by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, an organization of member firms including more than 80 per cent of the world’s largest companies from around the world, devoted to client service excellence.
On receiving the award, Mr.Tapaas Chakravarti commented, “The Deloitte awards ranking is a great honour to add to DQE’s hall of fame, recognizing us as a company of technological innovation in the creative sector.”
DQ Entertainment has been listed in the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) in the London Stock Exchange (LSE) raising $54 million approximately for its expansion plans and joint ventures. DQE has recently entered the home video market in strategic association with Moser Baer for the distribution of their animation series ‘Pet Pals’ and ‘Ratman’ in collaboration with Gruppo Alcuni, and Stranemani of Italy.
DQ Entertainment operates seven technologically advanced production facilities in Hyderabad, India, and currently employs over 2200 full time employees. DQE plans to consolidate its high-end game development with a newly launched Technology Centre III, a state of the art facility for in-game animation content development for next generation consoles like XBox 360, PSIII, Nintendo, hand held, online and mobile games. The company is also foraying into publishing of comics, merchandising of international ownership of IP’s and is well on the way to develop Indian IPs with global appeal for TV, DTH videos as well as foray into Hindi feature films in quality co-productions.
Source: India PRwire