Larsen & Toubro (L&T) may sell stake in its infotech subsidiary after failing to turn it into a bigger business, by its planned buy out of Satyam Computer Services in 2009. The firm is talking to merchant bankers about a sale mandate and has also held discussions with a bank representing a potential bidder last week.

L&T Infotech has been lagging its larger rivals in growth and profitability as most of its revenue comes from the manufacturing sector. In financial services — the industry that is the largest spender on IT and also the top revenue-earning segment for the top three Indian IT firms such as TCS, Infosys and Wipro — L&T Infotech is not as strong, said an industry executive, adding that this led the company to lag the larger software players in revenue growth.

For the financial year 2009-10, the company’s revenues were stagnant at 1,77,6 crore, although net profit moved up to 281 crore from 264 crore. Others such as Aricent, Patni and Mphasis lead the company in revenues. Though others like Patni have been facing their own challenges, L&T Infotech has been unable to steal a march over them.

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