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WeP Group of companies has an interesting past and even more exciting future. It is one of the top Small Giants in the Indian IT space and features at rank 175 in the Data Quest (Sept 2012) listing of IT companies in India with a group turnover of over Rs 3000 mn( USD 60Mn) . WeP Group have been re-inventing itself every few years, from the last 12 years, by bringing in new disruptive products in the market and is poised to make significant change in next few years.WeP had it's origin in the erstwhile Wipro Peripherals, which was a market focused Strategic Business Unit in Wipro infotech till 2000. Wipro is one of the top 3 IT companies in India today with diversified interests in IT hardware, software services, infrastructure management, system integration services, engineering products and customer care.Wipro Peripherals(WP) was started in year 1988, with an objective to serve the Indian market needs for IT peripherals in late 1980s. It was the era, when IT automation was just picking up in corporates, banks and government segments. There was a gap in-terms of having a reliable product provider in the peripherals arena and Wipro peripherals filled the gap, by first signing up a technology transfer and manufacturing agreement with Seiko Epson Corporation, Japan to introduce their range of dot matrix printers in the country. The collaboration with Epson lasted till year 1998 and since then WeP has been self reliant on technology and manufacturing and today is a leading producer of dot matrix printers.