NextBrick Solutions Limited, a leader in the field of managing unstructured content, using the latest portal, search and content management technologies, is pleased to announce that it has won the CNBC-TV18, CRISIL & ICICI Bank Emerging India Awards that honour the best Small and Medium Enterprises in India, and its founder and Managing Director, Ms Avanthi Shah won the “Woman Entrepreneur of the year” award.

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 (Press Release) – Jul 9, 2008 – NextBrick Solutions Limited, a leader in the field of managing unstructured content, using the latest portal, search and content management technologies, is pleased to announce that it has won the CNBC-TV18, CRISIL & ICICI Bank Emerging India Awards that honour the best small and medium enterprises in India. The award was felicitated in a grand  ceremony in London by the Honorable Commerce Minister, Kamalnath and India's steel tycoon, L N Mittal, Chairman and CEO, Arcelor Mittal, and ICICI CEO and MD, K V Kamath, to Ms. Avanthi Shah, Managing Director, NextBrick Solutions in the “Woman Entrepreneur of the Year” category.

The Emerging India Awards are considered among India’s biggest business awards. It is a pioneering initiative to promote and recognize the undying entrepreneurial spirit of India's most globally competitive SMEs. The theme for the award this year was ‘Think Global Go Global’. The award this year was judged across 17 categories. NextBrick emerged as a winner in the “Woman Entrepreneur” category and is recognized as an Indian software company redefining Indian business' stature on the global map.

About Emerging India Awards

CNBC TV-18 and ICICI bank present The Emerging India Series, a pioneering initiative to promote and recognize the undying entrepreneurial spirit of our country. The Emerging India Awards are considered India’s biggest business awards. The event is being conducted for the 4th year in a row now. Powered with the capability of shaping the future of Indian SMEs, this is India's most definite platform for recognition and felicitation of Small and Medium Enterprises. This award aims at recognizing the best sustainable value creators among small and medium enterprises in the country. The award is jointly promoted by ICICI Bank (one of India’s largest financial institutions) and CNBC-TV18 (leader in the business news space). The multi-stage evaluation and selection process is very rigorous and spread over three months. CRISIL (India’s leading ratings, research, risk and policy advisory company) was tasked with this responsibility and focused on striking an appropriate balance between quantitative and qualitative parameters. They evaluate business models, competitive strength, management quality and depth, past performances and future expectations.

About NextBrick Solutions, Ltd.

NextBrick Solutions is a recognized leader in managing and building content value chains.  We help customers build multi-functional solutions ranging from transaction-intensive e-commerce portals to content-intensive digital libraries. Our Service Offerings are: Professional Services in the Content Life Cycle space using the latest portal, search and content management technologies. Application Development / Product Co-development Open Source Frameworks Remote Infrastructure Management / Managed Application Services Mobile applications BPO Services NextBrick Solutions is an ISO 9001:2000 certified company.