Founded by Satya Narayanan R in 1996, CL Educate offers various educational products and services through its two segments, education and training programme (including sale of study material) and vocational training. The company offers test preparation courses and services under the “Career Launcher” brand; publishing and content development services under the brand “GK Publications”; and event management, marketing support, customer engagement, and managed manpower and training services under the “Kestone” brand name.

Last month, Career Launcher, the EdTech arm of CL Educate, announced the addition of 12 new study abroad centres across India, which is a mix of company-owned company-operated (CoCo) centers and franchise-owned franchise-operated centers. The new locations include three each in Mumbai and Delhi-NCR in addition to centers in Bangalore, Kolkata, Amritsar, Chandigarh, Panipat and Mysore.

Management on business expansion  

In an interaction with Fortune India, Sujatha Kshisagar, President & Chief Business officer at Career Launcher says that the company has expansion plans in India as well as other countries such as Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka besides Africa.

“We are looking for global expansion as a very logical step or next step, but this does not mean we are not looking to expand in India. In India, we have around 160 centers and plan to expand this to 500 centers, approximately 3x in the next two to three years. So, there are huge expansion plans in India itself to improve our distribution and footprints within the country,” says Kshisagar.