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| Crompton Greaves' march across Europe pays off | 26-OCT-09 |
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| What do the world’s highest wind turbine, the Paris metro and a sweaty Delhi resident sheltering under a ceiling fan have in common? The answer lies in an Indian company that has in a period of four years transformed itself into a transnational entity to be reckoned with: Crompton Greaves. |
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| 'World's 5th largest in transmission in 3 years' | 19-OCT-09 |
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| Crompton Greaves, a leading player in the domestic and international power transmission and distribution (T&D) market, believes there is huge potential for growth in India. S M Trehan, managing director, speaks to Jitendra Kumar Gupta on the current power scenario, the impact of the economic slowdown on the sector and the listing of Avantha Power. |
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| Crompton Greaves eyes buy in Latin America | 10-OCT-09 |
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| Crompton Greaves, a leading manufacturer of electrical products, is eyeing an acquisition in Latin America for about $300-600 million (Rs 1,400-2,800 crore) depending upon the target company’s size. |
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| Crompton Greaves: Short of orders | 21-JUL-09 |
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| The Crompton Greaves stock lost 4 per cent on Monday in an otherwise strong market. It’s not that the results for the June 2009 quarter were very weak — stand-alone operating margins, which expanded 210 basis points to 14.8 per cent, were better than expectations. But the management is believed to have toned down the revenue guidance for the domestic business to 12-14 per cent from 15-18 per cent some time ago. |
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| Recovery hopes in early results | 20-JUL-09 |
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| If morning shows the day, India Inc has something to cheer about. The operating margins of the early birds — 118 companies that have declared their first quarter results so far — improved sharply, backed by a healthy increase in net profit. |
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| Capital goods sector turns a winner | 07-JUN-09 |
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| Capital goods stocks were on a roll during the week on expectations of increase in infrastructure spending by the UPA government to boost growth. The Bombay Stock Exchange’s (BSE) capital goods index closed at its 52-week high at 12,922.44 on Friday, thus outperforming the Sensex in the current week. The index gained 8.4 per cent compared to 3.3 per cent rise in the Sensex during the week. |
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| Crompton Greaves: Power push | 27-MAY-09 |
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| Crompton Greaves was able to report good numbers in the March 2009 quarter on the back of its power systems division, which accounted for a little over half of standalone revenues and nearly three-fourths of consolidated revenues. The division reported a robust 24 per cent y-o-y rise in revenues, offsetting the low growth in industrial systems (due to the slowdown in the capex cycle) and consumer products segments. |
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| Crompton up on buyback buzz | 17-MAR-09 |
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| News that Crompton Greaves’s board would consider a buyback enabled the stock to move up 6.76 per cent to Rs 128.8. The next board meeting on March 24, 2009 will also consider the declaration of a third interim dividend for FY09 along with buyback of equity shares. |
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| Crompton Greaves: Losing steam | 04-FEB-09 |
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| Crompton Greaves’ international business grew by 34 per cent y-o-y in the December 2008 quarter aided partly by the depreciating rupee. |
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| Brokerages start governance checks | 23-JAN-09 |
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| Brokerages in India as well as foreign firms that track Indian companies have started corporate governance checks on the companies that they analyse after major foreign institutional investors as well as other investors raised doubts over the reported numbers, in the wake of the Satyam Computers scam. |
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| Crompton Greaves eyes foreign firms | 28-NOV-08 |
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| Crompton Greaves, a power solutions provider, said it has plans to acquire US- or Europe-based manufacturers of power and industrial systems as valuation of overseas companies has dropped sharply |
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