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Apollo Tyres Ltd on Wednesday announced the appointment of Rajeev Kumar Sinha as its Chief Manufacturing Officer. Sinha will lead the global manufacturing team, driving the global manufacturing agenda, including strategy and planning, performance optimisation, plant management, integrated manufacturing services, corporate industrial engineering and deployment of advanced manufacturing systems, including AI/ML solutions, Apollo Tyres said in a statement. He joins Apollo Tyres from Cipla where he was the Global Chief Manufacturing Officer and was also a member of its Management Council and Non-Executive Director in select group companies, it added. "Rajeev is a global manufacturing leader who comes with over 35 years of rich experience in the operations and supply chain domain across diverse industries such as chemical, FMCG, foods & beverages and pharmaceuticals. "He will play a critical role not only in our growth journey but also in maintaining our competitive advantage. He joins
The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) has directed the NCLT to hear afresh the insolvency plea filed by APL Apollo Tubes against one of its purchasers of goods. A two-member bench came down heavily on the Bengaluru bench of the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) for rejecting claims of APL Apollo Tubes on the "hypothetical interpretation". The NCLAT said the tribunal "should refrain from stepping into the shoes of a litigating party by substituting their own finding in the absence of there being any pleading evidence". The appellate tribunal has directed the NCLT to make all efforts to decide proceedings as expeditiously as possible. The NCLAT order came over a petition filed by APL Apollo Tubes against an order of the NCLT, which, on September 9, 2019, dismissed its insolvency plea filed as an operational creditor against Tanisha Scaffolding. Tanisha Scaffolding was engaged in marketing the products manufactured by APL Apollo Tubes. Some amount against supplies wa
Apollo Tyres on Thursday said its consolidated net profit has declined by 61 per cent to Rs 113 crore for the fourth quarter ended March. The company had reported a consolidated net profit of Rs 287 crore in the January-March quarter of 2020-21 fiscal. Revenue from operations rose by 11 per cent to Rs 5,578 crore, as against Rs 5,026 crore in the fourth quarter of FY21, Apollo Tyres said in a statement. For the year ended March 31, 2022, the tyre major said its net profit increased by 82 per cent to Rs 639 crore, as compared to Rs 350 crore in 2020-21. Revenue from operations rose by 20 per cent to Rs 20,948 crore, as against Rs 17,397 crores in FY21, the company said. "The unprecedented rise in input costs in FY22, have taken a toll on our margins, despite our internal cost control measures, and multiple rounds of price corrections undertaken in different product categories," Apollo Tyres Chairman Onkar Kanwar noted. The robust demand witnessed by the company's European operatio