The company has also invested close to Rs 4,000 crore in a new Greenfield facility in Hungary
A total of 51 stocks including M&M Financial, JSW Steel, Heritage Foods, Eris Lifesciences, Godrej Consumer, L&T Financial Motilal Oswal Financial and Shoppers Stop hit 52-week lows.
From celebrity endorsers to brand anthem by A R Rahman and big marketing spends, the tyre company is pulling out all stops to narrow its gap with MRF and Ceat in two-wheeler tyre segment
The slowdown has impacted commercial vehicles led by slowing rural consumption, depressed freight rates and under-utilisation of trucks
The company has put in close to Rs 4,000 crore in a new facility in Hungary and has also earmarked another Rs 3,800 crore for a greenfield project in Andhra Pradesh
Falling raw material costs to ease the pressure on pricing, sluggish demand
The company's CFO said it would aim for double‐digit growth of sales in fiscal 2020, unless significant headwinds hit the economy
Volume growth expected to be led by the truck and bus replacement market
Sebi had earlier imposed a penalty of Rs 10 million
Move comes after minority shareholders resist re-appointment of MD Neeraj Kanwar
Analysts say the move is a step in the right direction for improving corporate governance standards in India.
The move comes after minority shareholders reject re-appointment last month
All the other companies in the sample managed to successfully pass resolutions on related parties in key management positions
Besides Apollo Tyres, 26 large listed firms give double-digit hikes to top executives despite a decline in net profit
Apollo Tyres is planning to produce commercial vehicle tyres in the upcoming facility at Andhra Pradesh, where the company plans to invest around Rs 18-20 billion. Originally the company was planning to produce only car tyres, but now it plans to add tyre bus radial (TBR) tyres.The company also said it has lined up around Rs 10 billion for the current fiscal as Capex, which would be towards regular maintenance for the existing facilities and to complete Chennai expansion. It doesn't include investment in Andhra Pradesh.Gaurav Kumar, CFO, Apollo Tyres, said that Andhra Pradesh Greenfield would start production in the second half of Fiscal 2020. "We are on the drawing board right now, given the strong revival in demand and the significant volume growth outlook now in AP we are considering both car tyres and truck tyres. Earlier the plan was to consider only car tyres, but we are now looking at a capacity for truck tyres also in AP."It may be noted, Apollo had set up a big facility at ...
The Andhra Pradesh greenfield would start in the second half of FY2020
The tyre maker looks to score a few points for its brand on the football field, hoping to ride the growing popularity of the sport among the young
Company to set up a greenfield unit in India, and expand facilities in Chennai and Hungary
Even as the June quarter numbers were poor, the Apollo Tyres stock clocked nine per cent gains in trade on Monday. Interestingly, even as there could some more pain in the near-term before prospects start looking better for the company, the street is bullish on Apollo Tyres. Why?For one, there is expectation of demand growth in India, raw material prices are easing and the likely gains from favourable policy initiatives. The Apollo Tyres management is positive about demand growth in India in the passenger vehicles segment and is hopeful of a revival in the commercial vehicle (CV) demand. The initial trigger is the festive season while improvement in the capex cycle, macroeconomic environment is expected to improve CV demand.The immediate key trigger, however, is the 7-12 per cent anti-dumping duty on Chinese truck and bus radial tyre (TBR) imports. TBR imports had spurted seven-fold over the last three years to 1.4 million units cornering a 23 per cent share in the replacement market .
Due to pre-GST destocking by trade partners and higher expenses