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Storage battery major Exide Industries Ltd on Tuesday said it expects to regain its pre-covid EBITDA margin of 13-14 per cent in the next one to two years. The company's current EBITDA margin is 10.6 per cent, as input costs have remained erratic. "We are seeing a revamp in demand after Covid and expecting both automotive and industrial verticals will do well. However, it will take another one to two years to get back to the pre-covid level of margin," Exide Industries MD and CEO Subir Chakraborty said. Speaking about the company's Rs 6,000 crore 12GW lithium-ion cell manufacturing plant near Bangalore, Chakraborty said it is progressing well. He said the company remains unperturbed about the emerging alternative technologies, given the growth of the storage battery market and that all technologies will be required. Commercial production in the Bangalore plant will begin in 2024-25, attracting an estimated capex of Rs 4,000 crore. Chakraborty said the company has received very .
Steady sales expansion in key verticals along with cost optimisation benefits resulted in healthy EBITDA growth.
On a quarter-on-quarter basis, the revenue for operations was up 14.94% at Rs 3,542.96 crore
Exide said the strong automobile sales augur well for Company as higher vehicle sales not only help the OEM business but also expand the aftermarkets in years to come.
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Increase in raw material prices hurt profitability on a sequential basis, says battery maker
Revenue from operations rises 6.8% to Rs 3,539 crore on volume growth
Analysts on average had expected a profit of Rs 236 crore, according to Refinitiv IBES data
Exide Industries expects an annual revenue of Rs 10,000 crore- Rs 12,000 crore in the next 8-10 years from the lithium-ion cell business
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Battery maker Exide Industries on Friday reported an over five-fold rise in consolidated net profit after tax to Rs 202.44 crore for the first quarter ended June 30, driven by higher revenue.
The plant, with total installed capacity of 1.5 Gigawatt hours (GWh), has six automated assembly lines on which it will produce batteries for automobiles and energy storage applications
Exide Industries on Thursday announced an investment of Rs 6,000 crore in Karnataka. This is for setting up one of the largest giga factories for advanced cell chemistry technology. "Exide Industries MD & CEO, Subir Chakraborty, met with Chief Minister (Basavaraj Bommai) this morning for Rs 6,000 crore investment in a Lithium-Ion cell manufacturing giga factory," Department for Industries and Commerce said in a statement. Stating that this will be one of the country's largest giga factories for advanced cell chemistry technology, it said Exide has requested 80 acres of land in the Haraluru Industrial Area near Bengaluru airport. The project is expected to generate 1,200 -1,400 employment opportunities, it added.
Storage battery major Exide Industries has forged a multi-year technical collaboration with a Chinese company for lithium Ion battery manufacturing in India.
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Exide Industries on Monday said its consolidated net profit declined 26 per cent to Rs 178 crore in the third quarter ended December 31, 2021. The company had reported a net profit of Rs 240 crore in the same period of 2020-21. Revenue from operations rose to Rs 3,312 crore as compared with Rs 2,891 crore, Exide Industries said in a regulatory filing. "Due to unprecedented input cost inflation, profitability has been adversely impacted," MD & CEO Subir Chakraborty noted. The Kolkata-based company said its board has declared an interim dividend of 200 per cent for 2021-22.
The battery maker had reported a net profit after tax of Rs 256.62 crore in the corresponding quarter of the preceding fiscal