- Strategy is focused on exiting low margin cotton yarn business and capacity expansion in high margin compact cotton yarn.
- Reducing Tamil Nadu operations and increasing Oman capacity which has resulted in margin expansion with stable topline revenue.
2) Jhalawar plant, Rajasthan
- State of art facility with an installed capacity of 1.5 lac spindle and 2.4k rotors.
- Jhalawar Plant has manufacturing capabilities of high quality compact yarn along with open end yarn and blended yarn.
- It is in close proximity with MP, Gujarat which enables efficient raw material procurement.
- Multiple state and central level subsidies to support the company's operation in Rajasthan.
3) Oman facility
- Sohar freezone project is of 300 millions $
- Phase 1 to be scaled up fully by March 2021, it is already operational with 1.4lac spindles and 3.5k rotors.
- Phase 2 expansion project cost would be 150 millions $. Financed debt equity 70:30.
- Equipped with most equipped state of the art technology and will enable easy access to market like turkey and Pakistan.
- Oman project has proximity to the port and is a tax free zone.
- Also has an FTA with USA.
- Power price are almost half.
Next plans
- Become Integrated textile garment manufacturer present across the entire value chain.
- Transformation from trading to manufacturing has led to the shift of product mix to high margin compact yarn & has increased ebitda margin from 3.7% in FY16 to 13.2% in FY20.
Financial performance
- Opening up of economy has witnessed a strong demand in yarn market and demand is back to the pre-covid level.
- Revenue mix from radiational and compact yarn is 16:84.
- Operational capacity more than 95%
- There is healthy order book.
PLI scheme for textile
- Scheme is not directly linked to the company Company. But such scheme would increase the demand of yarn.
Margin differential form compact to traditional yarn
- Margin difference is of 6% to 8%
Debt position
- Total debt of 2300 crores (as of 31st Dec 2020)
- Secured debt is 1770 crores.
- Borrowing cost is relatively lower due to subsidies given by government
- Company is focusing on debt reduction over next 1-2 years.
New Technology advantage
- It has reduced the labors cost tremendously
- Power consumption is much lesser
- Quality it produces is far superior and wastage of cotton has reduced significantly.
Garment segment
- Proposed Garment project in Oman. Aim is to become an integrated manufacturing player.
- This will be more on the Apparel side used in Oman and European markets.
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β’ Net Working Capital Remains under 10 days which is best in the building material
β’ Continue expanding rural region.
β’ Added 15 new distributors.
β’ Value added products contributed 50-60% of the topline.
Revenue breakup
β’ EBIDTA Margin Improvement: This was mainly because of cost structarize and better operational
β’ Working Capital Cycle as per mgmt should remain sustainable
β’ Blue Ocean: Company owns 100% subsidiary which contributes nothing but own property where corporate office is there
β’ Good broad based recovery.
β’ construction and Infrastructure has been picked up, while retails segment has shown good bounced back.
β’ Sudden increase in demand increased the price of of raw material and the price of the end product.
β’ Certain key raw material increase by almost 50-60% for which the company has also increased the price.
β’ Project Udaan has been progressing well and the many new initiatives had been fructified with hope that until Q2 of FY 2021 there will be good contribution.
β’ Continue to see pickup in saving business.
β’ Growth is there both in volume of policy and increase in ticket size.
β’ Market share remained increasing at 27% and is increasing gradually.
β’ Solvency Ration remained at 202%.
β’ Bank Assurance Channel has grown 22%. Agency Channel continuous to gain growth. HDFC Bank remained growth drive.
β’ Company is continuously partnering with new channel partners.
β’ Risk Management has been constantly watched and remained on track.
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Business Updates:
β’ There has been slow and steady growth and the industry is slowly coming out of Covid.
β’ Entertainment and Education has seeing a good growth in digitization.
β’ Saregama is in a good position to take the advantage of the digitization.
β’ Cost has been tightened over the past 2 quarter.
β’ Company debt company last year, has been reduced a lot.
Growth Driver:
β’ Primary driver for the 24% sales growth is the Carvaan sales and the music right.
- Specialty chemical: There were enhanced volumes across products. Enhanced volume led to better utilization of capacity of multi product and dedicated plants as well
- Capex is on track.
- Revenue from existing products continue to improve.
Technical textile business: this segment gave a steady business as there was faster than expected recovery in Tyre industry.
- Domestic demand for refrigerants is picking up.
- Company will focus on sales ramp up from newly commissioned plants in Thailand and Hungary.