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Business EconomyPosted at: Oct 27 2020 10:45PM


Amara Raja Batteries net revenue up in Q2 in FY 21

Hyderabad, Oct 27 (UNI) Amara Raja Batteries Limited (ARBL) on Tuesday reported a revenue of Rs 1935.82 crore for the quarter ended September 30,2020 against Rs 1695.31 for the corresponding period in the previous year.
However, profit before tax was at Rs 270.96 crore during the period against Rs 231.83 crore registered in corresponding period previous year, the company said in a release here.
The earnings per share for Q2 FY 21 was at Rs11.79.
The company’s performance during the quarter was driven by the demand rebound across all key sectors. The operational guidelines to deal with pandemic risk have helped ramp up in manufacturing capacity utilisation and distribution operations.
In the automotive segment, both the OEM and after-market demand saw a sharp raise. Vehicle production saw a month-on-month rebound to refill the dealer inventories and gear up for the demand during the upcoming festive season. Personal mobility preferences also saw increased purchase of two-wheelers and entry-level passenger vehicles. The after-market saw strong pent-up demand sustaining post the initial lockdown period, and with the easing of logistics, channel sales and distribution activities were streamlined to meet the demand.
Industrial business continued to see sustained demand from telecom and commercial UPS market segments on the back of enhanced priorities for keeping the data network near 100 per cent, the release said.
Exports of automotive batteries and industrial batteries also saw an upsurge as markets across the geographies opened up.
ARBL Vice-Chairman and Managing Director Jayadev Galla, said: “The resurfacing of demand from all the key segments of our business helped us perform strongly during the quarter. While the economic activity has picked up in the country, the uncertainty of Covid impact continues to keep us on the watch. We are tracking the overall economic trends carefully both in domestic context as well as global context and are geared up to deal with both the opportunities and challenges in equal measure.”
Commenting on the Q2 performance, ARBL CEO S. Vijayanand, “We have been operating all our manufacturing facilities near 100 per cent capacity utilisation to keep pace with the demand ramp up. There have been some delays in the capacity expansion programs in the last couple of quarters due to COVID restrictions and we are working in a focused manner to complete these projects which should help us to debottleneck supply constraints in the coming months.
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