Uflex clocks 6% half-yearly bottom line growth in FY 2017-18

At operating level, the consolidated EBITDA in the first half of the current fiscal stood at Rs 473 crore while that in the year before was Rs 461.5 crore clocking in a yoy growth of 2.49%.

Half yearly consolidated total revenue for FY 2017-18 stands at Rs 3,224.5 crore clocking a top line growth of 5.47% wrt previous fiscal when the total revenue stood at Rs 3,057 crore.

The quarter ended 30 September 2017 witnessed a 4.31% yoy growth in the consolidated net profit with the bottom line standing at Rs 94.3 crore as against Rs 90.4 crore in the quarter ended 30 September 2016.

The consolidated total revenue for the quarter ended 30 September 2017 stands at Rs 1,600 crore as against Rs 1,540.7 crore for the same period in the previous fiscal thereby growing by 3.84%.

Rajesh Bhatia, group president (finance and accounts) who has recently joined the organisation, said, “In the flexible packaging industry a reliable indicator of growth is volume which conspicuously reflects the demand of the company’s products. The overall sales volume grew by 9% in Q2 FY 2017-18 when compared to Q2 FY 2016-17 with films and packaging businesses individually registering 9% and 7% growth respectively. Similarly for the half year ended 30 September 2017, the sales volume grew by 7% as compared to the same period in the previous fiscal. Individually both films and packaging businesses also grew at 7% each. Owing to the fully backward integrated capabilities of our business and the rate at which we are coming up with bespoke value-added flexible packaging solutions and specialty films for our clients globally, the demand for our products will only get better.”

Ashok Chaturvedi, chairman and managing director, Uflex, said, “Progressive engineering is what we have always believed in and have never shied away from replacing our own products with newer and enhanced variants that our teams keep developing in order to add value to our clients’ businesses globally. We do this with the help of best-in-class cutting edge technology coupled up with immaculate R&D by some of the sharpest brains of the industry by our side.”

Chaturvedi added that the company’s new Asepto liquid packaging material brand has created a lot of excitement in the market and is all geared to help the Indian non-aerated liquid brands stand on two feet with a stable supplier base. “Brand Asepto recently made its grand debut at Gulfood Manufacturing with an overwhelming response. I am extremely thankful to our clients for posing same faith and confidence in Asepto as they have been extending to our other flexible packaging solutions over the last three decades. These are exciting times and we will continue to delight our stakeholders with the most optimized, efficient, innovative and value-added packaging solutions as we grow from strength to strength!” he added.