India Ratings upgrades Cosmo Films to ‘IND A+’

India Ratings and Research (Ind-Ra), a Fitch group company, in its recent rating review has upgraded Cosmo Films’ long-term credit rating to ‘IND A+’ from previous rating of ‘IND A’. This is the second rating upgrade that company has received within a year’s time.

17 Oct 2016 | By Dibyajyoti Sarma

The re-rating can be attributed to a host of internal and external drivers. The internal drivers include sustained efforts by the company to improve its manufacturing line efficiencies, reduction in variable costs such as power and increase in revenue contribution from higher margin value added (specialty) products.

“The company has brought down its debt considerably (by Rs 1710 million) in the last 24 months whilst maintaining a robust liquidity position. Consistent deleveraging measures have been deployed to keep the debt to EBIDTA ratio below 2.25X.” said Neeraj Jain, chief financial officer of the company.

The rating up-gradation and a stable outlook granted by the agency imply that the company’s financial outlook has improved and it is more competitive and attractive to investors.

Established in 1981, Cosmo Films is one of the global leaders and manufacturers of Biaxially Oriented Polypropylene (BOPP) films used for packaging, labels and lamination applications. The company is the largest exporter of BOPP films from India and is also the largest producer of thermal laminating films in the world with plant cum distribution centres in the US, Korea and Japan and global channel partners in more than fifty countries.

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