Dalmia Bharat Sugar Q3 profit down 20% at Rs 43 cr

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
NEW DELHI: Dalmia Bharat Sugar and Industries has reported a 20 per cent decline in net profit at Rs 43.36 crore for the third quarter ended
December 2018
Net profit stood at Rs 54.24 crore in the December quarter of 2017-18, the company said in a regulatory filing
Total revenue fell to Rs 467.47 crore during October-December of 2018-19 from Rs 612.20 crore in the corresponding period of the previous
year
During April-December period of this fiscal, net profit fell to Rs 141.23 crore from Rs 146.65 crore in the same period of previous fiscal
Total income fell to Rs 1,516.35 crore during April-December of 2018-19 from Rs 1,819.75 crore in the year-ago period
"Lower sugar segment profitability on account of lower sugar sales realisation for the nine months has been offset to a significant extent
by higher profitability of distillery and cogeneration segments," the company said in a statement
Jawaharpur distillery has been successfully expanded to 120 kilo litre per day from 80 kilo litre per day during the quarter and a 60 kilo
litre per day distillery has been commissioned in Nigohi in the month of January 2019
The benefits of the same would accrue in the subsequent periods, it added
Dalmia Bharat Sugar Industries has business interests in integrated sugar (including cogen and distillery), windfarms, magnesite and
miscellaneous businesses
The company has three sugar factories located in Uttar Pradesh (Jawaharpur, Nigohi and Ramgarh) and two in Maharashtra (Kolhapur and
Sangli)
It has aggregate sugarcane crushing capacity of 29,500 tonne per day.