Dear Members,
The Directors have pleasure in presenting the 7th Annual Report of the
Company and the Annual Accounts for the year ended 31st March, 2011.
1. WORKING RESULTS
(Rs. in Lacs)
Financial Results 2011 2010
Income from operation 22,727.69 12245.61
Other Income 2059.68 301.50
Profit before Interest, Depreciation and Tax 1993.97 591.39
Less: Interest 615.43 200.84
Profit before Depreciation & Tax 1378.54 390.55
Less: Depreciation (including amortization) 553.55 383.36
Profit Before Tax 824.99 7.19
Provision for Tax:
- Current 164.42 1.11
- Deferred 344.46 455.56
Earlier Year - 0.09
Profit After Tax 316.11 (449.57)
Dividend (including Dividend Tax) 156.06 -
Balance carried to Balance Sheet 160.05 -
2. PERFORMANCE REVIEW
During the year your Company has reported a turnover of 22,727.69 Lacs.
The Profit before Tax and Profit after Tax remains Rs. 824.99 Lacs and
Rs. 316.11 Lacs respectively. During the current financial year, your
Company took various strategic initiatives to improve its volumes and
profitability, which helped the Company to post an impressive
performance for the year. Yours Directors are pleased to report an
excellent performance of the Company in terms of both financial and
operational performance.
3. DIVIDEND
The management is pleased to recommend final dividend at the rate of
Re. .50/- (Fifty Paise) per Equity Share on 2,67,66,505 Equity Shares
of Rs. 10 /- each i.e. 5% on each Equity Share of the company, total
outgo on account of dividend shall be Rs. 1,33,83,252.50 subject to
tax. Irrespective of under installation condition and non- completion
of the total integration of the project during the fiscal 2011, your
Company generated and earned a handsome amount of profit after tax.
Gallantt Ispat believes that profitability must go hand in hand with a
sense of responsibility towards all shareowners and other stakeholders.
Hence, as a measure of rewarding shareowners and providing a current
return on their investment, your Board of Directors recommended a
dividend @ 5% on Equity Shares. 4. DIRECTORS'' RESPOSIBILITY STATEMENT
In compliance with Section 217(2AA) of the Companies Act, 1956, as
amended by the Companies (Amendment) Act, 2000 your Directors state
that:
A. The Applicable Accounting Standards have been followed in the
preparation of Annual Accounts.
B. That the accounting policies have been selected and applied
consistently and the judgments and estimates made are reasonable and
prudent so as to give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of
the Company as on 31st March, 2011.
C. That proper and sufficient care has been taken for maintenance of
adequate accounting records in accordance with the provisions of the
Companies Act, 1956 for safeguarding the assets of the Company and for
preventing and detecting fraud and other irregularities.
D. That the Annual Accounts have been prepared on a going concern
basis.
5. INITIAL PUBLIC OFFERING OF EQUITY SHARES
During the year under report your Company concluded an Initial Public
Offerings (Issue) of 81,00,208 Equity Shares of Rs. 10/- each for
cash at a price of Rs. 50/- per Equity Share including a Share Premium
of Rs. 40/- per Equity Share aggregating to Rs. 40,50,10,400/-
comprising of 14,00,000 Equity Shares of Promoter Contribution and net
offer to the public was 67,00,208 Equity Shares. Issue opened on
September 22, 2010 and closed on September 24, 2010. The Issue has
received 4255 applications for 97,57,000 Equity Shares resulting in
1.44 times subscription (before technical rejections). Basis of
Allotment was approved by the Bombay Stock Exchange Limited (Designated
Stock Exchange) and shares were allotted on October 05,2010 to the
successful investors. On complying with the formalities of Stock
Exchanges, Depositories, SEBI and other authorities and bodies, Equity
Shares of the Company got listed with both the Stock Exchanges viz.
Bombay Stock Exchange Limited and National Stock Exchange of India
Limited and started trading from October 11,2010.
6. UTILISATION OF IPO PROCEEDS
Under the IPO, Company has allotted 81,00,208 Equity Shares and
procured Rs. 40,50,10,400/- (Rupees Forty Crore Fifty Lac Ten Thousand
and Four Hundred only). As per the terms and object of the Issue entire
funds have been utilized in the project of the Company including
utilization of Rs. 33,50,10,400/-(Rupees Thirty Three Crore Fifty Lac
Ten Thousand and Four Hundred only) for repayment of the unsecured loan
taken for the project of the Company.
7. CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
The Company has complied with the requirements of Corporate Governance
as stipulated under Clause 49 of the Listing Agreement with the Stock
Exchanges and accordingly a Report on Corporate Governance together
with Auditors'' Certificate on Corporate Governance is appended to the
Annual Report. Your Company is committed to achieving the highest
standards of Corporate Governance and has complied with the
requirements of Clause 49 of the Listing Agreement. Further, as
required under Clause 49 of the Listing Agreement a Management
Discussion and Analysis Report is appended to the Annual Report.
8. LISTING INFORMATION
The Equity Shares in the Company are in dematerialized form and is
listed with Bombay Stock Exchange Limited and National Stock Exchange
of India Limited. The Listing Fee has been paid to the Stock Exchanges
for the year 2011-12. The ISIN No. of the Company is INE528K01011
9. CREDIT RATING
Company has appointed Fitch Ratings India Private Limited (hereinafter
referred to as Fitch) as Credit Rating agency. Fitch has assigned
rating ''B (ind)'' for Long Term Loan of Rs. 124 Crores (Rupees One
Hundred Twenty Four Crore only) and ''F4(ind)'' for Non-Fund Based Limits
of Rs. 2 Crores (Rupees Two Crores).
10. FIXED DEPOSITS
Your Company has not accepted any deposit within the meaning of Section
58A of the Companies Act, 1956 and rules made thereunder.
11. PARTICULARS OF EMPLOYEES
No employee of the Company is covered under section 217 (2A) of the
Companies Act, 1956 read with Companies (Particulars of Employees)
Rules, 1975, as amended.
12. AUDITORS & AUDITORS''REPORT
M/s. Anoop Agarwal & Co., Chartered Accountants, statutory auditors of
the Company hold office until the conclusion of the ensuing Annual
General Meeting and being eligible offer themselves for re-appointment.
The Company has received a certificate from them that their
reappointment, if made, would be within the limits laid down under
Section 224 (IB) of the Companies Act, 1956.
The notes on accounts referred to the Auditors'' Report are
self-explanatory and therefore, do not call for any further
explanation.
13. PARTICULARS RELATING TO CONSERVATION OF ENERGY, TECHNOLOGY
ABSORPTION FOREIGN EXCHANGE EARNING AND OUTGO
The particulars as prescribed under sub-section 1(e) of Section 217 of
the Act, read with Rule 2 of the Companies (Disclosure of Particulars
in the Report of the Board of Directors) Rules, 1988, is annexed hereto
and form part of the report.
14. PERSONNEL, INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS AND MARKETING
Accelerating sales force performance is a key priority for Companies.
Company is in continuous process of discussing the methods for
developing a go-to-market strategy and designing sales forces. Your
Company relies on its sales teams to deliver revenue growth, and
entrust to them their most valuable assets - customers. In turn, your
Company''s sales teams brought a remarkable growth in the sales volume
and profit margin irrespective of cut throat competition. The
industrial relations continued to be cordial.
15. BOARD OF DIRECTORS
The Board of Directors comprises of Six Directors of which three are
Independent Directors. Mr. Prem Prakash Agarwal, Director of your
Company, retires from the Board by rotation and eligible for
re-election.
During the year no changes took place on the Board of Directors of the
Company. During the year the Board of Directors met fourteen times.
16. GROUP COMING WITHIN THE DEFINITION OF GROUP AS DEFINED IN THE
MONOPOLIES AND RESTRICTIVE TRADE PRACTICES ACT, 1969 (MRTP)
Persons constituting group as defined under the MRTP for the purpose
of Regulation 3(l)(e)(i) of the Securities and Exchange Board of India
(Substantial Acquisition of Shares and Takeovers) Regulations, 1997, as
amended from time to time, include, those given in Annexure ''A which is
attached herewith and forms part of this Annual Report.
17. COMMENCEMENT OF PROJECT
The status of progress made on various projects of the Company was as
under:
Flour Mill Unit:
It started commercial production of Flour for domestic consumption in
March, 2009 with capacity of 1,08,000 MTPA. Your Company proposes to
expand its capacities by another 72,000 MTPA taking the total capacity
to 1,80,000 MTPA.
Iron & Steel Unit:
Your Company have different steel divisions like Mild Steel Billets
(Steel Melt Shop) with a capacity of 1,62,380 MTPA, and Re-rolled
Products (TMT) with a capacity of 1,67,400 MTPA and Sponge Iron Plant
with a capacity of 99,000 MTPA.
Steel Melt Shop Unit and TMT Unit started commercial operation from
May, 2009 whereas Sponge Iron Unit started operation from October,
2010.
Captive Power Plant Unit:
Considering the power requirements of our existing manufacturing
facilities, our Company has set up 18 MW Captive Power Plant to meet
its present requirements of power. Captive Power Plant started
commercial operation from July 25, 2011.
18. GOVERNMENT INCENTIVES AND SUBSIDIES
The State Government of Uttar Pradesh had granted facilities to
industries being set up in Uttar Pradesh having investment of above Rs.
100.00 Crores. The incentives were originally granted vide G.O. Numbers
1502/77-6- 2006-10 Tax/04 dated June 1, 2006 which have been elaborated
in G.O. Numbers 2941/77-6-2006-10 Tax/04 dated November 30, 2006, and
further amended from time to time. Incentives and Subsidies at a
glance:
- 20% subsidy of fixed capital investment.
- Reimbursement of the actual amount incurred on the development of
infrastructure facilities like Land, Road, Power, Water etc. (maximum
10% of fixed capital investment)
- 5% additional subsidy of fixed capital investment being first unit
under this scheme.
- Transport subsidy for 15 years equivalent to freight paid on import
from outside the state on Raw materials i.e. Iron Ore.
- Interest free loan equivalent to Sales Taxes/Commercial Taxes (UPVAT)
Amount for a period of 15 years, repayable after 15 years.
- Land on actual cost and concessional rates of registration.
- Entry tax exemption on plant and machinery, spare parts and capital
goods.
- Exemption of Mandi Tax - 2% on Wheat purchase. Company has received
subsidy to the tune of Rs. 24.28 Crores from the State Government of
Uttar Pradesh till March 31, 2011.
19. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Your Directors take this opportunity to express their appreciation for
cooperation and assistance received from Government of India, State
Government of Uttar Pradesh, Government of West Bengal, and the
shareholders, customers, suppliers, Bankers, the Central Government and
the State Government agencies during the year under review. The
Directors also wish to place on record their appreciation of the
devoted and dedicated services rendered by all employees of the
Company.
On behalf of the Board
C.P.Agarwal
Chairman
Place :Kolkata
Date: August 02, 2011
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