Dear Members,
The Directors of your Company feel delighted to present the 16th Annual
Report together with the Audited Financials of your Company for the
year ended March 31, 2011. Financial Year 2010-11 (FY 2011), your
Company''s first full year as a listed company, was simply an
exceptional year.
FINANCIAL REVIEW
Your Company is encouraged by the high growth rate and positive
response of consumers. Your Company''s results show a well executed plan
translating into a robust performance. Key highlights of your Company''s
standalone financial performance for FY 2011 are as enumerated below:
(Rs in Million)
Particulars Year Ended Year Ended
March 31,2011 March 31, 2010
Sales & Other Income 6,803 4,243
Profit before Interest,
Depreciation & Tax 1,220 657
Less: Interest 3 83
Less: Depreciation 293 243
Profit/ (Loss) before Tax 924 331
Provision for Taxation/FBT 204 1
Profit/ (Loss) after Tax 720 330
Your Company''s total income stood at Rs6,803 million in FY 2011 yielding
a growth of 60%. The Profit before Interest, Depreciation and Tax in FY
2011 increased to Rs1,220 million as against XQ57 million in FY 2010
registering a growth of 86%. Net Profit increased to Rs720 million from
Rs330 million in FY2010 registering a growth of 118%.
Consolidated Financials
(Rs in Million)
Particulars Year Ended
March 31, 2011
Sales & Other Income 6,803
Profit/ (Loss) before Tax 921
Provision for Taxation/FBT 204
Profit/ (Loss) After Tax 717
Jubilant Food Works Lanka (Pvt.) Ltd., wholly owned subsidiary of your
Company was incorporated in Sri Lanka on September 14,2010, hence
figures have been consolidated in these financial statements from that
date onwards and previous year figures of the subsidiary are not
applicable.
DIVIDEND
Keeping in view your Company''s requirement of capital for its growth
plans and the intent to finance such plans through internal accruals to
the maximum, the Board has not proposed any dividend.
OPERATIONAL PERFORMANCE
We know that our shareholders deserve nothing less than our very best
effort. So we put together a solid business plan and set challenging
growth goals each year.
Your Company marched towards its goal of gaining market share with
robust performance which again proved the ability of your Company to
deliver consistent profitable growth. As a result, your Company remains
the market leader in the organised pizza home delivery segment in India
with over 70% market share. Your Company has enormous talent,
capabilities and skills, in addition to an impressive product
development program and process technologies. These have enabled your
Company to achieve a more prominent position in the marketplace.
The momentum in the business growth was largely driven by excellent
same store sales growth. This translated into deeper penetration of
stores and higher frequency of consumption ultimately leading to higher
volumes and a continued increase in the number of new stores opened.
As on March 31, 2011, your Company had 378 stores across India as a
result of addition of 72 new stores during the year. As on March
31,2011, your Company had presence in 90 cities out of which the
Company entered into 21 new cities during FY2011.
During FY 2011, your Company achieved a robust System Sales growth of
60% (revenue growth at an overall level). Your Company has continued
with its tremendous performance this year with same store sales growth
of 37% which again proves the trust consumers have in your Company''s
products.
The phenomenal growth has been possible due to strong consumer focused
approach, commitment to deliver the tastiest products in 30 minutes,
constant endeavor to bond with consumers through Khushiyon ki Home
delivery positioning, best in class training infrastructure and highly
motivated and passionate team. Your Company''s National marketing
program which involves launching new products and building the brand,
Precision marketing program which develops store specific marketing
activations and CRM programs wherein your Company connects with all its
valuable consumers one-on-one, have been extremely successful in
driving the growth.
Further, one of the important factors in the growth of your Company has
been the expertise to penetrate in the tier II and tier III cities
resulting in opportunity to explore the vast gamut of the food services
market. Your Company has received phenomenal success in every city it
has entered.
The technology is touching the lives of the people and your Company
became the first Food Service Company in India to take live online
orders through its online ordering initiative. Your Company has also
launched Single National Same Number 68886888 to facilitate consumers
ordering Domino''s. Further, your Company also connected with the
consumers through social platforms like Facebook where it currently has
a fan base of more than 4.5 lakhs.
TAMING INDIAN TASTE BUDS
Innovation, out of box thinking and exploring new opportunities within
the pizza business was the challenge your Company set for itself for FY
2011. Your Company continuously assesses consumer needs to develop new
and innovative products and promotional ideas which deliver better
value to its consumers. This year your Company launched several new
products such as Wheat Thin Crust Pizza, the new Pasta Italiano range,
the all new Mexican Wrap range and Double Burst Pizza. Your Company
also made exciting offers to its valued consumers in new cities as a
welcome note for the consumers in the city where your Company placed
its first step.
BRINGING GREAT TASTE TO INDIA - ALLIANCE WITH DUNKIN''DONUTS
Your Company entered into an alliance with Dunkin'' Donuts Franchising
LLC to bring Dunkin'' Donuts restaurants to India. With the beginning
of this new relationship with Dunkin'' Donuts, your Company has now
significantly strengthened its portfolio.
Founded in 1950, Dunkin'' Donuts is America''s favourite coffee and
donuts. It is a market leader in the hot regular/ decaf/flavoured
coffee, iced coffee, donut, bagel and muffin categories.
Your Company is well poised to address two distinct non-competing
segments of the Food Service Industry in India, namely the home
delivery of Pizza''s market and the all day part dine-in restaurant,
food and beverage market. This alliance will provide flexibility to
your Company in localising recipes and leveraging its strengths in food
service industry.
EXPANDING HORIZONS - INCORPORATION OF FOREIGN SUBSIDIARY
During the year, your Company incorporated a Wholly Owned Subsidiary,
Jubilant Food Works Lanka (Pvt.) Limited (JF Lanka) in Sri Lanka to
extend its operation in the territory of Sri Lanka. Your Company had
invested Rs11.5 million in JF Lanka during FY2011.
In compliance with the directions issued by the Ministry of Corporate
Affairs vide its Circular No. 2/2011 dated February 8, 2011, your
Company has enclosed its consolidated financial statements duly audited
by statutory auditors of the Company.
The audited annual accounts and other related information of JF Lanka,
wherever applicable, will be made available to shareholder of the
Company on request. Further, these documents will also be available for
inspection during business hours at the Registered Office of your
Company as well as that of JF Lanka and are also being uploaded on the
website of your Company viz. www.dominos.co.in.
RISK MANAGEMENT
Your Company has several risk factors which could potentially impact its
business objectives, if not perceived and mitigated in a timely manner.
With an effective risk management framework in place, your Company
looks at these risks as challenges and opportunities to create value
for its stakeholders. With its established processes and guidelines in
place, combined with a strong oversight and monitoring system at the
Board and Senior Management levels, your Company believes that it has a
robust risk management strategy in place.
The Senior Management team of your Company sets the overall tone and
risk culture of the organisation through defined and communicated
corporate values, clearly assigned risk responsibilities, appropriately
delegated authority and a set of processes and guidelines. Your Company
has laid down procedures to inform Board members about the risk
assessment and risk minimization procedures. As an organisation, your
Company promotes strong ethical values and high levels of integrity in
all its activities, which in itself is a significant risk mitigator.
With the growth strategy in place, risk management holds a key to the
success of your Company''s journey of continued competitive
sustainability in attaining its desired business objective.
A detailed note on Risk Management is given as part of Management
Discussion & Analysis.
SHIFTING OF REGISTERED OFFICE
During the year, your Company shifted its registered office from Delhi
to Noida, Uttar Pradesh with effect from January 10, 2011 and now it is
co-located with its Corporate Office.
SHARE CAPITAL
During the year, your Company issued 910,474 Equity Shares on the
exercise of stock options under Domino''s Employee Stock Option Plan,
2007. Due to this, the issued, subscribed and paid-up equity share
capital increased from 63,621,746 Equity Shares to 64,532,220 Equity
Shares as at March 31,2011.
HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
Your Company acknowledges the fact that it is the human assets which
make or break an organisation. It is a belief of your Company that
investing in its employees yields not only prosperity for your Company
but also committed relationship from employees. Your Company seeks to
achieve its goals through alignment of employees'' goals with your
Company''s vision and appreciating employees'' efforts through rewards
and recognition. Your company believes in promoting a fun@work culture
in your organisation so as to free the working environment from
continuous burden of work and provide employees a friendly working
environment.
During the year, several initiatives were undertaken for employee
development and to raise the level of satisfaction of employees in the
organisation. Some of the initiatives undertaken are as follows:
Various training programs like Happiness Delivered and Winning Edge
were conducted in which more than 11,000 man hours of training was
imparted.
BBAin Retail Management was launched in collaboration with IGNOU for
employees, wherein your Company will sponsor 75 % of total course fees
of the program.
P. G. Diploma in Materials and Supply Chain Management was launched in
collaboration with IMT Ghaziabad wherein your Company will sponsor 50%
of total course fees of the program.
Facilitated medical facilities through vaccination camp for employees
to prevent them from Cervical Cancer and Hepatitis B.
The above initiatives were well appreciated and recognised as a result
of which the following awards were received:
Adjudged as one of the Top 25 employers in the country, 3 times in a
row by Aon Hewitt Best Employers Survey 2011.
Mr. Ajay Kaul, CEO cum Whole Time Director won CEO with HR
Orientation in Asia''s Best Employer Brand Awards-2010 by World HRD
Congress.
Mr. Basab Bordoloi, Vice President - Human Resources won HR leadership
award and Most powerful HR professional of India in Asia''s Best
Employer Brand Awards - 2010 by World HRD Congress.
Further, your Company had also implemented Domino''s Employees Stock
Option Plan, 2007 which is still in force. The Compensation Committee,
constituted by your Company administers and monitors the plan. During
the year, the employees were allotted new equity shares upon exercise
of stock options under the Domino''s Employees Stock Option Plan, 2007.
The applicable disclosures under the Securities and Exchange Board of
India (Employee Stock Option Scheme and Employee Stock Purchase Scheme)
Guidelines, 1999, as at March 31,2011 are given in Annexure A.
A certificate from M/s S. R. Batliboi & Co., Chartered Accountants,
Statutory Auditors, with respect to the implementation of the Domino''s
Employees Stock Option Plan, 2007 would be placed before the
shareholders at the ensuing Annual General Meeting and a copy of the
same shall be available for inspection at the Registered Office of your
Company.
CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY - CARING FOR THE COMMUNITY
As your Company continues to serve its consumers, it does not overlook
its responsibility towards society. It has been your Company''s
privilege to extend a supporting hand to those in need. Each store
endeavors to contribute its bit to the betterment of the society. The
CSR activities in your Company encompass four categories -
Employability & Education, Green Planet, Health & Safety, Social
Activities and Social Awareness. The thrust on CSR is evident from the
fact that 366 CSR Activities were undertaken this year as against 142
in the last financial year.
Being a responsible corporate citizen, your Company carried out several
social programs in different parts of the country, some of which it
feels proud to enumerate herein -
A road safety program was conducted at Gwalior and Noida.
The Company reinforced the greenery awareness by GO GREEN program
conducted at Karnal, Punjab and various other parts of the country.
An awareness program on pollution due to crackers was conducted at
Bengaluru.
World Environment day was celebrated to spread awareness on global
warming.
Exercise to clean Juhu beach was carried out at Mumbai.
An education awareness programme held in Jaipur slum area.
These are just some of the CSR activities that your Company
accomplished, there are many more which were executed flawlessly and a
lot more are on the cards. Your Company endeavors to raise the bar
every year on the CSR front.
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE REPORT
The corporate governance philosophy of your Company is driven by the
interest of stakeholders and business needs of your Company. Therefore,
enhancing corporate governance is on highest priority of your Company
in order to keep the trust of the shareholders and to fulfill its
social responsibilities as a Company.
Further, your Company has also put in place a Whistle Blower Policy to
provide opportunity to its employees to raise concern about
irregularities within the Company and to provide the necessary
safeguards to these employees from unlawful victimisation, retaliation
or discrimination for their having disclosed or reported fraud,
unethical behavior, violation of Code of Conduct, questionable
accounting practices, grave misconduct etc.
A detailed Corporate Governance Report pursuant to the requirements of
Clause 49 of the Listing Agreement forms part of the Annual Report. A
certificate from M/s Naresh Verma & Associates, Company Secretaries
confirming compliance with the conditions of Corporate Governance as
stipulated under Clause 49 is attached to this Report.
MANAGEMENT DISCUSSION &ANALYSIS REPORT
In accordance with the Listing Agreement requirements, the Management
Discussion & Analysis Report is presented in a separate section forming
part of the Annual Report.
DEPOSITS
Your Company has not accepted any public deposits and, as such, no
amount on account of principal or interest was outstanding as on the
Balance Sheet date.
DIRECTORS
In accordance with the Articles of Association of your Company, Mr.
Hari S. Bhartia and Ms. Ramni Nirula are liable to retire by rotation
in the forthcoming Annual General Meeting and being eligible offer
themselves for re-appointment.
A brief resume containing nature of expertise, details of directorships
held in other public limited companies and other information of the
Directors proposing re-appointment as stipulated under Clause 49 of the
Listing Agreement with the Stock Exchanges is appended as an annexure
to the Notice of ensuing Annual General Meeting.
AUDITORS AND AUDITOR''S REPORT
S. R. Batliboi & Co., Chartered Accountants, Statutory Auditors of your
Company, retire at the conclusion of the ensuing Annual General Meeting
of your Company. They have offered themselves for appointment as
Statutory Auditors for a further period of one year and have confirmed
that their appointment, if made, would be within the prescribed limits
under section 224 (1B) of the Companies Act, 1956. Your Board of
Directors recommend their appointment.
Members'' attention is drawn towards the observation made by the
Auditors in Clause (ix)(a) of the Auditor''s Report and the Directors of
your Company wish to clarify that your Company is committed for timely
deposit of all statutory dues and steps have been taken to eliminate
the minor delays due to spread of your Company''s operations pan India.
PARTICULARS OF EMPLOYEES
In terms of the provisions of Section 217 (2A) of the Companies Act,
1956, read with the Companies (Particulars of Employees) Rules, 1975,
as amended, the names and other particulars of the employees are set
out in the Annexure ''B''forming part of the Directors'' Report.
ENERGY CONSERVATION, TECHNOLOGY ABSORPTION AND FOREIGN EXCHANGE
EARNINGS AND OUTGO UNDER SECTION 217(1)(e) OF THE COMPANIES ACT, 1956
READ WITH THE COMPANIES (DISCLOSURE OF PARTICULARS IN THE REPORT OF
BOARD OF DIRECTORS) RULES, 1988
Energy conservation demands the thrust on conserving energy to the
maximum extent possible. Energy Audits are carried out for the stores
and commissaries of your Company to identify the areas of energy
efficiency. These are implemented after due observations.
In view of the nature of business of your Company, the information as
prescribed in the prescribed form for Technology Absorption are
considered to be not applicable to your Company.
Information pertaining to Foreign Exchange Earnings and Outgo is given
in the Note No. 13 of the Notes to the Accounts.
DIRECTORS''RESPONSIBILITY STATEMENT
Pursuant to the requirement under Section 217 (2AA) of the Companies
Act, 1956, with respect to Directors'' Responsibility Statement, it is
hereby confirmed that in the preparation of the Profit & Loss Account
for the year ended March 31, 2011 and the Balance Sheet as at that
date, your Directors have:
a. Followed the applicable accounting standards with proper explanation
relating to material departure.
b. Selected such accounting policies and applied them consistently and
made judgments and estimates that are reasonable and prudent so as to
give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of your Company at
the end of the financial year and of the profit of your Company for
that year.
c. Taken proper and sufficient care for the maintenance of adequate
accounting records in accordance with the provisions of the Companies
Act, 1956 for safeguaRiding the assets of your Company and for
preventing and detecting fraud and other irregularities; and
d. Prepared the annual accounts on a ''going concern'' basis.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Your Directors wish to convey their sincere appreciation towards all of
the employees for their enormous dedication as well as contribution to
the Company''s performance. The progress which the Company has made
would never have been possible without the tremendous support of the
management and workforce of the Company. Your Directors are also
thankful to the investors of the Company for their continued trust and
support in the Company. Your Directors also gratefully acknowledge the
continued support from the business associates, various government
agencies, financial institutions, bankers, media and academic
institutions received throughout the year and look forward to nurture
this relationship in future also. Your Directors also appreciate the
confidence and loyalty displayed by the consumers, whom your Company
will always strive to serve better.
Your Directors would need this continued support to achieve the goals
they have set for Jubilant Food Works in the years ahead.
For and on behalf of the Board of Directors
sd/-
(Shyam S. Bhartia)
Date: May 12,2011 Chairman
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