The Members,
The Directors have pleasure in presenting their Eighteenth Annual
Report on the business and operations of the Company together with
Audited statement of Accounts for the year ended 31st March, 2011.
1. FINANCIAL RESULTS
(Rs. in Lacs)
Particulars 2010-11 2009-10
Total Income - 15,993.54 - 13,245.18
Profit before Financial
Charges and Depreciation - 2,501.16 - 2,345.61
Less: Financial Charges 184.66 234.43
Depreciation 586.45 771.11 512.52 746.95
Profit before Tax - 1,730.04 - 1,598.67
Less: Provision for Tax - 220.00 - 400.00
Provision for Deferred Tax - 269.12 - 70.20
Provision for Wealth Tax - 0.25 - 0.04
Profit after Tax - 1,240.67 - 1128.43
Prior period Adjustments - 0 - 0
Balance brought forward - 3831.27 - 3,292.46
Short Provision of Income
Tax of earlier years - 0 - 5.62
Surplus available for
appropriation - 5,071.94 - 4,415.27
APPROPRIATION
Transfer to the General
Reserve - 300.00 - 300.00
Dividend @ 45% (P.Y. 35%) - 312.76 - 243.26
Dividend Tax - 51.95 - 40.40
Balannnnnnnnd forwarded to
the Balance Sheet - 4,407.23 - 3,831.60
2. BUSINESS PERFORMANCE
Your directors are pleased to report performance of the Business
operations as follows :
- Operations: During the year under review the sales of the Company
were Rs. 15868.70 Lacs as against Rs. 13161.68 Lacs in 200910
registering an annual growth of 20.56%. The FOB value of exports
increased by 19.16% from Rs. 6802.49 Lacs to Rs. 8106.11 Lacs .
- Profitability: The profit before Depreciation, Interest & Tax was Rs.
2501.16 Lacs as compared to Rs. 2345.61 Lacs in the previous year.
After providing for depreciation of Rs. 586.45 Lacs (Previous Year Rs.
512.52 Lacs) & provision for taxation of Rs. 489.38 Lacs (Previous Year
Rs.470.24 Lacs), there was a net profit of Rs. 1240.67 as compared to
Rs.1128.43 Lacs in the Previous Year.
- Dividend: Your Directors have pleasure in recommending dividend @
45% for the year ended 31st March 2011.
5. CONSOLIDATED RESULTS
The Consolidated income from operations and consolidated net profit of
Sarla Overseas Holdings Limited including its Sarla Europe LDA and its
joint venture companies, viz., Savitex SA De C.V., MRK SA De C.V. and
Sarla Tekstil Filament Sanayi, is Rs. 3432.83 Lacs and Rs. 1012.40 Lacs
respectively.
The Consolidated Income from Operations and consolidated net Profit of
Sarla Performance Fibers Limited including its subsidiary of M/s Sarla
Overseas Holdings Limited, its share of profit in Joint Venture in M/s
Savitex, SA De C V, Sarla Tekstil and MRK SA De C.V. and the share of
profit in Sarla Europe, a subsidiary of Sarla Overseas Holdings
Limited, were Rs. 19,301.53 Lacs and Rs. 2253.07 Lacs. Local Laws do
not have mandatory requirement of the Audit of the Accounts of Joint
Venture Companies, viz. Savitex SA De C.V. and MRK SA De C.V., but the
company has employed external auditor to give true and fair picture of
the Accounts.
6. FIXED DEPOSIT
The company has not accepted any fixed deposit from the public during
the Financial year ended under review.
7. PERSONNEL:
Particulars of employees within the meaning of Section 217(2A) of the
Companies Act, 1956, read with the Companies (Particulars of Employees)
Rules, 1975, as amended by the Companies Amendment Act, 1988, are not
applicable since there was no employee who was in receipt of
remuneration prescribed under the said Rules.
8. AUDITORS:
M/s. Sundarlal, Desai & Kanodia, Chartered Accountants, the Statutory
Auditors of the company hold office until the conclusion of the ensuing
Annual General Meeting and are recommended for re- appointment.
The notes on Accounts referred to in the Auditors'' Report are self
explanatory and therefore, do not require any further comments.
9. DIRECTORS'' RETIRE BY ROTATION:
Mr. Madhusudan Jhunjhunwala who retires by rotation and again offers
himself and eligible for re-appointment.
Mr. Sanjay Karandikar who has resigned from the director of the company
w.e.f. 01st July, 2011.
Mr. Anil Kumar Jain has been appointed as additional director of the
Company under Section 260 w.e.f. 09th December, 2011. He will retire
from the Director in the ensuing Annual General Meeting and offers
himself and is eligible for re-appointment.
10. CORPORATE GOVERNANCE:
As required by Clause 49 of the Listing Agreement with Stock Exchanges,
Corporate Governance Report is attached as Annexure A to this Report.
Certificate of Auditors regarding compliance of the conditions of
Corporate Governance as stipulated in Cause 49 Listing Agreement of the
Stock Exchanges is also attached and forms part of Annexure A.
11. DIRECTORS'' RESPONSIBILITY STATEMENT:
A Directors'' Responsibility Statement as required Under Section
217(2AA) of the Companies Act 1956 is given below:-
i. Directors have followed the applicable Accounting Standards in
the preparation of the Annual Accounts and proper explanation relating
to material departures have been given in Schedule 20 of Notes on
Accounts forming part of the accompanying Accounts
ii. Directors have selected the Accounting Policies as given in
Schedule 20 of Notes on Accounts 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 the company as at 31st
March, 2011 and of the profits of the company for the year ended on
that date.
iii. Directors have taken proper and sufficient care for the
maintenance of adequate accounting records in accordance with the
provisions of Companies Act, 1956 for safeguarding the Assets of the
company and for preventing and detecting fraud and other
irregularities.
iv. Directors have prepared the Annual Accounts for the year ended
31st March, 2011 on a Going Concern basis.
12. CONSOLIDATED FINALICAL STATEMENTS
In compliance with the Accounting Standard 21 on Consolidated Financial
Statements, this Annual Report also includes Consolidated Financial
Statements for the financial year. From the Consolidated Profit and
Loss Account, it may be observed that the net profit after tax stands
at Rs. 2,253.07 Lacs.
13. SUBSIDIARY
As required under the provsions of Section 212 of the Companies Act,
1956, the statement giving the details under Section 212 is given for
Sarla Overseas Holdings Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of the
Company and Sarla Europe Lda, is a subsidiary of Sarla Overseas
Holdings Limited in which Sarla Overseas Holdings Limited holds 60% of
its Share Capital.
The Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Government of India, vide its
Circular dated 8th February, 2011, has granted a general exemption
under 212 (8) of the Companies Act, 1956 from the requirement to attach
detailed financial statements of each subsidiary. In compliance with
the exemption granted, a statement containing details of the Company''s''
subsidiary(ies) for the financial year ended 31st March, 2011 is
included in the Annual Report under Annexures to Directors Report.
The detailed financial statements and audit reports of the subsidiary
of the company is available for inspection at the registered office of
the company during office hours and upon written request from a
shareholder, your company will arrange to send the financial statements
of subsidiary companies to the said shareolder.
14. ENERGY CONSERVATION, TECHNOLOGY ABSORPTION AND FOREIGN EXCHANGE
EARNINGS AND OUTGO.
As required under Section 217(1)(e) of the Companies Act, 1956 and the
Rules made there under, the concerned particulars relating to Energy
Conversation, technology absorption and foreign exchange earnings and
outgo are given in Annexure, which is attached hereto and forms part of
the Report.
FORM ''A'' Form for Disclosure of particulars with respect to
conservation of Energy
Current Year Previous Year
2010-11 2009-10
A. Electricity
a) Purchased
Unit 2,27,33,040.00 18,872,288.00
Total Amount (Rs.) 7,65,89,009.00 76,169,507.00
Rate/Unit (Rs.) 3.37 4.04
b) Own Generation
1) Through diesel generator 8,27,978.00 183,872.00
Unit per ltr. of diesel oil 3.40 3.43
Cost/Unit (Rs.) 9.26 7.45
2) Through steam turbine
generator — —
B. Coal (Specify quantity
& where used) — —
C. Furnace Oil
For Generating steam for
Boiler – Ltrs. 1,50,200 526,951
Total Amount (Rs.) 38,86,505 12,392,981
Cost/Ltr. (Rs.) 25.88 23.52
D. Gas
For Generating steam for
Boiler – Ltrs. 4,18,266 —
Total Amount (Rs.) 82,10,703 —
Cost/Ltr. (Rs.) 19.63 —
E. Others/Internal
generation — —
G. Consumption per unit of production
Standard Current Year Previous Year
(if any) 2010-11 2009-10
Product – Yarns — 11841 9388
(M.T.)
Electricity – Units — 1920 2030
Furnace Oil – Ltrs. — 205 196
Gas-scm — 181 —
Coal (Specify — — —
quality)
Others (Specify) — — —
FORM ''B''
Form for disclosure of particulars with respect to Technology
Absorption, Research and Development (R&D)
1. Specific areas in which New Product Development, Process
R & D is Carried out by the Development and Optimising Process
company Parameters.
2. Benefits derived as a Introduction of several new types
result of the above of Polyester and Nylon Yarn.
3. Future Plan of Action To meet the increasing requirement
of customers around the world and
development of new products.
3. Expenditure on R & D. All machineries are dedicated for
operational as well as R & D
a) Capital activities hence no separate accounts are
maintained and as such expenditure
on R & D is not separately
ascertainable.
b) Recurring
c) Total
d) Total R & D expenditure N. A.
as per percentage of total
Turnover.
4. Technology absorption, Continuous efforts towards
adoption and innovation. improvement of process and
equipment are made out to suit
market requirements and to achieve
optimum operational efficiency.
1. Efforts in brief, made
towards Technology absorp
tion, adoption and
innovation products
2. Benefit derived as a Introduction of several new products
result of the above efforts product
e.g improvement, cost
reduction, development,
import substitution, etc.
3. In case of Imported N. A.
Technology (imported
during the last 5 years
reckoned from the
beginning of the financial
year), following
information may be
furnished.
a) Technology Imported
b) Year of Import
c) Has Technology been
fully Absorbed ?
d) If not fully absorbed
areas where this has not
taken place, reasons
therefore and future
plans of action.
c) Export Plans & Foreign Exchange earnings and outgo:
The Company has now established a potentially solid customer base in
European countries especially Italy, Spain, Romania, Turkey, U. K.,
etc., and Asian Countries like China, Hong Kong etc.
Israel, Jordan, Canada & South America countries like Argentina and
Brazil are the thrust areas for the future and a good beginning has
been made towards this.
FOREIGN EXCHANGE EARNED FOREIGN EXCHANGE USED
(Rs. in Lacs) (Rs. in Lacs)
Rs. 8,106.11 Rs. 7,226.62
15. ACKNOWLEDGMENT
The Directors take this opportunity to place on record their
appreciation and sincere gratitude to the various Departments of the
Central and State Governments, Andhra Bank, Citibank N.A., Corporation
Bank, Yes Bank, DBS Bank and Standard Chartered Bank, for their
valuable assistance and support. The Management appreciates the
enthusiasm and co-operation of all Contractors/Agencies for their
continued support. The Directors also acknowledge the sincere
contribution by the workers and staff of the Company at various levels
and thank to Company''s Shareholders for their continued support.
For and on behalf of Board of Directors
(MADHUSUDAN S. JHUNJHUNWALA)
Chairman & Whole Time Director
Place: Mumbai.
Date : 10th May, 2011
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