Revenue declined 1.1 percent to Rs 1,349.82 crore during the quarter compared to Rs 1,365.09 crore in year-ago period due to lower commodity prices and fall in conventional technology sales in lighting division, the company said in its filing.
SMEs are its primary customers. Business comes from electrical goods, power tools, materials, utilities, safety tools, office furniture segments.
Orient Papers' debt currently stands at Rs 220 crore but is declining slowly and gradually, adds Pachisia.
Electrical goods maker Arise India is targeting an almost two-and-half-fold increase in turnover to Rs 3,000 crore in six years by expanding its existing business and new product categories such as automotive batteries and mobile handsets.
Net sales of the company rose to Rs 1,174.03 crore for the third quarter ended December.
The spike in the IIP is a freak because just one element-electrical machinery and equipment, with a weight of under 2 percent in the index-spiked by a whopping 83 percent.
Electrical-goods maker Havells India on Wednesday said it is targetting Rs 500 crore revenue from Karnataka in the next two years. "The company is targeting Rs 500 crore revenue from the state in the next two years," Havells India president Sunil Sikka said.
Electrical goods maker Havells India is mulling over acquisitions in China and Africa that may entail an investment of up to USD 200 million (about Rs 1,100 crore) to strengthen its overseas operations.