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Bajaj Electricals
Consumer durable products maker Bajaj Electricals on Tuesday elevated its Executive Director Anuj Poddar to Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer (CEO). The company has separated the post of Chairman & Managing Director and its patron Shekhar Bajaj will continue as Executive Chairman of the company, said a statement from Bajaj Electricals. "The separation of the Chairman and Managing Director positions is in continuation of the professionalisation of the management of the company and marks the company's commitment to strong corporate governance standards," said Bajaj Electricals. This announcement comes on the back of the ongoing transformation journey and keeping in mind the company's long-term strategy, it added. "Over the last three years, Bajaj Electricals has undertaken multiple initiatives, including strengthening of the leadership, streamlining of its corporate structure, the turnaround of its performance and balance sheet and the planned demerger of the EPC ...
Bajaj Electricals Ltd would demerge its power transmission and distribution (T&D) business into a separate company in a move to create a sector-focused firm and streamline the management structure. The board of Shekhar Bajaj-led company on Tuesday approved the scheme of arrangement between Bajaj Electricals (the demerged company) and Bajel Projects Ltd (the resulting company) subject to the approval of shareholders, said a regulatory filing. As per the scheme, 1 equity share of face value of Rs 2 each fully paid-up of Bajel Projects will be issued for every 1 equity share of face value Rs 2 each fully paid-up held by equity shareholders of Bajaj Electricals, it added. "The equity shares of the resulting company shall be listed on BSE and NSE, post the effectiveness of the scheme. The shareholders of the company will be issued equity shares in the resulting company in the same proportion as their holding in the company," it said. The segregation will enable both the companies to ...
Bajaj Electricals Ltd on Tuesday reported a decline of 50.94 per cent in its consolidated net profit to Rs 48.17 crore for the third quarter ended December 2021. The company had posted a net profit of Rs 98.19 crore in the October-December quarter of the previous fiscal, Bajaj Electricals said in a regulatory filing. Its total revenue from operations was down 12.02 per cent to Rs 1,319.81 crore during the quarter under review as against Rs 1,500.14 crore in the corresponding period of the previous fiscal. Bajaj Electricals' total expenses were at Rs 1,261.50 crore, down 9.16 per cent in Q3/FY 2021-22, as against Rs 1,388.80 crore in the year-ago period. Bajaj Electricals Chairman and Managing Director Shekhar Bajaj said: "This quarter has continued to witness the impact of increased commodity costs coupled with subdued demand scenario, leading to a deferral of price hikes for our Consumer Products business." "While there is a dip in YoY performance over the previous Q3 (which had