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Chemicals maker Anupam Rasayan India Ltd on Friday posted a 43.61 per cent jump in its consolidated net profit to Rs 54.43 crore in the third quarter of the current fiscal. The company's net profit stood at Rs 37.90 crore in the same quarter of the previous fiscal, according to a regulatory filing. Total revenue on a consolidated basis increased to Rs 388.78 crore during October-December quarter of 2022-23 from Rs 271.12 crore in the year-ago period. Expenses remained higher at Rs 313.45 crore as against 211.80 crore in the said period. Commenting on the performance, Anupam Rasayan Managing Director Anand Desai said: ...despite unavailability of the certain capacities during the quarter, we were able to deliver growth on YoY basis. If you adjust the deferred revenue due to capacity constrain then our growth would have been around 25 per cent during the quarter." On January 4, the company restarted operations in one of its two plants post receipt of revocation of closure order. Wit
Agro chemicals firm Dhanuka Agritech Ltd on Tuesday posted a 15.22 per cent jump in consolidated net profit at Rs 73.02 crore for the second quarter ended September, mainly on the back of higher income. The Gurugram-based company had reported a net profit of Rs 63.37 crore in the same quarter previous fiscal, according to a regulatory filing. The company also said its board has approved buying back 10 lakh shares at Rs 850 a share, or up to Rs 85 crore. The buyback would subject to all applicable statutory approvals. Net income increased 23 per cent on a consolidated basis to Rs 548.39 crore in the latest September quarter. In the year-ago period, the same stood at Rs 445.75 crore. Expenses remained higher at Rs 450.42 crore as against Rs 361.41 crore in the year-ago period. The board has fixed November 18 as the record date for the buyback offer. Shares of the company rose 1.51 per cent to Rs 737.70 in afternoon trade on BSE.
Agro chemicals firm Best Agrolife Ltd has clocked an over five-fold jump in its consolidated net profit at Rs 129.81 crore for the quarter ended September on higher sales. Its net profit stood at Rs 25.18 crore in the year-ago period, the company said in a statement. Total income also more than doubled to Rs 701.17 crore in the second quarter of this fiscal year from Rs 324.71 crore in the corresponding period of the previous year. Best Agrolife Managing Director Vimal Alawadhi said the sales of newly launched products have been good. "Our plants have achieved higher capacity utilization and we have many revolutionary products in the pipeline," he added. Alawadhi said the company's R&D team specialises in innovating new molecules. "We have crafted a niche for ourselves in the agrochemical industry by receiving one or two patents for significant formulations consecutively in the last few years," he said. Alawadhi said the company would come up with tailor-made crop solutions to t