Tyre maker Ceat on Wednesday posted a consolidated net profit of Rs 35 crore for the third quarter ended December 2022. The company had reported a net loss of Rs 20 crore in the October-December quarter of the previous fiscal. Total income increased to Rs 2,729 crore in the third quarter from Rs 2,416 crore in the year-ago period, Ceat said in a regulatory filing. "Our margins continue to improve as a result of the cooling commodity prices. Growth is led by domestic demand as we remain cautious about international markets that are getting impacted by recessionary trends," Ceat Managing Director Anant Goenka said. The company's outlook for the ongoing quarter is positive, he added. "We have the capacities available to cater to a growing market demand," Goenka said. Ceat CFO Kumar Subbiah said the company brought down its overall inventories by Rs 280 crore, which helped in bringing efficiencies in operating cash flows and minimising borrowings. "We intend to maintain our capex fo
At Ceat we wanted to grow in our international business, and our OEM customers were becoming more and more exacting in their specifications, said Goenka
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Going forward, the management of Ceat expects the second half of this year to be better in terms of revenue and margins because of improving domestic demand and stabilising commodity prices.