The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, June 01, 2004

DIVERSIFIED
EID Parry Q4 profit at Rs 23 cr; to pay 75 pc
EID Parry (India) Ltd has reported a net profit (before minority interest and share of profit or loss from associate companies) of Rs 22.81 crore on net sales of Rs 206.34 crore for the quarter ended March 31, 2004. During the corresponding ... More

PETROLEUM
HPCL Q4 net down 20 pc
HIGH global crude prices have hit HPCL's fourth quarter profits, which fell 20 per cent to Rs 527.05 crore (Rs 634.12 crore) along with a 5.8 per cent fall in quarterly net sales to Rs 14,553.43 crore (Rs 15,407.75 crore). Other income for the ... More

STEEL
Monnet Ispat Q4 net up at Rs 17.0 cr
SPONGE iron maker, Monnet Ispat Ltd, has reported a 334 per cent increase in net profit for the fourth quarter ended March 2004. The company has posted a profit of Rs 17.04 crore during the quarter as against Rs 3.93 crore in the corresponding ... More

HCV/LCV/TRACTORS
Bajaj Tempo net rises to Rs 44 cr
BAJAJ Tempo Ltd, a Firodia Enterprise, has ended the year 2003-04 with a higher net profit of Rs 44.21 crore as compared with Rs 32.17 crore in the previous year. Sales stood at Rs 1,111.13 crore as compared with Rs 826.25 crore in the ... More

M&M net profit up on auto boom, tractor sales
MAHINDRA & Mahindra Ltd (M&M) has reported a 139 per cent rise in profit after tax for the year ended March 31, 2004, to Rs 348.54 crore as against the previous corresponding Rs 145.53 crore. Same time, net sales/income from operations gaine More

Punjab Tractors net dips despite higher sales
PUNJAB Tractors Ltd has posted a 9.4 per cent increase in total income to Rs 603.3 crore in 2003-04 from Rs 551.1 crore in the previous fiscal. The increase was largely due to an upsurge in the domestic tractor industry in the latter half of the ... More

NBFCS
Sundaram Finance PAT up at Rs 56 cr
SUNDARAM Finance has announced a profit after tax of Rs 55.62 crore for 2003-04, higher by 22 per cent in relation to the previous year's profit of Rs 45.66 crore. The company's board had earlier recommended a dividend of 70 per cent on its ... More

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