Abneesh Roy · Nuvama Institutional Equities
directWhat 2-3 steps are driving 20%+ market share?
Number one is in terms of distribution, expansion, the network expansion itself... The second part, of course, is, you know, in terms of the construction chemical business, which is growing at a rapid pace...
Abneesh Roy · Nuvama Institutional Equities
directWhy is gross margin at 10-quarter high despite lower premium mix?
One of course, is that the raw material prices, you know, have reduced... The second is in terms of the low sale of enamel... The third reason is some of the products, as I mentioned, some new products are doing very well.
Abneesh Roy · Nuvama Institutional Equities
directImpact of cement companies entering paint and local competition?
As far as the cement companies or other building material companies which have jumped in, we haven't seen, you know, much of an impact so far... In certain parts, they have revived, especially in certain products like, you know, primers...
Abneesh Roy · Nuvama Institutional Equities
directWill the volume-value gap narrow in H2?
Yes, you know, so in short, you know, the volume value gap will get much reduced in Q3, and it will be very clear when the results come out.
Avi Mehta · Macquarie
directWill mix improvement flow through to gross margin?
I don't think, you know, there will be too much of an impact on the Gross Margin... I don't see the Gross Margin, you know, increasing too much. It will be hovering around the same point.
Avi Mehta · Macquarie
directIs the subsidiary profitability improvement sustainable?
Indian subsidiaries, you know, it sort of, you know, going to remain, I think. You know, the improvement that we see is likely to continue.
Avi Mehta · Macquarie
partialWhat is the CapEx plan for next few years?
CapEx plan is not very heavy in the immediate future. One is the brownfield expansion, which, you know, is well within, you know, whatever we are, cash we are generating.
Aniruddha Joshi · ICICI Securities
partialRevenue from UltraTech tie-up and competitive pressure regions?
It was a very small turnover, minuscule in terms of, you know, contribution... As far as competitive intensity is concerned, it remains quite strong even today.
Shirish Pardeshi · Centrum Broking
directUpdate on project business and recent demand trends?
The project business has been doing reasonably well, and then it continues to do well... We had a good October as far as the Diwali belt is concerned.
Varadarajan Sivasankaran · Antique Stock Broking
directGrowth in distribution network and comparison with cement network?
We had added about 1,700 color bank machines in Q2 of this year, and about 2,000 retail touchpoints... Only a small fraction of it will convert and succeed in selling paint.
Ajay Thakur · Anand Rathi
directImpact of crude oil prices on raw materials?
The pricing had gone up a little bit, especially in, in the solvent side, but again, there's some correction which has happened... Some of the other raw materials are stable.
Archana Menon · Morgan Stanley
directCapacity expansion plans and regional split?
We are currently pretty balanced as far as the north, south, east, west is concerned... Most of our factories are operating at about 80% odd level... We will add up approximately another 30,000-35,000 metric ton per month capacity once the Odisha plant is set up fully.