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Revenue
₹4,256 Cr
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Revenue YoY
2%
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EBITDA
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Britannia reported Q3 FY24 revenue of INR 4,192 crore, up 2% YoY, with operating profit margin of 17.7%. Volume growth was 5.5%, driven by premium portfolio gains, while pricing was negative ~3.5% YoY due to strategic price cuts. Rural demand remains sluggish, but urban growth outpaced rural. Management highlighted market share recovery after a flattish period, aided by distribution expansion to 27.6 lakh outlets and rural distributor count increase to 29,000. Cost efficiencies and soft commodity costs (palm oil, packaging) supported margins. Guidance focuses on aggressive top-line growth over margin expansion, with aspiration for double-digit volume growth. Risk: rising competition from regional players offering lower prices and higher trade margins could pressure market share and profitability.
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Guidance to track
- Management aims to return to double-digit volume growth, though not expected in the next quarter.
- Non-biscuit categories (cakes, rusk, cheese, etc.) targeted to grow at least 50% faster than biscuits.
- Consumer cheese business aims to reach INR 1,000 crore in five years, driven by innovation and distribution.
- Management indicated 19% EBITDA margin is aspirational peak; future focus on growing absolute profit through aggressive top-line growth.
Risks flagged
- Regional competitors are gaining share by offering lower prices and higher trade margins, which could pressure Britannia's market share and profitability.
- Rural consumption growth has slowed, and despite distribution expansion, rural growth is lagging urban, posing a risk to overall volume recovery.
- Global uncertainties (Russia-Ukraine, Gaza) could lead to renewed inflation in key inputs like wheat, sugar, and palm oil, impacting margins.
- Sequential price cuts of 2-3% could pressure revenue growth if volume growth does not accelerate as expected.
Key quotes
- Our focus as we go forward, is gonna be to make sure that we grow the top line aggressively, even if we don't keep growing the margins at the rate that we've been growing them in the last 10 years.
- I would say 19 is our peak. We've gotten to that. That probably is something that we will try to achieve, we'll aspire for. But I would say more in the space of growing the profit on an overall basis through a more aggressive top line growth.
- The fact is that regional competitors have been raising their heads... they are in that honeymoon phase at this point in time, where they are throwing in product. I think it'll be, in a few months when, the verdict will be out, whether they're successful.
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