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Mandar Pawar

Kotak Mahindra Asset Management

Castrol India Limited

Castrol India Limited CC-Mar24.pdf · 2024-05-02
Sir, I wanted to further check on this other expenditure, you mentioned the travel-related expense and one-off. But if can give, how much will be the ad and promotion expenses? And if you can give a comparable number from the previous quarters ? And in the light of the new promotion initiatives that we are talking of going forward, w hat is the guidance that you can give in terms of the A&P expenses for the full year?
Yes, I was asking a comparable number in the previous quarter? Was it around 2.5%? Or was it lower? Would just adding to the delta...

Indraprastha Gas Limited

Indraprastha Gas Limited CC-Sep23.pdf · 2023-11-02
Good afternoon, sir. Thank you for taking my question. You mentioned about the new GS not being profitable. But if I am looking at the INR8.5 margin that we are making at the company level, if we have 5% within, what kind of margins that we will be doing in Delhi, can you provide us with a number or an estimate on the same? Sanjay kumar: So profitability from the point of view of per SCM, I was talking about, because the volumes are very low. And opex tends to be higher when your volumes are low on per SCM basis. So even though in absolu te terms, the loss might not be, I was talking about per SCM terms EBITDA. So in one or two Gas, that is negative. And because it is negative, the volume is very low, so it does not really, loss making. So it is not eating up the profits of other GAs, but it is not making the contribution and mayb e dragging down a little bit on EB ITDA side, so per SCM basis. So really not very significant in terms of absolute numbers. But they are not profitable, that is what I meant to say. Profitable means they are not adding to my bottom line.
But it will dilute the margin on a SCM basis, when you are looking at it? Sanjay kumar: Not very significantly because the volume itself is very low.