Company has delivered good profit growth of 41.5% CAGR over last 5 years
Company has been maintaining a healthy dividend payout of 19.7%
Expected diversion for Ethanol in SY 2023-24 is ~ 20LMT of Sugar (against 38LMT diverted in SY 2022-23). Overall blending is 12% as of March’24.
E20 petrol is available at 12,000 fuel retail outlets and the government targets a pan-India rollout by 2025.
Syrup/B Hy diversion to Ethanol restricted from 7 th Dec 2023 and subsequently on 15th Dec 2023, allowed 17 LMT of Sugar diversion (as B Hy) across the country. Additional 10LMT has been allowed in April’24 for supply in Q3 of FY’25.
Maximize and grow the Refined / Pharma Sugar Business • Health and wellness segment has been identified to focus on specialty sweetener business • Focusing on Brown sugar and Jaggery as alternate sweetener • To become a sweetening solutions provider for B2B Customers
1. Packaged staples has a large Total Addressable Market (TAM) of ~ INR 9 L Cr • Highly unorganised with only a few pan-India players 2. Overall branded penetration is less than 20%. • Significant growth expected with consumers preferences shifting towards branded products • Coincides with India’s overall growth and expansion of the consumption class 3. Parry’s brand presence and the strong foundation laid through the sweeteners to be leveraged • To further build on the capability to ‘brand the unbranded’ 4. Aspiration to capture >10% of the kitchen shelf in every household in South India
The Company made a pioneering leap towards community water resource management projects through its flagship Project NANNEER • Under the first phase, seven lakes and ponds in Oonaiyur area (Pudukkottai and Sivagangai district in TN) were desilted across 250 acres (depth of 1-3 meter) • Under the second phase, twelve lakes and ponds (in the Cuddalore, Tiruppur, Villupuram and Erode districts in TN) were desilted across 127 • The excess desilted soil was utilized to create islands in each of the water bodies. Close to 1100 Million Liters were conserved in Phase 1 and 2. • Currently third phase being planned in TN, KN and AP. • The Company aims to achieve Ten Billion liters of water holding capacity through Project NANNEER by the end of 2026.
Increase in Cash Fixed Cost in FY’24 majorly due to: • Manpower capability building for project expansion and new business • CPG infrastructure building • Special repairs undertaken in major plants Lower cane volume by 1.7 LMT over last year further contributed to the increase in CFC/MT
Increase in cane cost, drop in recovery & yield due to climatic conditions, restriction in sugar diversion for ethanol has led to drop in EBITDA. The benefits on expansion of distillery capacities are expected to flow in FY’25