Footwear company Bata India announced Q4FY25 & FY25 results Q4FY25 Financial Highlights: Revenue from operations for the quarter stood at Rs 7,877.70 million vs. Rs 7,976.74 million for Q4FY24. The Operating Profit for the quarter stood at Rs 374.09 million vs. Rs 582.65 million for Q4FY24. FY25 Financial Highlights: Revenue from operations for the year stood at Rs 34,880.26 million vs. Rs 34,784.13 million for FY24. PAT stood at Rs 3,284.49 million for FY25 compared to Rs 2,599.25 million for FY24 Speaking on the Q4FY25 performance, Gunjan Shah, MD and CEO - Bata India, stated: “Despite navigating through the demand headwinds persisting during the quarter, we managed to gain volumes and in line with our strategy of driving volume led growth. We continue to drive affordability and reducing complexity across categories. Our initiatives on inventory, merchandising and decluttering worked well and all key inventory metrices improved. We added 19 Franchise Stores in the quarter driven by franchise model focused on town expansion/semi-urban markets Along with cautious control on costs and focus on efficiency and productivity, we continued to manage our inventory while having strong in deployment of fresh merchandise in anticipation of demand revival and consumption uptick.” Result PDF
Footwear company Bata India announced Q3FY25 results Revenue from operations for Q3FY25 at Rs 9,185 million, a volume led revenue growth, an increase of 1.7% over Rs 9,035 million for Q3FY24. EBIDTA stood at Rs 2,087 million, showcasing consistent efficiency improvements through strategic initiatives. The EBIDTA margin expanded by 141 bps, resulting in a PAT of Rs 582 million. Gunjan Shah, MD and CEO, Bata India, said: “We continue to focus on our portfolio to attract new customers. To foster ease of choices for customers, we are driving affordability and reducing complexity across categories. On account of these initiatives, we are seeing significant volume growth after a long time. We also took benefit of the prolonged End of Season Sales to reduce ageing. Despite the muted demand, we managed to gain volumes. We saw double digit growth in Hush Puppies, through our premium offerings. These strategies helped us sustaining margins. We saw robust growth in our e-commerce channel with new and revamped website. Our omni-channel initiatives like entry into quick-commerce, coupled with continuous expansion in newer towns, have significantly enhanced our market reach. Our strategic brand collaborations with new-age icons like Kartik Aaryan, Jim Sarbh and Vir Das connected well with customers during the festive season. We unveiled Hush Puppies ‘The Party Ready’ collection featuring Jim Sarbh and welcomed Vir Das as India ambassador for Hush Puppies. We remain optimistic about demand recovery basis concerted efforts on driving volume-based revenue growth, by offering affordability and freshness. We will continue to move ahead with cautious control on costs and focus on efficiency and productivity.” Result PDF