Background: Balkrishna Industries (BIL) is focused solely on 'off-highway' tyres catering to agricultural & industrial segments. A low ~5% share of the global market makes us believe reasonable room exists for several years of growth. While OTR forms ~65% of the global market, for BIL, it only contributes ~33% to its revenue. With the completion of the new 140,000 MT facility at Bhuj, BIL is looking to expand in the OEM, OTR segments. The company has been undertaking various actions like setting up warehouses in markets in North America and Europe to be closer to the customer and have a just in time (JIT) system. BIL is focusing on the OEM segment while its share in revenue has...
Background: Balkrishna Industries (BIL) is focused solely on 'off-highway' tyres catering to agricultural & industrial segments. A low ~5% share of the global market makes us believe reasonable room exists for several years of growth. While OTR forms ~65% of the global market, for BIL, it only contributes ~33% to its revenue. With the completion of the new 140,000 MT facility at Bhuj, BIL is looking to expand in the OEM, OTR segments. The company has been undertaking various actions like setting up warehouses in markets in North America and Europe to be closer to the customer and have a just in time (JIT) system. BIL is focusing on the OEM segment while its share in revenue has...
JK Cements is one of the largest cement players in North India. It manufactures grey cement, white cement and white cement based wall putty. Currently the grey cement capacity is 10.5MTPA. Domestic white cement capacity is 0.4MTPA (second only to UltraTech, which has capacity of 0.55MTPA). The company also manufacturers putty and has an installed capacity of 0.3MTPA. The company has also installed a grey cum white cement plant with an installed capacity of 0.6MTPA (white cement) and 1.02MTPA (grey cement) in Fujairah (UAE) in a 90:10 JV with the Government of Fujairah. It has also expanded its grey...
PI Industries' is one of the leading players in the Crop protection industry. Company largely operates under two main segments a) agriculture inputs, b) custom synthesis and contract manufacturing. Company has a niche portfolio of 34 products, which includes 5 in-licensed products and 7 co-marketing products in tie up with MNCs such as Bayer, BASF & Kumiai chemicals. Company currently operates three manufacturing sites in Gujarat, having three formulation units and six multiproduct plants for manufacturing, active ingredients and intermediates. PI has a strong distribution network of 8,000 dealers / distributors; 35,000 retailers and 27 stock points....
Background Established in 1984, Solar Industries is the largest manufacturer of industrial explosives and explosive initiating systems in India. With a licensed explosives capacity of over 290,000 MT/annum, the company has ~28% market share in India. Solar, with a 70% market share in exports from India, exports to 19 countries in Africa and South East Asia. Economic Explosives, a 100% subsidiary, manufactures detonators. Solar has manufacturing facilities spread across 16 locations and eight states in India. In recent years expanded its manufacturing base to Nigeria, Zambia and Turkey. SIIL has also interests in the coal mines (in Chattisgarh) through two JVs. Solar is...
Background: Repco Home Finance Limited (RHFL) is a low to medium ticket size home loan financing company predominately based in tier II / III cities of southern India. Promoted by the State-owned Repco Bank Ltd in 2000, RHFL presently has 121 branches and 32 satellite centers of which ~87% are located in the southern market. Repco has shown robust growth in its loan book clocking 29% CAGR (FY12-FY16) and stood at INR ~86.6bn at the end 3QFY17. RHFL average loan per unit...
Adani Ports & SEZ (APSEZ) began commercial operations in October 2001, post entering into concession agreement with GMB to build, operate and maintain the port for a period of 30 years till 2031 extendable by another 20 years. The port is into providing cargo handling services for bulk, crude and container cargo. The company has also received approval to develop the adjacent port land as a multiproduct SEZ. The company is the first port in India to handle one million TEU...
Background: Sun Pharma is among the largest players in the domestic formulations market and the most profitable one with Indian and US as its focus markets. It makes and markets specialty medicines and APIs for chronic therapy areas such as cardiology, psychiatry, neurology, etc. Strength in high-growth chronic segments has propelled Sun to sixth rank in the domestic formulations market, with consistent outperformance to market and large-sized peers. Sun has forayed into regulated markets by acquiring majority stake in Caraco Pharma and has strengthened its presence in US by recent acquisition of Taro. With Taro's acquisition, Sun has become...
Background Heidelberg Cements (HCIL), erstwhile Mysore Cements set up by Birla group in 1958 is now a subsidiary of Heidelberg AG, the world's third largest cement manufacturer. The company manufactures portland cement through its three plants located at Ammasandra, Karnataka (0.6 MTPA), Damoh, Madhya Pradesh (2.1 MTPA) and Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh (2.7 MTPA). The company also caters to Bangalore, Mumbai and Pune apart from MP and UP....
Hexaware is a mid-cap IT company & a leading global provider of application development & maintenance (36.4%), enterprise services (12.7%), testing (20.9%), business intelligence & analytics (14.1%), BPO (6.8%) and Remote infrastructure management services (9.1%). The total headcount stands at 12,155 while the number of active clients stood at 231. The company's geographical revenue break-up is as follows; America (82.5%), Europe (11.1%) and ROW (6.4%). Company's...
