Vir Advani, CMD, Blue Star, says “room air conditioners had a fantastic Q4. April, of course, has been very strong for the industry as well as for us, as has our commercial refrigeration products, deep freezers, water coolers, etc. I think that the outlook for the summer is, of course, strong. In May and June, … Read more
Sudhir Singh, CEO, Coforge, says “the retail vertical of the merged entity is going to be operating almost immediately at about $100 million per annum. The healthcare and the high-tech verticals of the merged entity from day one will be operating at about 50 million US dollars, in some cases more than that as well.” … Read more
Angshu Mallick, MD & CEO, Adani Wilmar, says going forward, as the new mustard season has just started, the new meal, oil meal, rapeseed oil meal will be available now for exports. So, the Q1 of FY25 should be better. Overall, the edible oil has been growing. This year has grown at 10%, which is … Read more
Govind Singh, MD & CEO, Utkarsh SFB, says: “As far as moving from a small finance bank to universal bank is concerned, in the next two to three years’ time we should be looking at this part. But we still have to have a clear discussion with our board and other concerns.” How was the … Read more
C Vijayakumar, CEO & MD and Prateek Aggarwal, CFO, HCL Tech in conversation with ET Now after announcement of Q4 results. Vijayakumar says: “ Overall, our deal momentum is good. We have a strong pipeline. We believe the first half of the year will be strong bookings and that will drive good growth momentum in … Read more
Hiral Chandrana, CEO, Mastek, says “if you remove the small acquisition that we did in FY24, we still grew at a fairly healthy rate compared to competition. We expect FY25 to be along the same lines or potentially even better. It will be a little tough in the next two quarters. It seems customers are … Read more
Jonathan Hunt, MD & CEO, Syngene International, says the company deployed $55 million last year. Next year, they will be a little bit ahead of that – about $60 million. There are the usual themes within their business – automation, digitisation, improving productivity through an upgrading of technologies. About half of that should go towards … Read more
Swaminathan Aiyar, Consulting Editor, ET Now, says this kind of misinterpretation of the Congress manifesto should not be taking place, although it does happen. When you see the Election Commission is pulling up somebody for a mere remark about Hema Malini, it should take action on this as it is a much more serious defamation … Read more
Anand Athreya, CEO & MD and Arnob Roy, COO & ED, Tejas Networks , in conversation with ET NOW. Though BSNL has given the biggest order, a significant amount of the order book is for other customers and for Tejas’ wireline products. The order book is mainly the business and tenders that they have won … Read more
Sandeep Kalra, CEO, Persistent Systems, says “as we go ahead, as the market conditions stabilise, that will give us the opportunity to have the leverage of all the investments we have done whether they are in the next generation technologies like generative AI or increased sales and marketing investments, etc, and that should help us … Read more
