Castrol India announces 2Q (April – June) and 1H (Jan – June) 2021
Chennai, August 2021
Sandeep Sangwan, Managing director, Castrol India Limited:
Castrol India Limited reported a solid financial performance and resilient business delivery in 2Q 2021 maintaining the momentum built over the previous few quarters. We delivered a strong set of numbers with both topline and bottom line seeing good growth versus the same period of last year, which was subdued on account of a national lockdown brought about by the first wave of the pandemic.
- 2Q revenue from operations @ INR 890 crores (81% higher) and 2Q Profit Before Tax @ INR 190 crores (115% higher)
- 1H 2021 revenue from operations @ INR 2028 crores (72% higher) and 1H 2021 Profit Before Tax @ INR 523 crores (103% higher)
Owing to the Covid second wave, the quarter saw challenges in the form of localized lockdowns, muted demand, as well as a sharp rise in input costs. Our timely pricing interventions, along with agility and responsiveness hel ped us navigate this dynamic market situation. We continued to invest in our brands with increased marketing and advertising spends to support value delivery to customers and reinforce brand salience.
In our endeavor to deliver quick and reliable service brand experience to consumers in collaboration with Jio-bp at their retail sites, we recently launched a new concept of Castrol Express Oil change outlets which offer quick oil change service for consumers on-the-go. We also leveraged digital platforms to continue building engage ment with the biker community with our high performance synthetics range of Castrol POWER1 ULTIMATE two-wheeler engine oils through performance-imagery led impact properties including Bollywood movie launch Toofaan.
Safety of our people and community support continue to be our strategic priorities along with protecting the financial health of the business during these difficult times. We have conducted vaccination camps for our plant staff who continue to operate our manufacturing plants safely, while implementing Covid-19 safety processes and guidelines as laid out by the government, and also for our employees who continue to work from home.
Our work with the trucker and mechanic communities was recently acknowledged when our flagship CSR progr ammes were recognized with ‘Excellence in CSR” award by British Business Group Delhi (BBG). The award to Castrol Eklavya for upskilling of mechanics and Castrol Sarathi Mitra programme for holistic development of truck drivers, is a recognition of our endeavours towards sustained livelihoods with pride for these communities, along with recent interventions such as student scholarships, family connect programmes focused on health and wellbeing along with Covid awareness, and community vaccination drives that have helped us forge an even stronger bond with them during the pandemic.
We remain confident of our strong business fundamentals and longer term profitable business growth as the situation returns to a normal state.
