HCC sales grow 3%, interest costs drop

BY PTI27 Oct 2012 10:29 PM GMT

Hindustan Construction Company's (HCC) standalone net loss has narrowed down to Rs 17.87 crore during the July-September quarter, as the company today reported a 3 per cent growth in net sales and managed to cut down interest costs marginally.

The country's leading infrastructure firm had reported a net loss of Rs 40.54 crore during the corresponding quarter of the previous fiscal.

Net sales of the company was up 3.17 per cent to Rs 864.26 crore during the quarter vis-a-vis Rs 837.69 crore for the July-September quarter of fiscal 2011-12, it said in a filing to the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE).Besides, HCC's total expenditure stood at Rs 793.30 crore during the quarter. Its interest cost, at Rs 130.07 crore, during the period was marginally lower than Rs 135.59 crore during the same period of last fiscal.According to company's filing, implementation of the corporate debt restructuring (CDR) package is under progress.

The package was approved by the CDR Empowered Group during the April-June quarter.In a separate statement, the company said it made an operating profit of Rs 110.60 crore, up over 10 per cent compared to the corresponding period of last fiscal when it stood at Rs 100.10 crore.As on 30 September 2012, HCC had an order book of Rs 15,084 crore. Besides, it has LI contract (where the contracts are yet to be signed) worth Rs 1,904 crore, it said.'The environment continues to be challenging for the infrastructure sector.

HCC has undertaken several measures to deliver performance even in this lean period,' company's Group Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Praveen Sood said in the statement.Talking about performances of its subsidiaries, HCC said its Switzerland-based subsidiary, Steiner AG reported a profit of 0.96 million CHF (swiss franc) and a revenue of 185.6 million CHF during the period under review. Besides, Steiner has a total order book of 1.45 billion CHF as on September.

Moreover, Lavasa Corporation — another subsidiary of HCC — has resumed development and construction activities and had launched its new range of apartments at its second town, Mugaon, during the quarter. Lavasa's first town is known as Dasve.

On the Dhule Palesner Highway (NH3), which comes under another subsidiary HCC Infrastructure, the company said it achieved 100 percent completion for phase I of the project while achieving majority progress under phase II.

HCC sales grow 3%, interest costs drop

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