The Board of Directors of Apollo Tyres Ltd has approved the company’s unaudited results for the first quarter of the financial year 2024-25, reporting a consolidated revenue of Rs 63.35 billion (£590.70 million). Operating profit amounted to Rs 9.09 billion (£84.68 million), down 13.5% from a year earlier, while net profit decreased 23.9% year-on-year, to Rs 3.02 billion.
Satish Sharma has decided to take early retirement and thus resigned as a whole-time director of Apollo Tyres Ltd. from the close of business hours yesterday. Sharma’s resignation as president of the company’s APMEA (Asia Pacific, Middle East, and Africa) region will take effect at the end of the month.
Along with cheese, clogs and windmills, many people closely associate tulips with the Netherlands. Apollo Tyres has thus commissioned an all-new variant of Tulipa to mark the 15th anniversary of its acquisition of Vredestein as well as the recent 115th anniversary of the Dutch brand’s founding. This new variant is named after the Kanwar family, which founded and owns Apollo Tyres.
The Board of Directors at Apollo Tyres has approved the company’s unaudited financial results for July to September 2023 (Q2 2023-24). These show revenue of Rs 62.80 billion (£612.78 million) in revenue in the quarter ending 30 September, a 5.4 per cent year-on-year increase. Apollo Tyres shares that revenue growth was especially positive in its Indian Operations business.
The Board of Directors at Apollo Tyres Ltd. reports a 124 per cent increase in net profit during the three months to 30 June 2023, the first quarter of the company’s 2023-24 fiscal year. Chairman Onkar Kanwar credits the efforts of Apollo’s European business towards this result.
Success isn’t always about greatness – it’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come. With these words, Onkar Kanwar opened his company’s 50th Annual General Meeting, singling out consistency as Apollo Tyres Ltd.’s mantra and a quality that in 2022 helped the tyre maker achieve annual revenues in excess of US$3 billion for the first time.
During the three months to 30 June 2022, Apollo Tyres Ltd. respectively recorded 38 per cent and 14 per cent year-on-year increases in its Indian and European operations. Total revenue from operations for this, the first quarter of the tyre maker’s 2022-23 financial year, amounted to Rs 59.42 billion (£614.72 million) and was 26.9 per cent higher than during the previous year’s first quarter.
Apollo Tyres reports revenue of Rs 209.48 billion (£2.22 billion) for the financial year ending 31 March 2021, 20 per cent higher than during the prior fiscal year. EBITDA declined 8.0 per cent year-on-year to Rs 25.74 billion (£272.59 million), with the EBITDA margin contracting 379 Bps to 12.3 per cent. Net profit stands at Rs 6.39 billion (£67.67 million).
For the three months to 30 September 2021, the second quarter of its 2021-22 financial year, Apollo Tyres reports consolidated revenue of Rs 50.77 billion (£493.84 million). This represents an 18 per cent increase over the same period of the previous fiscal year. EBITDA decreased 9.8 per cent year-on-year, to Rs 6.38 billion (£62.06 million) with a margin of 12.6 per cent (16.5 per cent in Q2 2020-21). Net profit amounted to Rs 1.74 billion (£16.93 million).
Apollo Tyres has recorded strong growth in the fourth quarter of its 2020/21 financial year (April 2020 to March 2021). Consolidated revenues from global operations grew 39 per cent to close at 50.26 billion rupees (£486 million – all conversions based on rates on 14 May) in quarter four. For the full year of FY21, it grew 6 per cent to close at 173.97 billion rupees (£1.68 billion). Apollo reports that operating profit (EBITDA excluding other income) was up 70 per cent in Q4, while for the full year, it was up 44 per cent.
Apollo Tyres reports improved sales and significantly higher net profit in the three months to 31 December 2020, the third quarter of its 2020-21 financial year. The bottom-line result for the year to date is admittedly less impressive, as net profits have been watered down by costs associated with the restructuring of the Apollo Vredestein facility in Enschede, the Netherlands.
Apollo Tyres had to accept a drop in its turnover and earnings in the half-year to 30 September 2020, with the notable exception of sales in Europe. The company’s global sales in the first half of its current April 2020 to March 2021 financial year were Rs 70.62 billion (£728.85 million), 13.9 per cent less than the sales it gained a year earlier. Net profit dropped 71.1 per cent year-on-year to Rs 650 million (£6.71 million).
Top management at Apollo Tyres have announced they’ve accepted a pay cut during the market difficulties brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. The tyre maker says it is also preparing to implement further measures.
Private equity firm Warburg Pincus is investing around £117 million in Apollo Tyres via a subsidiary. On 26 February, the tyre maker’s Board of Directors approved the issue of up to 108 million compulsorily convertible preference shares, each with a face value of Rs 100, to Emerald Sage Investment Ltd. The transaction is subject to shareholder and regulatory approvals.
Following internal discussions and review of a commissioned report produced by Ernst & Young, the Nominations & Remuneration Committee (NRC) within the Board of Directors at Apollo Tyres Ltd. has recommended changes to the compensation packages Onkar and Neeraj Kanwar receive from the company.
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