Management Interviews – MIRC Electronics, SH Kelkar, Dish TV, Balaji Telefilms, Bajaj Electricals

MIRC Electronics

  • Sold 150,000 units grossing 90 crs of washing machines last year , expecting it to go upto 250,000 units this year grossing 160 crs

 

  • Contribution margin in washing machines will go up from 27% to 31%

 

  • Capacity utilization at 50% now

 

  • Bennett coleman holds 7% stake in company which in effect can do 60 crs worth of advertising, out of which 30 crs is unutilized at this moment

 

  • By next March warrants will kick in, so total infusion will be 130 crs (90 crs + 40 crs warrants), Our borrowing was 150 crs.

 

  • Non core assets can realize 120-130 crs

 

Link : https://twitter.com/CNBCTV18News/status/1016922438284673024

 

SH Kelkar

  • Long term initiatives such as Investment in R&D , Sales expansion, Reducing operating expenses are all in track

 

  • Pressure on gross margins as raw material supply scenario which has panned out in Indian chemical suppliers

 

  • Had a 6% dip in gross margins at 39% vs 44% (Average margins). Will slowly recover in 2nd half of Financial year

 

  • On last years base we can grow Revenues at excess of 15%

 

  • We have higher market share in premium products then in lower range products

 

Link : https://twitter.com/CNBCTV18News/status/1016946164149596160

 

Dish TV

  • Added 3 lakh subscribers in this quarter

 

  • Revenue growth guidance – 7 to 8 % for full year

 

  • HD has contributed 40% of new subsscribers this quarter. Out of total subscribers base 17% are consuming HD content

 

  • Ebitda margins has moved up from 30.5% to 33.6% QoQ. Guidance 34-36% this year

 

  • Synergies from personal cost, back end, admin, content has just started to come in

 

  • One time cost have come in Finance cost due to upfront fees paid on re nogotiation of D2H debt at much attractive interest rate. Finance cost will be 25-30 crs lower from what you see now

 

  • Our market share is more than 40%, focus is to add share on net basis and increase ARPU

 

  • With incoming of Tariff order, it will help restore level playing field between cable and DTH

 

Link : https://twitter.com/CNBCTV18News/status/1016929570631532544

 

Balaji Telefilms

  • We have doubled the number of subscribers in last 3 months from 1.2 million to 3.5 million (Excl. JIO)

 

  • We aim to breakeven and have library of 70-75 shows by end of 3 years

 

  • We have carved out exclusive digital rights for some TV shows

 

  • Telcos giving data are very cheap rates which is boosting consumption

 

  • Content comes at cost of 30L-50L for ½ Hour

 

  • Every 6-7Th show will be a show in regional content

 

  • Target of reaching 8 million subscribers by 2020-2021

 

  • ARPU right now is 15 Rs and aim is to get it to 20 Rs, will do that by pushing it to international audience at 1$ i.e. 65-70 Rs

 

Link : https://twitter.com/ETNOWlive/status/1016912708896092162?s=08

 

Bajaj Electricals

  • Last 2 years have taken a lot of hits to get our distribution in place, now expecting a high two digit growth

 

  • June July August will have a low base effect so 15% - 20% growth would be normal given good demand this year

 

  • Have good orders in EPC business from UP Power Distribution which will tilt % contribution. However we want to maintain it at 50-50 in the long run as EPC gives visibility but is risky business. Core business is consumer product business

 

  • We placed bid for 16 projects of low cost housing expecting to get 3-4, but we got it for all 16 projects i.e. order of 5000 crs. Which we do not have capacity for. Luckily in survey we found many houses do not exist, so will have to do orders worth 3000-3500 cr by March 2020

 

  • Total order book is higher than 8000 crs

 

Link : https://twitter.com/ETNOWlive/status/1016903607143133190?s=08

 

 

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