Second Quarter - Dabur India Limited
Second Quarter - Dabur India Limited
Second Quarter - Dabur India Limited
- No tags were found...
You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles
YUMPU automatically turns print PDFs into web optimized ePapers that Google loves.
Sunil Duggal:<strong>Dabur</strong> <strong>India</strong> <strong>Limited</strong> Q2/H1Earnings Conference CallOctober 31 st , 2008I would look at in the region depending upon location of Rs 500-1000/square feet/Month.Percy PanthakiOkay and lastly sir your losses on retail this year, will they be curtailed within 17.5 crores asearlier stated?Sunil Duggal:I think more or less, they would not be very off that mark, couple of crores here and there.Percy PanthakiThanks very much sir.Sunil Duggal:Thanks.Nikhil Vora of IDFC SSKI SecuritiesNikhil Vora:Hi Sunil, just one question. We have literally discontinued Vatika Soap. You have beenoff expansion in the foods portfolio also.Sunil Duggal:We did explore a little bit of ready to eat and other stuff but I think our hands are pretty fullin terms of the beverage portfolio.Nikhil Vora:There has been no major product launches except for Dazzle over the last two, threequarters.Sunil Duggal:No we have spent on our shampoo portfolio. We have introduced new variants intoothpaste.Nikhil Vora:Yes variants but no new product launches per se.Sunil Duggal:Chyawanprash Junior which is in the process of being launched, there is a fair amount ofactivity happening in terms of NPDs, you name any category and we have a whole lot ofactivity happening there, even in hair oils, two new hair oils are going to be launched in thisquarter.Nikhil Vora:What I was coming from was you know in earlier sessions, which I was drawing towardswas that we have moved away from NPD or not necessarily extensions so NPDs we movedaway from, we obviously not had success in soap and extensions outside beverage in tofoods business, is the appetite to now take incremental risks on the decline specificallyleading to may be the retail expansion which may get curtailed as we move forward.Sunil Duggal:We treat retail as a very separate part of the business and management is very different, sowe do not confuse the two. We do not see retail at the expense of our core business. Thecore business is something, which we will always be in. Retail is more of a new initiative,so in terms of growth in the core business there is a substantial amount of investmentshappening and that will continue. There is no lack of activity in the NPD front, may be in