In this interview, Director (Finance) Dr. Prasanna Kumar Acharya outlines the company’s strategy of contributing clean power to the nation

In this interview, CFO Shivendra Nigam outlines the companys strategy for further growth

Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE) Ltd. is in the process of expanding its global presence in keeping with the Government

V. P. Srivastava, Chief Financial Officer, Bank of Maharashtra, in this interview indicates that the results have been impressive with the bank taking long strides towards growth.

Can you explain Vaibhav Global Limited’s business model and its evolution? With four decades of experience, we have continuously evolved.

NMDC Ltd. a Navratna public sector enterprise under the Ministry of Steel, Government of India is the single largest producer of iron ore in India.

We are committed to fostering a sustainable future through innovation, diversification and responsible practices in the LNG Industry.

Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL), trading as IndianOil, an Indian multinational energy major,

In conversation with Shujaul Rehman, Chief Executive Officer, Garware Technical Fibres Ltd

The Onward Tech team is strategically aligned to deliver digital and engineering services to Automotive, Rail, Industrial Equipment, Heavy Machinery, and Healthcare Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) from North America and Europe.

In this exclusive interview, Neetu Kashiramka, Managing Director of VIP Industries, asserts that by repurposing the company's capacity and diversifying its product offerings, it is poised to cater to evolving customer preferences while maximising operational efficiency and market opportunities

Interview with Mahesh Viswanathan, CFO of Finolex Cables

The government's proposal outlined in the recent interim budget to enhance 40,000 conventional coaches to meet Vande Bharat standards is poised to deliver a significant uplift to the railway wagons industry

In an interaction with R Venkataraman, Chairman, IIFL Securities

Our growth was driven by a strategic combination of organic and inorganic expansion, informs CFO Dharmendra Tuteja

Uno Minda has been at the forefront of the electrification trend, states Sunil Bohra, Group CFO and CEO (Safety and Comfort Systems), Uno Minda

With the demand for communication cables going up tremendously and Finolex Cables Limited’s entry into home appliances, the company is all set to capture the potential that lies in this segment

Technology-driven banking is immensely helping the bank in improving the business, reducing TAT and improving bottom lines, affirms, V. P. Srivastava, CFO, Bank of Maharashtra. 

As the largest footwear manufacturer in India, Relaxo is dedicated to not only meeting but exceeding customer expectations, driving the growth of the Indian footwear industry, and leaving a lasting impact on the market, enunciates Sushil Batra, CFO - Relaxo Footwears Limited

SJVN, formerly known as Satluj Jal Vidyut Nigam, is an Indian public sector undertaking involved in hydroelectric power generation and transmission. It was incorporated in 1988 as Nathpa Jhakri Power Corporation, a joint venture between the Government of India and the Government of Himachal Pradesh. In this interview, Director (Finance) Akhileshwar Singh outlines SJVN’s present status, capacities, new projects and outlook for the future

The financial year 2022-23 has been an important year for the growth trajectory of RVNL.

“The power distribution sector in India faces significant challenges”

In the realm of infrastructure development, the government is making significant efforts as it injects substantial financial resources and efforts into various projects.

“NMDC is well on its way to achieving a record-breaking production volume” 

In financial year 2022–23, Cantabil Retail India opened 69 new retail stores across 14 states, enhancing brand recognition and reach. With a total of 469 stores opened to date, the company has become a prominent player in the retail industry. Excerpts from an interview with the company’s CFO Shivendra Nigam

Across global zinc companies, profits have dropped substantially on account of plummeting zinc prices.

For Nippon Life India Asset Management (NAM India), higher growth in net profit was driven by higher other income owing to increase in value of equity investments driven by equity market performance and the downward movement of rates

Over the years, Polycab India has made substantial investments in building robust capabilities for expanding its product portfolio and geographical reach and Project LEAP has helped strengthen its market share

"We are very bullish on Sainik Laminates with the new catalogue having been launched, and by the year-end, we should have larger size capacities coming into play." 

Our Growth Lies in The Expansion of Indian Railways

Having recently been listed on NSE Emerge, Jay Jalaram Technologies Limited is quite enthused about its future growth plans, reveals Promoter and Executive Director Mukeshkumar Navnitray Bhatt

In this interview, Fredun Medhora, Managing Director and CFO, Fredun Pharmaceuticals Ltd., elaborates about the company’s product mix, market share and growth strategy

We Look Forward to Accelerating Growth Significantly

How a Brokerage Firm Made Rapid Strides in the World of Trading

Our Focus is to Enter into Downstream Chemistries

With its focus on digitalisation and expanding its geographical spread along with a merger in the pipeline, Shriram City Union Finance is in a sweet spot, says Managing Director and CEO Y S Chakravarti

The Discount Broking Industry Will Consolidate But Still Grow

Committed to Being a Key Ingredient Supplier to the World

Given the current rate of new client addition, market turnover, addition in number of active clients, and other factors, ICICI Securities Limited is positive about the emerging scenario in the investment sector, says its Managing Director and CEO, Vijay Chandok

We Will Need to Add to Our Capabilities Through Inorganic Means

Given the company's strong domain expertise in software defined vehicles and a wide geographical reach, KPIT Technologies is geared up to create new milestones, says CEO and Managing Director Kishor Patil in this exclusive interview

As a bank, we are putting a lot of effort into building a high-quality culture of customer-friendly relations, asserts V Vaidyanathan, Managing Director and CEO, IDFC First Bank.

Our Deal Pipeline Continues to Remain Robust

Angel One’s consistent efforts to grow and penetrate deeper into the Indian market have led to our operational and financial success.

The banking sector is witnessing higher credit momentum driven by sustained retail and rising corporate loan growth.

On the whole, post-pandemic strong economic revival will create positive scope for our medium to long-term earnings for FY23; asserts Ravi Vishwanath, CFO, Quess Corp Ltd.

In tune with the government’s various policies to support the development of both urban and rural infrastructure and provide a boost to the agriculture sector, the demand for pipes and fittings is bound to grow, says Niraj Kedia, CFO, Finolex Industries.

Along with the many initiatives taken by the government in favour of the Indian automotive industry and the gradual easing of certain challenges such as the pandemic and the shortage of semiconductors, Sunil Bohra, Chief Financial Officer, UNO Minda Group, is quite positive about the way ahead. 

The role of the logistics sector has never been more crucial than in the year 2022. Going forward, the growth of the logistics industry will be centred on the adoption of technology and other initiatives. In this interview, Aneel Gambhir, Chief Financial Officer, Blue Dart, elaborates about the company’s strategies towards adopting technology and making their operations sustainable. 

Now that the effects of the pandemic are waning, Umesh Revankar, Vice Chairman and Managing Director, Shriram Transport Finance Company Ltd., is of the opinion that the non-banking financial sector (NBFC) will witness good growth once the current geopolitical scenario stabilises

In this exclusive interview, Gopal Balachandran, CFO, ICICI Lombard General Insurance, talks about how despite the impact of the pandemic and the slowdown in the automotive industry, the company has done well with its strong focus on adapting digital operations and improving efficiencies across the value chain

Gen Z and millenials are today’s biggest contributors to the stock market and that is how the future trend will unfold too, says Prabhakar Tiwari, CGO, Angel One Ltd., in this exclusive interview.

What is your outlook on the Indian energy sector? These are exciting times for the Indian economy and its energy sector.

In environments of rising yields and higher inflation expectations, value stocks are placed better than growth stocks, asserts Meenakshi Dawar, Fund Manager, Nippon India Mutual Fund.

BLS International is a trusted global tech-enabled services partner for governments and citizens.

Rupesh Mehta, Promoter, Chairman and Managing Director of Macpower CNC Machines Ltd  expects margins to keep improving year on year as they keep growing. 

Excerpts from an interview with Priyadarshan Mundhra, Co-Founder and Executive Director, eClerx Services Ltd. wherein he talks about the impact of the pandemic, the current industry trends and the way ahead

Our current market position and a well-defined growth strategy will help the company to unlock value for all the shareholders, believes Sandeep Sikka, Group CFO, Somany Impresa Group (HSIL Ltd).

Elaborating on the reason why investing globally makes more sense now, Vinay Bharathwaj, Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Stockal, also highlights the emerging themes attracting investors

The Indian media and entertainment (ME) industry is a sunrise sector for the economy and is making significant strides.

Progressive policies by the government can help increase the growth trajectory of the Indian pharmaceutical sector, believes Nikhil Chopra, CEO and Whole-time Director, J.B. Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals Ltd. 

Given the improvement in consumer sentiment on account of the severity of the third wave of the pandemic now on the wane, Polycab India expects all its business channels to post impressive growth in the coming years, as shared by Chief Financial Officer Gandharv Tongia in this exclusive interview. 

The world is looking for China plus 1 substitute and India is perfectly placed to get the benefit of the same, states Maulik Patel, Chairman and Managing Director, Meghmani Finechem Limited. 

By removing bottlenecks and introducing progressive regulatory measures to safeguard the environment, the future of the agrochemical sector looks bright, asserts Rajesh Aggarwal, Managing Director, Insecticides (India) Ltd (IIL).

LTTS has posted healthy financial performance in the third quarter,

There is a growing demand among the next-gen consumers preferring superior quality products with impeccable craftsmanship, cites Ramesh Kalyanaraman, Executive Director, Kalyan Jewellers India Ltd

"Our efforts across geographies would be to expand our footprint within our existing customers"

What you can tell us about your Oncology Products to be launched on January 1st 2022.

What is the mission and vision of Fredun Pharmaceuticals?

In this interview, Aneel Gambhir, CFO, Blue Dart, outlines the operational strategy of the company in the logistics sector that is increasingly tilting towards providing sustainable solutions and cost-efficient delivery 

Sunil Chordia Chairman and Managing Director, Rajratan Global Wire Ltd.

With a spike in commodity inflation and input cost surging, Castrol India while investing to grow the core business, is also preparing for the long-term future by exploring, developing and testing new business models. Here's our conversation with Deepesh Baxi, CFO and Wholetime Director, Castrol India Limited. 

On August 29 we completed a decade of existence as a company. As a young company we have had our share of ups and downs. Each trough or peak has helped each of us hone our skills to navigate both positives and adverse circumstances while providing a platform to build a happy, learning, sustainable and perpetual organization.All of this has been a team effort and we are now preparing ourselves for the next decade and further.

Gopal Balachandran, CFO, ICICI Lombard General Insurance

Priya Hardikar Senior ​Vice President and Head of Corporate Finance and Governance, KPIT Technologies Limited

Sanjeev Aggarwal
Chief Financial Officer, JK Tyre and Industries Limited

In this interview, R Venkataraman, Chairman, IIFL Securities Limited, presents an overview of both the economy and the markets and the way ahead

'The Big Bull' is an upcoming Hindi language crime drama film directed by Kookie Gulati, produced by Ajay Devgn, Anand Pandit, Vikrant Sharma and Kumar Mangat Pathak. The storyline of the film is based on the life of Harshad Mehta, a stockbroker, involved in financial crimes over a period 10 years, from 1980 to 1990. Abhishek Bachchan has portrayed the protagonist in the film. In this interaction with Rajesh Padode, Managing Editor of DSIJ, Abhishek Bachchan talks about what drove him to do the film and his own interest in the financial markets

There are various reasons why a person may invest in property, ranging from a need for self use to investing with a long-term perspective. Rohit Garodia, Managing Partner, Pecan Reams, highlights the various triggers that drive property purchase and sale
 

We have bounced back at a faster rate than the market

Accepting that the growth for this year will be flat, Umesh Govind Revankar, Managing Director and CEO, Shriram Transport Finance, believes that the curve should gradually inch upwards.

Roll of Honour

I would highlight [a] intelligent capital allocation to support growth across our businesses, [b] operating strong corporate governance practices and [c] analytics-driven sharp business insights as my three main strategic priorities. There will be several aspects of technology, investment in talent and creating strong centres of excellence as well which will take my time and bandwidth. However, eventually the goal will be to deliver sustainable shareholder value. 

CFO should focus on bottomline growth, besides topline growth. Risk mitigation is another major role of CFO in the company. We at Kewal Kiran have always focused on profitable and healthy growth. Focus on cash flows of the company is another major factor in retail business as business needs strong balance sheet to support the growth in the long run. In the changing times, CFOs are also a part of talent strategy and talent building to achieve goals of the company. 

Satin Creditcare, along-with its three wholly-owned subsidiaries, is becoming a differentiated financial services group serving the unserved/underserved. Besides microfinance, the company is venturing into financing affordable housing, MSMEs, cross-selling, digital lending through “LoanDost” and business corresponding services. In today’s challenging external environment for financial services, the three main strategic priorities are as under: 

As the CFO of GHCL, I do realise the tremendous responsibility I have of spurring the organisation’s growth as well ensuring that we take well thought out spending and investment decisions, ensure optimum ROI, and governance to keep our stakeholders satisfied. 

Shri Sanjay Upadhyay is an Associate Member of the Institute of Cost Accountants of India. He is also a Fellow Member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India. He has completed an Advanced Management Programme from Wharton, USA. He has vast experience in the areas of Finance, Accounts, Commercial and Secretarial Functions. He is associated with the Company since 1994. 

We will be focusing on following business aspects for growth in coming years: 

Arranging requisite resources for the various expansion projects. CFO involvement in organising timely resources has a large role to play in the expansion and growth of the company globally and lead to better outcomes for organization-wide performance improvements. 

Mr. V R Jain is Chartered Accountant and Company Secretary. He is an Honours Graduate in Commerce and was awarded Gold Medal by University of Jodhpur. He has rich experience of more than three decades in the field of Financial Management, Business Support, Financial Planning & Analysis and Controls & Compliances and worked with reputed Groups prior to joining Himachal Futuristic Communications Ltd (HFCL). 

Keeping in view the highly competitive and dynamic business environment, top three priorities will be to act as part of strategic think tank in the organisation for identifying key business growth drivers for creating profit growth opportunities by playing a role of key partner with the top management team 

Cyient’s vision to “apply technology imaginatively to solve problems that matter” focuses on helping our clients solve key business and technological challenges that have a larger societal impact. To achieve this vision, we implemented the S3 (Services, Systems, Solutions) strategy, which focuses on building our capabilities and providing greater ownership and accountability across the product life cycle, as well as expanding our offerings across the value continuum from services to solutions. 

Modi 1.0 has been really good for us as his focus areas were: Road construction (urban and rural roads), housing, Make in India (defence), exports, reduction in coal imports and power for all. We expect these areas to get further momentum in Modi 2.0 and will give boost to the growth of our company. 

As modern-day business paradigms change swiftly, so does the role of a CFO, from being function-oriented to strategy-oriented today. The DNA of the CFO now embodies thorough understanding of the businesses, the strategies as also its competencies and capabilities. 

My first priority is right allocation of capital so we can generate minimum 20% ROC. My second priority is to improve the working capital cycle so that we have additional working capital available for growth. My third priority is to keep the company's leverage low (not zero) to maximise return on equity (ROE) with low risk as debt cost is very low for us compared to the return on investment we generate today (20% plus ROC). 

Digitisation has helped us transform the customer experience and engagement massively. Definitely our operational and business processes have improved owing to digitisation. The best part of using technology and being digitised is that it helps improve the decision making and that is an invaluable asset. 

Our strategic priority is to enhance corporate value by investing in the right businesses, communicating transparently and maintaining high corporate governance - all of which, we expect, will add value to shareholders.