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Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Voltas jumps on its plans of launching 70 new air conditioners this year


Voltas is currently trading at Rs. 156.90, up by 5.15 points or 3.39% from its previous closing of Rs. 151.75 on the BSE.
The scrip opened at Rs. 154.00 and has touched a high and low of Rs. 158.00 and Rs. 154.00 respectively. So far 27,000 shares were traded on the counter.
The BSE group 'A' stock of face value Rs. 1 has touched a 52 week high of Rs. 262.50 on 11-Nov-2010 and a 52 week low of Rs. 147.35 on 14-Mar-2011.
Last one week high and low of the scrip stood at Rs. 158.20 and Rs. 147.35 respectively. The current market cap of the company is Rs. 5133.68 crore.
The promoters holding in the company stood at 30.58% while Institutions and Non-Institutions held 47.30% and 22.12% respectively.
Voltas, India’s premiere air conditioning and engineering services company from the house of Tatas, today introduced its new, powerful range of air conditioners in the capacity band of 0.75 tons to 3 tons. The company this year has planned to penetrate the market with a varied set of 70 air conditioners.
Amongst the new models, highlights for this year will be Vertis Elegant, Vertis Gemini, Vertis Pluto, Vertis Pearl and Platina, and the re-launch of the revolutionary DC Inverter Technology. The company’s brand is a premier player to have introduced a large assortment of 5 star rated AC’s in the 2T category, with one of a kind scroll compressor inbuilt into its product that assure maximum efficiency.
The company will back the launch of these new products with a marketing budget of Rs.50 crores for the current year. Voltas’ AC is sold from over 5000 touch points across India and expected to grow by 20% next year.
The company reported a decrease of 2.59% in net profit after tax to Rs 67.01 crore for the quarter ended December 2010 from Rs 68.79 crore in the same quarter last year. Total income for the quarter rose 8.75% to Rs 1006.88 crore as compared to Rs 925.83 crore in the same quarter last year.

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