New Delhi: FMCG major Godrej Consumer Products Ltd (GCPL) on Monday reported 8 percent increase in its consolidated net profit for the first quarter ended June 30, 2014 at Rs 143.45 crore. The company had posted a consolidated net profit of Rs 132.71 crore in the corresponding quarter of previous fiscal.

Consolidated net sales during the period under review stood at Rs 1,886.26 crore as against Rs 1,722.30 crore in the year-ago period.

The board has declared an 100 percent interim dividend of Re 1 on share of face value Re 1, the company said in a statement.

New Delhi: Force Motors today posted 35.87 percent increase in its net profit at Rs 19.39 crore for the first quarter ended June 30.

The company had posted a net profit of Rs 14.27 crore for the same period of previous fiscal. Net sales of the Pune-based company rose to Rs 538.42 crore for the first quarter, as against Rs 497.13 crore in the same period of previous fiscal, Force Motors Ltd said in a BSE filing.

Force Motors sells a range of vehicles, including small commercial vehicles, multi-utility vehicles (MUVs), light commercial vehicles, sports utility vehicles (SUVs) and agricultural tractors. --- PTI

Bangalore, July 25 : India's third-biggest IT services exporter, Wipro Limited , posted fiscal first-quarter profit up 29.6 percent and forecast a surge in revenue on the back of stronger spending on outsourcing by overseas clients.

Bangalore-based Wipro, which inked a 10-year deal to manage IT outsourcing of Canadian energy and utilities firm Atco, said it expected IT services sales in this quarter to grow between 1.7 and 4 percent from the quarter ended June.

New Delhi: State-owned Punjab National Bank (PNB) on Friday reported 10 percent growth in net profit to Rs 1,405.12 crore for the April-June quarter of 2014-15.

In the year-ago period, the bank had reported a net profit of Rs 1,275.32 crore, PNB said in a regulatory filing to the stock exchanges.

The bank's total income increased to Rs 12,825.13 crore during the first quarter ended June 30 from Rs 11,746.59 crore in the same period last year.

New Delhi: Biotechnology major Biocon has reported nine percent increase in its consolidated net profit to Rs 103 crore for the quarter ended June 30.

The company had posted a net profit of Rs 94 crore during the same period of previous fiscal.

The total revenue of the company rose to Rs 742 crore for the first quarter, against Rs 723 crore during the same period of previous fiscal, Biocon Ltd said in a statement.

"Our revenue growth this quarter has been muted. Our business performance reflects the challenges that we are temporarily facing in some of our key markets, especially in the Middle East.

New Delhi: Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Thursday reported 43.7 percent jump in consolidated net profit at Rs 184.8 crore for the first quarter ended June 30, 2014.

The company had posted net profit of Rs 128.6 crore in the same quarter of the previous year.

Consolidated net sales of the company rose by 19.38 percent to Rs 1,477.8 crore during the quarter under review, as against Rs 1,237.8 crore in the same period of previous fiscal, Glenmark Pharma said in a BSE filing.

New Delhi: Drug firm Pfizer Thursday reported 3.10 percent decline in net profit at Rs 46.15 crore for the first quarter ended June 30, 2014.

The company had posted a net profit of Rs 47.63 crore in the same period of previous fiscal.

Net sales of the company, however, rose to Rs 239.85 crore during the first quarter, as compared to Rs 237.53 crore in the same period of previous fiscal, Pfizer Ltd said in a filing to the BSE.

Shares of Pfizer today closed at Rs 1,412.05 apiece on the BSE, down 0.45 percent from previous close.--- PTI

Mumbai: Private sector Axis Bank Tuesday reported 18.3 percent growth in net profit at Rs 1,667 crore for the first quarter ended June 2014.

The bank had earned a net profit of Rs 1,409 crore in the April-June quarter of 2013-14, Axis Bank said in a statement.

Total income of the bank rose to Rs 9,980.47 crore during the quarter under review as against Rs 9,059.12 crore in the same period last year.

The net interest margin for the bank rose to 3.88 percent in the April-June quarter, against 3.86 percent in the same period of the previous year.

Mumbai: Shares of Housing Development Finance Corporation Monday rose by 3 percent after the company reported 14.6 percent rise in its standalone net profit for the first quarter ended June 2014.

HDFC's shares ended 3.06 percent up at Rs 1,011.05 on the BSE. During the day, it gained 3.53 percent to Rs 1,015.75.

The stock was the top gainer among the 30-Sensex blue-chips.

Rise in the stock was instrumental in sending the BSE benchmark Sensex higher by 73.61 points at 25,715.17.

At the NSE, the stock rose by 2.21 percent to Rs 1,004.75.

New Delhi: Telecom operator Idea Cellular today posted 57 percent jump in net profit at Rs 728.2 crore for the first quarter ended June 30, 2014, on increased demand in mobility business mainly mobile internet services.

The company had posted a profit after tax of Rs 462.71 crore in the same period a year ago.

Mumbai: Private sector lender HDFC Bank on Monday reported 21.1 percent growth in net profit to Rs 2,233 crore for the quarter ended June 2014.

The bank had earned a net profit of Rs 1,844 crore in the April-June quarter of 2013-14, HDFC Bank said in a statement.

The total income of the bank rose to Rs 13,070.65 crore during the quarter under review, against Rs 11,588.56 crore in the same period last year.

The net interest margin for the bank declined to 4.4 percent in the April-June quarter, against 4.6 percent in the same period of the previous year.

New Delhi: State-run telecom firm MTNL has shown profit of Rs 7,825 crore on books for 2013-14 on account of some write back provisions, Parliament was informed today.

The telecom firm had last posted annual profit of Rs 211.7 crore in 2008-09.

"MTNL has shown profit of Rs 7,825 crore mainly due to write back of provisions on account of pensionary liabilities and spectrum amortization costs after decisions of government taken revival of MTNL," Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad informed Rajya Sabha in a written reply.

MTNL, which operates in Delhi and Mumbai, had posted a loss of Rs 5,321 crore in the year 2012-13.

Kochi: Kerala-headquartered South Indian Bank has recorded the highest first quarter profit of Rs 126.65 crore profit in the first quarter ended June 30, registering a 10.28 percent growth on a year-on-year basis.

Announcing the first quarter results here, V A Joseph, Managing Director and CEO, said the bank's strategy of focusing on core deposits has yielded excellent results as the core deposits and CASA deposits registered impressive growth of 21.05 percent and 14.42 percent, respectively.

Total business increased by Rs 6,058 crore from Rs 75,123 crore to Rs 81,181 crore, registering a growth of 8.06 percent.

New Delhi: Tata Motors on Friday reported a 10.46 percent decline in global sales, including that of Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), to 75,623 units in June.

The company had sold 84,458 units in the same month last year.

In the passenger vehicles category, the global sales last month were at 44,239 units, as against 42,881 units in June 2013, up 3.16 percent, Tata Motors said in a statement.

Sales of luxury brand Jaguar Land Rover rose 17.96 per cent to 36,021 units in June, compared to 30,536 units in the same month last year.

New Delhi, July 9 (ANI-Businesswire India): Rolls-Royce Motor Cars today announced that the company has enjoyed a record half-year in 2014, with sales increasing by 33 per cent worldwide compared with the same period in 2013.

Sales growth was seen in all regions, with a particularly strong performance in Europe, up by over 60 per cent, Asia Pacific up by almost 40 per cent and the Middle East up by over 30 per cent. The United States and China also saw double-digit growth. In Europe, strong performance was seen in Germany, with sales doubling.

London, July 9 - Samsung Electronics has forecast a 25 per cent drop in profit for the second quarter due to a slowdown in the smartphone market and a strong Korean currency.

It expects to make an operating profit of 7.2 trillion Won (USD7.1 billion) in the April-to-June period, down from 9.5 trillion Won a year ago, reports the BBC.

A stronger Korean currency (rising 11 per cent against the dollar) has also hurt Samsung's earnings during the period.

Its operating profit has now fallen for three straight quarters.

New Delhi: Buoyed by excise duty reduction, domestic car sales saw an upswing in June with major firms, Maruti Suzuki, Hyundai, Honda, Mahindra & Mahindra, Toyota and Ford reporting growth.

Yet others such as General Motors India and Tata Motors reported decline in their domestic sales during the month.

The country's largest car-maker Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) said its domestic sales rose 31 percent during the month to 1,00,964 units as against 77,002 units in June 2013.

New Delhi: Private sector insurer HDFC Life on Tuesday said it expects premium growth of up to 15 percent in the current fiscal as the market conditions have improved.

"We expect a growth of 10-15 percent in 2014-15," HDFC Life Senior EVP (marketing) Sanjay Tripathy said.

The company's total premium witnessed 7 percent growth at Rs 12,063 crore in 2013-14, compared to Rs 11,323 crore in the previous fiscal.

Assets Under Management of the company grew by 25 percent to Rs 50,258 crore, from Rs 40,108 crore in 2012-13.

Adobe Systems Inc, the maker of Photoshop and Acrobat software, reported better-than-expected quarterly profit and revenue, helped by higher subscription sales of its Creative Cloud and Marketing Cloud suites.

Adobe`s shares rose 8.6 percent in after-hours trading.

"These results reflect Adobe is continuing to execute well through its transition to the cloud, which continues to be a key ingredient in the company`s long-term recipe for success," FBR Capital Markets analyst Samad Samana told Reuters.

New Delhi: Japanese car maker Nissan today reported over two-fold increase in sales at 5,021 units in India for the month of May.

The company had sold 2,080 vehicles in May 2013, Nissan Group of India said in a statement.

The newly launched brand Datsun GO contributed 1,992 units, it added. Commenting on the sales performance, Nissan Group of India President Kenichiro Yomura said: "Our sales performance has been encouraging since the start of FY'14 and our aim is to continue to remain progressive on our performance.