Country's largest cement maker, ACC announced financial results for year ended December31, 2008. The firm posted 23 per cent decline in net profit following high input costs and low demand in realty sector in the midst of global financial crisis. Its net stood at Rs 1,099 crore in the reporting quarter as compared to Rs 1,427 crore in the same period last year.
London - British Airways (BA) Friday reported a pre-tax loss of 70 million pounds (100 million dollars) in the nine months to 31 December, compared with a profit of 816 million pounds in the same period in 2007.
BA said Friday that the decline in the value of the pound and the airline's high costs in dollars added to pressures of last summer's steep oil price rise.
"The industry continues to face very difficult trading conditions on the back of a weak economic environment," the airline said.
Hinduja Group owned automobile company, Ashok Leyland reported decline in sales in January due to slump in demand and high auto interest rates. The company sold 2,444 units of commercial vehicles in January 2009, registering decline of 73.17% as compared to sales figures of last year.
Tokyo - Sanyo Electric Co on Thursday reported a net loss of 14.33 billion yen (160.33 million dollars) during the quarter that ended December 31 amid the global economic downturn and the yen's surge against the dollar.
The Japanese electronics company logged a net profit of 12.78 billion yen during the same quarter a year earlier.
Sanyo's operating income plunged in its third quarter to 6.87 billion yen from 28.96 billion yen a year earlier.
Sales dropped 22.4 per cent to 427.52 billion yen.
Tokyo - Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd incurred a net loss of 19.2 billion yen (214.7 million dollars) in the October-December quarter because of a strong yen and slow sales amid the global economic downturn, the company said Wednesday.
The conglomerate - which manufactures Subaru cars as well as trains, industrial products and aerospace technology - reported 10 billion yen in profit during the same quarter a year before.
A standalone net loss of Rs 390.93 crore for the third quarter ended December 31 was reported by Suzlon Energy on Friday, the balem of which could be put on forex losses. A net profit of Rs 338.18 crore was registered by the company for the same quarter FY 2008.
In an filing to the Bombay stock exchange, Suzlon Energy said, “The amount for the mark-to-market losses for the third quarter and for the nine-month period ended December stood at Rs 111.40 crore and Rs 202.03 crore, respectively.”