Thank you so much, and good evening, everyone. On behalf of Mrs.

Bectors Food Specialities Limited, I extend a very warm welcome to all participants on our quarter one financial year 2027 earnings call. Joining me on the call today are Mr.

Manu Talwar, our Chief Executive Officer; Mr. Ishaan Bector, Whole-Time Director; Mr.

Suvir Bector, Whole-Time Director; and Mr. Parveen Kumar Goel, Whole-Time Director.

I would also like to take a moment to welcome Mr. Anshul Rastogi, who joins us as our Chief Financial Officer.

He brings with him extensive experience in finance leadership roles at at multinational consumer companies. We also have with us our investor relations advisors from MUFG InTime.

I hope everyone has had an opportunity to review our investor deck and press release, which have been uploaded on the stock exchanges as well as on our company website. FY '26 was the year in which we crossed the ₹2,000 crore revenue mark.

Quarter one of the financial year 2027 is, in many ways, the first test of whether the foundations we built over the last few years can carry us at a faster pace. We are pleased with how the quarter has turned out.

The company reported revenue from op- operations of ₹548.7 crores, a growth of 16% year-on-year and 12.9% over the preceding quarter. Importantly, the growth was accompanied by margin expansion.

EBITDA at ₹72.1 crores grew 23.8% year-on-year, with the EBITDA margin at 13.1%, an improvement of 80 basis points over quarter one of financial year 2026. On a 24-month view, revenue is up 25%.

Delivering both growth and margin in a quarter that carried the full weight of inflation and the West Asia disruption is, we believe, the more meaningful takeaway of this performance. On the demand side, consumption trends have held up better than we had feared at the time of our last call.

Domestic demand remained healthy across both retail and institutional channels, and our export order book strengthened materially despite vessel availability yet to normalize fully after the disruption in this quarter. Barring a further escalation in the West Asia conflict or a sharper sharper turn in food inflation, we remain optimistic on both businesses, underpinned by stable consumption, a continued focus on premiumization, and a sustained investment in brand building.

Our biscuit business reported a revenue of ₹325 crores, registering a growth of 15.7% year-on-year and 19% growth compared to Q1 FY '25. Our bakery business continued its strong growth momentum, delivering re- revenues of ₹215 crores, up 17.5% year-on-year and 40% higher than Q1 FY '25.

The launch of Nature Baked reflects our commitment to addressing emerging consumer trends around healthy and clean label proposition. With our focused efforts, Nature Baked has crossed a monthly revenue rate of ₹1 crore.

Our innovation pipeline continues to strengthen the portfolio with premium, value-added offerings that enhance consumer engagement, improve mix, and support long-term profitable growth. On the marketing front, we stepped up our brand investments in a deliberate way, and this will continue to be an area of committed investment as we as we build long-term brand equity for Cremica and English Oven.

Quick commerce continues to be of strategic significance for us, and grew at 58% year-on-year. Our Calcutta bakery unit, commissioned in quarter four of financial year 2026, is now servicing east markets, and the market has responded encoura- encouragingly.

Khopoli plant in Maharashtra was commissioned in March 2026, and facility is stabilizing well and is expected to scale towards full capacities over coming quarters, strengthening our West footprint. Mumbai remains a high-focus market for English Oven, where we intend to lead with a high-quality premium product offering.

On the international business, quarter one marked a decisive recovery even as the shipment shipping environment remained difficult. Vessel availability has not yet normalized, and freight and logistic costs have risen further.

Despite this, our export business delivered healthy high double-digit growth. Importantly, the US market is back on a gross trajectory for us, and we have backed this recovery with new product launches, including peanut butter, where we are confident of a strong ramp-up in the quarte- in the quarters ahead.

The company has steadi- steadily strengthened its international business through disciplined, calibrated expansion in the last few years, with a focused approach on markets that offer structural profitability and high-growth potential. This quarter quarter is a validation of that approach.

Before I turn to numbers, let me spend a moment on the operating environment. India's growth story remains resilient, but the benign inflation of the early part of the last year has clearly reversed.

Headline consumer inflation has climbed steadily through the year to around 4.4% in June 2026, and the input cost inflation has been defining feature of the quarter for us. The West Asia conflict has been an important con- contributor, though not the only one, and the pressure reached us on three fronts: inflation in raw material and packaging material, escalation in fuel costs, and the consequent impact of the minimum wage hike.

Against this, the mitigation measures we had initiated on a war footing, calibrated price increases, and our insti- institutionalized cost optimization mindset under Project Impact. In other words, the quarter's inflation was very substantially neutralized, leaving only a marginal residual effe- impact.

This is the discipline we intend to carry through the balance of the year, and we expect recovery to be progressively exceed the impact as the price prices increase annualize and the Project Impact interventions mature. Financial performance: Moving to our financial performance for the quarter, the consolidated revenues for the current quarter stood at ₹548.7 crores versus 473 crores in Q1 FY '26, thus registering a growth of 16% on a year-on-year basis and 12.9% on a sequential basis.

Gross profit for the quarter stood at ₹258.9 crores, growth of 20%, with gross margin at 47.2% against 45.6% in Q1 FY '26, reflecting the benefit of price action and cost optimization. EBITDA stood at 72.1 crores, registering a growth of 23.8%.

The EBITDA margin for the quarter stood at 13.1%, an expansion of 18 ba- 80 basis points on Q1 FY '26. PAT stood at 38.8 crores for the quarter, registering a 25.5% on a year-on-year basis.

PAT margins for Q1 FY '27 stood at 7.1%. With this, I request you to open the floor for question and answer.

Thank you so much.

Hi sir, this is Percy Panthaki here. I just wanted to understand what is the domestic biscuit sales growth for this quarter, please?

Hello, am I audible?

Hello? Hello, can you hear me?

Sir,

yes. I just wanted to know the domestic biscuit sales growth for the quarter.

It has been high single-digit.

Okay. Is it largely volume-driven or is there any pricing element in the domestic biscuits?

No, it is pricing and volume both in this.

Understood. Secondly, just wanted to talk about the overall margins for the company.

What is the likely margin that you're looking at for this year given where the commodity prices are currently? How are you thinking about what it would be in the next couple of years given whatever your cost-saving plans or scale leverage, etc.?

Okay.

Let me brief a little bit in detail on this to you. First thing is, obviously, as the Managing Director's speech also said, there has been inflationary trend on account of war, on account of commodity prices going up, on account of fuel.

That impact, but we have been trying to take proactive actions both on the pricing side and the cost side to cover it as much as possible. Quarter one, we have been able to cover up to the maximum extent.

Quarter two, again, the impact seems to be a little larger on account of commodity price increase, and we have already initiated actions. Quarter two could be a quarter where we will be able to cover most of it, not entirely, but quarter three again we will be fully covered.

On the margin side, if you would have noticed that we have been improving quarter-on-quarter for past two, three quarters, and so have we done in this quarter. Our target still remains that by quarter four of this financial year, which get to our 14% EBITDA target.

That's a journey plan we have. In spite of the fact that we have quite a fair amount of inflationary trend on account of commodity prices and the fuel impact as well as the minimum wage impact.

The pricing action and The Impact program also, which we started about 2 years back, that's running well, and we expect this year to deliver almost close to 0.4 to 0.5% coming out of our cost Impact program. I hope this takes care of your query.

Yes. Understood, sir.

On the exports part, just wanted to understand this quarter, was there any kind of pipeline refill which has happened because the growth would have sort of got affected earlier? Therefore, would it be fair to say that we should not extrapolate this quarter's export growth going ahead?

Hi Percy. What I would say is that we had a couple of projects that had slowed down during the US tariffs, but they are now back on track.

Like our MD also mentioned that we've launched peanut butter cracker as a variety. We've successfully added another SKU with the biggest retailer in the US, like Walmart.

All right. That is a consistent business that we aim to grow.

Our objective is that we're going to keep adding SKUs with the existing partners and keep adding new ones. What we're anticipating is that the growth momentum is always going to be there.

We're already engaging with clients who we've been talking to since a year back, and their projects have started converting now. The growth momentum will always be there for exports, right?

It's not only for the US, all the other territories as well are There is no sort of Sorry, I lost your voice. What did you say?

I'm saying there is nothing sort of exceptional this quarter in terms of restocking from the earlier sort of slowdown that we've seen. This quarter growth is all sort of something which is pertaining to this quarter's demand only.

Is that the case, or is there some restocking which has happened this quarter?

No. There's no restocking as such.

This is all the growth that's pertaining to this quarter and some new innovations that we've launched have started clicking with retailers. There's no restocking as a thing that's happened with us.

Okay. Because March month would have been sort of affected for exports, right?

You would not have been able to export because of the geopolitical tensions in March. Those shipments would have spilled into this quarter, which would have propped up this quarter's exports growth, or that's not the case?

Again the MD mentioned, because of the geopolitical crisis, we had shipments on delay for the June month as well, right? It all sort of balances out towards the end,

right?

We didn't see any refilling or restocking as an impact from March to June right now.

Okay. For the rest of the year also, a high-teens growth for the company overall, which we have done this quarter, that same kind of growth can continue because there's no one-off as such this quarter.

That understanding is correct?

Percy, our full-year projection continues that we are targeting to hit around mid-teens kind of growth. There is a seasonality also, which makes a difference.

We still stick to our projections of mid-teens kind of Mid-teen revenue growth.

Understood. Sir.

Thank you so much.

Hi. Good evening.

Just a few things from my end. First was again on the margins.

If you look at the sequential improvement not only in your EBITDA, but in your gross margin also, there has been an improvement here from about 46-odd to 47-odd percent. What would you attribute that to, given the fact that inflationary trends have only accelerated from Q4 to Q1?

I know you did speak about mitigation, but there has actually been an acceleration. Is this Q1-specifically a product category mix differential also that plays out?

That's the first. The second question was on the opex side of things.

This quarter, you have seen a bump-up in the other expenses. Would you attribute that largely to, say, the freight cost challenges as well as the brand investments that you have done?

Would these be the two key factors driving up the opex growth? These are my first two questions.

Harit, good evening. Yes, on the gross margin, primarily the impact is on account of improvement in both sides, biscuit, bakery.

There is also a role of a business mix, and there's a slight improvement in the bakery business mix because of the higher growth if you look at that. That has also added to that bit of margin improvement, which is reflecting there in gross margin.

Yes, opex, you're absolutely right. It is on account of two items, which is freight and fuel.

Freight on the onward side and the large part is on the fuel, which basically the plant consumption for the manufacturing. Second, yes, we have upped our marketing investment.

The freight costs is there.

Yeah. Freight cost, yes.

Right. Got it, right.

The second bit was on breads, you just mentioned product mix improvement, etc. The growth has also been quite strong this quarter.

Is there a significant difference between how the retail business under English Oven and Nature Baked has done versus the institutional business? Because institutional also would have seen some pickup given what's happening on the QSR side.

Just wanted to get a color if you even if you can't give exact numbers, on how that mix has shifted in the 17% growth.

No. First is that overall bakery has done well, right?

That's why you see overall bakery growth percentage is higher than the overall biscuit growth. That was a mix I was referring to.

Yes,

both English Oven and the QSR business have grown well. The good news is, Harit, that we clearly seeing very positive trends after many quarters on the QSR business, and very, very confident trends are here to continue now.

Clearly, that industry is now back on a upswing.

Got it. My last question was on breads.

You added capex in Calcutta, and you said the offtakes have been quite encouraging. Would this be on retail as well as institutional, or the Calcutta foray is only in one of the two segments?

Just one clarification on that. Those are my questions.

No, Harit, it is both segments. Both have started moving well for us, both on the English Oven side as well as the QSR side, and we are in the process of build-up.

What the speech of MD referred to that, we are delighted that strength of English Oven as a brand and the quality of the product is clearly reflecting in our very newer market of East through the consumers, right? English Oven is very well accepted and appreciated on English Oven's on the our bakery product side, and it's is reflecting good trend.

Yes, it is on the both both sides, English Oven as well as QSR.

Great. Wish the team all the best.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Hi sir. Thank you for the opportunity.

My question is on the EBITDA margin front. Could you please provide some sense of the EBITDA margin profile across all the four business segments?

I'm not looking for the exact margin, but could you indicate whether our EBITDA margin for each segment is above or below the company average? Because in our view, the domestic biscuit margin is operating at every significantly lower side versus our company's average.

Could you please just let us know if our understanding is broadly correct or is there any significant deviation in our view? Yeah.

Yeah. As we have said earlier also, our bakery business EBITDA is above our company average, and our biscuit business EBITDA is slightly below our company average.

That's how the EBITDA margins of both the businesses stand out.

Any idea, sir, what kind of margins we are making in domestic biscuits?

We don't share that. We can separately discuss in the meeting, but as of now, as a principle, we haven't shared that.

Understood, sir. Secondly, on the domestic biscuits, since we aspire to grow in a mid-teens sort of growth for domestic biscuits, just wanted to know what structural initiatives are we undertaking in the domestic biscuit business, specifically on on-ground execution front, to achieve this target?

This is on the domestic biscuits.

There are three drivers to that. One, obviously, distribution.

As we have briefed that this year, we have taken a target of adding 40,000 billed outlets above ₹200 per outlet, so that's almost increase in billed outlets by 12, 13% over the previous year. Second is that we are focusing largely in a 400-kilometer from our manufacturing in Punjab.

That area is being invested and driven more. Third is that, as I said, that we are upped our marketing investment.

We're investing behind the brand. While three of our lead variety brands, which are coconut, which is becoming a clear-cut leader in the industry with continued high growth, then we have Bourbon, which continues to be in the second number in the industry, and Digestive is again continues to be leading in that category.

Over and above this, we are investing behind our premium creams and premium cookies, right, to drive our premium contribution in the business. These two are being invested behind, both on the distribution as well as on the marketing side, to build that business over the next few quarters to come.

Alongside, we'll be investing in some of the high premium products like shortbread, which is going on e-commerce continuously quarter-on-quarter in a very healthy rate, and similarly butter cookies and some other varieties. These are the levers of revenue growth for the Cremica biscuits initiative.

Understood. Sir, we have opened a new plant in MP, but on the other hand, Britannia and Parle are remain very aggressive in biscuit market, if I call it, MP, UP, Gujarat, Rajasthan.

What is our right to win in this market? Are we going to offer a tactical additional trade input to the retailers, or how we are going to attract the new distributors and new retailers?

First thing, just to clarify, the MP plant which has been opened for both exports because it's brought it closer to the port plus we had a fiscal incentive supported by the government. We're manufacturing there largely export as of now.

We have started investing in the central market, which is MP and some part of Maharashtra and Gujarat. This journey of investing in this market is in the distribution side, largely on the distribution side as of now.

We're very confident over the next few quarters, you should start seeing there will not be any instant large results coming in out of that, but it will be a continuous investment over the next few quarters and start seeing some good movement of Cremica brand in these territories.

Sir. Just looking for two data points.

One is for domestic biscuits. What is our current revenue contribution is coming from the non-Upper North market when we compare with 3 years ago?

Second is what kind of contribution is coming from the existing clients for export business?

What is the second question?

What kind of our percentage contribution coming from your existing customer in export market?

Okay. Suvir will answer second one.

On the first one, we have now almost reached 50% our general trade business, 50% comes from Upper North, 50% comes from rest of India. Suvir, please you can answer on the export.

Yeah. More than 95% or 98% business would be the existing.

The thing is that the existing customers, we are consistently and continuously adding newer SKUs to them in the form of innovation to grow their share in the market. I hope that answers the question.

That 2, 3% is coming from the newer clients, what efforts we are taking to increase this share to near double digits over the coming three, four quarters?

We have a very wide team who are consistently traveling across the world wherever the markets are. We are analyzing data.

We are in touch with top-tier retailers as well as distributors to start engaging with our products, and hopefully, we'll start seeing conversions as well. This is a general trend that keeps on going because for a retailer to materialize, the conversion time is a bit longer.

We are in active discussions with a lot.

Understood, sir. Thank you so much.

Thank you.

Sir. Thank you for the opportunity, and congrats on good margins.

I wanted to know on the price increase that you would have taken one whenever the input inflation goes up, what was the input inflation? Does the price increase in the institutions bakery side of the business as well as export, is it a easy pass-through?

What was the price increase in domestic bakery as well as domestic biscuits, if you could highlight that?

Impact on account of inflation has been around one around 1-odd percent over the last year, price one 1 to 2% approximately. The price increase which we have taken, where the partial impact would have come in first quarter and the balance will come into quarter two because price increase happened during the quarter, the price increase has been on overall as a company around 2 to 3%.

You can say in the consumer side of the business, which is English Oven and Cremica, about 2%

price increase. 2 to 3% is the total price increase taken or it is in this quarter it is effective 2 to 3%?

No,

no, no. Total price increase taken so far is around 2,

2.5%

in the consumer business, which is English Oven and Cremica. This quarter has seen a partial impact of that because the price increase was taken during the quarter.

Okay. Cost inflation was just 1%, is that, on a YoY basis?

About 1.5% approximately was the inflationary impact for this quarter. The next quarter is higher.

The quarter two is much higher. You see, the large part of inflationary impact started coming towards end of this quarter.

More challenging quarter is quarter two.

Okay. Just on the freight cost part, I understand we have now facility in MP which will cater to both the export as well as to domestic market.

Would you be able to quantify the savings because earlier you were kind of transporting from the North to JNPT or the export ports?

We will be definitely able to quantify the freight difference between Punjab versus

there

of our export shipment. Amit, what I would request that we will definitely get back to you over the mail on this information.

I won't have ready information as of now.

Sure, sure. Sir, just to get an idea, you indicated 14% margin.

I could not understand that. That is you are saying by the end of the quarter it'll be closer to 14%, or you were referring to 14% margin for the full year of FY '27?

No,

no, what I was referring to, Amit, like we have this delivered 13.1% EBITDA in this quarter. Although the inflation of commodity prices and packaging material has been pretty steep and the large impact is coming in quarter two, but our endeavor will be to keep improving.

Endeavor is that by in the quarter four, in the quarter four, we should get to 14% EBITDA, right?

Quarter

four target is to to kind of achieve 14% EBITDA for that quarter.

Got it. Got it.

Got it. Over a medium term, we are

Sure, thanks.

Hi Anoop sir and Manu sir. Good evening.

Thank you for the opportunity. I have two questions.

The first question in the export market, what is our contribution as on date in the US and Europe separately? What was that number one year before?

Please go ahead.

No, no, Manu ji, please.

We are today touching close to 23, 25% in US, right? It has built over last 3, 4 years.

I won't have last one year number as of now ready with me, but yes, it has grown over last 4 years' time.

No, Manu sir, what

In fact, I have the numbers. I think the contribution in last year Q1, it is actually doubled.

Then our last quarter. Last quarter '26 to this quarter '27, we have actually doubled.

Okay. Anoop sir, the reason why I was asking, last one year, we have seen a lot of tariff issues in the US.

Actually, you're saying our business has doubled. I'm not sure if the tariff

Doubled means at the percentage what we're doing, right, at the percentage. US doesn't happen to be our biggest market.

Okay.

Yeah. It's from what we were doing, now what we are doing is double.

Just one quick check on this, how the US customers are now reacting? Because I heard Suvir is talking about we are introducing new products and new segments.

Then is there any indication in the current context is the customers because you mentioned Walmart has also picked up some product. Mhm.

I'm just checking, what is the customers giving you feedback in terms of demand? Obviously, the tariff issue will get settled over a period of time.

Customers are very optimistic from buying from India. The great part is that even when the tariffs were there, none of the customers stopped working with us on future capabilities and future projects, right?

They've put an immense faith in our organization looking at our capabilities and the technology that we have. Retailers are still coming down to India.

They're visiting us and retailers are co-creating products with us, which are as per the US standard. From my point of view, all the major customers, distributors are very optimistic from buying from India.

That's helpful. My second and last question, we heard in the morning the market leader has rejuvenated the efforts in terms of key states and other states in terms of advertising and in terms of sales restructuring also.

In that context, how this competition is behaving in our key states like Upper North and maybe you can say Punjab and other places?

Competition continues to be very intense on the biscuit side and in Upper North especially. From a competition intensity point of view, competition continues to be intense in the North India.

Okay. No, just wanted to check, Manu sir, is that require our spend also has to go up in line to maintain the share of voice?

We did that. That's why I said, if you remember when I asked to Mr.

Harit that our other expenses have gone up and our marketing investments have gone up. Yes, we have done that both on our trade promotion side as well as marketing side.

Okay.

That's really helpful. Thank you, and all the best.

Thank you.

Hi. Good evening.

My first question is what is our geography-wise revenue contribution, and how do you expect this to evolve going forward?

Our large part of revenues in general trade comes from North India only, right? We expect that contribution of North India should continue to as of now remain for the next few quarters, I don't see any change.

North India, and especially the 400 kilometers from our Punjab plant, will continue to be the high-focus area for us for driving the growth. Thus, contribution of North India, which is about 85-odd percent, will continue to be around that.

I think you also need to speak about the bakery side because bakery we've invested heavily in

In the English Oven side again, our as of now revenue is about approximately 80% from North India. In the North India also, now I would like to highlight one thing.

In the North India, about 3, 4 years back, our almost 75, 80% of the revenue used to come from NCR, right, Delhi NCR. We started investing in the upcountry, which was Haryana, Rajasthan, UP.

I'm glad to share that our continuous effort over the last 3 years to 4 years investing in the upcountry territory, our revenues have now become almost equal in the NCR as well as upcountry. Upcountry continues as a growth engine.

Now in the North India, we are investing in Punjab, right? We're very confident that Punjab being one of the very large bakery markets for North India, we should be able to see good gains there over the next few years to come.

Now coming to the West India. The West India, our brand was always a preferred brand, a strong brand, but we were short on our capacities, right?

Now we invested in a new plant in Khopoli, which is a state-of-the-art plant, and which has been, as said in the speech, has been commissioned in the March of the last quarter, and is in the stabilization state. We will be doing huge amount of investment on distribution in Bombay, Pune, and some other parts of Maharashtra, and it will be a speedy growth for us over the next few years.

We literally want to grow at a very high double-digit, and we will be growing at a very high double-digit in the years to come in the Western side of India, right? Then next comes our investment in Bangalore.

We've shortlisted the plant location, which is getting ready, and we will be investing in Bangalore in the new lines because there again we were very, very short on capacity. The Karnataka market and from Bangalore to Chennai market, right, will become a good source of growth.

We launched in the last quarter in Hyderabad, which is also kind of moving well. As briefed in the speech also, Calcutta market, where we launched, and we have started ramping up there on our English Oven brand as well as on the QSR business.

Yes, we see over the next 4 years, there should be substantial build-up of our business, which is non-North, on English Oven side. We have a clear-cut aspiration to become a pan-India strong English Oven brand, and we be walking in that direction.

That's why we're launching in new cities, we added more capacity, a new plant in Bombay, we'll be adding in Bangalore, Calcutta started. Over the next few years, definitely, we will be a pan-India very strong bakery brand in English Oven.

Alongside, what happened, and which was again expressed by MD in the speech, we launched a clean label health brand called Nature Baked. Nature Baked has started ramping up very, very well.

We've just touched a run rate of ₹1 crore revenue per month, and we expect that also to ramp up in quarter-after-quarter and to become a very strong clean label bakery product brand over the next few years' time. I thought I'd just take a opportunity to brief in detail.

Sir. Thank you, helpful.

Sir, but from the export side, US is our biggest market. Is the understanding correct?

It is one of the largest markets, but US, South America, and Africa would be our three largest territories.

Okay. What would be the contribution coming from South Africa?

It's

Other regions?

I meant Africa, the split would be somewhere around all the three markets would be around 20, 25-odd percent.

US is

No, three

are

in the 20 to 25.

Okay. Okay.

Sir, what would be the volume and

This is my second question, ma'am, can I continue with this?

Yeah. Sir, what would be the volume and value growth for the overall and segment-wise?

Suveer, I'll just take it. The revenue growth and the volume growth has been in this quarter high double-digit, and the whole growth has been largely led by volumes in exports.

Okay. Thank you.

Hello sir, thank you for the opportunity. Sir, my first question was on the revenue side.

Firstly, the B2B business, we've not done fairly well in the last 2 years. If you can touch upon the issue that we faced in the last 2 years and what have we done recently in the current quarter or the past few quarters to correct it that we say that we're seeing uptake in revenues?

The second thing, sir, in B2C biscuits, a 9% growth on a fairly low base, is that a run rate that we should be working with for the full year, or you see an improvement given your efforts on distribution, to become the growth rate to become better going forward? Sir, on the export side, although you had so many challenges, you've done a fairly good job.

I just wanted to understand how the momentum is shaping up for the next few quarters. Thanks.

The first question was on the revenue side, right?

The B2B bakery B2B business, exports,

yeah. Yeah.

See, B2B business, basically, B2B bakery business is a QSR business. We all know that QSR across all the QSR were on a lower growth trajectory.

The good news was that these all the QSR were very bullish of investing in India, and they continue to invest in new stores and keep opening. Looks like the tide has turned, and in this quarter, there has been a good double-digit growth in this B2B segment, and we'll be confident this trend to continue in the coming quarters, right?

That's on the revenue side. On our biscuit side, yes, our clear-cut aim for this full year is to deliver a low-teens kind of growth.

We are confident that on a four-quarter basis, on a full-year basis, we should be able to deliver a low double-digit kind of growth on the biscuit side, right? On our export side, I'll request Suvir to take on the momentum.

On the momentum, what we're anticipating is a good growth within this quarter as well and the future quarters, where like we've been seeing it in the past, we're anticipating a mid-teen growth coming in.

Sure. I'm assuming that the bakery business and the export business is order book-linked and hence we're confident of growing these two at a high growth rate.

Is that assumption right?

Sorry, come again?

Sir, I'm assuming that the B2B business, both on the bakery side and the biscuit exports, are order book-linked. The assumptions of growth that we spoke about are sanguine and could continue for the full year, right?

No,

no, just to clarify to you, in both these businesses, we don't have any long order book. We get orders on a month-to-month basis, right?

It's not that like projects and other thing where you get 6 months or 9 months' orders. There's nothing like that.

It's a month-on-month order we get, and based on we deliver. We are talking based on the trends, and so we be confident based on the trend that these trends should be there to continue.

Both are in a bakery business, we should deliver some low-teens kind of growth, and at export, we should deliver close to mid-teens kind of growth.

Sure. Sir, my last question is on the margin profile.

You have done well in this quarter despite the raw material issue. You're calling out a sequential improvement in the next three quarters.

You're also sounding out on the impact that you'll see in the Q2. I just wanted to understand how the sequential improvement has been forecasted for the company despite having freight issue, despite having the need to do more marketing, there's a raw material inflation in terms of the crude packaging cost and general freight cost.

Just wanted to understand, despite all these headwinds, how are we looking at sequential improvement in margins?

Okay. As I said that quarter two impact on commodity prices is much sharper.

We have taken action, and we are taking actions on the pricing as well as cost side, and I had earlier referred to the Project Impact also, right, where also the cost savings would kind of accelerate over the coming quarters. Based on that, we may not see a major improvement in the quarter two because heavy impact coming, and the actions which we have taken will compensate partially in the next quarter and fully in the quarter three.

Based on these projections and the action taken by us, we're very confident that in the quarter four, we want to get to and we should get to delivering 14% in the quarter four.

Okay. You announced the Bangalore capex, how big could that capex be in any size that you could share?

Also, sir, can you call out the capex amount that we invested for the Calcutta, Maharashtra, and the Indore plant? What kind of asset turns and what kind of scoping in terms of revenues possible from the recent capex that you've done?

In terms of capex, which we have invested or investing this year, on current price levels, can cover us up to approximately 3,400, 3,500 crores, right? That is it.

B, our Calcutta was a small investment, which plant was commissioned last year, it was a small investment approximately, which I remember, around 20-odd crores, right? C, you asked me how much is the total investment.

One is a spillover of investment of last year into this year, capitalization is happening this year. There is a some bit of new investment, which is coming up in this year to ramp up our capacities.

Okay. If you could just share the amount for this year, the capex that was pending from last year, that is one.

The Bangalore one, how big are we planning the capex amount for the Bangalore facility?

Bangalore capex is still under finalization, right, in terms of final ordering of machines and all that. This year, our approximate investment should be, other than the spillover of last year, this should be closer to 200 crores.

Okay. Sure,

got it, sir. Sir, although one last question, because we have quite focused on

Sure. Thanks.

Hi team, thank you for taking my question, and congratulations on good set of numbers. I have two questions.

My first question is on very similar line for domestic biscuit business. What I want to understand is basically we always talk about growing in mid-teens volume for the business.

How internally we break this down between gaining market share and growing with the industry? What is our assumed industry growth when we are assuming mid-teens growth for the domestic biscuit volumes?

Just come again. What are you asking, how do we break down between

Basically, how we think when we say mid-teens volume growth in the domestic biscuit, how we break it down between gaining market share and growing with the industry?

Okay. First thing is that we are talking this year to deliver low-teens growth, and over the 4-year period till 2030, we want to deliver mid-teens kind of growth.

That's the aim. In terms of growth, we're confident that because industry is growing at high single-digit, and we're planning to achieve a low-teens kind of growth, it should definitely reflect in a improvement in our market share in North India.

Got it. Sir, my second question is basically we are talking about ending our EBITDA margin at 14% as end of this year.

From a medium to long-term perspective, for whatever initiatives we are taking and the revenue mix changing for next 2 to 3 years, how we see all this translating into our EBITDA margin gains?

Over a period of next 3 to 4 years, say, by 2030 financial year, we want to hit EBITDA closer to 16%. That's the aim as of now, somewhere between 15 to 16%.

You see, only thing which we need to keep in mind that over the next 4 years' time, we also targeting a very aggressive growth in the next four financial years. Leaving aside this financial year, we're targeting aggressive growth, and we want to hit a next milestone, like we hit a milestone of 2,000 crores this year, we want to hit a next milestone of 4,000 crores, right?

There's a fair amount of investment, which will also go in expanding our distribution, in marketing, opening up new geographies, right, there.

Got it.

Yes, on a long-term basis, getting closer to 16 over next 4 years' time would be the aim.

Got it, sir. Sir, just one last follow-up on the same.

When we are saying we are seeing aggressive growth for next 3 to 4 years, ideally, how should we see or how should we keep a tab on it from basically domestic biscuit perspective? What things should we track, distribution reach or what you think will lead to this growth?

You see, as I explained earlier, the driver will be three, a triangular approach. One is distribution.

Second is marketing investment, making Cremica brand stronger. Just to update, we are in the process of finalizing our brand study also.

Third is a driving the premium category, where we are investing now behind premium creams and premium cookies. These three are the levers, which will be driver of revenue growth over the next few years to come.

Got it. Thanks a lot, sir.

Hi sir. Am I audible?

Yeah.

Congratulations on a great set of numbers. Just a couple of questions.

Just regarding the excess duty situation that we had discussed over the past couple of quarters, right? We were getting some rebates and they were taken off.

What's the situation there? In general, as an extension to that question, could you also discuss for key markets, what kind of excise duty situation we have currently going on?

Sorry, just clarify your question once again. You're talking about regarding some of our export incentives or

Yes. My understanding is that we used to have some incentives that we don't anymore,

and

we were looking for ways to remedy that. As an extension to that question, I just wanted you to maybe give me a little more details on the US, EU, and Africa in general, right?

What the duty structure there is like and how you are getting this incentive? Or you used to get it?

The incentives are still not happening. Nothing on the incentive side from the government yet.

Repeat your second question, please?

No, I just wanted to understand what kind of duties you're paying for each market.

We don't pay duties. The duties are being paid by the importer, right?

Currently with FTAs happening, New Zealand is a market for us, FTAs just happened there. UK is turning out to be a good market for us, we were there, now we are looking at bigger gains.

Wherever FTAs are happening and otherwise, the importer has to pay the duty, we would actually not know exactly what duties each of the countries are paying.

Got it. One more thing that I just wanted to clarify is, a couple of calls back or even the last call, we discussed the capex cycle, right?

We were supposed to be over with one big capex cycle and investments were supposed to moderate. Maybe long-term view next 5 years, I understand that our current revenue potential at the capacity that we have and we are going to add is around 3,500 crores, right?

We aspire to do let's just say something around 4,000 crore by FY '30. Considering the addition of some small capacity in the future, what should we expect the capex run rate to be like?

Where will the funding come from? Any clarity on that would be great.

In terms of capacity, the capacity which I shared with you, which take us that's on the current prices, right? We know every year there is some bit of price increase.

Second, it doesn't include Bangalore, right? That will get added to that.

These two will be additional. Plus, as our business is growing, looks like there will definitely need to invest in some more capacities to grow in those respective territories, right?

We are in the process of working out. In terms of adding and in terms of, cash flow side, if you would have looked at our debt-equity ratio is more than comfortable.

We normally do a bridge between borrowing and investing our own money. Even in this year, the additional capex which we're planning to do in this particular year, it will be almost 60% 60% coming out of our own funds, and 40% would be borrowed funds.

That we do a do mix. As you can see, our debt-equity ratio continues to be healthy and comfortable.

Got it, sir. Thanks.

Maybe just one bookkeeping question if I can squeeze it in.

Sure. Thanks a lot, sir.

Yeah.

Hi. Thanks for the opportunity.

Sir, just wanted to understand what would be the contract manufacturing mix in the overall top line on full-year basis, if you can provide some number. On the export side, what would be the mix?

Our contract manufacturing, as our focus has been growing our business, it's just about 1, 1.5% now, right? As far as export contribution is concerned, export contribution now is kind of touching almost close to 35-odd percent here.

Okay. Sir, just your thoughts, instead of focusing on in-house manufacturing, wouldn't it make more sense to invest more on the brand side because that Cremica and English Oven are known brands, increase the distribution, use the capital more efficiently on the branding side?

Any thoughts on that side?

First thing, should we invest more on brand? 100% we should.

If you look at our trajectory over the last 4 years, we have more than doubled our investment on brand, and that trajectory will keep enhancing that, right? On our consumer brand, approximately, if I remember a number, we now almost touching 4% on our consumer business of Cremica and English Oven.

Objective is to keep further strengthening and moving up. Coming to the manufacturing, yes, we do use some bit of contract manufacturing, not much.

In future, should we be using a little more than what we are doing today, maybe yes. I think that one very important thing to understand from us, and right yesterday also I was in market somewhere in upcountry of North India where both English Oven and Cremica were there, and one thing which creates a differentiation for us is quality of our products.

The quality of our product is our biggest asset. Like I was giving you example of Calcutta, Calcutta, nobody knows our brand English Oven, right?

We launched it. Consumers are trying it, consumers are loving it.

I did a Calcutta market 30 days back, and same is our response on the quick commerce sites, right? Yes, we're very conscious of quality and the standard we deliver to our consumers because that's being the forte and that's our driver of growth for us.

Should we leverage contract manufacturing more? Definitely, we are planning that.

Got it. Fair enough, sir.

Thank you so much. That's it from my end.

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