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Alembic net up to Rs 12.25 cr, sales at Rs 292 cr
Our Bureau, Mumbai | Tuesday, July 28, 2009, 08:00 Hrs  [IST]

Alembic Ltd, a Rs 1100 crore Vadodara-based pharma major, has announced strong bottom line during the first quarter ended June 2009 as against a net loss due to foreign exchange loss in the corresponding period of last year. The company earned a net profit of Rs 12.25 crore as compared a net loss of Rs 4.70 crore. Its net sales went up by 26.7 per cent to Rs 290.64 crore from Rs 229.34 crore

The company's export sales moved up to Rs 133.97 crore from Rs 114.13 crore, a growth of 17.4 per cent and its domestic sales increased by 29.6 per cent to Rs 158.52 crore from Rs 122.27 crore in the quarter ended June 2008. Total sales to regulated market increased by 33 per cent to Rs 109 crore from Rs 83 crore.

The profit before interest, depreciation and taxation also increased by 29.8 per cent to Rs 30.76 crore from Rs 23.70 crore. The company incurred R&D expenditure of Rs 9.23 crore during the quarter ended June 2009 as compared to Rs 8.52 crore in the corresponding period of last year. It has launched two ANDAs in US market during the quarter. It filed one ANDA and its cumulative total reached to 20 ANDAs and 32 DMFs till the end of first quarter of 2009-10.

Alembic has bought back 21,21,882 equity shares as at the end of June 2009, at an average price of Rs 35.28 for a total consideration of Rs 7.49 crore, which is about 22.69 per cent of the total buy-back size of Rs 33 crore.

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