MANAGEMENT DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS REPORT CURRENT SCENARIO - Textile Industry Conditions The Textile industry contributes around 6% to India's GDP, 11% to export earnings and is the second largest employer (~whopping 55 million people) after agriculture. The industry has shown continued growth with a potential to increase its global trade share from the current 4.5% to 8% (USD 80 Billion) in the next 5 years supported by a rich abundance of raw material, skilled labour and talent. In FY 2015, the textile industry is estimated to have contributed USD 42 Billion (4%) to India'sGDP, and 27% to the Country's foreign exchange inflows. Being the second largest employer in India coupled with strong industry linkages with the rural economy augurs Indian textile industry as one of the most significant sectors with an incremental growth potential. Rural economy has seen a spurt in income levels the last few years and this is the right time to juxtapose their synergies to promote the industry's growth. Opportunities and Threats For 2015, the U.S. economic growth has been revised up to 3.6 percent, largely due to more robust private domestic demand. Cheaper oil is boosting real incomes and consumer sentiment, and there is continued support from accommodative monetary policy, despite the projected gradual rise in interest rates. Policy responses, together with the oil price boost and Dollar debrciation, are expected to strengthen growth of your company in 2015-16. The growth forecast for China, where investment growth has slowed and is expected to moderate further, has been marked down to below seven percent. The authorities are now expected to put greater weight on reducing vulnerabilities from recent rapid credit and investment growth and hence the forecast assumes less of a policy response to the underlying moderation. This lower growth, however, is affecting the rest of Asia. The big business houses in the USA and Europe manufacturing and dealing in textiles and garments depend upon India, China and the neighbouring countries, due to availability of the raw materials and skilled labour at lower prices in these countries, to get the required output at the lowest possible cost. China, Europe, Japan along with the U.S. (the four largest economies in the world) will largely determine the direction of the global economy through the rest of this year and into 2016. However, the growth prospects are constrained by many challenges including rising input costs (wages, power and interest costs), restrictive labour laws and intensified competition from other low cost countries like Bangladesh. Such issues need to be addressed to result in unlocking maximum industry growth potential. The good news is that the advanced economies overall will perform more strongly and contribute more to global growth in 2015. Outlook The company is taking all efforts to improve the quality and productivity to get more orders at competitive rates. The expansion program by improving efficiency by installation of new and high tech machinery will push volume growth. The company's business is committed to achieve world benchmark quality besides expanding on new product offering from new clients. Further the business will continue to focus on improving its cost competitive position. These measures will ensure the company maintaining its leadership position in the world market. Due to the own processing plant the company is able to quote better rates and maintain safety of products high quality & productivity in the finished goods manufactured. Barring unforeseen circumstances the company is confident of achieving better results in the current year. The key risks for the global economy include China and other emerging markets and the situation in the Middle East and North Africa. The developing nations of Asia are expected to experience a higher rate of growth next year, provided China remains in the 7.0% to 7.1% growth range. Risk and concerns The key Risk management concern include those relating to identifying key risks to our business objectives, impact assessment, risk analysis, risk evaluation, risk reporting and disclosures, risk mitigation and monitoring and integration with strategy and business planning. Risk management refers to the practice of identifying potential risks in advance, analyzing them and taking brcautionary steps to reduce/curb the risk. During the year under review, Risk Assessment and Management was carried out covering the entire gamut of business operations and the Board was informed of the same. Some of the identified risks are Human Risk, Technological Risk, Physical Risk, Economic Risk, Political Risk, Natural Risk, Inflation Risk and Interest Rate Risk Internal Control Systems and their Adequacy The Company has a proper and adequate internal control system to ensure that all assets are safeguarded and protected against loss from unauthorized use or disposition and those transactions are authorised, recorded and reported correctly. The internal control is exercised through documented policies, guidelines and procedures. It is supplemented by an extensive program of internal audits conducted by in house trained personnel. The audit observations and corrective action taken thereon are periodically reviewed by the audit committee to ensure effectiveness of the internal control system. The internal control is designed to ensure that the financial and other records are reliable for brparing financial statements and other data, and for maintaining accountability of persons. Apart from the above the company has engaged M/s Agarwal Pawan Kumar & Co., Chartered Accountant, to conduct Internal Audit during the year 2014-15 Financial and operational performance The financial statements have been brpared in compliance with the requirements of the Companies Act, 2013 and Generally Accepted Accounting Principles in India. Please refer Directors' Report in this respect. The Company is engaged in the blankets business only. Therefore there is only one reportable segment in accordance with the Accounting standard on Segment Reporting (AS-17). Human Resources/Industrial Relations The Company's HR philosophy is to establish and build a high performing organization, where each individual is motivated to perform to the fullest capacity: to contribute to developing and achieving individual excellence and departmental objectives and continuously improve performance to realize the full potential of our personnel. The Company is giving direct employment to 29 employees and 145 workmen. Industrial relations are cordial and satisfactory. |