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The Company has reaffirmed<br />

its conviction in the sustained<br />

growth potential of its various<br />

business by reporting a healthy<br />

financial performance for the<br />

year 2008-2009, despite the<br />

perilous impact of a global<br />

slowdown.<br />

Chairman’s statement<br />

Ladies and Gentlemen,<br />

I have great pleasure in welcoming you <strong>to</strong> the 20 th Annual General<br />

Meeting of your Company and sharing with you the highlights of<br />

another year of great achievement.<br />

Economic Environment<br />

The year gone by witnessed unprecedented global economic and<br />

business turbulence. The suddenness and severity of the global<br />

fi nancial cr<strong>is</strong><strong>is</strong> caught everybody by surpr<strong>is</strong>e. Though Governments<br />

across continents have responded speedily and in rare un<strong>is</strong>on, the path<br />

<strong>to</strong> recovery <strong>is</strong> expected <strong>to</strong> be long and arduous. Indian economy was<br />

also not immune <strong>to</strong> th<strong>is</strong> shock. While at the macro level, our country has<br />

d<strong>is</strong>played remarkable resilience sustaining relatively high growth rates,<br />

yet several sec<strong>to</strong>rs have been adversely impacted. The fi rst green sign<br />

of revival have started <strong>to</strong> emerge and the world appears less pessim<strong>is</strong>tic<br />

about the future.<br />

As per IMF’s latest forecast, the global economy <strong>is</strong> beginning <strong>to</strong> pull<br />

out of recession and global economic growth during 2010 <strong>is</strong> projected<br />

at 2.5% against a negative growth rate of 1.4% in 2009. The survey of<br />

professional forecasters conducted in backdrop of the fi rst quarter<br />

review of the monetary policy by the Reserve Bank of India, indicates<br />

that the Indian economy <strong>is</strong> projected <strong>to</strong> grow by 6% <strong>to</strong> 6.5% during<br />

the current fi nancial year. India’s strong domestic consumption and<br />

investment drives will continue <strong>to</strong> support healthy rates of growth over<br />

the medium term.<br />

Financial Performance<br />

The Company has reaffi rmed its conviction in the sustained growth<br />

potential of its various business by reporting a healthy fi nancial<br />

performance for the year 2008-2009, despite the perilous impact of a<br />

global slowdown. While the Company’s plastic fi lm business and fl exible<br />

packaging business improved their performance over the previous year,<br />

the fl exible packaging machinery business had <strong>to</strong> bear some impact of the<br />

downturn. Overall, th<strong>is</strong> fi scal year, while the net revenue of your Company<br />

on consolidated bas<strong>is</strong> surpassed the previous year by 24.50%, the net<br />

profi t has grown 69%. The Company achieved on consolidated bas<strong>is</strong>, <strong>to</strong>tal<br />

net revenues of Rs.2160 crores and net profi t of Rs.186 crores including

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