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India Inc.'s profit growth slows, dragged by input, interest costs.(Financial report)

Business Line

| October 30, 2011 | COPYRIGHT 1999 Kasturi & Sons Ltd. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Aarati Krishnan

Profit growth for India Inc decelerated sharply in the latest September quarter, the initial set of quarterly results from NSE-listed companies

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Profits for the 300 companies (excluding finance and banks), which have so far declared their numbers, expanded by just 13 per cent in July-September 2011 over a year ago.

The same companies did much better in the June quarter, reporting a 24 per cent year-on-year profit growth. Rising interest costs and input prices were the two main reasons for the lower profit growth.

Input pressures remain

Even as sales for these companies increased by 26 per cent, raw …

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