The growth in sales and profits of eight personal care manufacturing companies declined to record lows during the 12 months ended March 2002.
According to a sample of eight personal care products companies, aggregate sales growth was a meagre 0.2 per cent, while net profit rose by 9.74 per cent.
The grow in sales was the lowest for the companies after recording the first single-digit sales growth in 1998-99.
Also, for the first time the companies