Covid-19 pandemic pushed India's Taj Hotel chain to look to cut costs

The company slumped to a Rs 3.8 billion ($51 million) loss in the six months ended September 30 from a Rs 1.4 billion profit a year earlier

Indian Hotels, the luxury hotel chain run by the Tata Group, used the coronavirus-imposed lockdown to see where it could save costs.
 
“This was the historic opportunity to review our fixed and variable costs,” Chief Executive Officer Puneet Chhatwal said on Wednesday. “The industry never experienced such a revenue decline in last 100 years.”
 
The firm, which owns the iconic Taj brand and operates The Pierre in New York City, didn’t cut any jobs but redeployed some staff elsewhere in the Tata empire, Chhatwal said.
 
The company slumped to a Rs 3.8 billion ($51 million) loss in