Man Inds, Pentamedia & Pricol Q3 results

CORPORATE SCORECARD

Man Inds 9-month net up 53%

Man Industries posted 53.05 per cent increase in net profit at Rs 23.05 crore for the nine-month period to December 2005 as compared with Rs 15.06 crore for the same corresponding period last year.

The company has recorded growth of 73.9 per cent at Rs 509.63 crore as against Rs 292.94 crore in the year-ago period.

Pentamedia net up 8%

Entertainment graphics major Pentamedia Graphics has posted net profit of Rs 1.55 crore in the third quarter ended December 2005, up 8 per cent compared from the year-ago period.

Total income for the quarter stood at Rs 26.34 crore, a company release said. Pentamedia's CDBT division is in the final stages of discussion with vendors for setting up a DVD9/DVD10 replication unit.

Pricol net dips 23% to Rs 8.16 cr

Pricol Ltd registered net profit of Rs 8.16 crore for the quarter ended December 2005, down by 22.9 per cent over the Rs 10.67 crore recorded in the corresponding period of the previous year.

The net sales stood at Rs 118.20 crore (Rs 121.12 crore), lower by 2.4 per cent. For the nine months ended December 2005, net profit stood at Rs 22.98 crore (Rs 28.09 crore), down 18.2 per cent. Net sales was Rs 349.70 crore (Rs 330.03 crore), up 5.9 per cent.