NTC eyes Rs 2,000 cr sales turnover by 2013-14

NEW DELHI: State-owned National Textiles Corporation (NTC) today said its sales turnover is likely to touch the Rs 2,000-crore mark by 2013-14 from Rs 675 crore in last fiscal.

"We aim to Rs 2,000 crore turnover from core business by 2013-14. The way we are moving, it is not an impossible task," NTC Chairman K Ramachandran Pillai told PTI.

NTC had reoported nearly four-fold increase in its total income in FY'11 to Rs 2,741 crore. However, a lion's share in that (Rs 2,011 crore) was contributed by proceeds of sales of mill lands in Mumbai and Ahmedabad.

Revenue from its core operation though grew by 40 per cent over the previous fiscal to Rs 675 crore.

Pillai said decks are ready for the company to move from a single product firm (yarn) to the entire spectrum of textile business -- spinning, processing, garmenting and weaving.

Apart from spending Rs 1,000 crore capex in the current fiscal to jack up spinning capacity to 7.8 lakh spindles from 6.4 lakh now, NTC is also set to expand its business in the ready-made garment business by this fiscal-end.

"We will produce garments in our integrated units in Hassan (Karnataka) and in Amravati (Maharastra)," Pillai said.

Sensing that the expansion into the growing business will provide the much-needed boost on its topline, NTC also plans to revamp its 92 retail outlets, 37 of which are profit-making now.

The company would also invest Rs 425 crore in association with a joint venture partner to foray into the manufacturing of technical textiles to cash in on the burgeoning demand from healthcare and infrastructure sectors.

Pillai said the joint venture firm would set up two units -- one each in Northern and Southern India -- and the land required for putting up the plants have already been acquired.