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Honda Civic bags ‘NDTV Profit Car & Bike Award’ Car of the Year
MUMBAI: Hero Honda CBZ X-Treme & Honda Civic were named as the best bike and the best car of 2006 at the annual ‘NDTV Profit Car & Bike India Awards’ event in Mumbai. Honda Civic and TVS Apache won the Viewers’ Choice awards and the Marketing Team award went to General Motors. Mr. Anand Mahindra was awarded the ‘NDTV Profit Car & Bike Automobile Man of the Year’.
Speaking on the occasion, Honda Siel Cars India president and CEO M Takedagawa said, ‘Civic has done us proud across the world with its style, technology and its ability to adapt ongoing innovation and its heartening to know it’s the same for India’.
Hero Honda managing director Pawan Munjal while accepting the Bike of the year for CBZ X-Treme said, ‘This award is a tribute to Hero Honda and all in the Hero Honda family’.
Mahindra and Mahindra vice chairman and managing director Anand Mahindra on being awarded Automotive Man of the Year award said, ‘I am happy to receive the award from a prestigious and credible organization like NDTV and I dedicate this award to the entire Mahindra team’.
The second edition of ‘CNB-AAA Awards 2007’, in association with Car India and Bike India was witnessed by the nation’s top professionals corporate honchos from the auto industry. The NDTV Profit Car and Bike awards celebrates the best design, unmatched technology, style and performance in the automobile industry and awards the best vehicles that dominated the markets.
CNB-AAA Awards is an attempt to award the best in the automobile industry as showcased in the Car and Bike and All About Ads shows. The event was presented across 30 different categories at a special awards ceremony at Mumbai.
Some of the unique award categories that were incorporated this year included best commercial vehicles awards, vehicle Design and imported vehicles award.
** Winners in respective categories:
Cars
Honda Civic – Car of the Year
Maruti and General Motors – Car Manufacturer of the Year.
The category saw a tie between the two automobile manufacturers.
Chevrolet Aveo U-VA – Small Car of the Year
Hyundai Verna – Mid-size Car of the Year
Honda Civic – Executive Car of the Year
Toyota Camry – Premium Car of the Year
Honda CR-V- SUV of the Year
Audi Q7- Import SUV of the Year
Porsche 911 Carrera 4S- Import Car of the Year
Aspire Asymmetric Tyre, Apollo Tyres – Automotive Product of the Year
ABS ESP from MICO BOSCH – Automotive Technology of the Year
Bikes
Hero Honda CBZ X-Treme – Bike of the Year
Bajaj Auto Limited – Bike Manufacturer of the Year
Bajaj Platina – Bike of the Year upto 100 cc
Yamaha Gladiator – Bike of the Year upto 125 cc
Hero Honda CBZ X-Treme- Bike of the Year upto 150 cc
Kinetic Blaze – Scooter of the Year
PGM-FI from Hero Honda – Bike Technology of the Year
Commercial Vehicles
Force MAN L49 Tractor Head – CV of the Year
Tata Motors Limited- CV Manufacturer of the Year
Volvo B7R – CV Technology of the Year
Special Award
Karun Chandhok – Indian Motorsport Award
Honda Civic – Automotive Design of the year Automotive
Man of the Year Mahindra & Mahindra vice chairman and managing director Anand Mahindra
CNB/NDTV AWARDS
M&M Scorpio – CNB-AAA Creative Print Campaign of the year
Zen Estilo – CNB-AAA Creative TV Campaign of the year
General Motors – CNB-AAA Marketing team of the year
Honda and General Motors (Tie & award shared between the two)
CNB-AAA PR & Viewer’s Choice Awards
TVS Apache – CNB-AAA Viewers’ choice Bike of the Year
Honda Civic – CNB-AAA Viewers’ choice Car of the Year
Aamir Khan (Toyota Innova) – CNB-AAA Brand Ambassador of the Year.
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Network18 Q4 revenue grows 9.7 per cent, EBITDA at Rs 30 crore
PAT improves to Rs 306.6 crore, margins steady amid cost pressures.
MUMBAI: Not all news is breaking, some of it is quietly improving. Network18 Media & Investments Limited appears to be doing just that, tightening losses and stabilising margins even as costs continue to weigh on the business. For FY26, the company reported revenue from operations of Rs 1,955.1 crore, up from Rs 1,896.2 crore in FY25, signalling modest top-line growth in a challenging media environment. Total income stood at Rs 1,978.2 crore, compared to Rs 1,913 crore a year earlier.
Profit after tax came in at Rs 306.6 crore for the year, a sharp turnaround from Rs 3,225.4 crore in FY25, largely reflecting the absence of large exceptional items that had inflated the previous year’s numbers. On a more comparable basis, the company’s operating performance showed signs of gradual stabilisation.
However, the quarterly picture remained under pressure. For the March quarter, Network18 reported a loss of Rs 53.1 crore, narrower than the Rs 98.1 crore loss in the same period last year, but still indicative of ongoing cost challenges.
Expenses continued to track high. Total expenses for FY26 stood at Rs 2,235.7 crore, up from Rs 2,197.8 crore in FY25. Key cost heads included operational expenses of Rs 765.9 crore, employee benefits of Rs 475.9 crore, and marketing, distribution and promotional spends of Rs 427.1 crore, underlining the continued investment required to sustain reach and engagement.
At an operating level, margins remained under strain. Operating margin stood at 2.33 per cent for FY26, marginally higher than 1.77 per cent in FY25, while net profit margin remained negative at -13.02 per cent, though improved from -14.89 per cent.
On the balance sheet, total assets rose to Rs 8,957.6 crore as of 31 March 2026, from Rs 8,317.5 crore a year earlier. Equity strengthened to Rs 4,958.7 crore, while borrowings increased to Rs 3,112.8 crore, reflecting a higher reliance on debt to support operations.
Cash flows told a mixed story. While financing activities generated Rs 83.9 crore, operating cash flow remained negative at Rs -24 crore, highlighting ongoing pressure on core cash generation. Cash and cash equivalents, however, improved to Rs 33.9 crore from Rs 1.8 crore.
The numbers point to a company in transition growing revenues, trimming losses, but still grappling with structural cost pressures. In a sector where scale often comes at a price, Network18 seems to be inching towards balance, one quarter at a time.
