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Dabur India Q2 Results: FMCG revenue surges 19.8%
NEW DELHI: FMCG major Dabur India has reported a 19.5 per cent surge in net profit in the second quarter of 2020-21, backed by an increased demand for its ayurvedic healthcare, hygiene and nutrition products, and a new line of products to meet consumer needs in the wake of the Covid2019 pandemic.
Dabur ended Q2 2020-21 with a 13.7 per cent growth in consolidated revenue at Rs 2,516 crore, up from 2,212 crore a year earlier. This is the highest revenue growth reported by the company in the last couple of years. Consolidated net profit for Q2 rose to Rs 481.7 crore as against Rs 403 crore a year earlier.
Dabur's India FMCG business led the growth with a 19.8 per cent surge, with an underlying volume growth of 16.8 per cent during the second quarter of 2020-21. Dabur's standalone net profit grew 20.6 per cent to Rs 392.7 crore as against Rs 325.5 crore a year earlier.
"While COVID-19 continues to impact people around the world, Dabur India Ltd's strategic business transformation exercise to develop and implement aggressive growth strategies in the core business areas and successfully address the emerging challenges helped us deliver a healthy topline growth accompanied by an expansion in Margin. Our domestic healthcare business reported a strong 49 per cent growth, with the recent consumer-relevant innovations contributing to around 5-6 per cent of our revenue. Our international business has also staged a smart recovery and reported a growth of 5.5 per cent despite the key GCC market continuing to face macro-economic headwinds," said Dabur India CEO Mohit Malhotra.
Malhotra further said that Dabur continued to focus on strengthening its core healthcare portfolio with the introduction of new innovations, coupled with heavy investments behind its power brands and expanding its distribution might. This has enabled the company to grow ahead of categories and gain market share across the portfolio.
Rural demand grew ahead of urban, the company said, in line with what most large packaged consumer goods companies have reported.
Favourable monsoon and enhanced stimulus announced by the government as part of its overall thrust on boosting rural economy is expected to further drive rural demand in the coming months.
Share of e-commerce to overall sales of the company grew to 6 per cent from 2.1 per cent in the previous year.
"Healthcare, particularly the portfolio of our immunity-boosting products, continues to be the outperformer for Dabur. This is also in line with our strategy of focusing on the consumer health categories. The home and personal care business also reported a recovery, growing by high single digits, while the domestic foods business saw a strong revival with in-home consumption returning to near normal levels. However, this category was impacted by the continued closure of Hotels, Restaurants and Institutional businesses," said Malhotra.
The health supplements business for Dabur reported a 70.8 per cent growth during Q2 of 2020-21. The ayurvedic OTC range grew by over 56 per cent while the ayurvedic ethicals business ended Q2 with an over 26 per cent growth. While the traditional skin care business continued to face headwinds, the strong demand for the newly launched personal hygiene products range helped the overall category end the quarter with an over 38 per cent growth. Dabur's oral care sales was up over 24 per cent with its flagship Dabur Red Paste reporting strong double-digit growth. The shampoo business, on the back of strong demand for Vatika Shampoo, grew by nearly 18 per cent in Q2.
The company has declared an interim dividend of 175 per cent for 2020-21. "Continuing with our payout policy, the board has declared an interim dividend of Rs 1.75 per share, aggregating to a total payout of Rs 309.30 crore," Dabur India Ltd chairman Amit Burman said.
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Content India 2026 opens with a copro pitch, a spice evangelist and a £10,000 prize for Indian storytelling
Dish TV and C21Media’s three-day summit puts seven ambitious projects before an international jury, and two walk away with serious development money
MUMBAI: India’s content industry gathered in Mumbai this March for Content India 2026, a three-day summit organised by Dish TV in partnership with C21Media, and it wasted no time making a statement. The event opened with a Copro Pitch that put seven scripted and unscripted television concepts before an international panel of judges, and by the end of it, two projects had walked away with £10,000 each in marketing prize money from C21Media to support development and international promotion.
The jury, comprising Frank Spotnitz, Fiona Campbell, Rashmi Bajpai, Bal Samra and Rachel Glaister, evaluated a shortlist that ranged from a dark Mumbai comedy-drama about mental health (Dirty Minds, created by Sundar Aaron) to a Delhi coming-of-age mystery (Djinn Patrol, by Neha Sharma and Kilian Irwin), a techno-thriller about a teenage gaming prodigy (Kanpur X Satori, by Suchita Bhatia), an investigative crime drama blending mythology and modern thriller (The Age of Kali, by Shivani Bhatija), a documentary on India’s spice heritage (The Masala Quest, hosted by Sarina Kamini), a documentary on competitive gaming (Respawn: India’s Esports Revolution, by George Mangala Thomas and Sangram Mawari), and a reality-horror competition merging gaming and immersive fear (Scary Goose, by Samar Iqbal).
The session was hosted by Mayank Shekhar.
The two winners were Djinn Patrol, backed by Miura Kite, formerly of Participant Media and known for Chinatown and Keep Sweet: Pray & Obey, with Jaya Entertainment, producers of Real Kashmir Football Club, also attached; and The Masala Quest, created and hosted by Sarina Kamini, an Indian-Australian cook, author and self-described “spice evangelist.”
The summit also unveiled the Content India Trends Report, whose findings made for bracing reading. Daoud Jackson, senior analyst at OMDIA, set the tone: “By 2030, online video in India will nearly double the revenue of traditional TV, becoming the main driver of growth.” He noted that in 2025, India produced a quarter of all YouTube videos globally, overtaking the United States, while Indians collectively spend 117 years daily on YouTube and 72 years on Instagram. Traditional subscription TV is declining as free TV and connected TV gain ground, forcing broadcasters to innovate. “AI-generated content is just 2 per cent of engagement,” Jackson added, “highlighting the dominance of high-quality human content. The key for Indian media companies is scaling while monetising effectively from day one.”
Hannah Walsh, principal analyst at Ampere Analysis, added hard numbers to the picture. India produced over 24,000 titles in January 2026 alone, with 19,000 available internationally. The country now accounts for 12 per cent of Asia-Pacific content spend, up from 8 per cent in 2021, outpacing both Japan and China. Key exporters include JioStar, Zee Entertainment, Sony India, Amazon and Netflix, delivering over 7,500 Indian-produced titles abroad each year. The top importing markets are Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt, the United States and the Philippines. Scripted content dominates globally at 88 per cent, with crime dramas and children’s and family titles performing particularly strongly.
Manoj Dobhal, chief executive and executive director of Dish TV India, framed the summit’s ambition squarely. “Stories don’t need translation. They need a platform, discovery, and reach, local or global,” he said. “India produces more movies than any country, our streaming platforms compete globally, and our tech and creators win international awards. Yet fragmentation slows growth. Producers, platforms, and tech move in different lanes. We need shared spaces, collaboration, and an ecosystem where ideas, technology, and people meet. That is why we built Content India.”
The data, the pitches and the prize money all pointed to the same conclusion: India is not waiting for the world to discover its stories. It is building the infrastructure to sell them.
