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Bombay Dyeing spins Q1 profit despite polyester pressure and realty slump
MUMBAI: Bombay Dyeing is proving it’s not ready to fade into the background just yet. In its June 2025 quarter, the 146-year-old textile-to-real-estate player wove together Rs 11.48 crore in consolidated profit, only slightly off last year’s Rs 15.47 crore, despite feeling the tug of softer polyester margins and a sluggish real estate arm.
Revenue from operations slipped to Rs 377.84 crore from Rs 450.97 crore a year ago, with polyester sales steady at Rs 360.51 crore, retail/textiles ticking up to Rs 14.09 crore, but real estate plunging to nil from Rs 65.42 crore. Other income gave the top line a lift at Rs 36.68 crore, taking total income to Rs 414.52 crore.
Expenses eased to Rs 403.33 crore from Rs 452.69 crore, with raw material costs trimming to Rs 257.39 crore and other expenses at Rs 85.65 crore. Finance costs fell to Rs 3.61 crore, adding some breathing room, though depreciation held at Rs 7.84 crore.
Segment results showed a Rs 4.38 crore loss in real estate (worse than last year’s Rs 13.94 crore profit), while polyester contributed Rs 7.14 crore and retail/textiles Rs 3.19 crore. Exceptional items were negligible this time, a stark contrast to the Rs 552.56 crore windfall last year.
Tax adjustments including a Rs 5.97 crore prior-period reversal meant an overall tax credit, cushioning the bottom line. The quarter’s other comprehensive income surged to Rs 50.32 crore from a Rs 69.11 crore loss last quarter, thanks largely to equity investment gains, taking total comprehensive income to Rs 64.08 crore.
With Rs 2,407.09 crore in net capital employed and polyester still its mainstay, Bombay Dyeing may have some creases to iron out in real estate, but the Q1 fabric shows enough colour to keep investors watching.
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Samsung certifies 1,000 Maharashtra students in AI and coding
The South Korean electronics giant marks its first large-scale skilling push in the state, with women making up nearly half the national programme’s enrolment
PUNE: Samsung has put 1,000 students in Maharashtra through a certified training programme in artificial intelligence and coding, the largest such drive the South Korean electronics company has run in the state and a signal that corporate India’s skilling ambitions are moving well beyond the boardroom brochure.
The certifications were awarded under Samsung Innovation Campus (SIC), the company’s flagship corporate social responsibility programme, which launched in India in 2022 with the stated aim of democratising access to future-technology education. The 1,000 graduates were drawn from four institutions: 127 from Savitribai Phule Pune University, 373 from Pimpri Chinchwad University, 250 from D.Y. Patil University’s Ramrao Adik Institute of Technology and 250 from Anjuman-I-Islam’s Kalsekar Technical Campus. All completed training in either AI or coding and programming, the two disciplines Samsung has identified as the critical pillars of the digital economy.
The programme does not stop at technical training. Soft-skills development and career-readiness modules are baked into the curriculum, a deliberate attempt to close the gap between what universities teach and what employers actually want.
“India’s digital growth story will ultimately be shaped by the quality of its talent pipeline,” said Shubham Mukherjee, head of CSR and corporate communications at Samsung Southwest Asia. “As technologies like AI move from the periphery to the core of industries, skilling must evolve from basic training to building real-world capability. This milestone in Maharashtra reflects how industry and academia can come together to create a future-ready workforce that is both globally competitive and locally relevant.”
The Maharashtra drive sits within a rapidly scaling national effort. Samsung Innovation Campus trained 20,000 young people across India in 2025, hitting its stated target for the year. Women account for 48 per cent of national enrolments, a figure the company cites as evidence of its push for an inclusive technology ecosystem. The programme is implemented in partnership with the Electronics Sector Skills Council of India and the Telecom Sector Skill Council.
Samsung, which is marking 30 years in India this year, runs SIC alongside two other initiatives, Samsung Solve for Tomorrow and Samsung DOST, as part of a broader effort to build what it calls a generation of innovators with both the technical depth and the problem-solving mindset to thrive in a fast-moving digital world.
A thousand certified students is a tidy headline. Whether they find jobs that match their new skills is the harder question, and the one that will ultimately determine whether corporate skilling programmes like this one are genuine pipelines or well-photographed gestures.
