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Godrej Industries shines with profit revival
MUMBAI: Godrej Industries seems to have found its spark again. After a muted start to the financial year, the diversified conglomerate reported a spirited rebound in the September 2025 quarter, turning the tide with stronger revenues and profits across its key businesses.
On a standalone basis, the company posted a net profit of Rs 99.02 crore for the quarter ended 30 September 2025, a sharp turnaround from a loss of Rs 29.98 crore in the previous quarter. Revenue from operations surged to Rs 1,330.26 crore, up from Rs 1,018.29 crore in the June quarter, signalling steady growth momentum.
The profit revival was supported by a better product mix and tighter control on costs, with total expenses at Rs 1,261.05 crore against Rs 1,090.65 crore in the previous quarter. Earnings per share stood at Rs 2.94, a neat reversal from the Rs 0.89 loss per share last quarter.
On a consolidated level, Godrej Industries reported total income of Rs 6,289.69 crore, marking an uptick from Rs 5,718.97 crore in the June quarter. Consolidated profit before tax stood at Rs 1,652.90 crore, while net profit after tax came in at Rs 492.95 crore.
The company’s operating margin for the standalone business stood at 22.48 per cent, compared with 15.73 per cent in the June quarter, while the net profit margin improved to 7.44 per cent.
Godrej Industries also reported healthy balance sheet metrics, with its net worth rising to Rs 1,775.01 crore and a debt-equity ratio holding steady at 6.23.
The company’s cash flow from operations remained robust, aided by higher collections and improved working capital management.
As the festive season lights up consumer demand, Godrej Industries looks to keep the momentum glowing brighter into the second half of the financial year.
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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.
