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Maruti clocks Rs 4,943 crore Q1 profit on strong sales and margins
MUMBAI: India’s favourite carmaker isn’t just fuelling roads, it’s firing up the financials too. Maruti Suzuki India cruised through the first quarter of FY26 with a consolidated net profit of Rs 37,924 million, accelerating past last year’s Rs 37,597 million.
Total consolidated income hit Rs 404,934 million in the quarter ended 30 June 2025, driven by Rs 386,052 million in revenue from operations marking a healthy bump from Rs 357,794 million a year ago. Other income also revved up to Rs 18,882 million from Rs 10,605 million.
The company’s consolidated profit before tax reached Rs 49,435 million, with a tax outgo of Rs 11,511 million. What truly put Maruti in overdrive was its tight grip on costs. Material consumption stood at Rs 219,368 million, while purchases of stock-in-trade clocked in at Rs 57,038 million. A modest Rs 2,794 million gain from inventory changes also helped balance the books.
Employee costs rose to Rs 20,483 million, and depreciation nudged up to Rs 15,560 million, but overall expense discipline kept total costs at Rs 355,854 million leaving room for a tidy operating margin.
While the company didn’t pull any handbrakes this quarter, its joint ventures and associates chipped in too, contributing Rs 296 million and Rs 59 million respectively.
On a standalone basis, the picture looked equally polished. Standalone profit came in at Rs 37,117 million, up from Rs 36,499 million a year ago, with revenue from operations at Rs 384,136 million. The basic and diluted earnings per share stood at Rs 118.06.
Maruti’s quarterly detour into comprehensive income saw a gain of Rs 3,465 million from re-measurements and fair value adjustments despite a minor speed bump from actuarial losses on pension liabilities.
For a company with Rs 960,827 million in other equity and a paid-up capital of just Rs 1,572 million, Maruti continues to steer shareholder value with turbocharged confidence. If Q1 is any indicator, the full-year drive promises more pit stops of profit.
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IICT partners with Gativedhi to bring studio production tools to students
New MoU lets students explore AI-driven production pipelines for AVGC-XR
MUMBAI: The Indian Institute of Creative Technologies (IICT) has teamed up with Gativedhi Technologies to give students a front-row seat to modern studio production. The collaboration will integrate Gativedhi’s AI-powered production intelligence platform, Shotrack, into academic programmes, letting students experience the workflow systems used by animation, VFX and gaming studios.
Under the MoU, faculty, students and researchers will get hands-on access to Shotrack through beta programmes, pilot deployments and academic evaluations. This will allow them to explore simulated production pipelines, understand asset management, track tasks and monitor schedules, essentially seeing how complex projects come together behind the scenes.
Shotrack is designed to tackle a key industry challenge: when multiple studios work on the same project, differing internal systems often create bottlenecks, slow approvals and complicate version control. The platform provides a unified production environment, enabling smoother collaboration across distributed teams while generating operational insights and predictive analytics to optimise crew allocation, forecast schedule risks and manage costs.
The collaboration also opens doors to Gativedhi’s wider ecosystem. Upcoming tools include StudioTrack, for studio operations management covering budgeting, recruitment and IT infrastructure, and WorkTrack, which measures workflow efficiency and team productivity across industries.
IICT plans to embed these tools into programmes covering animation pipelines, VFX workflows, gaming production and media project management. Students will also benefit from guest lectures, masterclasses, workshops, internships and research projects that connect academic learning with real-world studio practices.
IICT CEO Vishwas Deoskar, said the partnership provides “An environment where production pipeline tools can be explored, tested and refined while students gain insight into how large-scale productions are organised.”
Gativedhi Technologies founder & CEO Senthil Kumar added, “This collaboration introduces students to real-world studio management tools and helps us improve our platform with academic feedback.”
With Shotrack in classrooms, India’s future animators, VFX artists and gaming producers will get a taste of studio life long before they step into one.
