Kale
poised for growth: Revenue up 26% & PAT up 229% in Q2
FY07
Mumbai, January 25, 2007 -
Kale Consultants Limited (Kale), the leading end-to-end
Technology solution provider to the Travel & Transportation
industry, has recorded revenues of Rs. 201.62 million for
the quarter ended December 31, 2006 as compared to Rs. 163.80
million for the corresponding quarter of the previous year,
a growth of 23%.
Revenue for the nine months ended December 31, 2006, showed
a growth of 25% to Rs. 572.70 million from Rs. 457.06 million.
The PAT stood at Rs. 46.19 million, from Rs. 24.04 million,
a growth of 92%.
Commenting on the performance, Mr. Vipul Jain, CEO&
Managing Director said, “During this quarter we have
made good progress in acquiring new customers and strengthening
our position in the industry. These will translate into
growth in the coming year. We have also made a beginning
in the logistics industry,”
Highlights for the Nine months
ended December 31, 2006
Total Income

Profit After Tax

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Highlights for the Quarter ended December 31, 2006 |
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Kale
& the International Air Transport Association (IATA)
announced that they will work together to bring e-freight
to India. IATA has selected Kale to be the nodal agency
to coordinate activities required to implement e-freight
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Kale has
been selected as a finalist for the NASSCOM Innovation
Awards 2006 in the category of “Business Model
Innovation” in their preliminary round held in
December. Mr. Vipul Jain will receive an award from
the Hon'ble Prime Minister of India - Dr. Manmohan Singh
on 9th February 2007. Kale will also be profiled in
NASSCOM's Showcase of Innovation Book 2006 |
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IIT Kanpur
has honored Mr. Narendra Kale, Chairman Kale Consultants
Ltd. with "The Distinguished Alumnus Award"
for the year 2006-07. This is the highest award given
by the institute to its alumni in recognition of their
achievements of exceptional merit. Having reviewed Mr.
Kale's contribution to the IT industry and his exemplary
vision and leadership skills, he is being conferred
the award for 'Excellence in Entrepreneurship'. |
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EVA Air
has signed a five year contract with Kale for APEX™,
kale’s industry standard proration solution. With
APEX™, EVA Air will be able to implement industry
best practices in proration and bring about substantial
improvements in accuracy and efficiency of proration
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SkyTeam,
the global airline alliance, selected Kale’s APEX™
as a Neutral Fare Proration (NFP) engine for IATA’s
First & Final (F&F) Billing Service. With this
development, Kale added the entire global airline alliance
of SkyTeam including Air France, KLM, Korean Air, Alitalia,
CSA, Aeromexico, Aeroflot to its customer list. Continental
Airways, NorthWest Airlines and Delta are existing Kale
customers. All SkyTeam alliance members will now use
Kale’s APEX™ for their F&F settlement.
Mr Henri Dillies, Vice President - Revenue Accounting,
Air France, and official spokesperson for SkyTeam Revenue
Accounting business said, “We have no doubt that
Kale, with its delivery experience and commitment to
the airline industry, has the mettle to be our strategic
partner for proration. We selected Kale’s APEX™
as we believe it is a good proration engine and will
provide accurate results which will have a positive
impact on our cash flows and will improve the efficiency
of the interline process.” |
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TAP Portugal, the national airline
of Portugal signed a contract with Kale to implement Kale’s
fully integrated enterprise-wide cargo solution, known
as CSP™. This contract further cements the already
strong relationship between TAP Portugal and Kale. For
over 5 years TAP Portugal has been using Kale’s
highly regarded passenger proration solutions. With the
signing of this contract, both companies will extend their
long term and mutually beneficial relationship.
Americo Costa, VP Cargo at TAP Portugal said, “We
selected Kale’s solution because we believe CSP™
will give us the right platform on which to grow our business.
Having worked with Kale Consultants for the past 5 years,
we know that they are reliable, and provide a very high
level of service. This is important to TAP as we strive
to build long term relationships.” |
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Kale has achieved another world-first:
Yemenia (the national flag-carrier of Yemen) has signed
a multi-year contract for Kale to provide our complete
and comprehensive suite of Revenue Recovery and Protection
Services. Kale will provide Yemenia with Sales Audit (both
passenger and cargo), Interline Audit (again, both passenger
and cargo), RBD Audit, BIDT
Audit as well as GDS Billing Audit. This is the first
time in the industry that an airline has signed an agreement
with a single vendor for such a comprehensive range of
audit services. |
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Kale has made a foray into the
Logistics space by signing on Direct Logistics, the multinational
freight-forwarding & logistics group,. Direct Logistics
chose Kale to develop a web-enabled solution to automate
their ocean, air and multi-modal freight operations. The
solution will encompass various functions including sales,
export, import and tracking. The solution will also provide
on-demand as well as routine management information to
better manage operations.
Capt. Sunil Devrani, Managing Director, Direct Logistics
said, “In Kale, we found a trusted partner who has
a long history of providing value-based solutions and
developing successful customer relationships. Kale’s
in-depth domain expertise, professional approach and technological
competence are very impressive.” |
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Investor Relations
Kale Consultants Ltd is committed to create long-term
sustainable shareholder value through successful implementation
of its growth plans. The company’s investor relations
mission is to maintain an ongoing awareness of its performance
among shareholders and financial community.
For additional information, please contact:
Mr. Sumeet Nadkar
Chief Financial Officer
Kale Consultants Ltd.
Tel: 91-22-28272500
Email: Sumeet_Nadkar@kaleconsultants.com
Mr. Parag Someshwar / Mr. Manoj Bagadia
Equicorp.
Tel: 91-22-25121528
Email: equicorp@vsnl.net
Safe Harbor
Certain statements in this
release concerning our future growth prospects are forward-looking
statements which involve a number of risks and uncertainties
that could cause actual results to differ materially from
those in such forward-looking statements. The risks and uncertainties
relating to these statements include, but are not limited
to, risks and uncertainties regarding fluctuations in earnings,
our ability to manage growth, intense competition in IT services
including those factors which may affect our cost advantage,
wage increases in India, our ability to attract and retain
highly skilled professionals, time and cost overruns on fixed-price,
fixed-time frame contracts, client concentration, restrictions
on immigration, our ability to manage our international operations,
reduced demand for technology in our key focus areas, disruptions
in telecommunication networks, our ability to successfully
complete and integrate potential acquisitions, liability for
damages on our service contracts, withdrawal of governmental
fiscal incentives, political instability, legal restrictions
on raising capital or acquiring companies outside India, and
unauthorized use of our intellectual property and general
economic conditions affecting our industry. The company does
not undertake to update any forward-looking statement that
may be made from time to time by or on behalf of the company.
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