Eveready Industries India Limited reported unaudited standalone earnings results for the third quarter and nine months ended December 31, 2015. The company reported total income from operations of INR 3,241.348 million, profit from operations before other income, finance costs and exceptional items of INR 294.415 million, profit from ordinary activities before tax of INR 237.247 million, net profit of INR 169.510 million or INR 2.33 per basic and diluted share against total income from operations of INR 3,254.172 million, profit from operations before other income, finance costs and exceptional items of INR 270.177 million, profit from ordinary activities before tax of INR 197.683 million, net profit of INR 153.312 million or INR 2.11 per basic and diluted share a year ago. Despite having no growth in turnover, the company could achieve a higher EBITDA at 11.4% of net sales as compared to 10.5% in the same quarter of the previous year due to overall tightening of costs, decreased spens on A & P and favourable impact of lower commodity price increase in batteries. Operating EBITDA was INR 371.1 million compared to INR 341.8 million a year ago.

For the nine months, the company reported total income from operations of INR 10,400.459 million, profit from operations before other income, finance costs and exceptional items of INR 837.507 million, profit from ordinary activities before tax of INR 652.283 million, net profit of INR 466.504 million or INR 6.42 per basic and diluted share against total income from operations of INR 10,037.895 million, profit from operations before other income, finance costs and exceptional items of INR 802.514 million, profit from ordinary activities before tax of INR 566.239 million, net profit of INR 435.791 million or INR 6.00 per basic and diluted share a year ago. Operating EBITDA was INR 1,067.6 million compared to INR 1,043.9 million a year ago.