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Blue Dart continues positive momentum growth in Q4 and Year-end results!
The company posted sales at ₹ 3,279.70 crores and ₹ 96.31 crores profit after tax for the year 2020-21
Blue Dart Express Limited, South Asia's premier express air and integrated transportation & Distribution Company, declared its financial results today for the quarter and year ended March 2021, at the Board Meeting held in Mumbai.
The company posted ₹ 89.08 crores profit after tax (previous year ₹ 23.79 crores loss) for the quarter ended March 31, 2021 and ₹ 96.31 crores profit after tax (previous year ₹ 38.29 crores loss) for the year ended March 31, 2021. The profit for the year is, after absorbing the impact of special COVID-19 ex-gratia (₹ 34.17 crores) paid to employees in September 2020 and accelerated depreciation of IT servers (₹ 24 crores).The margin improvement is backed up by better realization and cost efficiencies during the year. Revenue from operations for the quarter ended March 31, 2021 stood at ₹ 966.17 crores and ₹ 3,279.70 crores for the year ended March 31, 2021.
In a highly volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous environment, Blue Dart adapted itself to the situation and continued to be a Reliable, Resilient and Responsive organization for all its stakeholders. While the period under review has been challenging due to the pandemic, Blue Dart grew its revenues for the year, its market leading transit times, technology interventions e.g. Contact Less Delivery, robust & agile infrastructure, and above all its people enhanced the ability to deliver as the nation’s Trade Facilitator.
Balfour Manuel, Managing Director, Blue Dart says, “We look back with pride on our performance in the financial year delivered with the support of all our stakeholders! It has been a challenge to navigate through the pandemic and the lockdowns, however, our single minded Customer Centricity combined with tenacity and the organization’s ability to perform has helped us during this time. All our facilities / people / aircrafts / vehicles operated every single day through the pandemic, enabling the nation in its fight against the contagion delivering PPE kits, ventilators, vaccines, oxygen concentrators, pharmaceutical, medical equipment etc. We are cautiously optimistic about the new financial year on the background of the current wave II and the impending wave III of the pandemic.”
He further added, “In the year that saw disruption across various elements, we had purposeful innovations to keep our colleagues and customers healthy and safe, we worked closely with the Government on the Lifeline Udan Initiative. A stronger brand messaging was amplified with our advertising on television.”
Speaking on the path ahead, Balfour says, “Going forward, our focus will continue to remain on consistently upgrading our infrastructure and digitized solutions to ensure that we optimise the man-tech combination. We are also enthused by the Governments initiatives aimed towards building a non-fragmented logistics sector.”
Under the DPDHL Group credo of ‘Connecting People, Improving Lives’ the Group had set a target of 30% carbon efficiency improvement over the base of 2007 by 2020. Blue Dart has surpassed the target by achieving an efficiency improvement of 31% in 2019 and an efficiency of 36% in 2020. Net zero emission by the year 2050 is the new environment target and ESG compliance is the focal point. We are also committed to Inclusivity & Diversity to further strengthen our culture at Blue Dart.
Blue Dart remains India’s most innovative and awarded express delivery company. Blue Dart was recently certified as a Great Place to Work by Great Place to Work® Institute India for the 11th year and recognized as the Most Trusted Brand 2020 for the 14th year in a row by Readers Digest. Blue Dart was also ranked amongst the 50 Best Workplaces in India – 2020 by Great Place to Work® Institute and The Economic Times, voted a Superbrand for the 13th year, recognised as a Company with Great People Managers by Great Manager Institute and Forbes, awarded with ET NOW presents Stars of the Industry Awards ‘Brand Leadership Award’ for Excellence In Supply Chain & Logistics. Blue Dart received the prestigious Golden Peacock Award at IOD India's ‘4th Annual Global Convention on Corporate Ethics & Risk Management’ and recognized by Green Freight Asia (GFA) for its commitment to adopting Green Road Freight Practices as a Carrier in 2019.
About Blue Dart:
Blue Dart Express Ltd., South Asia's premier express air and integrated transportation & distribution company, offers secure and reliable delivery of consignments to over 35,000 locations in India. As part of Deutsche Post DHL Group’s DHL eCommerce Solutions division, Blue Dart accesses the largest and most comprehensive express and logistics network worldwide, covering over 220 countries & territories, and offers an entire spectrum of distribution services including air express, freight forwarding, supply chain solutions, customs clearance etc.
The Blue Dart team drives market leadership through its motivated people, dedicated air and ground capacity, cutting-edge technology, a wide range of innovative, vertical-specific products and value-added services to deliver unmatched standards of service quality to its customers. Blue Dart's market leadership is further validated by its position as the nation’s most innovative and awarded express logistics company for exhibiting reliability, superior brand experience and sustainability which include recognition as one of ‘India's Best Companies to Work For’ by The Great Place to Work® Institute, India, ranked amongst ‘Best Multinational Workplaces in Asia’ by The Great Place to Work® Institute, Asia, voted a ‘Superbrand’ and ‘Reader’s Digest Most Trusted Brand’, listed as one of Fortune 500’s ‘India's Largest Corporations’ and Forbes ‘India's Super 50 Companies’ to name a few.
Under the DHL Group motto of “Connecting People, Improving Lives”, we focus our corporate responsibility under three pillars - GoTeach (Championing education), GoGreen (Protecting the environment) and GoHelp (Structures engagement with communities & Disaster management response).
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Date : March 05, 2021
