Directors' Report To The Members, Your Directors have pleasure in presenting the 24th Annual Report of your Company together with the Audited Statements of Accounts for the financial year ended March 31, 2015. OVERVIEW OF ECONOMY India's growth prospects in 2014-15 look much better when compared to the situation a year ago. Various agencies project GDP growth to be around 5.5/5.6% this fiscal year. This is a welcome improvement from below 5.0% GDP growth witnessed in the previous two fiscal years — 4.5% in 2012-13 and 4.7% in 2013-14. Inflation which had been a persistent worry has finally moved to a downward path. Latest numbers indicate inflationary pressure waning, with both wholesale and retail prices reporting softening. Also, the decline in prices has been broad based with an evident fall noted in food and fuel segment prices. Further, our current account position which was a dominant risk factor until last year has been suppressed to a large extent. The global oil prices have softened and the exchange rate is projected to remain pretty much stable. Export growth has also been steady so far this year. Over the period April-September 2014, exports recorded a growth of 6.3%, vis-a-vis 6.7% growth registered over the same period last year. In addition, the foreign investment inflows —both foreign direct investments and portfolio investments- have been sound. Over the period April-August 2014, total inflows amounted to USD 33.7 billion, up from USD 3.1 billion in the corresponding period last year. The benign global environment accompanied by a strong and stable government at home has reinvigorated the interest of the investors. The new government has taken a series of progressive policy measures aimed towards improving the business environment and giving a strong push to growth. The commitment of the government towards reforms has been reflected in its first Union Budget as well outside of it. OVERALL PERFORMANCE & OUTLOOK The Company has shown consistence performance in term of both Revenue and Net Earnings front and has earned handsome gain from its business activities. Gross Revenue from operations during the year was stood at Rs. 8067.74 Lac in comparison to last years' figure of Rs. 7401.92 Lac, thus registered a growth of around 9% in regard to gross revenue. In term of Net Profit, the same has been remained at Rs. 316.00 Lac in comparison to last years' Net Profit of Rs. 89.14 Lac, showing miracle growth of almost 255% in comparison to last years' figure. Your Company is into the business of Railway supply of veneer and its allied products and is one of the empanelled vendors of Indian Railways. The Company is into the manufacturing of Recron densified thermal bonded Blocks and Seath and Berth for Railways Your Company is hopeful of doing better and better in coming days and continues to remain as one of the healthy and profitable entrepreneur in future. DIVIDEND AND RESERVES In order to expand its business and to conserve resources to meet the working capital requirements, your Directors do not propose any dividend for the year under review. During the year under review, sum of Rs. Nil were transferred to General Reserves. SHARE CAPITAL The paid up Equity Share Capital as on March 31, 2015 was Rs. 5.3903 Crore. During the year under review, the Company has not issued shares with differential voting rights nor granted stock options nor sweat equity. As on March 31, 2015, none of the Directors and/or Key Managerial Person of the Company hold instruments convertible in to Equity Shares of the Company. FINANCE AND ACCOUNTS Your Company prepares its financial statements in compliance with the requirements the Companies Act, 2013 and the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) in India. The financial statements have been prepared on historical cost basis. The estimates and judgments relating to the financial statements are made on a prudent basis, so as to reflect in a true and fair manner, the form and substance of transactions and reasonably present the Company's state of affairs, profits/(loss) and cash flows for the year ended 31st March 2015. The Company continues to focus on judicious management of its working capital. Receivables, inventories and other working capital parameters were kept under strict check through continuous monitoring. There is no audit qualification in the standalone financial statements by the statutory auditors for the year under review. PARTICULARS OF LOANS, GUARANTEES OR INVESTMENTS Details of Loans, Guarantees and Investments, if any, covered under the provisions of Section 186 of the Companies Act, 2013 are given in the notes to the Financial Statements. SUBSIDIARY COMPANY The Central Government vide General Circular No. 2/2011 dated February 8, 2011 has exempted the holding companies from attaching Annual Accounts and other documents in respect of its subsidiaries to the Annual Report of the holding companies from the financial years ended on or after March 31, 2011. As required vide above Circular, statement in respect of its subsidiaries, giving details of capital, reserves, total assets and liabilities, details of investments, turnover, profit before taxation and proposed dividend is attached to the Consolidated Balance Sheet, Annual accounts of the subsidiary companies and the related detailed information will be made available to the shareholders of the Company, seeking such information and will also be made available for inspection at the Registered Office of the Company. The policy on material Subsidiaries as approved by the Board is uploaded on the Company's website. DOMESTIC SUBSIDIARY M/s. Oriental Foundry Private Limited (CIN : U27310MH2014PTC256609), a Subsidiary Company, was incorporated on 25th July 2014 with a motive set up a plant for manufacturing casting foundry products. Since the Company is yet to commence its operations, there was Nil income during the financial year whereas initial / operating cost during the year was of Rs. 2.63 Lac. CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS In accordance with AS-21 issued by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, Consolidated Financial Statements have been provided in the Annual Report. These Consolidated Financial Reports provide financial information about your Company and its subsidiary company as a single economic entity. The Consolidated Financial Statements forms part of this Annual Report. RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS All transactions entered into with Related Parties as defined under the Companies Act, 2013 and Clause 49 of the Listing Agreement during the financial year were in the ordinary course of business and on an arm's length pricing basis and do not attract the provisions of Section 188 of the Companies Act, 2013 thus disclosure in form AOC-2 is not required. There were no materially significant transactions with related parties during the financial year which were in conflict with the interest of the Company. Suitable disclosure as required by the Accounting Standards (AS18) has been made in the Note No. 32 of the Notes to the Financial Statements. The policy on Related Party Transactions as approved by the Board is uploaded on the Company's website. MANAGEMENT DISCUSSION & ANALYSIS As required by Clause 49 of Listing Agreement, the Management Discussion and Analysis is annexed and forms part of the Directors' Report. MANAGEMENT There is no Change in Management of the Company during the year under review. DIRECTORS During the Year, your Board has appointed Ms. Wazeera S. Mithiborwala and Vilas S. Chitnis as Additional, Independent Directors of the Company to fulfill the requirement of Companies Act, 2013 as well as Clause 49 of Listing Agreement. Further, Mr. Afzal Patel has resigned from the Board w.e.f. 30th December 2014. Further, none of the Directors of the Company are disqualified under sub-section (2) of Section 164 of the Companies Act, 2013. INDEPENDENT DIRECTORS As per provisions of Section 149 of the 2013 Act, independent directors shall hold office for a term up to five consecutive years on the board of a company, but shall be eligible for re-appointment for another term up to five years on passing of a special resolution by the company and disclosure of such appointment in Board's Report. Further Section 152 of the Act provides that the Independent Directors shall not be liable to retire by rotation in the Annual General Meeting ('AGM') of the Company. As per revised Clause 49 of the Listing Agreement (applicable from October 1, 2014), any person who has already served as Independent Director for five years or more in a company as on October 1, 2014 shall be eligible for appointment, on completion of the present term, for one more term of up to 5 (five) years only. SIGNIFICANT AND MATERIAL ORDERS PASSED BY THE REGULATORS, TRIBUNALS OR COURTS There are no significant and material orders passed by the Regulators/Courts that would impact the going concern status of the Company and its future operations. MATERIAL CHANGES AND COMMITMENTS AFFECTING FINANCIAL POSITION BETWEEN THE END OF THE FINANCIAL YEAR AND DATE OF REPORT There have been no material changes and commitments affecting the financial position of the Company between the end of Financial Year and date of the report. DIRECTORS RESPONSIBILITY STATEMENT Pursuant to the provisions of Section 134(5) of the Companies Act, 2013 the Board of Directors confirms that: 1. In the preparation of the annual accounts, for the year ended 31st March 2015, all the applicable accounting standards prescribed by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India have been followed. 2. The Directors had adopted such accounting policies and applied them consistently and made judgments and estimates that are reasonable and prudent so as to give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the Company at the end of the financial year and of the profit of the Company for that period. 3. The Directors had taken proper and sufficient care for the maintenance of adequate accounting records in accordance with the provisions of this Act for safeguarding the assets of the Company and for preventing and detecting fraud and other irregularities. 4. The Directors had prepared the annual accounts on a going concern basis. 5. Proper internal financial controls were in place and that the financial controls were adequate and were operating effectively; and 6. Systems to ensure compliance with the provisions of all applicable laws were in place and were adequate and operating effectively. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Your Company believes that in addition to progressive thought, it is imperative to invest in information and technology to ascertain future exposure and prepare for challenges. In its endeavor to obtain and deliver the best, your Company has entered into alliances/tie-ups with an IT solution Company to harness and tap the latest and the best of technology in the world and deploy/absorb technology wherever feasible, relevant and appropriate. BUSINESS RISK MANAGEMENT Pursuant to the requirement of Clause 49 of the Listing Agreement, the Company has constituted a Business Risk Management Committee. The details of Committee and its terms of reference are set out in the Corporate Governance Report forming part of the Board's Report. The Company has a robust Business Risk Management (BRM) framework to identify, evaluate business risks and opportunities. This framework seeks to create transparency, minimize adverse impact on the business objectives and enhance the Company's competitive advantage. The business risk framework defines the risk management approach across the enterprise at various levels including documentation and reporting. The framework has different risk models which help in identifying risks trend, exposure and potential impact analysis at a Company level as also separately for business segments viz. Finance and Capital Market activities. INTERNAL CONTROL SYSTEMS AND THEIR ADEQUACY The Company has an Internal Control System, commensurate with the size, scale and complexity of its operations. The scope and authority of the Internal Audit (IA) function is defined in the Internal Audit Charter. To maintain its objectivity and independence, the Internal Audit function reports to the Chairman of the Audit Committee of the Board. The Internal Audit Department monitors and evaluates the efficiency and adequacy of internal control system in the Company, its compliance with operating systems, accounting procedures and policies. Based on the report of internal audit function, process owners undertake corrective action in their respective areas and thereby strengthen the controls. Significant audit observations and corrective actions thereon are presented to the Audit Committee of the Board. VIGIL MECHANISM / WHISTLE BLOWER POLICY As required under Rule 7 of The Companies (Meetings of Board and its Powers) Rules 2014, the Company has a vigil mechanism named Fraud Risk Management Policy (FRM) to deal with instance of fraud and mismanagement, if any. The detail of the FRM Policy is explained in the Corporate Governance Report. RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT The Company believes that technological obsolescence is a reality. Only progressive research and development will help us to measure up to future challenges and opportunities. We invest in and encourage continuous innovation. During the year under review, expenditure on research and development is not significant in relation to the nature size of operations of your Company. POLICY ON SEXUAL HARASSMENT The Company has adopted policy on Prevention of Sexual Harassment of women at Workplace in accordance with The Sexual Harassment of women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013. During the year under review, the Company has not received any complaints pertaining to Sexual Harassment. AUDITORS Statutory Auditors The Auditors M/s Anil Bansal & Associates, Chartered Accountants, Mumbai and M/s. NBS & Co., Chartered Accountants, Mumbai who are Statutory Auditors of the Company and holds the office until the conclusion of ensuing Annual General Meeting and are recommended for re-appointment to audit the accounts of the Company from the conclusion of the 24th Annual General Meeting up to the conclusion of the 28th consecutive Annual General Meeting (subject to ratification by the members at every subsequent AGM). As required under the provisions of Section 139 & 142 of the Companies Act, 2013 the Company has obtained written confirmation from both M/s. Anil Bansal & Associates and M/s. NBS & Co., that their appointments, if made, would be in conformity with the limits specified in the said Section. The shareholders are requested to appoint Auditors and fix their remuneration. Secretarial Auditors Pursuant to the provisions of Section 204 of the Companies Act, 2013 and the Companies (Appointment and Remuneration of Managerial Personnel) Rules, 2014, the Company has appointed Mr. Mohd Akram, Company Secretaries in Practice (C. P. No. 9411) to undertake the Secretarial Audit of the Company. The Report of the Secretarial Audit Report is annexed elsewhere in this Annual Report. Internal Auditors Pursuant to provision of section 138 of Companies Act 2013 read with Rule 13 of Companies (Accounts) Rules, 2014, the Company has appointed Mr. Vinod Agarwal, (Membership No. 047637) as Internal Auditors of the Company for financial year 2014-2015. EXTRACT OF ANNUAL RETURN The details forming part of the extract of the Annual Return in form MGT 9, as required under section 92 of the Companies Act, 2013 is annexed elsewhere in this Annual Report. PARTICULARS OF EMPLOYEES The information required pursuant to Section 197 read with Rule, 5 of the Companies (Appointment and Remuneration of Managerial Personnel) Rules, 2014 in respect of employees of the Company, will be provided upon request. In terms of Section 136 of the Act, the Report and Accounts are being sent to the Members and others entitled thereto, excluding the information on employees' particulars which is available for inspection by the Members at the Registered Office of the Company during business hours on working days of the Company up to the date of the ensuing Annual General Meeting. If any Member is interested in obtaining a copy thereof, such Member may write to the Company Secretary in this regard. FOREIGN EXCHANGE EARNINGS AND OuTGO The Company has used equivalent to Rs. 106.71 Lac in foreign currency (US$) whereas the earnings in foreign currency during the year was Nil. PUBLIC DEPOSITS During the year under review, your Company has not accepted any deposits from the public within the meaning of section 73 of the Companies Act 2013 and the rules there under. REPORT ON CORPORATE GOVERNANCE The Company conforms to the norms of Corporate Governance as envisaged in the Companies Act, 2013 and the Listing Agreement with the BSE. Pursuant to Clause 49 of the Listing Agreement, a Report on the Corporate Governance and the Auditors Certificate on Corporate Governance are annexed to this report. APPRECIATION Your Directors wish to place on record their appreciation towards the contribution of all the employees of the Company and their gratitude to the Company's valued customers, bankers, vendors and members for their continued support and confidence in the Company. By order of the Board For Oriental Veneer Products Limited karim N. Mithiborwala (DIN : 00171326) Chairman & Managing Director Thane, May 28, 2015 Registered Office : Village Aghai, Via Kalyan Railway Station Thane -421 301 |