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HDFC Securities: Kansai Nerolac - Joined At The Hip With Auto

Nerolac is likely to safeguard margins until a recovery in India’s auto sector, battered by a slowdown and lockdown, is in sight.

An employee places a lid on a tin of ready mixed blue paint inside a paints and coatings factory. (Photographer Jasper Juinen/Bloomberg)
An employee places a lid on a tin of ready mixed blue paint inside a paints and coatings factory. (Photographer Jasper Juinen/Bloomberg)

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HDFC Securities Report

Kansai Nerolac Paints Ltd. No.1 of No. 3 in Industrial/Decorative Paints) remains joined at the hip with auto original equipment manufacturers, which are likely to see their second straight year of 16-18% volume declines (given auto slowdown/Covid-19).

Meanwhile, it has been beefing up its relatively less cyclical non-auto industrial portfolio.

In Decorative, Kansai Nerolac has outpaced bigger rivals over FY15-19, given its aggressive marketing and distribution push.

This trend, however, is unlikely to continue over FY20-23 as the company’s predisposition would likely be to safeguard margins/restrict advertisement and promotion spend amid the demand destruction and until auto recovery is in sight.

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