i) General
Provisions are recognised when the Companyhas a present obligation (legal or constructive)as a result of a past event, it is probable thatan outflow of resources embodying economicbenefits will be required to settle the obligationand a reliable estimate can be made of the amountof the obligation. When the Company expectssome or all of a provision to be reimbursed.The expense relating to a provision is presentedin the Statement of profit and loss net of anyreimbursement.
If the effect of the time value of money is material,provisions are discounted using a current pre¬tax rate that reflects, when appropriate, therisks specific to the liability. When discountingis used, the increase in the provision due to thepassage of time is recognised as a finance cost.
A disclosure for contingent liabilities is madewhere there is a possible obligation or a presentobligation that may probably not require an
outflow of resources. When there is a possibleor a present obligation where the likelihood ofoutflow of resources is remote, no provision ordisclosure is made.
Provision for onerous contracts. i.e. contractswhere the expected unavoidable cost of meetingthe obligations under the contract exceed theeconomic benefits expected to be receivedunder it, are recognised when it is probable thatan outflow of resources embodying economicbenefits will be required to settle a presentobligation as a result of an obligating event basedon a reliable estimate of such obligation.
The Company recognises a right-of-use asset and alease liability at the lease commencement date. Theright-of-use asset is initially measured at cost, whichcomprises the initial amount of the lease liabilityadjusted for any lease payments made at or beforethe commencement date, plus any initial directcosts incurred and an estimate of costs to dismantleand remove the underlying asset or to restore theunderlying asset or the site on which it is located, lessany lease incentives received.
The right-of-use asset is subsequently depreciatedusing the straight-line method from the commencementdate to the earlier of the end of the useful life ofthe right-of-use asset or the end of the lease term.The estimated useful lives of right-of-use assets aredetermined on the same basis as those of property,plant and equipment. In addition, the right-of-useasset is periodically reduced by impairment losses, ifany, in Statement of profit and loss and adjusted forcertain re-measurements of the lease liability.
The lease liability is initially measured at the presentvalue of the lease payments that are not paid atthe commencement date, discounted using the itsincremental borrowing rate as the discount rate.
The lease liability is measured at amortised cost usingthe effective interest method. It is remeasured whenthere is a change in future lease payments arising froma change in an index or rate, if there is a change inthe Company’s estimate of the amount expected tobe payable under a residual value guarantee, or ifCompany changes its assessment of whether it willexercise a purchase, extension or termination option.
When the lease liability is remeasured in this way,a corresponding adjustment is made to the carryingamount of the right-of-use asset, or is recorded in
statement of profit or loss if the carrying amount ofthe right-of-use asset has been reduced to zero.
The Company determines its incremental borrowingrate by obtaining interest rates from various externalfinancing sources and makes certain adjustments toreflect the terms of the lease and type of the assetleased.
The Company presents right-of-use assets that do notmeet the definition of investment property separatelyin the balance sheet and lease liabilities separatelywithin ‘Financial Liabilities’.
The Company has elected not to recognise right-of-use assets and lease liabilities for short-term leasesthat have a lease term of 12 months. The Companyrecognises the lease payments associated with theseleases as an expense on a straight-line basis over thelease term.
Operating segments are reported in a mannerconsistent with the internal reporting provided tothe Chief Operating Decision Maker (CODM). TheDirector of the Company is responsible for allocatingresources and assessing performance of the operatingsegments and accordingly is identified as the CODM.Refer note 31 for segment information presented.
The Company considers all highly liquid investments,which are readily convertible into known amounts ofcash that are subject to an insignificant risk of changein value to be cash equivalents. Cash and cashequivalents consist of balances with banks which areunrestricted for withdrawal and usage.
Basic Earnings Per Share (‘EPS’) is computed by dividingthe net profit attributable to the equity shareholdersby the weighted average number of equity sharesoutstanding during the year.
For the purpose of calculating diluted earnings pershare, the net profit/ loss for the period attributableto the equity shareholders and the weighted averagenumber of shares outstanding during the period isadjusted for the effects of all dilutive potential equityshares. The Comapny does not have any dilutiveequity shares.
Cash flows are reported using indirect method,whereby net profits before tax is adjusted for theeffects of transactions of a non-cash nature and anydeferrals or accruals of past or future cash receiptsor payments. The cash flows from regular revenuegenerating (operating activities), investing andfinancing activities of the Company are segregated.
The Company recognises unconditional governmentgrant related to Package Scheme of Incentive (PSI)scheme in statement of profit and loss under otherincome when the grant becomes receivable.
Ministry of Corporate Affairs (“MCA”) notifies newstandards or amendments to the existing standardsunder companies (Indian Accounting Standards) Rulesas issued from time to time. For the year ended March31, 2025, MCA has notified Ind AS - 117 InsuranceContracts and amendments to Ind AS 116 - Leases,relating to sale and leaseback transactions, applicableto the Company w.e.f April 01, 2024. The Companyhas reviewed the new pronouncements and based onits evaluation has determined that it does not have anysignificant impact in its financial statements.
a) Intellectual property agreement (Royalty expense)- The Company has entered into Intellectual Propertyagreement with 3M Innovative Properties Company and 3M Company, USA effective July 01, 2006 for thepayment of license fees in the form of royalties. Payments were waived off for a period of 3 years effective fromJuly 01, 2006 to June 30, 2009. The Intellectual Property Agreement with 3M Innovative Properties Companyand 3M Company, USA has been revised effective April 01, 2023. Accordingly, the Company has incurred anexpenditure of ' 7,548.06 lakhs for the year ended March 31, 2025 (March 31, 2024: ' 8,142.88 lakhs) anddisclosed as Royalty under other expenses (refer note 25).
b) Corporate management fees - In order to avail economies of scale, the Company has entered into inter-companyservices support services agreement with 3M Global Service Center Management Company, USA (havingexpertise in establishing, operating and managing international business and incurring costs in developing,manufacturing, marketing and selling a diverse portfolio of products) with effect from April 01, 2019. TheCompany is charged with comprehensive support services charges by 3M Global Service Center ManagementCompany for the services received from all the 3M group companies in the areas of Laboratory, Technicalassistance and Manufacturing, Selling and Marketing, Strategic and Managerial, Information Technology,Routine Administration and Foreign Services Employees Expenses and Outsourced Services of TransactionProcessing on competitive conditions. Accordingly, the Company has incurred an expenditure of ' 12,417.63lakhs for the year ended March 31, 2025 (March 31, 2024: ' 12,757.50 lakhs) and disclosed as corporatemanagement fee under other expenses (refer note 25).
c) Contract research agreement - The Company has entered into contract research agreement with 3M InnovativeProperties Company and 3M Company, USA effective July 01, 2006 for carrying out contract research activities.During the year, Company has recognized an income of ' 2,239.65 lakhs (March 31, 2024 : ' 1,332.95 lakhs).
a) Description of share based payment arrangements
Stock appreciation rights and Restricted stock units (cash-settled)
3M Company, USA has established 3M Company Long Term Incentive Plan (LTIP). As a part of the plan, eligibleemployees of the Company are entitled to acquire shares of 3M Company, USA via stock options i.e., stockappreciation rights (SARs) and restricted stock units (RSUs). The eligible employees are granted stock optionsi.e., stock appreciation rights (SARs) and restricted stock units (RSUs) which will vest with the employees overa period of 3 years from the date of the grant and they can exercise the stock option within a stipulated periodmentioned in the plan. In case of SARs, the employee (on the date of exercise) gets the compensation as adifference between market price on the date of exercise and grant date fair value. In case of RSUs, the employee(on the date of exercise) gets the compensation which is equal to market price on the date of exercise. As of theyear end a sum of ' 5,096.57 lakhs (March 31, 2024: ' 1,425.84 lakhs) is liability and the same is included as'Employee benefit obligation' under Other financial liabilities (refer note 16).
An amount of ' 2,658.91 lakhs has been debited (March 31, 2024: ' 257.70 lakhs has been debited) to thestatement of profit and loss for the year and included under Employee benefit expenses.
e) The weighted average share price at the date of exercise with regards to SARs and RSUs exercised during theyear is USD 151.45 and USD 149.87 respectively (March 31, 2024: USD Nil and USD 94.87 respectively)
a) Defined contribution plan
The Company offers its employees defined contribution plans in the form of Provident Fund (PF) and SuperannuationFund (SF). Contribution to SF is made to 3M India Limited Employees Superannuation Fund Trust and 3M E & CIndia Employees Superannuation Fund Trust. Other contributions are made to the Government’s funds. Whileboth the employees and the Company pay predetermined contributions into the Provident Fund, contributionsinto superannuation fund are made only by the Company. The contributions are normally based on a certainproportion of the employee’s salary.
During the year, the Company has recognised the following amounts in the statement of profit and loss, whichare included in contribution to provident and other funds:
A) Basis for segmentation
Ind AS 108 establishes standards for the way that public business enterprises report information about operatingsegments and related disclosures about products and services, geographic areas, and major customers. Basedon the "management approach" as defined in Ind AS 108, the Chief Operating Decision Maker (CODM) evaluatesthe Company's performance and allocates resources based on an analysis of various performance indicators bysegments. The accounting principles used in the preparation of the financial statements are consistently appliedto record revenue and expenditure in individual segments, and are as set out in the significant accounting policies.
The Company operates mainly to the needs of domestic market and export turnover is not significant in context oftotal turnover. Accordingly, there are no reportable geographical segments. The Company has four reportablesegments, as described below.
For each of the segments, the Company's Managing Director, who is the CODM, reviews internal managementreports on at least a quarterly basis.
Segment revenue, results, assets and liabilities figures include the respective amounts identifiable to each ofthe segments. Other unallocable income net off unallocable expenditure are towards common services to thesegments which are not directly identifiable to the individual segments as well as those at a corporate level whichrelate to the Company as a whole.
Information regarding the results of each reportable segment is included below. Performance is measured basedon segment profit (before tax), as included in the internal management reports that are reviewed by the CODM.Segment profit is used to measure performance as management believes that such information is the most relevantin evaluating the results of certain segments relative to other entities that operate within these industries.
No customers have individually accounted for more than 10% of the revenues during the years ended March 31,2025 and March 31, 2024.
i) Income tax matters mainly relate to transfer pricing adjustments made by the Income tax authorities with respectto disallowance of intercompany charges related to corporate management fees. Further, the Company hasopted VSV Scheme for certain years and accordingly have created a provision and hence excluded from thecontingent liability disclosure as at March 31, 2025 (refer note 34).
ii) The Company during the year 2012-13 had received an order from The Commissioner of Customs demandingdifferential duty, interest and penalty of '1,961.50 lakhs, contending the availment of concessional importduty in respect of some of its products for which a demand notice was served on the Company for payment ofthe above amount. The Company has filed an appeal against the order including for obtaining a stay against anyrecovery proceedings that may be initiated and accordingly no liability has been recognised in the books.
iii) The Company was issued a Show Cause Notice dated December 08, 2016 by the Directorate of RevenueIntelligence (DRI) in relation to levy of customs duty on inter-company transactions for import of goods andservices and hence proposing to demand differential duty of customs covering the transactions during the periodDecember 08, 2011 to February 7, 2014. The Company has received an order in original on October 1, 2017from Additional Director General - DRI (Adjudication), Mumbai confirming the demand raised for custom duty inshow cause notice amounting to '7,693.52 lakhs, penalty equivalent to the custom duty amount and additionalpenalty and interest of '1,000 lakhs. The Company has executed bank guarantee of ' 1,000 lakhs. The Companyhas filed an appeal against this order with CESTAT, Mumbai after making payment of deposit of ' 577.00 lakhs.
iv) Sales tax cases primarily pertains to Maharashtra Value Added Tax Act, 2002 and Karnataka Value Added TaxAct, 2003. These are pertaining to the years from 2006-07 to 2017-18. These cases are with respect to theapplicable rate of tax for various products and matters pertaining to declaration forms.
v) Service tax matters relates to cases with respect to manner of apportionment of credit availed by the Companywithout registering as an Input service distributor.
vi) Excise matters relates to penalty for allegedly dealing in goods liable to confiscation under Rule 26 of the CentralExcise Act and Valuation/ allowability of CENVAT credit under the Central Excise Act.
vii) The Goods and service tax matter relates to classification, disallowances of input tax credit for the year 2017 to2024, notices received upon GST Audits for year 2017-18 to 2019-20, and transition of credit through TRAN-1for year 2016-17 and 2017-18.
The fair value of financial assets and financial liabilities approximates to their carrying amount largely due to theshort-term nature of these instruments.
The Company has exposure to the following risk arising from financial instruments:
- Credit risk
- Liquidity risk
- Market risk
The Company’s principal financial liabilities comprise finance lease obligations, trade and other payables.The main purpose of these financial liabilities is to finance the Company’s operations. The Company’sprincipal financial assets include trade and other receivables, cash and cash equivalents that are deriveddirectly from its operations.
Credit risk is the risk of financial loss to the Company if a customer or counterparty to a financial instrumentfails to meet its contractual obligations, and arises principally from the Company’s receivables fromcustomers.
The Company has financial assets which are in the nature of cash and cash equivalents, loans toemployees, unbilled revenue from related party, interest accrued on fixed deposits and receivablesfrom related parties which are not credit impaired. These are contractually agreed with either banks,related parties or employees where the probability of default is negligible.
b) Financial assets that are credit impaired
Trade receivables
The Credit services team has established a credit policy under which each new customer is analysedindividually for creditworthiness before the Company’s standard payment and delivery terms andconditions are offered. The Company’s review includes external ratings, if they are available. Salelimits are established for each customer and reviewed yearly.
The Company establishes an allowance for impairment that represents its estimate of expected lossesin respect of trade receivables.
Expected credit loss assessment for the Company as at March 31, 2025 and 2024:
The Company has divided all the debtors outstanding for the last twelve quarters into age bracketsof not due, 0-90 days, 91-180 days, 181-270 days, 271-365 days and amounts outstanding for morethan one year.
The Company has calculated the impairment loss arising on account of past trends in the default ratefor time bucket.
When determining whether the credit risk of a financial asset has increased significantly since initialrecognition and when estimating expected credit losses, the Company considers reasonable andsupportable information that is relevant and available without undue cost or effort. This includes bothquantitative and qualitative information and analysis, based on the Company’s historical experienceand informed credit assessment and including forward looking information.
Expected credit losses are a probability-weighted estimate of credit losses. Credit losses are measuredas the present value of all cash shortfalls (i.e. the difference between the cash flows due to the Companyin accordance with the contract and the cash flows that the Company expects to receive).
Out of the total trade receivables of ' 83,025.86 lakhs (March 31, 2024 : 74,371.35 lakhs), theexposure considered for expected credit loss is ' 77,712.89 lakhs (March 31, 2024 : ' 70,365.75).The balance which is not considered for impairment primarily pertains to intercompany receivablesand secured debtors.
Market risk is the risk that changes in market prices - such as foreign exchange rates will affect the Company’sincome or the value of its holdings of financial instruments. Market risk is attributable to all market risksensitive financial instruments including foreign currency receivables and payables. The Company isexposed to market risk primarily related to foreign exchange rate risk. Thus, the exposure to market risk isa function of revenue generating and operating activities in foreign currency. The objective of market riskmanagement is to avoid excessive exposure in our foreign currency revenues and costs.
The summary quantitative data about the Company's unhedged exposure to currency risk as reported tothe management is as follows.
The Company has taken vehicles, leasehold improvements, data processing equipment, office premises andwarehouse. These leases typically run for a period of eleven months to ninety six months, with an option to renewthe lease after that date. For certain leases, the Company is restricted from entering into any sub-lease arrangements.Information about leases for which the Company is a lessee is presented below.
a) The Boards of Directors of the Company and of 3M E&C, wholly owned subsidiary of the Company at theirMeetings held on September 17, 2021 had approved the Scheme of Amalgamation of 3M E&C with the Companyunder Sections 230 to 232 of the Companies Act 2013 read with the Companies (Compromises, Arrangementsand Amalgamations) Rules, 2016. The Scheme of Amalgamation of 3M E&C with the Company was filed withNational Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) to amalgamate the wholly owned subsidiary.
b) 3M E&C was a private limited company domiciled in India with its registered office at Plot Nos. 95-97,Sanniyasikuppam, Udhaya Nagar, Thirubhuvanai main road, Thirubhuvanai Post, Pondicherry - 605107. 3ME&C offers a complete range of products that include the Cable jointing kits ranging from 1.1Kv to 132 KV,Heatshrinks, Coldshrinks, Kastex, Electrical Insulation Tapes, Busbar tubes, DIY Electrical kits, various kindsof water filters, water softners, Hi flo filters, Wholehouse filters, Zeta . In India, 3M E&C has manufacturingfacility at Pune.
c) Pursuant to the order from NCLT Chennai dated August 25, 2023 and order from NCLT Bengaluru dated August08, 2024, 3M E&C (the “transferor company”) were merged with the Company with an appointed date as April01, 2023. The order has been made effective on September 04, 2024 upon complying with all the relevantrequirements under the Companies Act, 2013.
d) The amalgamation has been accounted for under the ‘pooling of interest’ method as prescribed by Appendix Cof Ind AS 103 “Business Combination”. Given that the merger is a common control transaction, the prior yearfigures have been restated as if the merger had occurred from the beginning of the preceding period. i.e., April01, 2023. Prior year numbers have been recasted to include the result of the subsidiary as if the merger hadoccurred from the beginning of the preceding period April 01, 2023.
e) Consequent to the scheme of amalgamation, the authorized share capital of the transferor companies standscancelled. Further, there was no consideration or exchange of shares on account of this amalgamation as thesubsidiary got subsumed into the Company.
f) The impact of the above merger on the reported balance sheet as at March 31, 2024 on the Company andthe subsidiary while preparing the merged financials are as follows. There is no impact of the merger on theconsolidated financial statements of the Company.
41 No funds have been advanced or loaned or invested (either from borrowed funds or share premium or any other sourcesor kind of funds) by the Company to or in any other person(s) or entity(ies), including foreign entities (“Intermediaries”)with the understanding, whether recorded in writing or otherwise, that the Intermediary shall lend or invest in partyidentified by or on behalf of the Company (Ultimate Beneficiaries). The Company has not received any fund fromany party(s) (Funding Party) with the understanding that the Company shall whether, directly or indirectly lend orinvest in other persons or entities identified by or on behalf of the Company (“Ultimate Beneficiaries”) or provide anyguarantee, security or the like on behalf of the Ultimate Beneficiaries.
i) The Company does not have any Benami property or any proceeding is pending against the Company for holdingany Benami property.
ii) The Company do not have any charges or satisfaction which is yet to be registered with Registrar of Companiesbeyond the statutory period.
iii) The Company has not traded or invested in crypto currency or virtual currency during the financial year.
iv) The Company is not classified as wilful defaulter.
v) The Company doesn’t have any transaction which is not recorded in the books of accounts that has beensurrendered or disclosed as income during the year in the tax assessments under the Income Tax Act, 1961 suchas search or survey.
vi) The Company has no transactions with the struck off companies.
vii) The Company has not entered into any scheme of arrangement which has an accounting impact on current orprevious financial year.
Chartered Accountants
Firm Registration No: 101248W/W-100022
Partner Managing Director Whole-time Director
Membership No: 223018 DIN: 07109252 DIN: 07904558
Chief Financial Officer Company Secretary
Membership No: A22297
Place: Bengaluru Place: Bengaluru
Date: May 28, 2025 Date: May 28, 2025