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Lucky Cement Limited
Annual Report 2001
CONTENTS
Company Information
Notice of Meeting
Directors' Report
Graphs, Yearwise Statistical Summary and Ratio Analysis
Auditors' Report
Balance Sheet
Profit & Loss Account
Cash Flow Statement
Statement of Changes in Equity
Notes to the Accounts
Statement and Report under Section 237 of the Companies Ordinance, 1984
Lucky Powertech Limited
Consolidated Accounts
Pattern of Shareholding
COMPANY INFORMATION
BOARD OF DIRECTORS Abdul Razzak Tabba (Chairman/Chief Executive)
Muhammad Yunus Tabba
Muhammad Sohail Tabba
Muhammad Ali Tabba
Imran Yunus Tabba
Muhammad Javed Tabba
Anis Wahab Zuberi
M Aliuddin Ansari
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Abdur Razzaq Thaplawala
COMPANY SECRETARY & Muhammad Abid Ganatra
GENERAL MANAGER FINANCE ACA, ACMA, ACIS
STATUTORY AUDITORS M. Yousuf Adil Saleem & Co.,
Chartered Accountants
COST AUDITORS Munaf Yousuf & Co.,
Chartered Accountants
BANKERS Metropolitan Bank Limited
Muslim Commercial Bank Limited
Soneri Bank Limited
REGISTERED OFFICE / FACTORY Pezu, District Lakki Marwat
N.W.F.P.
HEAD OFFICE 6-A, Muhammad Ali Housing Society,
A. Aziz Hashim Tabba Street,
Karachi-75350.
UAN # (021) 111-786-555
SALES OFFICES
2nd Floor, A1-Hassan Plaza, Aptma House, Jamrud Road,
Jamia Ashrafia, Main Ferozpur Road, Peshawar.
Lahore. UAN # (091) 111-786-555
UAN # (042) 111-786-555
Gold Crest Plaza, 20 Azmat Saddar Bazar, Bannu Road,
Wasti Road, Near Chowk Dera Adda, Near Main Flying Coach Adda,
Multan. D.I. Khan.
Tel # (061) 540021 - 510021 UAN # (0961) 111-786-555
167-A, Adamjee Road, 6-A, Muhammad Ali Housing Society,
Rawalpindi Cantt, Rawalpindi. A. Aziz Hashim Tabba Street, Karachi.
UAN #(051) 111-786-555 UAN #(021) 111-786-555
SHARES DEPARTMENT 404, 4thFloor, Trade Tower, Abdullah Haroon Road,
Karachi. Tel # 5685930 - 5687839
Note: W.e.f. 1st Jan. 2002 the shares department will be shifted at 6-A, Muhammad Ali Housing Society, Karachi-75350
NOTICE OF 8TH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Notice is hereby given that the 8th Annual General Meeting of the members of Lucky Cement
Limited will be held on Friday, the 28th December, 2001 at 11:00 a.m., at the Registered Office
of the Company situated at factory premises Pezu, District Lakki Marwat, N.W.F.P. to transact
tire following business:
1. To confirm the minutes of 7th Annual General Meeting held on 14th December, 2000.
2. To receive, consider and adopt the audited accounts of the Company for the year ended
on June 30, 2001, together with the Directors' and the Auditors' Reports thereon.
3. To declare cash dividend of Re. 0.75 per share (@7.5%) for the year ended June 30,
2001 as recommended by the Directors.
4. To appoint Auditors and fix their remuneration for the year 2001-2002. The present
Auditors, Messrs M. Yousuf Adil Saleem & Co., Chartered Accountants, retire and be-
ing eligible, offer themselves for reappointment.
5. To transact any other business with the permission of the Chairman.
By Order of the Board
Muhammad Abid Ganatra
Karachi, 29th November, 2001. Company Secretary
NOTES:
1. The shares transfer books of the Company will be closed from Friday 21st December,
2001 to 28th December, 2001 (both days inclusive). Transfer received in order at the
shares department at 404, 4th Floor, Trade Tower, Abdullah Haroon Road, Karachi upto the
close of business on Thursday December 20, 2001, will be considered in time to be
eligible for payment of Dividend to the transferees.
2. A member entitled to attend and vote may appoint another member as his/her proxy to
attend and vote instead of him/her.
3. An individual beneficial owner of shares from CDC must bring his/her original NIC or
Passport, Account and Participant's I.D. numbers to prove his/her identity. A representa-
tive of corporate members from CDC must bring the Board of Directors' Resolution and/
or Power of Attorney and the specimen signature of the nominee.
4. The members are requested to notify change in their address, if any, to the Company's
shares department at 404, 4th Floor, Trade Tower, Abdullah Haroon Road, Karachi.
Note: W.e.f. 1st Jan. 2002 the shares department will be shifted at 6-A, Muhammad Ali Housing Society, Karachi-75350
DIRECTORS' REPORT
We have pleasure to present a review of the company's performance during the year
2000-2001 together with income statement for the year ended on 30th June, 2001 and
balance sheet of the company as on that date.
Overview
As you will see from the annexed financial statement there was an overall improvement
in company's performance during the year. The earning per share improved from Re.
0.92 in the preceding year to Rs. 1.05 during the year under report. The profit before tax
increased from Rs. 244.031 million in 1999-2000 to Rs. 267.187 million in the year un-
der report. This was possible mainly because of substantial reduction in financial charges
of the company. Your company was not only able to meet all its repayment obligations in
time but was also able to repay some of the borrowings in advance. This enabled the
company to reduce its long term obligations from Rs. 291 million on 30-06-2000 to Rs.
184 million on 30-06-2001. The outstanding liabilities against financial lease were paid
off in full during the current year and there was no outstanding balance as on 30-06-2001
on this account. The debt equity ratio of the company stood at 0.08:1 at the end of the
year. Your company, thus, has a robust balance sheet.
Production
For last two years, the company was constantly working on the upgrading and moderniz-
ing its equipments. By the grace of Allah, the Almighty, these efforts have been success-
ful and we were able to increase our production capability to almost 2,400 tons of clinker
per day as against the original minimum design capacity of 2000 tons per day. Simultane-
ous improvement in the production capability of raw mill and cement mill was also made
to feed and to grind the increased clinker production capability. However, inspite of in-
creased production capability, the total production of the year could not be increased
because the operation of the plant had to conform to the market demand of cement which
continued to remain stagnant. During the year the clinker production was slightly better
than the preceding year but the cement production and sales on the other hand was slightly
less than the previous year as can be seen from the following figures:
1999-2000 2000-2001
(Tons) (Tons)
Clinker Produced 819,180 824,190
Cement Produced 856,928 825,830
Cement Sold 837,184 821,476
With the increase in the production capability, the company was able to achieve substan-
tial economy in its fuel consumption which came down from about 92 Kg in the year
ended on 30-06-2000 per ton of clinker to about 84 Kg in the year under report. The
company's management is actively working on further improvement and hope to achieve
better heat consumption in future.
Sales
The company sold 821,476 tons of cement during the year' under report as against 837,184
tons in the preceding year. The average ex-factory selling price also carne down from Rs.
3,855 per ton to Rs. 3,752 per ton. The company's net retention however increased by
about 9% during the year because of reduction of excise duty from Rs. 1,400 per ton to
Rs. 1,000 per' ton with effect from 5th September, 2000. The average retention would
have been better but for an unhealthy competition which was initiated by some cement
producers in the cement market immediately after the revival of sales tax exemption to
your company in September 2000 with a motive to deprive your company of the benefits
of a truncated exemption (for less than 10 months) against five year's exemption prom-
ised at the time of initiation of the project. The competition was so fierce that at a certain
time retail prices of cement came down from an average of about Rs. 4,000 to Rs. 2,800
per ton. This un-healthy and motivated competition continued from September 2000 to
March 2001 when prices started stabilizing. As already reported in the last year's report,
your company also have an almost permanent dis-advantage of Rs. 150 to Rs. 200 per
ton in freight charges on cement as compared to most of the other companies because of
distance between location of its plant from main market. This will always have a negative
impact on company's net retention per ton as compared to other companies.
Production Costs
The furnace oil is the main element of cost in cement production. Its prices were substan-
tially higher during the year under report as compared to preceding year. The average
cost of furnace oil per ton during the year 1999-2000 was Rs. 8,194 per ton. The average
increased to Rs. 12,569 per ton during the year ended on 30-06-2001. This works out to
an increase of more than 53%. As a consequence of increase in cost of furnace oil, the
cost of electricity generated by Lucky Powertech Ltd a wholly owned subsidiary of your
company also increased substantially.
Until 30th June, 2000, the Government was operating a freight equalization pool which
equalized the freight payable on furnace oil by all buyers irrespective of their locations.
Thus the price of furnace oil was uniform for all the consumers in Pakistan. The freight
equalization pool was discontinued from 01-07-2000 and as a result, the buyers located
in the North are being made to pay higher freight on furnace oil according to the distance
of their respective plants from Karachi as compared to their counterparts in south. The
increase in cost of furnace oil and other inputs due to normal inflationary condition in the
country partly offset by improved retention per ton, reduced our gross profit rate and
operating profit rate to 18.85% and 15.70% respectively during the year under review as
compared to 21.38% and 18.56% respectively in the year ended on 30-06-2000.
Coal as substitute to Furnace Oil
Pakistan's Coal reserves are estimated at 184,658 million tons but out of these estimated
reserves only 4,006 million tons or 2.17% are classified as measured reserves. Most of
the estimated reserves (97%) are in Lakhra and That fields of Sindh and entire coal from
these fields is generally of lignite type which has high moisture, high sulphur and low
heating value. It is therefore not a useful fuel for efficient operation of a cement plant.
There are small reserves (0.37% of country's total estimated reserves) in Sot Range Quetta
which can be described as bituminous coal. It has reasonably good moisture and better
heating value and sulphur content of around 4%. The coal from this source and some
other sources in Punjab and NWFP can be used in cement industry if blended with im-
ported coal. The sulphur contents in the imported coal is less than 1%. If it is blended
with indigenous coal of about 4% sulphur in proper ratio, the cement plant can save itself
from the problems associated with high sulphur. It is estimated that if 60% imported coal
is used with 40% indigenous coal and the entire cement industry in the country switches
over to the coal, the country can save US$ 113 million per annum out of the amount
presently being spent on the import of furnace oil.
For switching over to the coal, cement plants with a capacity about 2000 to 3000 tons a
day, shall have to make a capital investment of atleast Rs. 300 millions. The cement in-
dustry in Pakistan has taken up this challenge and has started making this investment. It is
however, necessary that the Government persuades the coal mining industry to also mod-
ernize its mining methods and set up coal washeries and beneficiation plants to supply
coal of improved quality.
Your company started experimentation with substitution of furnace oil by coal in last
quarter of the year under report by using good quality indigenous coal in pre-calciner
with the help of indigenous crushing equipments. Inspite of problems created by high
sulphur content of the local coal, your company is now getting its 30% to 40% energy
from coal. Although the operations are not as smooth and efficient as it could be with
better quality of coal and proper storage, pulverizing and feeding system. Your company
is now in process of importing equipments for a complete coal firing system and hope to
switch over to 100% coal in the beginning of next financial year.
Appropriation of Profit
According to the annexed profit & loss account, the company earned a net profit before
tax of Rs. 267.187 millions during the year under report. After accounting for provision
for taxation the net profit after tax comes to Rs. 256.169 million. There is an accumulated
profit brought forward from previous year amounting to Rs. 136.020 million. This, to-
gether with year's net profit after tax, makes available a total sum of Rs. 392.189 million
for appropriation. Your Directors propose to appropriate the amount as follows:
(Rupees in '000')
Profit before taxation for the year 2000-2001 267,187
Provision for Taxation 11,018
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Net Profit after Taxation 256,169
Accumulated Profit brought forward 136,020
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Total profit available for appropriation 392,189
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Appropriation
- Dividend @ Re. 0.75 per share of Rs. 10/= each 183,750
- Unappropriated profit carried forward 208,439
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Total 392,189
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Future Prospects
Due to various economic reasons, the demand for cement continues to be stagnant. The
industry in general, is utilizing about 60% of its production capacity. With the recent
developments in Afghanistan and implementation of some development projects, there is
a possibility of increase in demand during the second half of the country. If these hopes
materialize, we can look forward to better prospects for cement industry in the coming
years.
Auditors
The auditors, M. Yousuf Adil Saleem & Co, Chartered Accountants, retire and being eligi-
ble offer themselves for reappointment.
Pattern of Shareholding
The pattern of shareholding as on 30th June, 2001 is annexed to this report.
Subsidiary
The audited accounts of the Lucky Powertech Limited, the company's wholly owned sub-
sidiary, for the year ended 30th June, 2001 are annexed to this report.
Acknowledgement
Your directors acknowledge with appreciation, the efforts of company's managers, tech-
nicians and workers and the support extended by the company's bankers, dealers and
stockists during the year.
For and on behalf of the Board
ABDUL RAZZAK TABBA
Karachi: 29th November, 2001 Chairman & Chief Executive
YEARWISE STATISTICAL SUMMARY
Rupees in '000'
1997 1998 1999 2000 2001
ASSETS EMPLOYED
Fixed assets 3,992 3,904 3,785 3,729 3,585
Long term investments 200 200 200 200 200
Long term deposit and
deferred cost 64 54 43 18 6
Current assets 366 426 498 620 784
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Total assets employed 4,622 4,584 4,526 4,567 4,575
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FINANCED BY
Shareholders' equity 3,413 3,294 3,350 3,576 3,648
Long term liabilities
Loans 603 518 409 291 184
Leasing 101 107 76 -- --
Current portion of loans
and lease 13 115 134 195 120
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717 740 619 486 304
Long term deposits and
deferred liabilities 94 144 92 102 106
Current liabilities 411 521 599 598 637
Current portion of loans
and lease (13) (115) (134) (195) (120)
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398 406 465 403 517
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Total funds invested 4,622 4,584 4,526 4,567 4,575
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TURNOVER AND PROFIT
Turnover      393 1,010 1,475 2,050 2,203
Gross profit      82 66 263 438 415
Operating profit 46 9 211 380 346
Profit/(1oss) before taxation (25) (114) 55 244 267
Profit/(1oss) after taxation (27) (119) 55 226 256
Proposed cash dividend -- -- -- -- 184
Profit/(1oss) carried forward (26) (146) (90) 136 208
Earnings per share (Rupees) (0.110) (0.486) 0.22 0.92 1.05
Break up value per share (Rupees) 13.39 13.45 13.67 14.60 14.89
RATIO ANALYSIS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2001
2001 2000
PROFITABILITY
Gross profit to sales 18.85% 21.38%
Operating profit to sales 15.71% 18.56%
Profit before tax to sales 12.13% 1l.91%
Net profit after tax to sales 11.63% 11.04%
Net profit to total assets 5.60% 4.96%
increase in sales over last year 7.50% 38.95%
Raw and packing material to sales 11.04% 11.58%
Raw and packing material to cost of sales 13.61% 14.72%
Fuel and power to sales 59.06% 49.81%
Fuel and power to cost of sales 72.79% 63.36%
Salaries, benefits and wages to sales 3.48% 4.06%
Salaries, benefits and wages to cost of sales 4.28% 5.16%
Other cost of sales expenses to sales 7.57% 13.17%
Other cost of sales expenses to cost of sales 9.32% 16.76%
Administrative expenses to sales 2.29% 2.01%
Selling and distribution expenses to sales 0.86% 0.81%
Income tax to sales 0.50% 0.86%
Financial charges to sales 2.96% 6.05%
Earning per share (before tax) Rs. 1.09 Rs. 1.00
Earning per share (after tax) Rs. 1.05 Rs. 0.92
SOLVENCY
Working capital ratio Rs. 1.52: 1 Rs. 1.54: 1
Acid test ratio Rs. 1.14: 1 Rs. 1.28: 1
Working capital turnover (sales)-times 8.26 9.44
Inventory turnover (sales)- times 14.86 24.17
Inventory turnover (COGS)- times 12.05 19.00
OVERALL VALUATION AND ASSESSMENT
Return on equity after tax 10.46% 9.24%
Book value per share Rs. 14.89 Rs. 14.60
Long-term debts to equity ratio Rs. 0.08: 1 Rs. 0.14: 1
AUDITORS' REPORT TO THE MEMBERS
We have audited the annexed balance sheet of Lucky Cement Limited as at June 30, 2001 and the
related profit and loss account, statement of changes in equity and cash flow statement together with the
notes forming part thereof, for the year then ended and we state that we have obtained all the information
and explanations which to the best of our knowledge and belief, were necessary for the purposes of our
audit.
It is the responsibility of the Company's management to establish and maintain a system of internal
control, and prepare and present the above said statements in conformity with the approved accounting
standards and the requirements of the Companies Ordinance. 1984. Our responsibility is to express an
opinion on these statements based on our audit.
We conducted our audit in accordance with the auditing standards as applicable in Pakistan. These stand-
ards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the above
said statements are free of any material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis,
evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the above said statements. An audit also includes
assessing the accounting policies and significant estimates made by the management, as well as, evaluat-
ing the overall presentation of the above said statements. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable
basis for our opinion and, after due verification, we report that:
a) in our opinion, proper books of account have been kept by the Company as required by the
Companies Ordinance, 1984;
b) in our opinion:
i) the balance sheet and profit and loss account together with the notes thereon have been
drawn up in conformity with the Companies Ordinance, 1984, and are in agreement with
the books of account and are further in accordance with the accounting policies consis-
tently applied;
ii) the expenditure incurred during the year was for the purpose of the Company's business;
and