Grasim Industries Q1 Results: Profit slides by a fourth to Rs 1,189 crore on investment in paints ops

The flagship company of the Aditya Birla launched its paints operations ‘Birla Opus’ towards the end of the March quarter, and April-June was its first quarter of full operations. The company has spent Rs 7,795 crore on its paints business as of June-end, approximately four-fifth of the total planned expenditure for these operations.