HOC draws up cost-saving plan, eyes 22% rise in income this year
Hindustan Organic Chemicals (HOC), one of the 11 PSUs cleared for disinvestment, has chalked out an elaborate cost-saving strategy, even while targeting a 22 per cent increase in total income to Rs 573 crore in 2000-2001.

Aptech net vaults 101% to Rs 39.13 crore in H1
Aptech Ltd has reported a 101.3 per cent surge in net profit to Rs 39.13 crore in the first half of the current year as against Rs 19.44 crore in the first half of 1999.

Pentasoft Tech net rockets 467% to Rs 30 crore in Q1
Pentasoft Technologies Ltd has registered a net profit of Rs 29.9 crore for the quarter ended June 30, 2000, against Rs 5.2 crore last year, an increase of 467 per cent.


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