{"id":161053,"date":"2024-05-13T08:45:27","date_gmt":"2024-05-13T12:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/44.250.171.167\/?p=161053"},"modified":"2024-05-13T08:45:28","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T12:45:28","slug":"abb-india-ltd-q4-fy24-earnings-conference-call-insights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alphastreet.com\/india\/abb-india-ltd-q4-fy24-earnings-conference-call-insights\/","title":{"rendered":"ABB India Ltd Q4 FY24 Earnings Conference Call Insights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Key highlights from ABB India Ltd (ABB) Q4 FY24 Earnings Concall<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Business Overview<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>ABB operates in 4 verticals: electrification, motion, process automation, robotics and discrete automation.<\/li>\n<li>Products cater to infrastructure, industrialization, digitization, and manufacturing expansion in India.<\/li>\n<li>19 divisions exposed to 23 market segments, providing fundamental resilience.<\/li>\n<li>5 manufacturing locations with 25 plants and 28 customer care offices.<\/li>\n<li>750+ channel partners, integrators, OEM supporters; 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Products cater to infrastructure, industrialization, digitization, and manufacturing expansion in India. 19 divisions exposed to 23 market segments, providing fundamental resilience. 5 manufacturing locations with 25 plants and 28 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1767,"featured_media":154818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9825,392,5746],"tags":[10169,8161],"class_list":["post-161053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-earnings-call-highlights","category-earnings","category-energy-stocks","tag-earnings","tag-energy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/alphastreet.com\/india\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/CC_Image_1.jpg","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":158986,"url":"https:\/\/alphastreet.com\/india\/abb-india-ltd-q3-fy24-earnings-conference-call-insights\/","url_meta":{"origin":161053,"position":0},"title":"ABB India Ltd Q3 FY24 Earnings Conference Call Insights","author":"Praveen","date":"February 21, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Key highlights from ABB India Ltd (ABB) Q3 FY24 Earnings Concall Renewable Energy India aims for 500 GW of renewable energy by 2030. 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