Bengaluru, NFAPost: As per regulatory documents, Google India’s revenues grew 34.8% to about Rs 5,593.8 Cr in 2019-20 over the previous financial year.
Google India’s total income was at Rs 4,147 crore in the financial year ended March 31, 2019, according to Registrar of Companies filing shared by market intelligence firm Tofler. The net profit was higher by about 23.9% at Rs 586.2 crore in FY20 as compared to Rs 472.8 crore in the preceding fiscal, it added.
The filing said, “The Board is glad to inform you that during the period beginning from April 1, 2019, and ending on March 31, 2020, the company has achieved a turnover (revenue from operations) of INR 53,847 Mn, which is higher than the earlier year of Rs 39,928 million.”
According to a Google India spokesperson, “In the FY19-20 financial year, Google India made a pre-tax profit of Rs 11,383 million, resulting in Rs 3,020 million of corporate income taxes payable, and invested almost Rs 4 billion in our Indian operations.”
Google India is engaged in the rendering of IT and IT-enabled services to its Group Companies engaged in the internet industry. The company is also a third-party reseller of advertising space of Google Adwords programme and other Google advertising products and services in India to advertisers seeking to market their products and services to consumers and business users over the internet.
According to the filing, advertising revenue contributed about 27% of the company’s turnover, while the share of IT-enabled services stood at 32% and that of IT services was at 41%.
“From April 1, 2019, to March 31, 2020, the company made 4 CSR grants, totalling about Rs 13.34 crore to non-governmental organisations working to improve the quality of education and safety of children,” the filing said.
