Please find the attached Newspaper Advertisement for publication of unaudited financial results for the quarter ended 30th June 2026

ZUARI AGRO CHEMICALS LIMITED 01st August, 2026 National Stock Exchange of India Ltd, BSE Limited Exchange Plaza, 5th floor, Floor 25, P.J. Towers, Bandra-Kurla Complex, Dalal Street, Bandra (E). Mumbai - 400 001 Mumbai - 400 051 BSE scrip Code: 534742 NSE Symbol: ZUARI Sub: Newspaper Advertisement for publication of Unaudited Financial Results for the quarter ended 30th June, 2026 Dear Sir/ Madam, Pursuant to Regulation 47 of SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015, please find enclosed copies of Unaudited Financial Results for the quarter ended 30th June, 2026 published in Business Line all editions (English), Dainik Herald Goa edition (Marathi) and O Heraldo Goa edition (English), regional newspapers on 01st August, 2026. The same is also being uploaded on the website of the Company at www.zuari.in. Thanking you, Yours faithfully, For Zuari Agro Chemicals Limited Asheeba Pereira Company Secretary Encl.: As above Registered Office: Jai Kisaan Bhawan, Zuarinagar, Goa – 403 726, India CIN: L20121GA2009PLC006177 Tel: + 0832 2592180, 2592181 Website: www.zuari.in , Email: shares@adventz.com/ Investor.Relations@adventz.com news bl MUMBAI 13 businessline. SATURDAY-AUGUST1-2026 IT sector’s productivity IBM, Sarvam partner to expedite sovereign AI adoption engine gathers steam sector organisations and reg- The integrated offering is IBM GovTech AI Innovation ernance, security and com- Our Bureau ulated enterprises. designed for the public sec- Center in Lucknow will serve pliance requirements. Bengaluru The partnership combines tor and regulated industries, as a joint incubation and Combined with Sarvam’s In- IBM and Sarvam, India’s full- IBM Sovereign Core — aligning with India’s regulat- demonstration hub. dia-first AI technologies, it REWRITING PLAYBOOK.Revenue per employee improves across stack sovereign AI company, IBM’s sovereign-by-design, ory, security and operational Sriram Raghavan, General will help organisations accel- have partnered to accelerate AI-ready software platform requirements. Together, the Manager, IBM Software, In- erate the transition from ex- tier-I firms as AI, better utilisation and tighter hiring boost efficiency the development and adop- that enables organisations to companies will develop sov- dia and IBM Software Innov- perimentation to produc- tion of sovereign AI techno- retain full control over data, ereign AI applications for cit- ation Lab, said IBM Sover- tion-scale deployment. logies in India. operations and governance izen services, grievance re- eign Core provides an open, Pratyush Kumar, Co- Sanjana B Under the collaboration, — with Sarvam’s Sovereign dressal, document enterprise-grade platform founder of Sarvam, said sov- Bengaluru the two companies will AI stack, comprising India- processing and administrat- and middleware foundation ereign AI must operate jointly develop and pilot AI built reasoning models and ive workflows, enabling se- that enables governments within the systems govern- The June quarter highlighted solutions for industry use language and voice AI cure, multilingual and voice- and regulated enterprises to ments and enterprises astructural shift in India’s IT cases relevant to Central and trained from scratch for In- enabled government-to-cit- scale AI in trusted environ- already rely on and at the services industry from a hir- State governments, public dian use cases. izen services at scale. The ments while meeting gov- scale those systems demand. ing-led growth model to a productivity-led one, with several tier-I firms improv- ing revenue per employee (RPE) despite flat or declin- ing headcount. “The trend across Tier-I companies points to improv- ing productivity rather than alongside efficient talent “In many cases, RPE im- workforce expansion,” said deployment. proved because workforce Gaurav Vasu, Founder and In contrast, Wipro and expansion slowed, talent de- CEO, UnearthInsight. LTTS expanded their work- ployment became more effi- TCS reduced its head- force but saw RPE decline by cient and companies focused count by 3.1 per cent year- 3.9 per cent and 8.4 per cent, on higher-margin services. on-year while increasing respectively, suggesting hir- Selective hiring, attrition RPE by 6.1 per cent. Tech ing has outpaced revenue management and organisa- Mahindra’s workforce growth as they invest ahead tional restructuring also sup- shrank 1.2 per cent, but its of an anticipated recovery. ported productivity despite RPE rose 7.4 per cent. “This According to Sanketh modest revenue growth,” he reflects a combination of Chengappa, Director-Pro- said. e 2 workforce rationalisation, fessional Staffing and Busi- Analysts stressed that e 2 2 1 higher utilisation and the ness Head, Adecco India, companies with stronger de- 2 1 3 6 early benefits of AI-led pro- RPE is increasingly evolving mand visibility continue to 3 6 7 ductivity improvements,” from a scale-driven metric to recruit, particularly in AI, 7 Vasu said. aproductivity-driven one. cloud and engineering, while Infosys and HCLTech, “The June quarter reflec- maintaining productivity meanwhile, managed to in- ted stabilisation with pock- gains. crease both headcount and ets of improvement, particu- “Companies that have im- productivity. Infosys expan- larly among tier-I firms that proved RPE are those that ded its workforce by 1.3 per sustained revenue growth have become more discip- cent and improved RPE by while maintaining discipline lined about hiring while ex- 1.5 per cent, while HCLTech on headcount expansion,” he tracting greater value from added 0.3 per cent to its said. their existing workforce. AI headcount and raised RPE by Among tier-I companies, is automating routine work, 2.6 per cent. “These compan- higher RPE was driven by im- improving developer pro- ies are absorbing new talent proved utilisation, tighter ductivity and streamlining without compromising pro- bench management, select- delivery, but its financial im- ductivity, reflecting stronger ive hiring, moderated fresher pact is still evolving. For execution, better delivery intake and a greater focus on now, AI is acting more as a optimisation and AI-driven high-value services such as productivity multiplier than efficiency gains,” Vasu AI, cloud, cybersecurity, data astandalone growth driver,” added. and digital transformation. Vasu said. During Infosys’ Q1FY27 Tier-II companies, how- Overall, the relationship earnings call, CEO and MD ever, present a mixed pic- between revenue growth and Salil Parekh attributed the ture. headcount growth is weak- company’s improving rev- Chengappa said niche ening. The industry is stead- enue productivity to sus- players are gaining from cap- ily moving from a scale-led tained efficiency gains. ability-led growth strategies, model to one driven by pro- “We recruited 20,000 col- while firms with greater ex- ductivity, where AI-assisted lege graduates last year and posure to discretionary delivery, better utilisation plan to recruit another spending and weaker pricing and operational efficiency 20,000 this year. Around power have seen more mod- are becoming as important 4,000 joined in the first est productivity gains. as workforce expansion. quarter, while productivity improvements continue,” he said. TIER II: MIXED PICTURE The trend is more varied among tier-II firms. 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