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3M India Limited 5th Floor Marksquare 61, St Marks Road Bengaluru 560001, India Tel: +91 80 22231414 www.3M.com/in Corporate Relationship Department August 15, 2026 BSE Limited 1st Floor, New Trading Ring, Rotunda Building P.J. Towers, Dalal Street, Fort Mumbai - 400 001 Scrip Code - 523395 The Secretary National Stock Exchange of India Limited Exchange Plaza, Bandra – Kurla Complex Bandra (E), Mumbai – 400 051 Scrip Code – 3MINDIA Dear Sirs, Sub: Newspaper Advertisement of Financial Results of the Company. In continuation of our letter dated August 14, 2026, please find attached copies of the newspaper advertisements in Business Line (All India) - Bangalore edition and Prajavani (Bangalore) published today viz., August 15, 2026 relating to extract of Financial Results (Un- audited) for the first quarter ended June 30, 2026. Please take the above on record and kindly treat this as compliance with Regulation 47 of SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015. Thanking you, For 3M India Limited Pratap Rudra Bhuvanagiri Company Secretary & Compliance Officer Encl: as above Regd Office: Plot No 48-51 Electronics City, Bengaluru 560100, India CIN No: L31300KA1987PLC013543 Email: investorhelpdesk.in@mmm.com news bl BENGALURU 5 businessline. SATURDAY-AUGUST15-2026 Amara Raja sees battery storage Data analytics firm Tredence aims for $1 b revenue by 2030 plant driving near-term revenue tech, healthcare and life sci- Rohan Das ences, banking and financial Chennai services and manufacturing. POWERING AHEAD. The upcoming 10 GWh facilityhas the potential to generate $500-600 million As for the geographies, he Tredence, a data and analyt- said that while the US still FY27 capex of ₹1,700 crore, ics company, is gearing up for holds the largest share, both Amit Vijay Mohile including ₹1,300 crore for a phase of accelerated West Asia and Europe have Mumbai new-energy projects and growth with an ambition to shown strong growth in re- ₹400 crore for lead-acid bat- achieve $1 billion in annual cent years. Amara Raja Energy & Mobil- teries and recycling. revenue by 2030. ity expects its upcoming 10 About ₹450 crore was The US-headquartered EYEING NEW VERTICAL GWh battery energy storage spent in Q1, while cell R&D nicheanalytics player, which Acquisitions will be a key systems (BESS) plant to will require another ₹100- has a significant presence in Shub Bhowmick, Co-Founder part of this strategy, said achieve at least 5 GWh util- 150 crore this year. Manage- multiple Indian cities, in- and CEO, Tredence Bhowmick. “I am going to isation within six months of ment acknowledged funding cluding Chennai, has seen its keep acquiring some busi- commissioning, potentially requirements will rise as cell revenue go up over 10x in the nesses. But acquisitions will creating a meaningful new capacity scales. last six years from around flows,” he said. Tredence not be about acquiring rev- revenue stream even as com- $30 million in 2020 to an an- also wants to move away enue. It will be about acquir- mercial revenue from its FUTURE EXPANSION ticipated range of $340-350 from the traditional time and ing strategic capabilities,” he own battery-cell manufac- The holding company gener- million in 2026. material contracts to more said, adding that they will ac- turing remains at least a year ates an estimated ₹700-800 Speaking to businessline, outcome-based pricing. quire for new vertical plays away. crore annually after tax and Shub Bhowmick, Co-founder “Internally, we want to or geographies. The ₹250-300 crore BESS UPBEAT PROJECTION. The management expects reasonable order book emerge from Indian dividends, suggesting future and CEO, Tredence, said change that equation, the In June, Tredence an- facility, scheduled for com- EPC companies and expects a rapid scale-up after commissioningREUTERS expansion may require debt, they started out as a pure proportionality between rev- nounced the acquisition of missioning in Q3 FY27, will equity or other financing. It play analytics specialist, but enue and headcount. Today, KMK Consulting, a life sci- assemble imported lithium also estimates Indian cell over the years had widened about one-third of my busi- ences and biopharma fo- iron phosphate (LFP) cells sioning. “I don’t see a major The company stressed favours lower-cost, longer- production remains 15-20 offerings to include data en- ness is still time and money. I cused analytics and consult- into containerised storage challenge within a period of that the targeted 5 GWh life LFP chemistry. per cent costlier than gineering, MLOps and agent want to make it zero over ing firm, a relatively nascent solutions for grid-scale and about six months from the BESS utilisation should not While the BESS business Chinese supply. orchestration projects. time,” he said. vertical for the company. commercial customers. time the factory is com- be confused with demand for will use LFP cells, Amara Ra- Meanwhile, the legacy Around 50 per cent of Tre- The firm currently em- pleted, at least getting to a its own battery cells. ja’s first captive manufactur- lead-acid business continues INTEL BUILDING dence’s revenue still comes ploys around 5,000 employ- SELLING PRICE level of 5 GWh utilisation,” Its first captive-cell facil- ing line is NMC-based. Man- to fund the transition, with “In the earlier stages, I would from data engineering work. ees with around 20 per cent e 4 Based on management’s in- Chief Financial Officer Y ity is a separate 2 GWh cyl- agement indicated future Q1 revenue growing about say it was a lot of intelligence The other half comes from stationed in the US and the e 4 1 9 dicated selling price of $100- Delli Babu said during the indrical NMC line focused cell investments could be 22 per cent. New-energy rev- building. Then it got to a AI-related services. rest spread across offices in 1 9 7 3 120 per kWh, annual deliver- company’s post-results ana- primarily on mobility applic- directed toward energy- enue rose over 70 per cent to point where it was not just In terms of industry ver- India and a few global deliv- 7 3 4 ies of 5 GWh could imply rev- lyst call. ations. storage applications as de- ₹209 crore, driven mainly by building intelligence, but en- ticals, retail and CPG are the ery centres. 4 enue potential of $500-600 Nomura raised concerns mand accelerates. telecom and EV battery abling our clients to make largest segments, though the The company is actively million, although this is a ca- about increasing competi- REVENUE GUIDANCE Amara Raja continues to packs, and accounted for decisions. Now, it is shifting firm is actively looking to training its employees in an pacity-based estimate rather tion in the BESS market and Equipment is expected in Q3 target 16 GWh of cell capa- about 5 per cent of consolid- to a point where it is about grow its presence in growth effort to make them AI-nat- than a disclosed order book. the profitability of the FY27, with commercialisa- city by FY30 and a 15-20 per ated revenue. While BESS integrating those decisions segments like travel and hos- ive and increasing revenues Responding to a JPMor- business. tion targeted in H1 FY28. cent share of India’s ad- could become a sizeable into the business work- pitality, telecom, media and per full-time employee. gan query on demand visibil- Management said it is con- The company has yet to dis- dressable market, but said business before cell manu- ity, the management said it is servatively factoring in oper- close customer commit- expansion will remain facturing ramps up, the key seeing a “reasonable order ating margins of 5-6 per cent, ments, utilisation targets or demand-led. test will be converting de- book” emerge from Indian with 7-8 per cent possible at revenue guidance for the “Any redundant capacity mand from imported LFP engineering, procurement the upper end. line. that we create will be highly cells to locally manufactured and construction (EPC) The business is also [Showing first 8,000 characters — download PDF for full document]