Bata India reduced its permanent workforce by 2.74 per cent year-on-year in FY25, bringing the count down to 3,961 from 4,073 in FY24. This marks a steady decline over three years, as the headcount stood at 4,421 in FY23. Including factory workers and other staff, the company employed 9,005 people as of 31 March, 2025—down 9.06 per cent from 9,903 the previous year.
The company also scaled back average salary hikes for non-managerial staff. The average increase dropped to four per cent in FY25 from nine per cent the previous year. However, employee benefit expenses rose 10.3 per cent year-on-year to Rs 461.6 crore, up from Rs 418.2 crore. This was due to higher payouts under salaries, wages, bonuses and gratuity. Salary and bonus expenses grew to Rs 423.3 crore from Rs 382.4 crore, while gratuity costs jumped to Rs 9.21 crore from Rs 5.53 crore.
Overall, Bata managed to bring down its consolidated expenses by 2.56 per cent to Rs 764.5 crore in FY25.
Advertising and sales promotion spending fell sharply by 10 per cent, down to Rs 82.35 crore from Rs 91.6 crore in FY24. The company’s CEO and MD, Gunjan Shah, also took a pay cut. His total compensation dropped to Rs 4.68 crore from Rs 5.53 crore the year before.
Despite tighter costs, revenue from operations rose slightly to Rs 3,488 crore, and net profit jumped to Rs 328 crore, up from Rs 260 crore. Bata is now focused on digitisation, better inventory management, and boosting operational efficiency as part of its future growth strategy.
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Store level employees are not getting sufficient salary as per the market which is forcing them to do malpractice.
A store manager is getting fifty percent of a manager salary got salary in 2007.
Harrasment is not a solution to get better business.
We are working in bata but salary no hike on duty hours 13
Work only 9 hours including 1 hour rest time.
Their marketing team is full of commission taking peoples from vendors. Even some of them had their own company outside where their relatives work for them and giving business to their own company by raising po and other means of unethical practices. Hope someone in bata read this text and take action on these kind of people’s.