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Winner, Winner: The Chicken McNugget Story
How a 1940s breeding contest, a Cornell food scientist, and a hedge by Ray Dalio helped McDonald's turn the Chicken McNugget into a fast-food icon.
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D. B. Corp Q2 26/27 earnings summary
Complete event summary combining all related documents: earnings call transcript, report, and slide presentation.Q2 26/27 earnings summary16 Oct, 2026
Executive summary
Underlying business was described as broadly stable, with positive single-digit advertising and EBITDA growth after adjusting for the Navratri timing shift.
Priorities remain advertiser partnerships, reader engagement, efficiency, innovation and digital development across print, radio and digital.
Financial highlights
Q2 consolidated revenue was ₹614 crore versus ₹635 crore YoY; EBITDA was ₹124 crore versus ₹158 crore, and net profit was ₹69 crore versus ₹93 crore.
Q2 advertising revenue was ₹411 crore versus ₹439 crore; circulation revenue was ₹116 crore versus ₹121 crore.
H1 revenue rose to ₹1,246 crore from ₹1,222 crore; advertising revenue was ₹843 crore versus ₹832 crore, and circulation revenue was ₹236 crore versus ₹241 crore.
H1 EBITDA was ₹289 crore versus ₹297 crore; net profit was ₹169 crore versus ₹174 crore.
Q2 other income included a one-time ₹13.39 crore gain from terminating the Ahmedabad registered-office lease and derecognizing related lease balances.
Outlook and guidance
Full-year advertising ambition remains high-single-digit to early-double-digit revenue growth; management described this as an endeavor, with continuation of recent festival momentum uncertain.
Deferred festive-season revenue is expected to flow into Q3 FY27; management was optimistic on the next two quarters but cited geopolitical uncertainty and Rajasthan rain.
Supplier indications pointed to newsprint prices easing 2%-3% in Q3/Q4 versus Q2, with no larger reduction expected.
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