Century Textiles’ cement business to be acquired by UltraTech

Aditya Birla Group-claimed UltraTech on Sunday endorsed the rearrangement of the bond business of Century Textiles and Industries and its retention into UltraTech, giving itself the administration in every single local market in an arrangement that has for some time been underway including Kumar Mangalam Birla and his granddad BK Birla.

With the arranged revamping, UltraTech will prepare responsibility for MT limit spread crosswise over Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra, helping the land-enriched Century to concentrate more on its land business and pare obligation of about Rs 3,000 crore. UltraTech wants to take the whole obligation on its books.

The demerger will include issuance of value offers to the current investors of Century. For each eight value offers of Century, the investors will get one value offer of UltraTech of a face estimation of Rs 10 for every offer.

UltraTech will issue 14 million new value offers to the investors, expanding its value money to Rs 288.58 crore that will be separated into 288.6 million value offers of Rs 10 each. The obtaining will contribute emphatically to the organization’s income, UltraTech said in an announcement.

Plus, with this arranged scaling-up of limits in the eastern and focal markets, India’s biggest concrete producer will turn into the market pioneer in all conceivable provincial markets in the nation. It was at that point a market pioneer in the north, south and west. In any case, the organization still needs to secure the endorsement of the opposition controller. Different endorsements from investors, banks, stock trades and the NCLT are likewise pending. The exchange will take 6-9 months to finish and will be viable from January, 2019.

“”UltraTech is in a growth phase and the acquisition will give us ready capacities in markets in which we want to grow,” managing director of UltraTech KK Maheshwari told ET. With the addition of Century’s cement plants, UltraTech will become the “undisputed leader in all regions of the country,” he said.

In the wake of assuming Century’s obligation, UltraTech will have net obligation of Rs 17,000 crore, with a net obligation to EBITDA proportion of 2.35x. Maheshwari said that with the organization creating money consistently, the use is inside its solace limits.

UltraTech has been on a procurement binge. A year ago, UltraTech procured Jaypee Associates’ six incorporated plants of 21.2 MT and has additionally put in an offer of Rs 7,840 crore for the obligation stricken 6.25 MT Binani Cement.

In the event that its arrangement for Binani is acknowledged and it pushes out the Dalmia Bharat-drove consortium, UltraTech will have a limit of 116 MT. With the Century procurement presently concluded, UltraTech’s ability is 110 MT.

Century Textiles and Industries goes under the parent gathering of Aditya Birla Group and is led by the 97-year old patriarch BK Birla, father of Aditya Birla and granddad of Kumar Mangalam Birla. KM Birla additionally sits as the bad habit executive of the organization. Aside from concrete, the organization has enthusiasm for organizations as different as materials, paper and land.

The concrete business comprises of three coordinated bond plant units in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra, with an aggregate limit of 11.4 MT, and a granulating unit in West Bengal of 2 MTPA. For the year finished March, 2018, it had revealed incomes of Rs 4,306 crore and EBITDA of Rs 492 crore.

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