FMCG sector’s leading company Patanjali Foods (FMCG Company Patanjali Foods) is in discussion for the last few days. The company has not complied with the condition of increasing the public shareholding within the stipulated time, due to which the stock exchanges have taken action against the company. After that there was a discussion that the company can bring FPO (Patanjali Foods FPO). The company is looking at other ways to increase public shareholding.
Freeze shares
Patanjali Foods recently revealed that stock exchanges have frozen crores of its shares. Have given. Stock exchanges have frozen promoters’ shares in Patanjali Foods, which number 292.58 million. These shares are equivalent to 80.82 per cent stake in the company. The frozen shares belong to 21 promoter entities. Patanjali Ayurveda is the largest shareholder of Patanjali Foods with 39.4 per cent stake.
SEBI’s shareholding regulations
As per SEBI’s provisions, the public shareholding in any listed company should not be less than- Should be at least 25 per cent. However, as per the data available till 31 December 2022, the holding of public shareholders in Patanjali Foods is 19.18 per cent. Following the NCLT process, Patanjali Group acquired Ruchi Soya, now known as Patanjali Foods. When this deal was done in the year 2019, the promoters’ stake in the company was 98.87 per cent. The company was given 18 months and three years to reduce its public shareholding to 10 per cent and 25 per cent, respectively. Shares worth Rs 4,300 crore were sold through a public offer. After that the public shareholding in the company had increased to 19.18 per cent. Now the company needs to sell about 6 per cent stake of the promoters as per SEBI rules. It was being told in the news that the company can bring FPO for this. However, Patanjali Foods has denied the news and said that it is looking at options like offer for sale through stock markets and Qualified Institutional Placement.
The company gave this clarification
Patanjali Foods is one of the largest companies in the edible oils segment. The company’s competition in this segment is from Adani Wilmar, the FMCG company of Adani Group. After the action of the stock markets, the company issued a statement assuring its investors. The company had said that the recent action of the stock markets would neither affect its financial position nor have any impact on its regular operations.
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