Anupam Rasayan’s ₹760 crore IPO is set to open on Monday — price band for the issue at ₹553-555 per share

• A ₹760-crore initial share-sale of Anupam Rasayan is set to make its way to the public markets on Friday (March 12).
• Anupam Rasayan commenced operations in 1984 with conventional products, and now it makes speciality chemicals that involve multi-step synthesis and complex chemistries.
• The company mainly caters to the agrochemical, personal care and pharmaceutical sectors, which accounted for over 95% of its revenues in 2019-20.
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A ₹760-crore initial share-sale of speciality chemical company Anupam Rasayan is set to make its way to the public markets on Friday (March 12).

The company has fixed a price band of ₹553-555 a share for its IPO. The three-day public issue will close on March 16. It plans to use the funds to repay its debt partly. As of September, the company had a total debt of ₹814.48 crore, and it plans to repay at least ₹556.20 crore in debt.

The Surat-based company has reserved about 2.20 lakh shares for employees. Half of the issue is reserved for qualified institutional buyers, 35% for retail investors and 15% for non-institutional bidders.

Anupam Rasayan commenced operations in 1984 with conventional products, and now it makes speciality chemicals that involve multi-step synthesis and complex chemistries. Anupam Rasayan’s business has two verticals — life science related to speciality chemicals and other speciality chemicals. The life science-related speciality chemicals are used in agrochemicals, personal care, and pharmaceutical sectors, whereas the other is used for pigment, dyes, polymer additives, etc.

Anupam Rasayan IPO opens on Friday


Once the IPO is concluded, the equity shares will be listed on both the exchanges — BSE and NSE. Axis Capital, Ambit Private, IIFL Securities, and JM Financials are the book running lead managers for its public offering IPO.

Anupam Rasayan IPO: All you need to know

• The company mainly caters to the agrochemical, personal care and pharmaceutical sectors, which accounted for over 95% of its revenues in 2019-20. Its clients include Syngenta Asia Pacific, Sumitomo Chemical Company and UPL Limited.
• Anupam Rasayan has six multi-purpose manufacturing facilities based in Gujarat with a combined installed capacity of around 23,396 metric tonnes, of which 6,726 metric tonnes was added in March last year.
• Its revenue from operations increased by 45% to ₹539.22 crore in the nine months ended December 31 from ₹371.80 crore in the corresponding year-ago period.
• The grey market is ready to pay a hefty premium for its shares ahead of the IPO. The shares were commanding a premium of ₹290 apiece at a fixed price band of ₹553-555.

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