Patanjali-backed Ruchi Soya raises Rs 1,290 cr from anchor investors

Yog Guru Baba Ramdev and officials of Ruchi Soya Industries Limited posing for group photograph.
Yog Guru Baba Ramdev and officials of Ruchi Soya Industries Limited posing for group photograph.

Excelsior Correspondent

NEW DELHI, Mar 24: Ruchi Soya Industries Limited has garnered Rs 1,290 crore from anchor investors ahead of its further public offering (FPO) that opens for public subscription today.
The FPO is going to be only a fresh issuance of equity shares to public investors without any offer for sale component.
On March 20th, 2022, the Company, amongst other things informed the bourses that the price band for its FPO has been set at Rs 615 per equity share (at the lower end of the price-band) to Rs 650 per equity share (at the higher end of the price-band) and today it informed the bourses that 1,98,43,153 equity shares have been allocated to anchor investors at the upper-end of the price-band i.e. Rs 650 per equity share yesterday, against the applications from various anchor investors.
Societe Generale, BNP Paribas, The Sultanate of Oman Ministry of Defence Pension Fund, Yas Takaful PJSC (an Abu Dhabi based insurance company), MK Cohesion, UPS Group and Alchemy are among the foreign investors that received allocation under the anchor investor portion of the FPO.
In addition, equity shares have been allocated to domestic investors, such as Ask Investments, Volrado Ventures, Kotak Mutual Fund, SBI Pension Fund, UTI Mutual Fund, Aditya Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund, Quant Mutual Fund, Winro Commercial, HDFC Life Insurance, SBI Life Insurance and Authum Investments under the anchor investor portion of the FPO.
Ruchi Soya is recognized amongst the largest branded oil packaged food company with a strong portfolio of brands in various types of cooking oils under categories such as palm, soybean, mustard, sunflower, cottonseed etc. with robust brands portfolio of “Ruchi Gold”, “Mahakosh”, “Sunrich”, Ruchi Star and Ruchi Sunlight. Its ‘Ruchi Gold’ brand has a market leadership position, on account of being India’s highest selling palm oil brand. Ruchi Soya is the pioneer and largest manufacturers of soya foods in India under the brand name of “Nutrela’.