Britannia Industries rises on plan to invest Rs 200 crore over the next two years

13 Aug 2014 Evaluate

Britannia Industries is currently trading at Rs 1155.00, up by 4.30 points or 0.37% from its previous closing of Rs 1150.70 on the BSE.

The scrip opened at Rs 1151.85 and has touched a high and low of Rs 1164.00 and Rs 1151.85 respectively. So far 636 shares were traded on the counter.

The BSE group 'A' stock of face value Rs 2 has touched a 52 week high of Rs 1186.00 on 12-Aug-2014 and a 52 week low of Rs 658.00 on 28-Aug-2013.

Last one week high and low of the scrip stood at Rs 1186.00 and Rs. 1122.50 respectively. The current market cap of the company is Rs 13799.86 crore.

The promoters holding in the company stood at 50.75% while Institutions and Non-Institutions held 28.97% and 20.27% respectively.

Britannia Industries is planning to invest between Rs 150 crore and Rs 200 crore over the next two years. The investments would mostly be into expansion of capacities, product innovation and the setting up an innovation centre.

The company is planning to set up an innovation centre at Bangalore, at an estimated cost of Rs 20 crore-Rs 30 crore. The innovation centre will become operational over the next 18 months.

The Wadia Group-controlled enterprise operates mainly in the biscuit-rusk-cake (BCR) and dairy segments. It is the second largest biscuit-maker in India, after Parle Products. The company’s net profit surged by 24.94% at Rs 107.81 crore as compared to Rs 86.29 crore for the quarter ended June 30, 2013. Its total income has increased by 15.64% to Rs 1653.80 crore for the quarter under review from Rs 1430.18 crore for the corresponding quarter of the previous year.

 

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