United Spirits rises on selling French winery ‘Bouvet Ladubay’

04 Nov 2015 Evaluate

United Spirits is currently trading at Rs. 3521.00, up by 88.85 points or 2.59% from its previous closing of Rs. 3432.15 on the BSE.

The scrip opened at Rs. 3451.00 and has touched a high and low of Rs. 3534.00 and Rs. 3392.65 respectively. So far 49,000 shares were traded on the counter.

The BSE group 'A' stock of face value Rs. 10 has touched a 52 week high of Rs. 4080.00 on 05-Mar-2015 and a 52 week low of Rs. 2501.00 on 01-Dec-2014.

Last one week high and low of the scrip stood at Rs. 3534.00 and Rs. 3110.05 respectively. The current market cap of the company is Rs. 51,282.00 crore.

The promoters holding in the company stood at 58.87% while Institutions and Non-Institutions held 28.59% and 12.03% respectively.

As a part of its restructuring exercise, United Spirits (USL) has sold French winery Bouvet Ladubay. The company has valued the sale of the premium wine brand through its subsidiary -- Asian Opportunities and Investments (AOIL) -- at Rs 8.86 crore.

In 2006, USL Chairman Vijay Mallya had bought the French winery, located in the Loire Valle, for €15 million (Rs 108.16 crore) to market high quality wines in India. USL was importing wines from Bouvet Ladubay, founded in 1851, in both bottled and bulk formats.

United Spirits is the largest spirits company in India and a flagship entity of $2 billion UB group. It manufactures wide range of whisky, vodka, rum and other spirits.



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