United Phosphorus rises as overseas arm plan to acquire stake in Agrichem

16 Jul 2012 Evaluate

United Phosphorus is currently trading at Rs. 122.00, up by 0.15 points or 0.12% from its previous closing of Rs. 121.85 on the BSE.

The scrip opened at Rs. 122.50 and has touched a high and low of Rs. 123.40 and Rs. 121.60 respectively. So far 8,673 shares were traded on the counter.

The BSE group 'A' stock of face value Rs. 2 has touched a 52 week high of Rs. 170.60 on 01-Aug-2011 and a 52 week low of Rs. 105.00 on 04-Jun-2012.

Last one week high and low of the scrip stood at Rs. 125.50 and Rs. 116.60 respectively. The current market cap of the company is Rs. 5,634.00 crore.

The promoters holding in the company stood at 27.67% while Institutions and Non-Institutions held 50.05% and 22.21% respectively.

United Phosphorus (UPL) overseas subsidiary has entered into an agreement with SD Agchem Europe, a subsidiary of Punjab Chemicals and Crop Protection (Punjab Chemicals) to acquire 100% in the Dutch company Agrichem along with all tangible and intangible assets, IPR, product registrations, brands, distribution network and manufacturing facilities.

Agrichem will give the company new and enhanced market access in European countries. Agrichem has an exciting registrations portfolio with products that will be complimentary to UPL’s existing portfolio in Europe.

Agrichem based out of Oosterhaut, Netherlands is engaged in the production, marketing and selling of crop protection products in the European agrochemicals market. Agrichem’s product range includes herbicides, insecticides and fungicides registered in several European countries like Netherlands, Belgium, UK, France, Germany, Ireland, Denmark, Italy, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Belarus and Switzerland. It has a well-staffed crop protection registration department, in-house R&D and quality control facilities and its own formulation facilities in Netherlands.

United Phosphorus is the largest Indian agrochemical company and is engaged in research, manufacturing, selling and distribution of agrochemicals and specialty chemicals across the globe.

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