Sasha Mirchandani's tryst with investing began when his own venture failed to seek funding in early 2000s.
According to a late evening filing with the National Stock Exchange, Gulu will buy the 33.3 per cent stake held by Sonu's wife for about Rs 110 crore (Rs 1.1 billion). The proposed deal will increase Gulu's stake in the holding entity from 27.77 per cent to 61.07 per cent. Guvisco owns a 52.74 per cent stake in Mirc, which manufactures the Onida brand of consumer goods. Onida has a share of 8-10 per cent in the Rs 14,000-crore (Rs 140-billion) colour television market.
With the Central Government making it mandatory for consumers to switch to CAS in select parts of major metros, Onida is planning to launch LCD televisions that have an embedded technology to encrypt digital signals.
Media major Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd (ZEEL) has cancelled its board meeting, scheduled to be held on Wednesday for considering the results for the July-September quarter, due to lack of quorum. In a regulatory filing on Tuesday, ZEEL said, "A meeting of the Board of Directors of the Company, which was scheduled to be held on Wednesday, October 27, 2021, inter alia, to consider and approve the unaudited financial results of the Company both on a standalone and consolidated basis for the 2nd quarter and half year ended September 30, 2021, has been cancelled due to lack of quorum." The development comes at a time when the company is battling it out the single-largest shareholders Invesco Developing Markets Fund (formerly Invesco Oppenheimer Developing Markets Fund) and OFI Global China Fund LLC that together hold 17.88 per cent and have been pressing for an extraordinary general meeting of shareholders for removing managing director Punit Goenka, besides opposing ZEEL's proposed merger deal with Pictures Network India (SPNI).
