Global liquor major Diageo Plc has submitted details sought by market regulator Sebi regarding its Rs 5,441 crore open offer for buying stake in Vijay Mallya-led United Spirits.
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As part of the deal for purchase of 53.4 per cent stake in Vijay Mallya-led UB group's United Spirits Ltd, Diageo has made a Rs 5,441 crore open offer for purchase of 26 per cent stake in the company from non-promoter shareholders.
United Spirits, liquor baron Vijay Mallya's Rs 3,600 crore (Rs 36 billion) firm, is set to launch feni, the famous Goan spirit, in the branded retail market by the next quarter.
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The offer price remains the same at Rs 1,440 per share.
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The firm has advised United Spirits Ltd's shareholders to vote against the proposal to re-appoint Mallya as director on the board.
On November 9, 2012 Diageo had announced buying a 53.4 per cent stake in USL for Rs 11,166.5 crore (Rs 111.66 billion) in a multi-structured deal.
However, even after finalising the multi-pronged cross-border Rs 11,165-crore deal in November 2012, Diageo's wait for acquiring a decent stake in India's leading whisky maker, United Spirits, seems to be getting longer and longer.
In a filing to the BSE, United Spirits said the manager to the open offer, JM Financial Institutional Securities Pvt Ltd has informed that the offer price shall remain at Rs 1,440 per equity share.
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Nearly six months after he put the stake sale process of Whyte & Mackay on the fast track to find a solution to United Spirits' high leverage, UB Group Chairman Vijay Mallya is understood to be nearing a deal to offload 49 per cent stake in the flagship subsidiary.
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Attempting to defuse the controversy, the Nishad Party chief said the comment, made in Hindi and labelled misogynistic and crude, was light-hearted and made casually.
As per the latest shareholding pattern data of the company, foreign institutional investors held 45.81 per cent stake in Vijay Mallya-led UB group firm United Spirits Ltd as on December 31.
UK-based Diageo's acquisition of 53.4 per cent stake in Vijay Mallya-led United Spirits for Rs 11,166.5 crore ($2 billion) could be the biggest inbound M&A deal so far this year.
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Mallya and UBHL now hold a little over 3.3 per cent in USL.
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Shares of United Spirits on Monday soared nearly 35 per cent, taking its market valuation higher by Rs 6,211 crore, after the UK-based Diageo Plc said it will buy 53.4 per cent stake in the company for Rs 11,166.5 crore in a multi-structured deal.
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For the first nine months of the current financial year, net sales rose by close to 37 per cent to Rs 1,470 crore (Rs 14.7 billion( over the previous corresponding period, while operating profit increased by another 37 per cent to Rs 322 crore (Rs 3.22 billion).
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