New Delhi: Zuari Group has pledged its 8.23 percent stake in Mangalore Chemicals and Fertilisers Ltd (MCFL) to HDFC for partly financing its acquisition of 36.56 percent stake in the company.
Zuari Group is set to become the majority stakeholder in MCFL as its open offer to acquire 36.56 percent stake in Vijay Mallya promoted MCFL has been over-subscribed.
In a BSE filing today, HDFC informed that 97.57 lakh shares of MCFL, representing 8.23 percent stake in the company, have been pledged to the financial institution.
According to sources, Zuari Group has pledged its 8.23 percent stake to MCFL for partly financing its acquisition for nearly Rs 400 crore.
Zuari Group's open offer to acquire an additional 36.56 percent stake in MCFL started on April 20. It currently has 16.47 percent stake in the fertiliser firm.
The group will complete the process of acquiring about 4.33 crore shares from MCFL's shareholders this week, raising its stake to 53.03 percent.
Zuari was competing with Deepak Fertilisers for taking control of MCFL since July 2013, but later withdrew from the race and has been selling shares of MCFL through open market.
As many as 5.2 crore shares have been tendered against the offer to acquire 4.33 crore shares of MCFL.
After the transfer of these 4.33 crore shares, Zuari Group would have 53.03 percent stake in MCFL.
UB Group, the original promoter, has 21.97 percent stake.
As per the shareholding pattern on BSE, both Zuari Group and UB Group are in the list of promoters. Together, they will have 75 percent stake in MCFL.
Zuari Group had announced the open offer in December 2014 to buy 4,33,29,000 shares in MCFL at Rs 91.92 per share.
Meanwhile, Pune-based Deepak Fertilisers has reduced its stake in the MCFL to 6.43 percent from 31.25 percent in December last year.
MCFL has a urea plant near Mangalore port with an annual capacity to produce about 4 lakh tonnes of urea and about 3 lakh tonnes of phosphatic fertilisers.
Zuari Group has a fertiliser plant in Goa.
