L&T plans SEZ to aid engineering, to raise Rs 2,800cr





Larsen & Toubro (L&T), the country’s biggest construction and engineering company, announced it would raise Rs 2,800 crore ($700 million) through a Global Depository Receipt (GDR). The proceeds will be used for building shipyards, among other things. The company has sought permission for listing any new issues in quite a few global stock exchanges like London, Singapore and

Hong Kong.

 

The company has plans to list three subsidiaries L&T Infotech, L&T Infrastructure and L&T Financial Services on the exchanges by next year. Said Chairman AM Naik. The proposed equity sale would take place at Luxembourg Stock Exchange, he told shareholders at the company’s 62nd annual general meeting. “We have shortlisted two sites, one in

Gujarat and another in Tamil Nadu, for the shipyard. We will announce the exact location next month,” said the Chairman. Naik said that the company had targeted a 25 per cent growth in revenue at Rs 23,000 crore by the end of this year.

 

L&T has a JV with Dubai Aluminium Company to build a Rs 15,000-crore, 3-million tonne alumina refinery in Orissa. It has 26% equity stake in the JV which was announced in 2005. The existing GDRs make up around 2.5 per cent of L&T’s equity capital. The largest shareholder in the company is insurance major Life Insurance Corporation of

India, with a little over 16 per cent stake. L&T has a market capitalisation of Rs 69,342 crore as on Friday. Shares of the company on Friday rose 2% to Rs 2,443.80 on BSE while the Sensex was up 1.8% on the same day.

 


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