Apollo Tyres gathers momentum on expansion plans

12 Mar 2012 Evaluate

Apollo Tyres is currently trading at Rs 81.95, up by 0.75 points or 0.92% from its previous closing of Rs 81.20 on the BSE.

The scrip opened at Rs 82.00 and has touched a high and low of Rs 82.70 and Rs 81.40 respectively. So far 5691 shares were traded on the counter.

The BSE group 'A' stock of face value Re 1 has touched a 52 week high of Rs 86.35 on 29-Feb-2012 and a 52 week low of Rs 50.80 on 19-Aug-2011.

Last one week high and low of the scrip stood at Rs 82.70 and Rs 75.70 respectively. The current market cap of the company is Rs 4122.92 crore.

The promoters holding in the company stood at 46.39% while Institutions and Non-Institutions held 34.88% and 18.74% respectively.

In a bid to expand its global footprint, Apollo Tyres is planning to set up two new facilities in East Europe and Brazil. In this regard, the company will invest around 400 million euro (over Rs 2,500 crore) in the next 3-4 years.

At present, the company’s European subsidiary -- Apollo Vredestein -- is also keeping its options open to acquire a tyre firm in the Latin American market to commence its operations there.

The company is eying to start the plant with passenger car radial tyres with an initial capacity of 7-10 million units per year.

Earlier in 2008, Apollo Tyres had planned to set up a plant in Hungary with an investment of 200 million euro and having a capacity of 25,000 units a month. However the company had to abort its plans due to local political issues there.

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