Speciality Restaurants gets over subscribed on final day of issue

18 May 2012 Evaluate

Speciality Restaurants’, operator of popular joints’, initial public offer (IPO) was subscribed 2.49 times on the final day of issue. As per the data available with the NSE, total bid of 2,48,88,920 shares were received for the issue of 9,978,503 shares and 15,16,240 bids were received at the cut-off price.

Speciality Restaurants has its presence through joints such as Mainland China, Oh! Calcutta and Sigree is looking forward for garnering Rs 182 crore from this initial public offering.  The company had planned to sell 11.74 million shares through this offering. The price band had been set at Rs 146 to Rs 155.

Kotak Mahindra Capital Company was the book running lead manager and Link Intime India was the registrar to the issue. The issue closed today i.e., on May 18, 2012. The rating agency CRISIL had graded the issue as 4, indicating above average fundamentals.

The dine operator is looking forward to utilize the issue proceeds towards development of new restaurants, development of a food plaza and repayment of portions of term loan facilities.

Speciality Restaurants, incorporated in 1999, presently operates through 69 restaurants and 13 confectionaries located in 21 cities in India and one city in Bangladesh. The company primarily focuses on providing guests an affordable fine dining experience with quality food and service in a modern ambience. It has increased the number of company owned and operated restaurants from 30 and franchise restaurants from one as of March 31, 2008 to 49 and 20 as of February 29, 2012 respectively. Speciality Restaurants’’ flagship brand is Mainland China which serves Chinese cuisine in a standalone fine dining setting and encompasses 36 restaurants across India as well as one in Bangladesh. It contributed 50-60% to the topline of the company from 2009 to 2011-12 fiscal.

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