Berger Paints rises on its plan of commissioning new production plant

22 Aug 2011 Evaluate

Berger Paints is currently trading at Rs 100.15, up by 0.80 points or 0.81% from its previous closing of Rs 99.35 on the BSE.

The scrip opened at Rs 98.85 and has touched a high and low of Rs 100.65 and Rs 98.50 respectively. So far 4970 shares were traded on the counter.

The BSE group 'B' stock of face value Rs 2 has touched a 52 week high of Rs 123.00 on 16-Sep-2010 and a 52 week low of Rs 74.00 on 11-Feb-2011.

Last one week high and low of the scrip stood at Rs 107.90 and Rs 96.50 respectively. The current market cap of the company is Rs 3438.23 crore.

The promoters holding in the company stood at 75.59% while Institutions and Non-Institutions held 11.81% and 12.61% respectively.

Berger Paints India is setting up a new production plant in Tamil Nadu which is likely to be completed by December this year, and would start production by early next fiscal. In this regard, the company will invest Rs 200 crore which will be made through internal accruals.

The company currently has eight plants across India and the new one at Tamil Nadu will be the ninth. The company that manufactures and markets a range of decorative and industrial paint products under various product brands is looking to diversify into industrial chemicals segment in the long term.

Berger Paints is the third largest paint manufacturer and second largest manufacturer in decorative paints. It’s headquarter is located in Kolkata, it has distribution network of 75 stock points and 12,000 paint retailers. The company’s net profit for the quarter ended June 30, 2011 surged by 16.42% at Rs 37.16 crore as compared to Rs 31.92 crore for the corresponding quarter last year.

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