Elder Pharmaceuticals rises on plans to launch 12 new products this fiscal

22 Aug 2011 Evaluate

Elder Pharmaceuticals is currently trading at Rs. 371.95, up by 0.50 points or 0.13% from its previous closing of Rs. 371.45 on the BSE.

The scrip opened at Rs. 373.90 and has touched a high and low of Rs. 374.80 and Rs. 367.00 respectively. So far 30684 shares were traded on the counter.

The BSE group 'B' stock of face value Rs. 10 has touched a 52 week high of Rs. 440.00 on 21-Sep-2010 and a 52 week low of Rs. 309.20 on 25-Nov-2010.

Last one week high and low of the scrip stood at Rs. 385.00 and Rs. 365.10 respectively. The current market cap of the company is Rs. 762.84 crore.

The promoters holding in the company stood at 38.46% while Institutions and Non-Institutions held 28.64% and 32.90% respectively.

Elder Pharmaceuticals, leading company in the pharmaceutical formulation is likely to introduce 12 new products this fiscal in the areas of gynaecology, pain management and nutraceuticals. The company has aimed 15 products for this financial year, three have already been launched and it is looking at another 12 products for the next three quarters.

In the next two years the company is also planning to invest up to Rs 55 crore for increasing its manpower, mainly the sales force, updating its research and development facilities and for brand building exercises. The company had recently planned to increase its sales and marketing force by 1,000 in the next two years. The company is also looking to increase its presence in the functional foods market, leveraging on UK-based NutraHealth Care, a company specialising in neutraceutical products, which it had acquired last year.

Elder Pharmaceuticals manufactures and markets prescription pharmaceutical brands, surgical and medical devices.

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