Hindustan Times ST (Jaipur)

FUTURE SUPPLY CHAIN PUBLIC ISSUE PRICED AT ₹660664

- Sneh Susmit and Soumya Gupta sneh.s@livemint.com

Future Supply Chain Solutions Ltd, the logistics arm of Kishore Biyani-led Future Group, on Wednesday said its ₹650 crore initial public offering (IPO) will open on December 6.

The company has set a price range of ₹660-664 per share for the IPO, which values it at ₹2,644-2,660 crore. The offer will close on December 8.

Parent Future Enterprise­s Ltd and special situations fund SSG Capital will collective­ly sell 9.78 million shares. The offer will see a total stake dilution of 24.43%. No new shares will be issued.

Future Enterprise­s plans to sell 1.95 million shares, which will fetch the parent company ₹130 crore at the upper end of the price band. Post offer, the shareholdi­ng of Future Enterprise­s will drop by five percentage points to 53%.

Future Supply Chain hopes recent changes under Goods and Services Tax (GST) will help the logistics business.

“As the market evolves with GST, we are quite excited by the opportunit­y that’s going to get created in this industry in the next 10-20 years,” Rakesh Biyani, chairman of Future Supply Chain said in a media briefing.

“But I would say that one has to look at a business in terms of every five years. Future Supply Chain is ready for the market; we understand the art of efficiency and the science of supply chain.”

SSG Capital, through its entity Griffin Partners Ltd will sell a total of 7.83 million shares, worth ₹520 crore. Its stake will be reduced to 14.63% from the existing 34.18%.

In November, SSG Capital had sold a 4.9% stake in Future Supply Chain to the Edelweiss Crossover Opportunit­ies Fund.

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