The earlier injunction preventing such sales and was impairing the firms' ability to pay off their lenders outside the scope of NCLT
Net profit dropped 27 per cent to Rs 18.11 crore
Eveready managing director, Amritanshu Khaitan did not confirm a deal with Duracell but said that the company continues to look at opportunities and discuss various joint ventures or strategic tie-ups
Eveready initiated discussion early this year with some companies, including Energizer and Duracell, to sell its battery business to pare debt
Battery division sell-off may be delayed
The American firm will only own the Eveready brand in India and become owners of an annual installed capacity of 1.5 billion batteries and over 20 million flashlights per year.
Production in this factory at Moula Ali Industrial Development Area in Hyderabad had stopped in 2010 owing to economic unviability
While MJIL's Rs 55-cr packet tea business is limited to Maharashtra and Karnataka, Eveready's three tea brands are sold in 14 states; deal wll give MJIL access to 2,800 distributors
Auditor and Eveready disagreed on the recoverability of inter-corporate deposits given to group companies.
Rating agency India Ratings and Research (Ind-Ra) downgraded the company's long term credit rating with the negative outlook.
Khaitan, in 1993, outran the Wadias of Bombay Dyeing to buy Union Carbide India in a $96.5-million deal.
Company believes the voluntary retirement scheme will lead to recurring annualised savings of around Rs 15 cr
The stock moved higher by 7% to Rs 219 on Monday, extending its Friday's 13% surge on the BSE in an otherwise weak market.
The sources indicated that Eveready was expecting an enterprise valuation of around Rs 5,000 crore
This was particularly due to a general trend of de-stocking in the trade channels, the company said
Company's revenue from operations rose by 6.6% at Rs 317 cr
Eyes JV partner in to-be-formed subsidiary, seeks Rs 10-15 cr investments a year in branding alone
The company's new appliances business has registered a turnover of Rs 12 crore during the quarter
The company is spending a little over Rs 100 crore to set up this plant
The stock was up 1.5% at Rs 218, extending its Thursday's 6% rally on the NSE.