Finolex Industries Selling Pune Land To Raise 4 Billion Rupees

Finolex Industries Ltd., India’s biggest maker of pipes made of polyvinyl chloride, surged to its highest in almost three years after the company said it expects to raise about 4 billion rupees ($86 million) selling land.
The company revived its plan to sell 78 acres (31 hectares) of industrial land after an increase in real estate prices, said P. Subramaniam, chief financial officer, said in an interview. Finolex had in 2008 proposed selling the property, he said.
The land sale will help Finolex improve its cash flow, said Tejas Doshi, vice president of equity research at Sushil Financial Services Pvt. The company, which reported a 67 percent drop in profit in the three months through June, also plans to spend 800 million rupees to build a new factory, Subramaniam said by phone today.
The land sale will help “improve the balance sheet,” Mumbai-based Doshi said. “It will also help their expansion plans.”
Finolex will raise 500 million rupees by selling non- convertible bonds to build the plant and will fund the balance from its profit, Subramaniam said. The company hasn’t “finalized” the land sale yet, he said.
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