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Gillanders Arbuthnot & Company Ltd

NSE: GILLANDERS BSE: 532716

₹82.11

(-2.03%)

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Company History

1935

  • The Company was incorporated as a private limited company.

1947

  • The Company was converted into a public company.

1954

  • Equity shares were subdivided into shares of Rs.10 each.

1972

  • The wholly owned subsidiary Taipoo Tea Association Ltd., was amalgamated with the company.

1974

  • Indian Tack & Nail Co. Ltd., and Adequate Weighers (India) Ltd., were amalgamated with the company.
  • 69,600 more equity shares were issued for consideration other than cash.

1976

  • 97,108 equity shares were issued without payment in cash.

1977

  • 28,900 equity shares were issued without payment in cash.

1978

  • 4,22,804 bonus equity shares were issued in the proportion 1:2.

1980

  • Profits recorded a steep fall mainly due to a drop in the profitability of the tea division.

1982

  • The tin refinery division was closed down due to a shortage of raw material 'tin dross'.

1985

  • Profits declined substantially mainly due to lower average selling price and higher manufacturing cost of tea.
  • The performance of the engineering division was unsatisfactory due to difficult operating conditions.
  • 3,17,103 bonus equity shares were issued in the proportion 1:4.

1986

  • The company redeemed 25,000 - 5% cumulative redeemable preference shares.
  • 25,000 - 15% non-convertible redeemable secured debentures were issued in lieu of the redeemed preference shares.

1987

  • Profits declined mainly due to a substantial fall in the profits of the tea division.
  • The Company proposed to supplement the Kalamzoo works with encoding and testing equipments for the manufacture of Magnetic Ink Character Recognition (MICR) cheques and other documents.

1988

  • The Indian tack and nail division was closed down due to a fall in demand for its products.

2009

  • Mr. H P Kanoria and Mr. S Lahiri were appointed as Additional Directors of the Company.

2010

  • Smt. P. D. Kothari was appointed as an Additional Director of the Company.
  • Gillanders Arbuthnot recommended the issue of Bonus Ordinary Shares in the ratio of one Ordinary Share for every two Ordinary Shares.

2011

  • Gillanders Arbuthnot's Engineering (MICCO) Division received orders from BHEL and SAIL aggregating to Rs. 8,626.77 lacs.

2012

  • Gillanders Arbuthnot bags orders worth over Rs 13,348.65 lakh.

2013

  • Gillanders Arbuthnot & Company Ltd approved a dividend of Rs. 2 per share.
  • Mr. D. K. Sharda was appointed as Managing Director & CEO of the Company.

2014

  • Gillanders Arbuthnot & Company Ltd recommended a dividend of Re. 0.75 per share.

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Pocketful Fintech Capital Private Limited (CIN U65999DL2021PTC390548) | The SEBI Registration No. allotted to us is INZ000313732. NSE Member Code: 90326 | BSE Member Code: 6808 | MCX Member Code: 57120 DP | CDSL: 12099800