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Monotype India Ltd
NSE: BSE: 505343
₹0.30
(3.23%)
Fri, 11 Sept 2026, 10:32 am
Market Cap (in Cr)21.8
PE Ratio0
Dividend0
Finance
Financial Conglomerates
24.5KCompany History
1974
- The company was incorporated as a private limited company on 30th September.
1976
- The company was converted into a public limited company on 23rd October.
- The company entered into an agreement with Monotype, U.K. to acquire its business in India.
- Equity shares worth Rs.10.80 lakhs were allotted to Monotype, U.K.
1977
- Shares were fully called up.
- 1,61,993 shares were offered at par to the public.
1978
- 11,900 shares were forfeited in July.
- Forfeiture on 3,850 shares was annulled in September and 8,050 shares were reallotted.
1980
- 54,000 bonus equity shares were issued in proportion 1:5.
1981
- 2,26,800 rights equity shares were issued at par in proportion 7:10.
1983
- The company undertook to develop printing down frames of streamlined design.
- A prototype of the semi-automatic vertical camera was developed.
1984
- The company introduced the semi-automatic vertical camera.
- Profits were under pressure due to declining demand for hot metal spares and higher cost of inputs.
1985
- Margins were low due to a recession in demand for conventional plate making equipment and hot metal spares.
1986
- The company launched MPS-300, a new low cost phototypesetting system.
- The company privately placed 25,000 secured non-convertible debentures with UTI.
1989
- The company undertook to manufacture two colour offset printing machines.
- 5,50,800 bonus equity shares were issued in proportion 1:1.
1990
- The company allotted 50,000 non-convertible debentures to Canbank Mutual Fund.
- The principal object of the public issue of capital was to Indianise the business operations of Monotype, U.K.
1992
- A complete page make-up system in Kannada for a large newspaper was developed.
- Indian language window based DTP systems Deskset was launched.
1993
- The company issued 5,50,800 equity shares at par on rights basis to existing shareholders.
- 5,46,546 shares were taken up by existing shareholders.
- 350 shares were taken up by employees.
- The unsubscribed portion of shares was allowed to lapse.
2015
- Monotype India split its face value from Rs. 10 to Rs. 1.