Two Reliance group firms - Reliance Consumer Products Ltd (RCPL) and Reliance Retail Ventures Ltd (RRVL) - have announced an open offer to acquire a 26 per cent additional stake in Lotus Chocolate.
The firms will together acquire 33.38 lakh shares of Lotus Chocolate from the open market at a fixed price of ₹115.50 per share, said a notice by DAM Capital, which is managing the offer.
The offer will aggregate to a total consideration of ₹ 38.56 crore over the full acceptance, said an open offer-detailed public statement shared by the company with stock exchanges on Thursday.
The open offer starts on February 21 and closes on March 6, said the public notice.
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Shares of Lotus Chocolate, which manufactures chocolates, cocoa products and cocoa derivatives, had on Thursday closed at ₹149.35 apiece, which was the highest price in the last three months.
RCPL is the FMCG arm and a wholly-owned subsidiary of RRVL.
The open offer follows RCPL's announcement last week for the acquisition of a 51 per cent stake of the paid-up equity share capital of Lotus from the current promoter and promoter group at a price of ₹113 per share aggregating to ₹74 crore.
After that, RCPL made a public announcement to acquire a 26 per cent stake in Lotus in accordance with the SEBI Takeover Regulations.
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RRVL is a subsidiary of Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries and is the holding company of all the retail businesses under the RIL group.