ITC shares gain 5% as Co to acquire spices major Sunrise Foods for Rs 2K cr

Speedy-going purchaser merchandise (FMCG) big ITC shares surged as significantly as four.six per cent to Rs 194.95 apiece on the BSE on Tuesday after the organization announced it had entered into an agreement with the spice big Sunrise Food items to receive a a hundred per cent stake in the organization.

“ITC Constrained has entered into a Share Purchase Settlement (SPA) on Might 23, 2020 to receive a hundred% of the fairness share cash of Sunrise Food items Non-public Constrained (SFPL), a organization largely engaged in the business of spices beneath the trademark ‘Sunrise’, matter to fulfilment of many phrases and ailments as specified in the SPA,” the organization explained in its press launch.

The share-obtain agreement was completed after the lockdown was enforced and the last offer is most likely to be signed soon. ITC did not remark on the offer dimension, but resources believed it at near to Rs two,000 crore, according to this Business Normal report.

The proposed acquisition is aligned with ITC’s strategy to promptly scale up its FMCG businesses in a financially rewarding way, leveraging its institutional strengths viz. deep purchaser insight, a deep and vast distribution community, agri-commodity sourcing knowledge, cuisine knowledge, powerful rural linkages and packaging know-how, ITC explained.

Sunrise Food items clocked a turnover of all-around Rs 600 crore past calendar year. Nonetheless, there would be a premium on the 70-calendar year Sunrise manufacturer.

Commenting on the offer, analysts at Motilal Oswal Financial Products and services (MOFSL) take note that the Sunrise acquisition has the probable to insert virtually 7 per cent to ITC’s FMCG business. “ITC is currently existing in the branded spice category by means of its ‘Aashirvaad’ manufacturer. Nonetheless, this acquisition would appreciably scale up its spices’ business. The organization would be in a position to create synergies on sourcing and distribution owing to its scale and pan-India presence by means of its FMCG-Other people segment,” they wrote in a take note dated Might 24.

The brokerage more explained that ITC’s tempo of acquisitions has picked up in the latest many years and it expects it to carry on in the foreseeable future as perfectly. It has preserved a “neutral” score on the stock with the target cost of Rs 192.


ICICI Securities, too, feels that the acquisition of Sunrise Food has the probable to improve ITC’s packaged foodstuff portfolio.

“The acquisition will assistance raise penetration of the Sunrise manufacturer across the nation while leveraging ITC’s vast distribution community. We believe pulses & spices categories are big and fully dominated by unbranded or semi branded merchandise, which provides a major prospect to change purchaser desire towards packaged foodstuff, precisely in present situation where consumers would be ever more preferring packaged/branded foodstuff merchandise above loose/semi branded kinds,” the brokerage explained.

It has “invest in” score on the stock with the target cost of Rs 230.

At 09:46 am, the stock was investing 3.5 per cent higher at Rs 193 in opposition to above one per cent increase in the benchmark S&P BSE Sensex at 31,028 degrees.