Deccan Health Care Limited 280th Company to get listed on BSE SME Platform

Jaipur, December 31, 2018: SEBI came out with detailed guidelines on 18^th May, 2010 for launching of SME Exchange/Platform. BSE became the first stock exchange to get the approval from SEBI and launch its SME platform on 13^th March, 2012.

Deccan Health Care Limited became 280^th company respectively to get listed on the BSE SME Platform on December 31, 2018. Deccan Health Care Limited came out with an initial public offering of 42,12,000 Equity Shares of Rs.10/- Each (“Equity Shares”) For Cash At a Price Of Rs.100/- Per Equity Share (The “Offer Price”), Aggregating to Rs. ‘4212.00’ lacs. The company has successfully completed its public issue on December 20, 2018.

Deccan Health Care Limited is a Telangana based company whose registered office is at Hyderabad. The company is into developing, manufacturing and marketing a broad range of healthcare products including nutraceutical, cosmeceutical and Ayurveda products.

Mumbai based Pantomath Capital Advisors Private Limited was the lead manager for Deccan Health Care Limited.

The 280 companies listed on BSE SME Platform have raised Rs.2805.1 crores from the market and total market capitalization of 279 companies as on December 31, 2018 is 18554.48 Crores. BSE is the market leader in this segment with a market share of 59.32 percent.

The response since the launch of this platform by BSE has been very positive and encouraging

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