Basis of Allotment

Biocon

Biocon
Registered Office: Biocon Limited,
20th KM Hosur Road, Electronic City P.O., Bangalore-560 100
Tel: +91 80 2852 3434, Fax: +91 80 2852 3423; Website: www.biocon.com; E-mail: bioconipo@biocon.com

Public Issue of 10,000,000 Equity Shares of Rs.5 each at a price of Rs.315 for cash aggregating Rs.3,150.0 million (referred to as the "Issue").

BASIS OF ALLOCATION

The issue was made through the 100% book building process where in atleast 60% of the issue was to be allocated on a discretionary basis to Qualified Institutional Buyers ("QIBs"). Further, not less than 15% of the Issue was to be made available for allocation on a proportionate basis to Non-Institutional Investors and not less than 25% of the Issue was to be made available for allocation on a proportionate basis to Retail Investors, subject to valid bids being received at or above the issue price.

The Company has received 352,941 bids for 324,702,000 equity shares resulting in 32.47 times* subscription. The valid demand (considering highest value bid in case of multiple bids) being 344,002 bid for 324,667,550 equity shares from Institutional, Non Institutional and Retail Investors categories is as under:

Category No. of valid bids No. of shares bid Subscription (times)
Qualified Institutional Buyers 298 232,288,200 38.71
Non Institutional Investors 9,271 58,236,350 38.82
Retail Investors 334,433 34,143,000 13.66

Final Demand
A sample of the final demand at different bid prices is as under:

Bid Price No. of shares % of Total Cumulative Shares Cumulative %
At cut off 56,818,700 17.499 56,818,700 17.50
315 267,019,700 82.235 323,838,400 99.73
314 2,500 0.001 323,840,900 99.73
313 600 0.000 323,841,500 99.73
312 450 0.000 323,841,950 99.74
311 50 0.000 323,842,000 99.74
310 18,350 0.006 323,860,350 99.74
309 200 0.000 323,860,550 99.74
308 400 0.000 323,860,950 99.74
307 200 0.000 323,861,150 99.74
306 350 0.000 323,861,500 99.74
305 7,800 0.002 323,869,300 99.74
304 200 0.000 323,869,500 99.74
303 50 0.000 323,869,550 99.74
302 1,000 0.000 323,870,550 99.74
301 1,950 0.001 323,872,500 99.74
300 114,200 0.035 323,986,700 99.78
299 150 0.000 323,986,850 99.78
298 350 0.000 323,987,200 99.78
297 100 0.000 323,987,300 99.78
296 50 0.000 323,987,350 99.78
295 5,500 0.002 323,992,850 99.78
293 550 0.000 323,993,400 99.78
292 700 0.000 323,994,100 99.78
291 150 0.000 323,994,250 99.78
290 11,200 0.003 324,005,450 99.79
289 100 0.000 324,005,550 99.79
288 100 0.000 324,005,650 99.79
286 300 0.000 324,005,950 99.79
285 6,700 0.002 324,012,650 99.79
284 50 0.000 324,012,700 99.79
283 0 0.000 324,012,700 99.79
282 0 0.000 324,012,700 99.79
281 200 0.000 324,012,900 99.79
280 11,350 0.003 324,024,250 99.79
279 150 0.000 324,024,400 99.79
278 0 0.000 324,024,400 99.79
277 0 0.000 324,024,400 99.79
276 150 0.000 324,024,550 99.79
275 7,450 0.002 324,032,000 99.79
274 250 0.000 324,032,250 99.79
273 450 0.000 324,032,700 99.79
272 600 0.000 324,033,300 99.79
271 650 0.000 324,033,950 99.79
270 668,050 0.206 324,702,000 100.00

A) Allocation to Non Institutional Investors:
The Basis of Allocation to the Non Institutional Investors who have bid for at or above the Issue Price of Rs.315 per Equity Share, was finalized in consultation with the National Stock Exchange of India Limited, Mumbai, on a proportionate basis after rounding off to the nearest 50 shares. The total number of shares allocated in this category is 1,500,000. A sample of category-wise details of the Basis of Allocation is under:

Category No. of applns. % of total applns. No. of shares applied % of Total Bid No. of shares allocated Ratio Total shares allocated
200 1,831 20.58 366,200 0.65 50 2:19 9,650
500 931 10.46 465,500 0.82 50 1:4 11,650
1,000 702   7.89 702,000 1.24 50 5:9 19,500
2,000 149 1.67 298,000 0.53 50 Firm 7,450
5,000 85 0.96 425,000 0.75 150 Firm 12,750
10,000 144 1.62 1,440,000 2.54 250 Firm 36,000
20,000 35 0.39 700,000 1.24 550 Firm 19,250
50,000 24 0.27 1,200,000 2.12 1,300 Firm 31,200
100,000 38 0.43 3,800,000 6.71 2,650 Firm 100,700
200,000 9 0.10 1,800,000 3.18 5,300 Firm 47,700
250,000 10 0.11 2,500,000 4.42 6,600 Firm 66,000
300,000 2 0.02 600,000 1.06 7,950 Firm 15,900
1,150,000 1 0.01 1,150,000 2.03 30,450 Firm 30,450
1,500,000 2 0.02 3,000,000 5.30 39,750 Firm 79,500
1,600,000 1 0.01 1,600,000 2.83 42,400 Firm 42,400
3,174,600 2 0.02 6,349,200 11.21 84,100 Firm 168,200

B)Allocation to Retail Investors:
The Basis of Allocation to the Retail Investors who have bid at cut-off Issue Price of Rs.315 per Equity Share, was finalized in consultation with the National Stock Exchange of India Limited, Mumbai, on a proportionate basis after rounding off to the nearest 50 shares. The total number of shares allocated in this category is 2,500,000. A sample of category-wise details of the Basis of Allocation is under:

Category No. of applns. % of total applns. No. of shares applied % of Total Bid No. of shares allocated Ratio Total shares allocated
50 116,564 35.65 5,828,200 17.46 50 3:40 437,100
100 80,270 24.55 8,027,000 24.05 50 3:20 602,050
150 130,125 39.80 19,518,750 58.48 50 11:49 1,460,850

C)Allocation to QIBs:

Category FIs/Banks MFs FIIs ICs VCs
No. of shares 235,000 1,092,000 4,444,000 207,000 22,000

The IPO Committee has approved the basis of allocation of shares as above and allotted the shares to the various successful applicants on March 31, 2004.

The refund orders for non allottees and partial allottees are being despatched by registered post. The shares allocated to the successfull applicants will be credited to their beneficiary accounts subject to validation of the account details with the depositories concerned. The company is taking steps to get the equity shares listed with and admitted for trading in the National Stock Exchange of India Limited and The Stock Exchange, Mumbai within seven working days from the date of approval of the basis of allocation.

The status of allotment will be hosted at www.karvy.com on or after April 1, 2004.

All future correspondences in this regard may kindly be addressed to the Registrars to the Issue quoting full name of the First/Sole applicant, Serial number of the bid-cum-application form, number of shares bid for, name of the Member of the Syndicate and Place where the bid was submitted and payment details at the address given below:

M/s Karvy Computershare Private Limited
(Formerly a Division of M/s Karvy Consultants Limited)
Unit: Biocon Limited, 46, Avenue 4, Street No.1, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad - 500034

Place: Hyderabad
Date:  April 1, 2004

For Biocon Limited
Sd/-          
Ashok Bhandarkar
Company Secretary

* Including bids received at cut off price; The level of subscription should not be taken to be indicative of either the market price of the Equity Share on listing or the business prospects of the Company.

 

 

 

 

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