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Sunday, 25 August 2013

Phoenix plans to raise Rs 1,000 crore

This story first appeared in DNA Money edition on Saturday, Aug 24, 2013.

Mixed-use developer Phoenix Mills Ltd (PML) is expected to soon kick-start the process of raising Rs 1,000 crore following shareholder nod for the proposal at its 108th annual general meeting.

The funds mobilisation will be in one or more tranches through a public issue or a private placement or a preferential issue or any other kind of public issue or private placement as may be permitted under applicable laws from time to time, PML said.

The PML management did not share any details about this fund-raising exercise. However, it is very likely that the company may use some portion of the Rs 1,000 crore towards repaying debt.
PML’s standalone debt as of June 30 stood at Rs 284 crore, stake-wise effective gross debt at Rs 2,025.3 crore and consolidated gross debt at Rs 2,400.5 crore.

The consolidated debt, the developer added, went up mainly on account of new special purpose vehicles (SPVs) being consolidated. PML’s total debt figure across all SPVs edged up to Rs 3,167.4 crore in the April-June quarter compared with Rs 3,117.6 crore in the previous quarter.

There are some new launches in the pipeline, which may add up to approximately three million square foot (msf) spanning over 2013-14 to 2014-15. The rollouts will be spread over cities like Bangalore (1.4 msf), Chennai (0.4 msf) and Pune (0.4 msf).

Analysts put FY14 (estimated) at 1.4 msf and value at Rs 1,550 crore.

“Since the bulk of the new launches are in the premium segment, the success remains a key re-rating trigger,” said Parikshit Kandpal and Varun Chakri, research analysts with Karvy Stock Broking, in a June-end report.

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