RE:Idea and Cairn
by student on Mar 26, 2007 09:12 PM Permalink
Dear Vijay,
By the time you finish Bahadurji's posting about IDEA both the shares will be up and you can book profits. Read carefully the history of Idea and CAIRN is on the way, he is busy searching now.
RE:Idea and Cairn
by bahadur singh on Mar 26, 2007 12:31 PM Permalink
Idea Cellular Ltd.: History
We were incorporated as Birla Communications Limited on March 14, 1995 and granted a certificate of commencement of business on August 11, 1995. Our registered office was in Mumbai, Maharashtra. Our name was changed to Birla AT&T Communications Limited on May 30, 1996 following the execution of a joint venture agreement dated December 5, 1995 between AT&T Corporation and Grasim Industries Limited pursuant to which the Aditya Birla Group held 51% of our Equity Share capital and AWS Group held 49% of our Equity Share capital. Our registered office was transferred from Industry House, 1st Floor, 159 Church Gate Reclamation, Mumbai 400 020, Maharashtra to Suman Tower, Plot No. 18, Sector 11, Gandhinagar 382011 Gujarat on October 22, 1996. With effect from January 1, 2001 following our merger with Tata Cellular Limited the joint venture agreement between AT&T Corporation and Grasim Industries Limited dated December 5, 1995 was replaced by a shareholders agreement dated December 15, 2000 entered into between Grasim Industries Limited on behalf of the Aditya Birla Group, Tata Industries Limited on behalf of the Tata Group and AT&T Wireless Services Inc. on behalf of the AWS Group following which our name was changed to Birla Tata AT&T Limited on November 6, 2001. Consequent to the introduction of the "Idea" brand, our name was changed to Idea Cellular Limited on May 1, 2002. The AWS Group exited from the Company on September 28, 2005 by selling 371,780,740 Equity Shares of the Company, which constituted 50% of the holding of AT&T Cellular Private Limited in our equity share capital, to ABNL and by transferring the remaining 371,780,750 Equity Shares to Tata Industries Limited. The Tata Group ceased to be a shareholder of the Company on June 20, 2006 when Tata Industries Limited and Apex Investments (Mauritius) Holding Private Limited (formerly known as AT&T Cellular Private Limited) sold all their shares in the Company to the Aditya Birla Group.
On October 26, 2006, P5 Asia Investments (Mauritius) Limited ("P5 Asia") acquired 14.60% of our Equity Share capital. Under a Governance and Exit Rights Agreement dated October 23, 2006 between P5 Asia, ABNL and Birla TMT, so long as an initial public offering has not occurred and P5 Asia holds no less than 10% of our Equity Shares, ABNL and Birla TMT are required to procure that (a) our Company and its Subsidiaries shall not take or pursue any of the following actions without P5 Asia's prior consent (such consent to be obtained in a board and/or shareholders resolution) including in respect of (i) any merger with, acquisition of, or amalgamation or consolidation with another company or business; (ii) assuming or permitting to exist any borrowings or indebtedness in the nature of borrowings if the amount of all such borrowings of our Company and its Subsidiaries would exceed Rs. 6,800 million; (iii
