Wockhardt sets issue price at Rs 225 per share for Rs 748-cr rights issue

The issue price has been fixed at Rs 225 per fully paid-up equity share, including a premium of Rs 220 per share, it added. The issue will open on March 15 and close on March 22, 2022.

Earlier in January this year, Wockhardt's board had approved raising up to Rs 1,000 crore through a rights issue to its existing shareholders. The objective of the issue is to meet the financing needs of the company for repayment of subordinated debt, financing research and development initiatives and for general corporate purposes, it said.

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Wockhardt is a global pharmaceutical and biotechnology organisation, providing affordable, high-quality medicines for a healthier world. It is India's leading research-based global healthcare enterprise with relevance in the fields of Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology and a chain of advanced Super Speciality Hospitals.

Wockhardt is a true Indian Multi-National Company with a multi-ethnic workforce globally. It has 3 research centres and 12 manufacturing plants, with businesses ranging from the manufacture and marketing of Pharmaceutical and Bio-pharmaceutical formulations, Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs) and Vaccines.

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The company has successfully created an integrated multi-technology capability to manufacture all types of dosage forms including sterile injectables and lyophilised products. Highly skilled technicians operate 12 manufacturing facilities that are US FDA, UK MHRA and EMEA compliant sites in India, the US and Europe.