Zenith Birla announces FPO of 2.38cr equity shares

Zenith Birla announces FPO of 2.38cr equity shares

Zenith Birla (India), a Yash Birla Group Co, announced a follow-on public offer of 2.38 crore equity shares of Rs 10 each at a price of Rs 55 per share, reports The Hindu Business Line.

The company's shares closed on Monday at Rs 64.25 on the BSE.

The proceeds of the issue aggregating to Rs 131 crore (Rs 1.31 billion) will fund a new facility to manufacture mechanical (CDW) tubes primarily for automotive application and also meet its working capital needs. The company currently makes steel pipes and machine tools.

The issue opens on October 16 and closes on October 20. Net offer to the public is 96.36 lakh equity shares aggregating Rs 53 crore (Rs 530 million). Promoters will buy 45.45 lakh equity shares costing Rs 25 crore.

Employees and directors of the company, existing shareholders and shareholders of group companies will receive 19.27 lakh equity shares each.

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Freescale Delivers Automotive Instrumentation Cluster MCU with On ...

Freescale Delivers Automotive Instrumentation Cluster MCU with On ...

October 9, 2006 -- Freescale Semiconductor has introduced a 16-bit microcontroller (MCU) designed for the next wave in automotive instrumentation clusters. The MC9S12XHZ512 MCU is claimed to be the industry's first instrumentation cluster MCU featuring an integrated thin-film transistor (TFT) display drive.

With its on-chip TFT driver, the device enables instrumentation cluster designers to reduce the complexity of their designs and implement high-quality graphic displays on low-end automotive dashboards. TFT displays -- standard fare in laptops, cell phones and other mobile appliances -- are gaining momentum in the mainstream automotive market as the technology becomes more cost-effective. The company's latest MCU addresses the instrumentation cluster market, and TFT applications in particular, by offering optimal integration and application-specific features.

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