
India's biggest dairy IPO crosses full subscription threshold midday Tuesday. Retail investors led demand on the second day of the ₹1,553-crore offer.
Milky Mist Dairy Food's ₹1,553-crore initial public offering was fully subscribed by 10.36 am on Day 2, with the retail portion booked 1.26 times. The non-institutional investors' quota filled 1.33 times, while the employee portion hit 2.61 times. Qualified institutional buyers covered 0.39 times of their allocation, data from the exchanges showed.
The issue closes August 13 at a price band of ₹133-140 per share. The offering includes a fresh issue of up to ₹1,428 crore and an offer-for-sale of up to ₹125 crore. The company had already raised ₹465.30 crore from anchor investors. Day 1 saw 79% subscription.
At the upper end of the price band, Milky Mist will command a post-issue market valuation of roughly ₹10,778 crore, making this the largest IPO by an Indian dairy company.
The company plans to use fresh-issue proceeds for repayment or prepayment of borrowings, expansion and modernisation of its Perundurai manufacturing facility in Tamil Nadu, and strengthening its cold-chain infrastructure. Funds will also go toward setting up whey protein concentrate, yogurt and cream cheese plants, along with ice cream freezers and chocolate coolers. A portion is allocated for general corporate purposes.
Milky Mist raised about ₹482 crore in a pre-IPO round in May from Jongsong Investments Pte Ltd, an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Temasek Holdings. That transaction comprised a primary capital infusion of ₹357 crore and a secondary share sale of ₹125 crore.
JM Financial, Axis Capital and IIFL Capital Services are managing the issue, with KFin Technologies as registrar. The shares are slated to list on the BSE and NSE on August 18.
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