Company History - UPL
The Company was incorporated on 2nd January, 1985 as Vishwanath
Commercials Limited. In February, 1985, the Company went public with
an issue of 1,50,000 Equity Shares of Rs. 10/- each for cash at par
aggregating Rs.15,00,000. The object of the issue was to meet the
working capital requirements, preliminary expenses and issue
expenses. Subsequently in February 1994 Shri R.D. Shroff alongwith
his family and investment companies acquired 78.61% of the equity
capital of the company and changed the name to Search Chem Industries
Ltd. In March 1995 the group reorganised the shareholding, as a
result United Phosphorus Limited acquired 75% of the Equity Capital
of Search Chem Industries Limited from the family and investment
companies of Shri R. D. Shroff. Subsequently in August, 1995 UPL
acquired further 11560 shares thereby resulting in total holding of
79.72%. UPL purchased 8,500
Equity Shares from Shri R.D.Shroff and 1,86,810 Equity Shares from
Shri R.D.Shroff's family members and investment Companies. With this
reorganisation UPL has become the promoter of Search Chem Industries
Limited. Shri R.D. Shroff is the promoter of United Phosphorus
Limited and alongwith his family and investment companies holds
35.39% of the Equity Capital of United Phosphorus Limited. The
Company was engaged in the business of trading in shares/debentures
since incorporation, until it was taken over by Shri R.D.Shroff.
Subsequent to the takeover, the Company has entered in to the
chemical business.
Background
Listing Details Other Details
Sector Chemicals Incorporation
02-01 1985
Industry Pesticides & Agrochemicals Year
Sub-Industry Chairman R D Shroff
House Rajju Shroff Managing
R D Shroff
BSE Code 512070 Director
NSE Symbol UPL Company
M B Trivedi
ISIN NO INE628A01036 Secretary
Face Value 2 Auditor BSR & Co LLP
Listing BSE,NSE,Luxembourg, MCX No of
BSE Group A Employees
Indices BSE100, BSE200, BSE500, GREENEX, Latest
Mar 2019
CARBONEX, BASMTR, S&P Fin.Year End
LARGEMIDCAP, LRGCAP, ALLCAP, AGM Date 28-Aug-2019
MFG, SNXT50, ESG100, Reuters
UPLL.BO
S&PDIVSTABLE, LMI250, SNXT50TMC, Code
BSE100LARGECAPTMC , NIFTY, Bloomberg
UPLL IN
NIFTY500, NIFTY100, NIFTY200, Code
NIFTYCDTY, NIFTYALPHA, Manufacture Of Pesticides And Other
NIC Activity
NIFTY100WEIGHT, NIFTYLGEMID250, Agrochemical Products
NT100ALP30 NIC Code 2021
United Phosphorus Ltd (UPL) is engaged in the production of crop protection products, intermediates, specialty
chemicals and other industrial chemicals.Besides crop protection products UPL also manufactures plant growth and
regulatory products. Under this segment they have created brands like Saaf, Doom, Samar, Jhatka, SaathiI, Renova
and Ratol among others.The company also manufactures Caustic Chlorine, White Phosphorus, Industrial Chemicals
and Specialty Chemicals. Under this segment they have created brands like Copter, Vijeta, Uthane, Phoskill, Sweep,
UMet , TikTok, Oorja and many more.UPL also has a captive power plant with a generating capacity of 48.5 MW..The
company also in the business activities of Agro Chemicals, Non Agro Activity.
UPL earlier known as United Phosphorous (UPL) is a producer of crop protection products, intermediates, specialty
chemicals and other industrial chemicals, was incorporated in the year 1969. UPL is largest producer of agrochemicals
in India. It is amongst the top five post-patent agrochemical manufacturers in the world.United Phosphorus informed
that the name of United Phosphorous Ltd. shall be changed to UPL Ltd. and the trading symbol of the Company be
changed from UNIPHOS to UPL with effect from October 23, 2013.
It offers wide range of products and has developed more than 100 insecticides, fumigants, rodenticides, fungicides
PGR and herbicides.
UPL is global player of crop protection products has customer base in 123 countries. It has subsidiary offices
in Argentina, Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Canada, Denmark, Indonesia, France, Hong
Kong, Japan, Korea, Mauritius, Mexico, New Zealand, Russia, Spain, Taiwan, South
Africa, USA, UK, Vietnam and Zambia.
UPL has 23 manufacturing facilities -- 9 in India, 2 in Spain, 4 in France,3 in Argentina and 1
in UK, Vietnam, Netherlands, Italy and China. All the units are certified under the ISO 9001 for quality assurance,
14001 for Environment Pollution Control norms and OHSAS 18001 for healthy and safety.
Products
Along with crop protection products UPL also manufactures plant growth and regulatory products. Under this segment
it has created brands like Saaf, Doom, Samar, Jhatka, SaathiI, Renova and Ratol among others.
UPL also manufactures Caustic Chlorine, White Phosphorus, Industrial Chemicals and Specialty Chemicals. It has
created brands like Copter, Vijeta, Uthane, Phoskill, Sweep, UMet , TikTok, Oorja and many more.
It also has captive power plant that has a generating capacity of 48.5 MW.
