Sunday, September 30, 2007

A thing or two you may have never known about the king of liquor


  • Successfully bid for a sword of Tipu Sultan of Mysore, and brought it back to India.
  • Mr. Mallya also has ownership of a yacht and has named it 'The Indian Empress'.
  • He owns the East Bengal Football Club in Kolkata.
  • He also owns Skyper Ferrari Formula one team.

A little something you should know about Infosys


  • Infosys said that as on March 31, 2006, N R Narayana Murthy owns 5.91 per cent stake in the company with 16,275,263 shares.
  • Nandan Nilekani and his family holds 4.09 per cent stake in Infosys with 11281321 shares worth over Rs 3500 crores. S Gopalakrishnan, COO of the company holds 3.97 per cent of the company and owns 10,932,330 shares, which is priced at over Rs 3500 crore.
  • Board of directors of the company together hold 54902931 shares which is 19.92 percent of the total holding in the company, which is valued over Rs 17,634 crore.
Just a 19.92% in the company adds up to a whopping Rs 17,634..............so can you actually imagine the total evaluation of the company .

Saturday, September 29, 2007

THE SATURDAY TRIVIA-What was the evaluation of Tata Steel's take over of Corus?


  • The total evaluation of the deal was estimated at $7.6 billion.
  • The interesting thing is that prior to this deal Tata Steel was only the 56th largest producer of steel,now,its the 5th largest producer of steel in the world.
  • Another fact is that,this deal is amongst the top 5 deals witnessed in the steel industry over the last couple of years interms of evaluation,the biggest deal being the Arcelor-Mittal deal evaluated at $32 billion.