JK Tyre raises 5 billion rupees

JK Tyre & Industries Limited has successfully concluded a 5-billion-rupee (£47.474 million; 55 million euros; US$60.125 million) Qualified Institutional Placement (QIP). The QIP was priced at 345 rupees per share (including a premium of 343 per share with face value of 2 rupees per share). According JK Tyre, the QIP received an “overwhelming response” from “marquee investors including Indian mutual funds, insurance companies and foreign institutional investors”.