YEAR EVENTS 1948 - The Company was incorporated on 23rd August, at Calcutta. The Company manufacture and sell pharmaceuticals, super phosphate, fertiliser mixtures, pesticides, hydrosulphite of soda, electric fans, petrol fans, petrol engines and garments and also to trade in fertiliser, cotton, tanning materials, piece goods, textiles, crushed bones and marine products. The Company had distribution arrangements for single and compound fertilisers, electric fans, stationary and portable machine tools, electrical appliances, power sprayers, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, and household products. Rallis Brothers Ltd., was incorporated in West Bengal to carry on business in India. - 75,000 Pref. Shares and 92,095 No. of equity shares issued to Ralli Bros. Ltd. 405 No. of equity shares to director and signatories to Memorandum of Association. 1,32,500 No. of equity shares issued to Ralli Bros. Ltd. on consideration of assets taken over from them. 1951 - 65,000 Pref. and 1,15,000 No. of equity shares (prem. Rs 15 per share) offered for sale by Ralli Brothers, Ltd., to the Indian public. 1958 - The Company acquired the enterprise of Teddington Chemical Factory (P) Ltd. 1961 - Reddington Chemicals was merged with the Company. 1971 - Effective from 1st January, the Company negotiated the acquisition of assets of James & Co., a proprietary concern engaged in the canning of food under trade name SIL. 1972 - Tata Fison Industries, Ltd., was amalgamated with the Company with effect from 1st September. The shareholders of Tata Fison were allotted 3 fully paid-up Equity shares against 4 fully paid-up Equity shares, and 3 fully paid-up Equity shares plus 3 fractional certificates representing one tenth Equity shares against eight, Rs 55 paid-up Equity shares. The Company's subsidiary Rallifan, Ltd. was merged with it with effect from 31st August, 1966. 1973 - Since September, the Company became a subsidiary of Rallis India, Ltd. This was amalgamated with the Company effective from 30th June, 1987. - 93,000 No. of equity shares issued as fully paid-up to shareholders of Tata Fison Industries, Ltd. pursuant to the Scheme of Amalgamation. 1976 - 63,600 Right Equity shares issued in prop. 1:3 at a premium of Rs 25 per share on 5th January. 31 Right Equity shares forfeited. 1,14,470 Bonus Equity shares issued in prop. 3:10. 1978 - The subsidiary Ralli Chemicals Ltd. was merged with the Company with effect from 1st September. 1981 - With effect from 1st September, Whilfens (India), Ltd. was amalgamated with the Company. The shareholders of Whilfens were allotted 18,473 No. of equity shares of the Company in the proportion of 1 Ralli share of Rs 100 each for every 6 No. of equity shares of Rs 10 each held in Whilfen. - 33,331 shares allotted to Financial Institutions as part conversion of their loans. (8,333 to ICICI, 8,333 to UTI and 8,332 to GIC and its subsidiaries) and 18,473 shares allotted to erstwhile shareholders of Whilfens (India) Ltd., which was amalgamated with the Company. 1982 - The Company acquired 2,10,286 No. of equity shares of Rs 10 each of Protein Products of India, Ltd. which was deemed a Government Company pursuant to Section 619 B of the Company's Act. The Company along with its subsidiaries - W.T. Surin & Co., Ltd., Ralli Machines Ltd., and Ralliwolf, Ltd. held 60% of the equity capital of Protein Products of India, Ltd (PPI). Hence, PPI became a subsidiary of the company. 1983 - Protein Products of India, Ltd., which manufactures gelatine, ossein and di-calcium phosphate, was merged with the Company with effect from 1st September. The merger became effective on 17th March, 1986. 1985 - 16,441 No. of equity shares allotted without payment in cash to the Protein Products of India, Ltd. on its merger with the Company. 1986 - The Plants for the manufacture of two new pesticides were commissioned at Ankleshwar. - The Company issued 3,95,000 - 13.5% secured redeemable partly convertible debentures of Rs 500 each during the year. Out of the total issue, 18,811 debentures were offered to the employees of the Company and the balance of 3,76,189 debentures were offered to the existing equity shareholders in the proportion of 2 debentures to 3 equity shares held. Out of the employees' quota, only 11,834 debentures were taken up while the offer for shareholders was over-subscribed. Thus, a total of 3,88,023 debentures were allotted on 1st May, 1987. - Pursuant to the terms of the issue of debentures, the Convertible portion of Rs 250 out of each debenture was compulsorily and automatically converted into 10 equity shares of Rs 10 each of the Company at a premium of Rs 15 per share effective from 1st November, 1987. - The Non-convertible portion of Rs 250 out of each debenture bearing interest at 13.5% per annum would be redeemed on maturity on 30th April, 1997. - The Company cancelled its 75,000 - 6% preference shares of Rs 100 each on 1st June, and in lieu thereof allotted 75,000 - 15% non-convertible debentures of Rs 100 each to the erstwhile preference shareholders. 1987 - A modern bulk drug plant was commissioned at Ankleshwar to manufacture new drugs. - Plans for the manufacture of three new pesticides were commissioned and implementation of a fully export-oriented basic chemical manufacturing facility was in progress. - Ralli Machines Ltd. (RML), a subsidiary of the Company was amalgamated with the Company with effect from 1st June. 1988 - The Agrochemicals division launched four new products during the period. The Research and Development centre of the agrochemicals division set up a comprehensive toxicological laboratory at Bangalore. 1989 - The agro chemicals division completed and commissioned new facilities for the manufacture of Acephate and Cypermethrin. New facilities were set up for export oriented fungicides and achieved a two-fold expansion of productions of Captafol. In addition, a new facility for an intermediate required in the production of Fenvalerate was set up and commissioned. - 7,627 No. of Equity shares allotted without payment in cash to shareholders of Rallis Machines, Ltd., on its merger. 1990 - With considerable expertise gained in the designing and commissioning of chemical plants, the agro chemicals division entered the field of project exports. - At the meeting held on 21st November, the Company decided to dispose of the Engineering undertakings as well as the Company's direct and indirect shareholders in the Engineering subsidiaries Ralli Wolf Ltd. and the Indian Standard Metal Co., Ltd. 1991 - The Agro chemicals unit signed a turnkey contract with the National Petrochemical Company of Iran for a 2500 TPA/500 TPA. - A new facility for parenterals was put into operation at Aurangabad. The pharmaceutical division diversified into Ayurvedic products range. - In term of the orders of the High Courts at Mumbai and Ahmedabad dated 4.5.1991 and 13.5.1991, Accumax Ltd. was merged with the Company on 26.6.1991 with retrospective effect from 1.1.1988. As per the terms of the merger, 60,800 shares of Rs 10 each were allotted to the shareholders of Accumax, Ltd. - Ahura Consultants & Investments Ltd. (Ahura), a subsidiary of the Company was amalgamated with the Company with effect from 1st April. - The Company offered 11,91,337 - 12.5% secured partly convertible debentures of Rs 160 each on Rights basis in the proportion 1 debentures: 8 equity shares held (All were taken up). - Another 59,570-12.5% debentures were issued to the employees on an equitable basis (only 5,211 debentures taken up). The unsubscribed portion of 54,359 debentures was allowed to lapse. Rs 80 of the face value of each debenture was to be converted into 2 equity shares of Rs 10 each at a premium of Rs 30 per share on the expiry of 6 months from the date of allotment of debentures. Remaining Rs 80 of the face value of each debenture was to be redeemed at par on the expiry of 10 years from the date of allotment of debentures. - 23,93,096 shares allotted (prem. Rs 30 per share) on part conversion 12.5% partly convertible debentures on 19.2.1992. 1992 - Tata Tea Ltd. (TTL) proposed to make an offer to the resident Indian equity shareholders of the Company to acquire upto 24.99% of the existing equity share capital of the Company. 1993 - The Company proposed to enter real estate development business. 1995 - The agrochemicals division performed well and the unit introduced a range of other agro products as an input-supply agency. The performance of pharmaceutical division affected due to non-availability of Dextran products. Production of fine chemicals was affected due to non-availability of raw materials such as hydrochlorine and, bones etc. 1996 - The pharmaceutical division registered an impressive performance and new products were introduced. - 350,00,000 pref. shares allotted as private placement basis and they would be redeemed at the end of 3 years from the date of allotment i.e. on 28.2.2000 & 30.3.2000 with pvt. & call option at the end of 2 years. 1997 - Three new high margin products introduced during the year contributed to the success of the division. Gelatine business was affected. The leather chemicals business introduced a new range of finishing chemicals in collaboration with a U.K. Company. Further expansion was planned in collaboration with a Dutch company and with their support it was proposed to introduce a range of high quality fat liquors. - British drug group Phytopharm Plc said on November 3 it had signed a long-term agreement with Rallis India Ltd to develop products based on medicinal plant extracts. - Rallis is part of India's Tata Group, the country's largest business conglomerate. - Rallis is the largest agro-business company and the second largest seed producer in India. - Rallies has successfully introduced quality hybrid seeds in collaboration with Cargill Seeds of USA and Bejo Zaden, Holland. 1998 - Rallis India has forged a marketing alliance with the world's largest producer of fertilisers, Norsk Hydro of Netherlands, to market speciality fertilisers. - ICRA has assigned an `A1 ' rating to the Rs.10 crore commercial paper programme of Rallis (India) Ltd (RIL). The rating indicates highest safety. - The company has recently entered into separate licencing agreements with Switzerland-based pharma company Geisltch, and Netherlands-based Euro Drug. - The company has proposed to convert one of its existing pesticide units for producing special grade polymers for fabricating interiors of aircraft. - Rallis has also become the first Indian company to isolate a gene construct which marks the company's entry into the realms of genetically-engineered plants. - Rallis has also recently become only the second producer in the world, and the first in India, of pendimethylene, the world's number two herbicide. - The company has developed a 600 acre farm near Nashik in Maharashtra with technical collaboration from Mitsubishi Corporation of Japan. 1999 - The company has been working closely with sericulturists and farmers in an attempt to develop the venture. The company is also introducing international irrigation and sericulture techniques to improve yields, and productivity. - Tata group agrochemical major Rallis India has set up a new company called Rallis Farm Management to provide advisory and technical services in the agri sector. - Rallis had recently set up a new company -- called Rallis Farm Management -- to provide advisory and technical services in the agricultural sector. - Rallis India Ltd. and American multinational Monsanto have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to jointly develop and launch rural-development initiatives in India. - Rallis India has entered into a pact with the $4.5bn FMC Ltd, the fifth-largest agrochemical producer in the world, under which it will formulate some of FMC's products in India. The agreement, signed on August 6, extends a relationship which Rallis already has with FMC for a few other products. - The rating agency, Icra, has downgraded the rating assigned to the Rs 5 crore non-convertible debenture (NCD) programme of Mold-Tek Plastics Ltd (MPL) from `LA ' to `LBBB ' indicating moderate safety. 2000 - Tata Metaliks managing director Rajeev Dubey will take charge as chief executive officer of the Rs 1,256-crore Rallis India. - Tata group company, has decided to pull out of its agrochemical joint venture with FMC Corporation citing restructuring within the overall Tata group and recent changes in the global agrochemical market. -Rallis India, country's largest agrichemicals company, has tied up with the UK-based fertiliser giant Borax Europe to market Solubor in India in line with the company's strategy to market foreign companies products. -Launching an interactive Website called rallikisan.com -Sanat Products Limited (SPL) in which Dabur India holds 30 per cent equity stake has signed a marketing tie-up with the Tata group company Rallis India for distribution of its herbal OTC (over-the-counter) products in Africa and Sri Lanka. -Obtained a sanction for a Rs 50-crore term loan from ICICI Ltd 2001 -Mr. R Gopalakrishnan, a director of Rallis India, has been appointed its vice-chairman. Gopalakrishnan is an executive director of Tata Sons and is a member of the group executive office of the Tata Group. -Sells its pharmaceutical business to Shreya Impex, part of Moscow-based Shreya Corporation, for Rs 49 crore. -Approves the merger of its wholly-owned subsidiaries with the company. The subsidiaries are Ralchem Ltd, Rallis Finance & Investments Co Ltd, -Kicks off a downsizing exercise for reducing employees at the managerial level. Around 200-odd managers opt for an early separation scheme started by the company in April 15, 2001 -Fire breaks out at the Rallis Ankleshwar Plant Unit II. Seven workers sustain burn injuries. Leakage of inflammable gas from a fractioning column of a unit manufacturing intermediate chemical CMAC used for manufacture of Cypermethrin, appeared to be the cause of the fire. -Launched its Web site, called www.rallis.co.in -Sells its surplus land at Andheri, a Mumbai suburb, to Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) for Rs 133 crore -Approves merger of its wholly owned subsidiaries i.e. Rallis Finance and Investments Ltd., Rallis Farm Management Services Ltd., Rallis Hybrid Seeds Ltd., Ralchem Ltd. and Sankhya Garments Ltd with the company. 2002 -Closes down four of its manufacturing units.The shut down four companies are Siris India's unit (a loss making subsidiary of Rallis India), Ralchem Ltd's second unit in Ankleshwar, a tanning and an agrochemicals unit at Ankleshwar. -Enters into a new contract farming agreement with State Bank of India, ending its earlier agreement with ICICI Bank -Mr. Rajeev Dubey, CEO & Executive Director of the company, redesignated as Managing Director w.e.f.July 29, 2002 -Tata Chemicals Ltd. issues termination notice to the company in respect of the marketing arrangement for urea -Shareholders approve the Scheme of Amalgamation of its 5 subsidiaries (Rallis Finance and Investments Company Ltd., Rallis Farm Management Services Ltd, Rallis Hybrid Seeds Ltd, Ralchem Ltd and Sankhya Garments Ltd with the Company) 2003 - Forges an alliance with Kureha Chemical Ltd, a leading Japanese company, for Metconazole fungicide plant -Approves the merger of Siris India Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of the company, with Rallis India Ltd. -Mr. Rajeev Dubey resigs as Managing Director -Dr. Venkatrao Sohoni appointed as Managing Director of the company w.e.f. August 11, 2003. -Offers VRS to its staff -Mrs. Shirin V. Balsara has resigned as Director (Legal) & Company Secretary of the Company w.e.f. September 20, 2003 -Aproves the sale of Rallis House to Tata Consultancy Services Ltd for a total consideration of Rs 560 million -The Lok Prakashan Ltd. acquires 6,68,396 equity shares (constituting 5.58% of the paid-up equity share capital of the Company) -Registered office of the company changed from Ralli House, 21, D.S.Marg, Mumbai - 400 001 to 7th Floor, Apeejay House, 3, Dinshaw Vachha Road, Churchgate, Mumbai 400 020. 2004 -Board of the company decides to issue, on a private placement basis, 9,00,00,000, 7.5 % Cumulative Redeemable Preference Shares of Rs 10/- each, aggregating to Rs 900 million. The said issue shall open from January 2, 2004 to January 31, 2004 -Rallis India sells gelatine biz to Sterling Biotech Ltd -Rallis India inks pact with Dupont India Pvt Ltd on April 5, 2004, for insecticide marketing -Rallis India Ltd has informed that the company and EI Dupont India Private Ltd on April 5, 2004 have entered into an agreement, whereby company will co-market Dupont's insecticide Indoxacarb and Dupont will co-market company's insecticide Acetamiprid. - Rallis India enters into marketing alliances with global players like Syngenta, Bayer and Dupont 2007 -Rallis India Ltd has appointed Mr. Veeramani Shankar as the Executive Director of the Company. 2008 - Rallis India Ltd has informed that Dr. V S Sohoni has been appointed as Additional Director on the Board of the Company with effect from March 01, 2008. 2009 - Rallis India Ltd has appointed Mr. R. Mukundan as Additional Director on the Board of the Company. --Registered Office of the Company has been shifted to 156/157, 15th Floor, Nariman Bhavan, 227, Nariman Point, Mumbai - 400 021 2010 - Company has inaugurated a new Metconazole plant at its factory in Ankleshwar, Gujarat - Rallis India Ltd Acquires Majority stake in Metahelix Life Sciences - Rallis India - Board approves Bonus Issue -Rallis India has given the Bonus in the Ratio of 1:2 2011 - Rallis India crosses sales figure of Rs 1,000 crore For the year ended March 31, 2011 - Company has commenced commercial production at its new manufacturing facility at Dahej SEZ, Gujarat. -Company has splits its Face value of Shares from Rs 10 to Re 1 2012 - Rallis India Acquires 22.8% Stake in Zero Waste Agro Organics Private Limited 2013 - Tata Quality Management Services awarded Company's Dahej unit under Promising Innovations Category for New Product Innovation - The Company received National Energy Conservation Award from Mr. Pranab Mukerjee (President of India) for winning under Chemical sector -The Company awarded as Winner of Golden Peacock Award for Eco-Innovation in Chemical Sector - Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI) awarded the Company as Product Innovator of the Year in Agro Sector -The Company has recommended final dividend of Rs. 1.30 per share (130%) to the shareholders of the Company. 2014 - Rallis India Ltd appointed Dr. Punita Kumar-Sinha as an Additional Non - Executive, Independent Director of the Company - The Company has recommended final dividend of Rs. 1.40 per share (140%) to the shareholders of the Company. - ICC awarded Certificate of Merit for Best Compliant Company for the Process Safety Code under Responsible Care - Dahej unit awarded National Safety Award - The Award was presented by Hon'ble Union Minister for Labour & Employment Shri Narendra Singh Tomar at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi 2015 -India's Most Trusted Brand Award, 2015 in Best Company category -CII EXIM prize for Business Excellence -Origin product has received Product Innovator of the Year in Agrochemicals Sector awarded by FICCI Chemicals & Petrochemicals Awards 2016 -Rallis India gets approval for Rs 200 cr project in Gujarat. -The Company has signed an Agreement for increasing its stake in its Subsidiary Zero Waste Agro - Organics Limited from 73.63% to 100%. Consequently, ZWAO and become a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, on completion of the acquisition of the balance shares in ZWAOL. 2019 -The Company has considered and approved the proposal for the merger of Metahelix Life Sciences Limited ('Transferor Company'), a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, with Rallis India Limited ('the Company' or 'Transferee Company') and their Shareholders and Creditors, under Sections 230 to 234 of the Companies Act, 2013 2023 -"Rallis India powers its hybrid seed production process with mobile app SeedSure." 2024 -Rallis India Limited achieve key Flavocide production milestone.