JHS Svendgaard Laboratories Ltd share Price

JHS Svendgaard Laboratories Ltd is an oral care products manufacturing company, manufacturing a wide variety of dental and oral products as contract manufacturer for many of the national and international brand names. The company`s products include toothbrushes, toothpaste, whitening gel, whitening mouth rinse and denture cleaning effervescent tablet. JHS Svendgaard Laboratories Ltd was incorporated on October 8, 2004. The company was established to engage in the business of manufacturing and selling of oral hygiene products. The company was promoted by Nikhil Nanda. Initially, they manufactured only toothbrushes but realizing the vast potential of the oral care market, they ventured into manufacturing of other dental care products like toothpastes, Mouthwash, Denture tablets etc. In the year 2005, the company acquired the business from the three proprietary concerns namely Sunehari Svendgaard Laboratories, Sunehari Oral Care and Jai Hanuman Exports with effect from April 1, 2005. These three proprietary concerns became the three units of the company, namely Unit I- SSL, Unit II - SOC and Unit III - JHE. In the year 2006, Unit III-JHE was awarded the status of Star Export House (one Star) by the Government of India effective from April 1, 2005 to March 31, 2009. During the year 2006-07, the company increased the production capacity of Oral Care Products by 1.50 crore Pcs to 7.00 crore Pcs. In October 21, 2006, the company shares were listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange Ltd and the National Stock Exchange of India Ltd. In April 2, 2007, the company commenced the first phase of commercial Production at Kala-amb in Himachal Pradesh. In April 10, 2007, they acquired 9400 equity shares of Rs 10 each of Nikiven Personal Care Products Pvt Ltd {NIKIVEN} constituting 51.08% of the paid-up capital. With this acquisition, Nikiven became a subsidiary of the company. During the year 2007-08, the company set up a 100% subsidiary company in Ras Al Khaimah Free Trade Zone, UAE with the name of Jones H Smith, FZE. In April 2008, they set up a subsidiary company with the name JHS Svendgaard Dental Care Ltd. During the year 2008-09, the company increased the production capacity of Oral Care Products by 13.02 crore Pcs to 24.62 crore Pcs. In February 4, 2009, they received the Best Performing Enterprise Award `Runner-up` (Turnover from Rs 26 to 100 crore) at Plasticon Awards 2009 for the oral care business with a Complete Range of Oral Care Products from The Plastindia Foundation. In April 2009, the company launched their own brand `Dr. Gold`, to use their experience in the oral care industry and encash the market opportunities. The company has decided to amalgamate two group entities, namely JHS Svendgaard Hygiene Products Ltd, Wave Hygiene Products (a partnership firm) with the company through a scheme of amalgamation.