Freshtrop Fruits Limited Buyback

Freshtrop Fruits Limited Buyback - Necessity of the Objective

The current Buyback is in line with the Company's shareholder-friendly capital allocation practices of returning excess cash to shareholders, thereby increasing shareholders' value in the longer term, and improving the Return on Equity. The Buy-back is being undertaken by the Company to enhance shareholders' value and improve financial ratios. Additionally, the Buy-back is being undertaken for the following reasons:

The Buy-back will help the Company to distribute surplus funds to its shareholders holding Equity Shares broadly in proportion to their shareholding, thereby, enhancing the overall return to the shareholders;

The Buy-back, which is being implemented through the Tender Offer as prescribed under the Buyback Regulations, would involve a reservation of number of Equity Shares as per their entitlement or 15% of the Buy-back Size to be bought back whichever is higher, reserved for the small shareholders. The Company believes that this reservation for small shareholders would benefit a large number of public shareholders, who would get classified as Small Shareholders as defined under Regulation 2(i)(n) of the Buy-back Regulations;

The Buy-back will help in improving financial ratios like earnings per share, return on assets and return on equity calculated on the basis of financial statements, by reducing the equity base of the Company

The Buy-back gives an option to the Eligible Shareholders to either choose to participate in the Buyback and receive cash in lieu of their Equity Shares which are accepted under the Buy-back or choose not to participate in the Buy-back and get a resultant increase in their percentage shareholding in the Company post Buy-back, without additional investment.