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Fermenta Biotech MD, chairman, board of directors and AGM

NSE: FERMENTABSE: 506414Pharmaceuticals & BiotechnologySmall Cap

Last close ₹450.60down ₹7.75 (1.69%)BSE ₹454.90

Share price at the NSE close on 23 Oct 2026. Previous close ₹458.35.

52-week range of BSE trades to 23 Oct 2026
₹256.40Low, 5 Dec 2025₹582.95High, 6 Oct 2026
Market cap
₹1,326 Cr1,508th largest listed
P/E
Earlier quarters restated in the year
P/B
3.3
Dividend yield
0.83%
ROCE
13.5%
Debt to equity
0.27
Volume, NSE
1,01,16540.9% delivered

Fermenta Biotech board of directors

At the end of the quarter to Mar 2026, as the company filed it; changes since are in its announcements.Their trades in its shares

  • ChairpersonPRADEEP M CHANDAN
  • Managing directorPRASHANT PRABHAKAR NAGRE
  • Company Secretary and Compliance OfficerVaradvinayak Khambete

9 directors4 independent4 executive1 non-executive

  • KRISHNA VASANTKUMAR DATLAExecutive · joined May 2010 · reappointed May 2024 · 1 listed board · 1 committee seat
  • ANUPAMA DATLA DESAIExecutive · joined Sep 2019 · reappointed Sep 2025 · 1 listed board
  • RAJESHWARI DATLANon-executive · joined Jul 2005 · reappointed Sep 2023 · 1 listed board
  • SATISH VARMA AZAD NADIMPALLYExecutive · joined Jul 2003 · reappointed Sep 2025 · 1 listed board · 1 committee seat
  • PRAMOD KASATIndependent · joined Aug 2022 · 43 months as independent · 4 listed boards · 4 as independent · 6 committee seats, 1 as chair
  • PRADEEP M CHANDAN · ChairpersonIndependent · joined Feb 2024 · 25 months as independent · 1 listed board · 1 as independent · 1 committee seat, 1 as chair
  • RAMANAND MUNDKURIndependent · joined Nov 2024 · 16 months as independent · 2 listed boards · 2 as independent · 3 committee seats, 1 as chair
  • RAJASHRI OJHAIndependent · joined Apr 2020 · reappointed Apr 2025 · 72 months as independent · 1 listed board · 1 as independent · 1 committee seat, 1 as chair
  • PRASHANT PRABHAKAR NAGRE · Managing directorExecutive · joined May 2021 · reappointed May 2024 · 1 listed board · 1 committee seat

An independent director has no business or family tie to the company, its promoters or its managers beyond the seat. Listed boards counts the boards of listed companies the director sits on, this one included, and "as independent" how many of those seats are independent ones. Committee seats are audit and stakeholder committee seats across those companies. Months as independent is filed for independent directors only, whose terms the rules cap. Disqualified is the company's own mark that a director may not serve under company law.

Committees and meetings

Who sits on each, and how often they met.Board meeting notices and outcomes

  • Board

    • 9 Feb 20269 of 9 present4 independent · 60 days in between
    • 10 Dec 20259 of 9 present4 independent · 28 days in between
    • 11 Nov 20259 of 9 present4 independent
  • Audit Committee

    Chair PRAMOD KASAT

    RAMANAND MUDKUR, RAJASHRI OJHA, PRASHANT PRABHAKAR NAGRE

    • 9 Feb 20264 of 4 present3 independent · 60 days in between
    • 10 Dec 20254 of 4 present3 independent · 28 days in between
    • 11 Nov 20254 of 4 present3 independent
  • Nomination and remuneration committee

    Chair PRAMOD KASAT

    RAJESHWARI DATLA, RAJASHRI OJHA

    • 6 Jan 20263 of 3 present2 independent
  • Stakeholders Relationship Committee

    Chair PRADEEP M CHANDAN

    SATISH VARMA AZAD NADIMPALLY, PRAMOD KASAT, KRISHNA VASANTKUMAR DATLA

    • 9 Feb 20264 of 4 present2 independent · 89 days in between
    • 11 Nov 20254 of 4 present2 independent
  • Risk Management Committee

    Chair RAJASHRI OJHA

    SATISH VARMA AZAD NADIMPALLY, ANUPAMA DATLA DESAI, PRASHANT PRABHAKAR NAGRE

    No meeting listed in the filing.

  • Corporate Social Responsibility Committee

    Chair RAMANAND MUDKUR

    RAJASHRI OJHA, RAJESHWARI DATLA, KRISHNA VASANTKUMAR DATLA

    No meeting listed in the filing.

Meetings in the quarter filed and the one before it. The days in between are as the company files them, neither meeting's day counted; the rules allow at most 120. A quorum is the least number of members who must attend for the meeting to decide anything.

Statutory auditor

Named in the results for the quarter to Jun 2026.

  • S R B C & CO LLPPeer-review certificate valid to Feb 2029
1 earlier auditor
  • S R B C CO. LLPNamed in filings from Jun 2025 to Dec 2025

A statutory auditor checks the company's accounts and signs its results. Peer review is the accountants' institute's check of an audit firm's own work, which a listed company's auditor must hold a valid certificate of.

Fermenta Biotech AGM and shareholder votes

Each resolution, how the votes went, and how institutions voted apart from the promoters. A postal ballot is a vote by post or online, held without a meeting.Fermenta Biotech dividend history

Annual general meeting, 11 Aug 2026

15,417 shareholders on the register on 5 Aug 2026; present: 2 promoters and 62 others; votes counted by V N DEODHAR / V.N. DEODHAR & CO., COMPANY SECRETARIES.The company's voting result (opens in a new tab)

  1. To receive, consider and adopt: (a) the audited Standalone Financial Statements of the Company for the financial year ended March 31, 2026, Reports of the Board of Directors, and the Auditors thereon; and (b) the audited Consolidated Financial Statements of the Company for the financial year ended March 31, 2026, and the Report of the Auditors thereon.MoreLess
    Ordinary
    100.00% for0.00% against

    Against: promoters 0.00% · institutions 0.00% · other public 0.00%

    Turnout: all 70.56% · promoters 100.00% · institutions 4.81% · other public 18.18%

  2. To declare dividend of Rs. 3.75 (Rupees Three and Paise Seventy-Five only) per equity share having face value of Rs. 5 each (75%) for the financial year ended March 31, 2026.
    Ordinary
    100.00% for0.00% against

    Against: promoters 0.00% · institutions 0.00% · other public 0.00%

    Turnout: all 70.56% · promoters 100.00% · institutions 4.81% · other public 18.18%

  3. To appoint a director in place of Ms. Rajeshwari Datla (DIN – 00046864), who retires by rotation and being eligible, offers herself for re-appointment.
    Ordinary
    100.00% for0.00% against

    Against: promoters 0.00% · institutions 0.00% · other public 0.02%

    Turnout: all 70.56% · promoters 100.00% · institutions 4.81% · other public 18.18%

  4. To approve the continuation of Ms. Rajeshwari Datla (DIN: 00046864) as a Non-Executive Director.
    Special
    100.00% for0.00% against

    Against: promoters 0.00% · institutions 0.00% · other public 0.02%

    Turnout: all 70.56% · promoters 100.00% · institutions 4.81% · other public 18.18%

  5. Ratification of remuneration of Cost Auditor of the Company.
    Ordinary
    100.00% for0.00% against

    Against: promoters 0.00% · institutions 0.00% · other public 0.00%

    Turnout: all 70.56% · promoters 100.00% · institutions 4.81% · other public 18.18%

  6. Approval for Material Related Party Transactions.
    Ordinary
    99.98% for0.02% against

    Against: promoters 0.00% · institutions 6.80% · other public 0.00%

    Turnout: all 5.85% · promoters 0.00% · institutions 4.81% · other public 16.43%

  7. Commission to Non-Executive Directors
    Special
    100.00% for0.00% against

    Against: promoters 0.00% · institutions 0.00% · other public 0.04%

    Turnout: all 70.56% · promoters 100.00% · institutions 4.81% · other public 18.18%

For and against are per cent of the votes cast. Turnout is the votes cast as a per cent of the shares each group holds. Institutions are funds, insurers, banks and foreign investors. An ordinary resolution passes with more than half the votes cast, a special one with at least three quarters.

How mutual funds voted

Fund houses must disclose how they vote at every meeting of a company they hold.

Mutual fund votes, meeting of 2 Sep 2022, 1 fund house

  • Composite Scheme of Amalgamation and Arrangement amongst DVK Investments Private Limited (DVK or Transfaror Company 1) and Aegean Propertias Limited (APL or Transferor Company 2) and Femnenta Biotech Limited (FRL or Transferée Company) and their respective Shareholders.MoreLess
    1 for0 against

Mutual fund votes, meeting of 12 Aug 2022, 1 fund house

  • Appointment of Mr. Pramod Kasat (DIN: 00819790) as an Independent Director of the Company, not liable to retire by rotation, to hold office for a first term of 5 (five) consecutive years with effect from August 12, 2022.MoreLess
    1 for0 against
  • Appointment of S R B C & Co. LLP, Chartered Accountants (ICAI Firm Registration No: 324982E/ E300003) as Statutory Auditors of the Company to hold office for a term of 5 (five) years from the conclusion of 70th Annual General Meeting (AGM) till the conclusion of 75th AGM, in place of the outgoing Auditors, Deloitte Haskins & Sells. LLP, Chartered Accountants (Firm Registration no. 117366W/W-100018), on such remuneration.MoreLess
    1 for0 against
  • Approval for Material Related Party Transaction with Fermenta USA LLC for an aggregate Rs.40,00,00,000 for a period upto next annual general meeting to be held in the year 2023.
    1 for0 against
  • Ratification of Remuneration of Rs.2,75,000 plus taxes as applicable and reimbursement of out of pocket expenses paid to M/s Joshi Apte & Associates, Cost Accountants (Firm Registration Number – 00240) as a cost auditor of company for the financial year ending on March 31, 2023.MoreLess
    1 for0 against
  • Re-appointment of Mr. Satish Varma (DIN: 00003255) as an Executive Director and Key Managerial Person of the Company for a period of 3 (three) years commencing from September 27, 2022 to September 26, 2025 and including remuneration.MoreLess
    1 for0 against
  • Re-appointment of Ms. Anupama Datla Desai (DIN: 00217027) as an Executive Director and Key Managerial Person of the Company for a period of 3 (three) years commencing from September 27, 2022 to September 26, 2025 and including remuneration.MoreLess
    1 for0 against
  • To appoint a Director in place of Ms. Anupama Datla Desai (DIN – 00217027), who retires by rotation and, being eligible, offers herself for re-appointment.
    1 for0 against
  • To declare dividend of Rs.1.25 per equity share of Rs.5 each for the financial year ended March 31, 2022.
    1 for0 against
  • To receive, consider and adopt: (a) The audited Standalone Financial Statements of the Company for the financial year ended March 31, 2022, Reports of the Board of Directors, and the Auditors thereon; and (b) The audited Consolidated Financial Statements of the Company for the financial year ended March 31, 2022, and the Report of the Auditors thereon.MoreLess
    1 for0 against

Each fund house counted once, from its own disclosure; the reasons are its own words.

Tax disputes

Reported in the filing for the quarter to Mar 2026.

  • Tax disputeThe Assistant Commissioner, Mandi-I, Central Zone, Himachal Pradesh - 175001Since 26 Mar 2026
    Appeal filed before GST Appellate Authority. Notice for hearing is awaited.

In the company's own words, from its latest governance filing.

Investor complaints and compliance

Quarter by quarter.

Investor complaints received and resolved, the company's own count

  • Received
  • Resolved

Open at the quarter's end

None open at any quarter's end.
The board is made up as the listing rules require
Yes
The board has a regular chairperson
Yes
The company has a risk management committee
No
The chair is related to the managing director
No
The filing has a part on fines and penalties
No
The filing has a part on tax disputes
Yes
There was a cyber security incident in the quarter
No

The company's own answers in its filing.

How money raised was used

The company's results filing for the quarter to Jun 2026 says no statement of how money raised was used applies to it.