Gujarat Craft Industries MD, chairman, board of directors and AGM
BSE: 526965Industrial ProductsSmall Cap
Share price at the BSE close on 23 Oct 2026. Previous close ₹87.00.
- Market capMarket capitalisation. Share price times the number of shares: what the whole company is worth at the day's price. The rank is by average market value over the six months to Jun 2026, among listed companies.
- ₹42 Cr3,418th largest listed
- P/EPrice to earnings, trailing. Market cap divided by the profit of the last twelve months (the latest four quarters, or two half years for a company that reports half-yearly) that belongs to the company's own shareholders, after the share of the other owners of its subsidiaries: what investors pay for each rupee of a year's profit. The filing of 12 Aug 2026
- 70.6
- P/E without one-offsPrice to earnings without one-off items. Market cap divided by core profit: the profit of the last twelve months (the latest four quarters, or two half years for a company that reports half-yearly) that belongs to the company's own shareholders, less one-off items (exceptional items and the result of businesses sold or closed). Shown where the one-off items move that profit by more than a tenth. The last twelve months' profit includes −₹0.52 crore of one-off items, the largest of them in the quarter to Dec 2025.
- 37.8
- P/BPrice to book. Market cap divided by the net worth that belongs to the company's own shareholders, its assets less everything it owes and less the other owners' share of its subsidiaries, on its latest balance sheet. The filing of 21 May 2026
- 0.7
- Dividend yieldDividend yield. Dividends paid per share in the twelve months to the day, as a percentage of the day's share price.
- 0.58%
- ROEReturn on equity. Profit over the last twelve months (the latest four quarters, or two half years for a company that reports half-yearly) that belongs to the company's own shareholders, as a percentage of their net worth, the money they have in the business. Net worth is the average of the latest balance sheet and the one a year before it. The filing of 12 Aug 2026
- 0.9%
- ROE without one-offsReturn on equity without one-off items. Core profit, the profit of the last twelve months (the latest four quarters, or two half years for a company that reports half-yearly) that belongs to the company's own shareholders less one-off items (exceptional items and the result of businesses sold or closed), as a percentage of the same net worth as the return on equity. Shown where the one-off items move that profit by more than a tenth. The last twelve months' profit includes −₹0.52 crore of one-off items, the largest of them in the quarter to Dec 2025.
- 1.8%
- ROCEReturn on capital employed. Operating profit after depreciation (revenue less operating expenses and depreciation, without other income and one-off items) as a percentage of all the money the business runs on: the whole group's net worth, the other owners of its subsidiaries included, plus borrowings. Lease liabilities are not counted: the results filings do not state them. The profit is over the last twelve months (the latest four quarters, or two half years for a company that reports half-yearly); net worth and borrowings are on the latest balance sheet. The filing of 12 Aug 2026
- 5.0%
- Debt to equityDebt to equity. Borrowings divided by the whole group's net worth, the other owners of its subsidiaries included: rupees borrowed for each rupee of equity in the business. Lease liabilities are not counted: the results filings do not state them. From the balance sheet at the end of Mar 2026. The filing of 21 May 2026
- 0.99
- Volume, BSEVolume. Shares traded on the last trading day.
- 765
Gujarat Craft Industries board of directors
At the end of the quarter to Jun 2026, as the company filed it; changes since are in its announcements.Their trades in its shares
- Chairperson and managing directorRISHAB ASHOK CHHAJERRelated to the promoter
- Company Secretary and Compliance OfficerPriti Choudhary
4 directors3 independent1 executive
- RISHAB ASHOK CHHAJER · Chairperson and managing directorExecutive · joined Feb 2012 · reappointed Feb 2026 · 2 listed boards · 3 committee seats
- HITENDRA KEVALCHAND CHOPRAIndependent · joined Jul 2022 · 60 months as independent · 2 listed boards · 2 as independent · 3 committee seats, 1 as chair
- ANAL RUCHIR DESAIIndependent · joined Sep 2024 · 60 months as independent · 4 listed boards · 4 as independent · 7 committee seats, 2 as chair
- PARTH BHARATBHAI THAKKARIndependent · joined Sep 2025 · 60 months as independent · 2 listed boards · 2 as independent · 3 committee seats, 1 as chair
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.
2 directors who left
- SWATI NAMAN PIPARA, left 29 Sep 2025: Tenure Completion
- ASHOK KUMAR CHHAJER, left 6 Jul 2025: Others
Committees and meetings
Who sits on each, and how often they met.Board meeting notices and outcomes
Board
- 21 May 20264 of 4 present3 independent · 26 days in between
- 24 Apr 20264 of 4 present3 independent · 70 days in between
- 12 Feb 20264 of 4 present3 independent · 13 days in between
- 29 Jan 20264 of 4 present3 independent · 27 days in between
1 earlier meeting
- 1 Jan 20264 of 4 present3 independent
Audit Committee
Chair ANAL RUCHIR DESAI
HITENDRA KEVALCHAND CHOPRA, RISHAB ASHOK CHHAJER
- 21 May 20263 of 3 present2 independent · 97 days in between
- 12 Feb 20263 of 3 present2 independent
Nomination and remuneration committee
Chair ANAL RUCHIR DESAI
HITENDRA KEVALCHAND CHOPRA, PARTH BHARATBHAI THAKKAR
- 1 Jan 20263 of 3 present3 independent
Stakeholders Relationship Committee
Chair PARTH BHARATBHAI THAKKAR
RISHAB ASHOK CHHAJER, ANAL RUCHIR DESAI
No meeting listed in the filing.
Corporate Social Responsibility Committee
Chair RISHAB ASHOK CHHAJER
ANAL RUCHIR DESAI, HITENDRA KEVALCHAND CHOPRA
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 Mar 2026.
- KANTILALPeer-review certificate valid to Nov 2028
1 earlier auditor
- Kantilal Patel & Co.Named in the filing for the quarter to Mar 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.
Gujarat Craft Industries 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.Gujarat Craft Industries dividend history
Annual general meeting, 23 Sep 2026
5,667 shareholders on the register on 16 Sep 2026; present: 6 promoters and 36 others; votes counted by KASHYAP MEHTA / KASHYAP R MEHTA AND PARTNERS.The company's voting result (opens in a new tab)
- Adoption of the Audited Financial Statements of the Company for the financial year ended 31st March, 2026, the reports of the Board of Directors and Auditors thereon.Ordinary100.00% for0.00% against
Against: promoters 0.00% · institutions 0.00% · other public 0.05%
Turnout: all 74.50% · promoters 100.00% · institutions 0.00% · other public 2.58%
- Declaration of final dividend of Re. 0.50 per Equity Share.Ordinary100.00% for0.00% against
Against: promoters 0.00% · institutions 0.00% · other public 0.05%
Turnout: all 74.50% · promoters 100.00% · institutions 0.00% · other public 2.58%
- Appointment of Mr. Rishab Chhajer (DIN: 05184646), who retires by rotation in terms of Section 152(6) of the Companies Act, 2013 and, being eligible, offers himself for reappointmentOrdinary100.00% for0.00% against
Against: promoters 0.00% · institutions 0.00% · other public 0.05%
Turnout: all 74.50% · promoters 100.00% · institutions 0.00% · other public 2.58%
Appointment of M/s. Kashyap R. Mehta & Partners, Practising Company Secretaries as Secretarial Auditors of the Company for a term of five (5) consecutive years commencing from financial year 2026-27 to 2030-31.MoreLess
Ordinary100.00% for0.00% againstAgainst: promoters 0.00% · institutions 0.00% · other public 0.05%
Turnout: all 74.50% · promoters 100.00% · institutions 0.00% · other public 2.58%
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.
Tax disputes
Reported in the filing for the quarter to Jun 2026.
- Tax disputeIncome Tax DepartmentSince 30 Dec 2019Appeal is under process with CIT (Appeals)
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
- 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
- Yes
- 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.