Murudeshwar Ceramics Share Price

Murudeshwar Ceramics Limited (MCL) is the pioneer in manufacturing world class Vitrified tiles and Ceramic tiles under the brand name NAVEEN. The Naveen Diamontile tiles of various sizes, colors, designs are displayed in over 73 Company owned showrooms all over India. MCL was promoted in 1983 by R N Shetty and Associates along with the KSIIDC to manufacture 12,500 tons per annum (TPA) of glazed ceramic tiles, using the singlefiring process, at Krishnapur (near Hubli), Karnataka. MCL sourced the technical knowhow for the project from Sacmi Imola, (SACMI), Italy, which also supplied the plant and machinery for the project. The Company is manufacturing and trading Ceramic and Vitrified floor wall Tiles. It is operating 2 manufacturing plants at Sira, Dist. Tumkur and Karaikal, Pondicherry. The Company is trading outsourced Vitrified Tiles and Ceramic Tiles as well. It has three largescale, stateoftheart manufacturing facilities (at Hubli and Sira in Karnataka Karaikal in Pondicherry), which are in technical collaboration with the worldleaders Sacmi Imolaa Breton, Italy. To partfinance this Rs 13.45cr project, it entered the capital market in Jan.88 with a public issue of Rs 1.65 cr. It started commercial production on 1 May 88 without any time or cost overrun. In view of the satisfactory performance, the company expanded the production capacity in 198990 to 25,000 tpa, by installing balancing equipment. In 199293, the company undertook an expansioncumdiversification project to increase its capacity from 25,000 tpa to 40,000 tpa by adding a 15,000tpa capacity to produce vitrified tiles and by setting up facilities to process 72,000 sq mtr pa of granite slabs at Chalamatti, (Dharwad district), Karnataka. This Rs 41.85cr project was financed by a Rs 15.45cr rights issue of equity capital (premium : Rs 50), a Rs 16.2cr rights issue of partly convertible debentures, rupee term loans worth Rs 10 cr from the ICICI and a state subsidy of Rs 20 lac. Commercial production of vitrified tiles was scheduled to commence from Mar.93, and that of granite slabs from Sep.93. The control panel of the granite slabs unit was damaged by a fire during installation, thus delaying the implementation, of the granite processing project, with the control panel having to be imported again from the supplier. The granite slab project commenced commercial production in Mar.95. As for the vitrified tile project, there was a delay in the supply of the polishing line, resulting in a 11month delay in the implementation of the project. The resulting cost overrun of Rs 3.75 cr in these projects was met through internal accruals.The company came out with a public issue in Jan.96 to expand its capacity for tile manufacture tpa to 75,000 tpa and to set up additional facilities at its existing site to manufacture an additional 10,000 tpa of vitrified tiles and 25,000 tpa of mono porosa wall tiles.The expansion program to cover both Ceramic and Vitrified tiles of capacity of 30000 t.p.a. which also includes production of larger tiles of the size 120 cm * 60 cm.The total cost of the expansion project is about Rs.66 Crores out of which Rs.50 crores will be loan component and the balance will be internal generation.During 200304, the expanded capacity at 5000 Sq. mtrs of Vitrified tiles per day at Karaikal was operational from July 2004. The Granite Division of the Company In Anekal Taluk near Bangalore commenced the commercial production from May 2005. The Company opened 8 new showrooms and 4 depots during the year 2005. The Ceramic tile unit was made operational since Jan07. The Company installed Coal Gasification unit to fuel two of the four kilns at Hubli unit in 2009. The Company acquired 237200 Equity Shares in RNS Power Limited (a Group Company) and thus, RNS Power Limited became an Associate of the Company during 202122. During 202223, the Company increased the production capacity of Vitrified tiles at Sira Plant by 8,000 sq. mtrs. per day and increase the production capacity of Ceramic Wall tile at Karaikal Plant by 3,000 sq. mtrs. per day.

For the full year FY2025–2026, revenue reached ₹207.77 crore and profit touched at ₹9.92 crore.