BSE clarification regarding Corporate Grouping of Listed Companies

BSE vide notice dated 09 February 2024 has issued clarification regarding Corporate Grouping of Listed Companies. BSE has informed that in case of any change in its corporate group pursuant to any event such as Corporate Restructuring, Takeover, Merger, Demerger, Acquisition, Delisting etc., the companies have to intimate the Exchange within Two Working Days of the Effective Date of the change through email.

In this regard, BSE has now introduced online facility for filling of information related to change in the corporate group through listing centre available in BSE Listing Centre> Listing Compliance > Corporate Group Repository. For identifying the corporate group, following criteria / parameters shall, inter alia, be considered by the listed companies / proposed to be listed companies –

1. A company and all its subsidiary companies will have the same ownership group. A company is said to be a subsidiary of another company when majority shares (50% or more) are held by the other company in the said company.
2. All associate companies of a company also belong to the same group. A company is said to be an associate of another company when shares in the range of 20 to 50 per cent are held by the other company in the said company.
3. If the annual report of the company specifically attributes itself to a group.
4. If the annual report of a company does not specify its affiliation with an ownership group but the website of the company does, then ownership is determined using the website as the primary source.
5. Sometimes the parent company of a group might list all its affiliates on its website, this information is also required to be used as a reference for determining the ownership group of a company.
6. Related party relationships as disclosed in the Annual report are also to be checked for determining the ownership group of an entity.
7. In case of a company that serves as a joint venture between an Indian group and a foreign group, it is attributed to the Indian group to the company.
8. If a promoter / promoter group of a company is also a major shareholder of another company, then that another company is considered as part of the same group. For example, if P-1 is promoter / promoter group of company C-1 and if P-1 is a major shareholder of another company — C-2, then C-2 is part of the same group as C-1.