- Business
- Ambica Agarbathies Aroma & Industries Limited manufactures and sells incense sticks, agarbathies, dhoops, cones and related pooja essentials including durbar bathies, herbal bathies, natural incense, champhor, pooja oils, kumkum, turmeric powder, cow and buffalo ghee and wild honey under brands such as Sun & Moon, Sugandha, Heaven, Sandal, Om Sai Flora, Durbar Bathi, Attar, Dhoop Sticks and Athisaya Cup Sambrani; it operates hotels in Chennai and Visakhapatnam, owns farmland with a resort clubhouse and health center, engages in film production and distribution and wind power generation. The company, founded in 1946 and headquartered in Eluru, Andhra Pradesh, India, with factories there, conducts its primary agarbathies operations through the Agarbathies Division and secondary activities via the Hotel Division, serving domestic and international markets principally through a network of over 500 dealers. Incorporated in 1995 as a public limited company listed on the BSE (ticker: AMBICAAGAR.NS), it recently re-appointed whole-time directors Ambica Ramachandra Rao and Satyavathi Perla effective August 2024, re-appointed independent director Sri Chunduru Anjaneya Swamy, held its 29th annual general meeting in September 2024 approving key resolutions including capital matters and conducted routine board meetings for quarterly financial results through fiscal 2025 with no major acquisitions, funding rounds or strategic expansions reported in the last two years.