- Business
- Khoobsurat Limited (KHOOBSURAT.BO), founded in 1982 and headquartered at 7A Bentinck Street, 3rd Floor, Kolkata, West Bengal, India, operates as a diversified investment and finance company with activities spanning securities trading, financing, and emerging manufacturing ventures; it engages in investments and trading of listed and unlisted shares, securities, commodities, and derivatives in cash and F&O segments, deploys surplus funds in treasury operations and inter-corporate deposits to individuals and corporate entities including HNIs, and trades grey cloth and synthetic fabrics such as suiting, shirting, and traditional Bengali sarees, while historically offering herbal cloth washing services and developing mobile applications and computer software. The company serves markets primarily in West Bengal and broader India, with its equity shares listed on BSE, CSE, and until recently MSEI. In recent developments, Khoobsurat completed a rights issue in May 2024 raising Rs 34.96 crore through 349.6 million equity shares at Rs 1 each in a 50:19 ratio to fund corporate offices in Mumbai and Kolkata, investments in securities, and general purposes; it entered a strategic alliance with Salcete Brewing Ltd for a brewery project at SA-22 & SA-23 Cuncolim Industrial Estate, Goa, securing GIDC plot registration, tripartite lease deed, pollution control consent, borewell approval in 2024, and full licenses from the Goa government, with machinery ordered, trial runs targeted for December 2025, and commercial beer production slated to commence by March 2026; additionally, it approved shifting its registered office from West Bengal to Goa in 2025, appointed Ajay Mishra as CFO in 2023, delisted from MSEI, and split its share face value from Rs 10 to Rs 1 in 2015 following a 2012 bonus issue.