2011 IPOs

Micromax
India's biggest domestic mobile handset seller Micromax Informatics is expected to go public early in 2011. The company filed its prospectus late last month. The company is expecting to raise 426 crore through the offer. The company will use 50 percent of the IPO proceeds to set up a handset manufacturing plant in India while the rest would be spent in areas such as marketing and expansion. Micromax, according to IDC, has a 4.1 percent market share in India and is now valued at over $1 billion. M Financial, Citigroup, Edelweiss and Nomura are the book running lead managers to the issue. For the year ended March 2010, Micromax had sales of 1,600 crore on selling over 70 lakh handsets, with a net profit of 200 crore, as against revenue and profit of 350 crore and 35 crore respectively for the previous year.