Reblog: IPO Review Apollo Micro Systems Ltd.

Company’s manufacturing facility is located in Hyderabad. They are an ISO 9001: 2015 certified company in relation to design, development and manufacturing of electronics and electro-mechanical systems including software.

The company develops customised solutions using common hardware and software technology IPs which can be re-configured to suit the end application and domain requirements of the end customer.

The company has participated in several Indigenous Missile programmes, underwater electronic warfare, underwater missiles, surface to air missiles, nuclear missile programmes, surface to surface missile programmes, indigenous submarine programmes UAV’s long and short endurance, ships, space programmes.

Till date, they have developed over 100 On-Board Systems and more than 50 types of ground support equipment and more than 100 other designs in Defence and non-defence markets.

As on August 31, 2017, company’s total Order Book was around Rs.79.74 crores excluding GST.

The defence systems supplied by the Company can be broadly classified as On-Board Systems and Ground support equipment.They offer both On-Board Systems as well as Ground support equipment.

Different verticals and the solutions offered by the Company are as follows:

• Defence Avionic Systems.
• Defence –Aerospace Systems.
• Defence-Naval Systems.
• Satellite Space Systems.
• Homeland Security & Telematics.
• Solutions for Transportation Sector.

Management Team:

1. Mr. Raghupathy Goud Theegala (Designation: Chairman and Independent Director)
2. Mr. Karunakar Reddy Baddam (Designation: Managing Director)
3. Mr. Venkata Siva Prasad Chandrapati (Designation: Whole – time Director)

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Objectives of the Issue:

• To meet the additional working capital requirement of the Company.
• General corporate purposes.

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Positives for the Company:

• Over last two decades, they have developed an established brand name, acceptance and recall value in the defence ESDM Sector (Electronic System Design & Manufacturing).
• Proven track record in developing new technological systems and order execution.
• Well-positioned to cater to the growing requirements in Defence Electronics through Indigenous programmes. (Indian Defence electronics manufacturing companies have a huge Scope for Growth).
• The initiatives of Government of India in terms of smart cities, Digital India, Make in India and huge initiatives to grow ESDM (Electronic System Design and Manufacturing) Sector is an added advantage for the Company.
• Plans to diversify their services and intend to develop technologies for railways, homeland security to expand into other non-defence sectors.
• As per the Defence Procurement Procedure 2016 (DPP 2016) a new category called as Indian Indigenously Designed Developed and Manufactured (IDDM) procurement category has been introduced in which it has increased procurement from 30% to 40% in the ‘Buy (Indian)’ Category in order to enhance the participation of local players in procurement and thereby promote Make in India.

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