Jubilant Bhartia plans Rs 5,600 crore bond issue to fund Coca-Cola deal

Time of India

5 days ago

Mumbai:
Jubilant Bhartia
Group is looking to raise over ₹5,650 crore through non-convertible debentures (
NCDs
) across two group entities to part-fund its ₹12,650 crore acquisition of a 40% stake in
Hindustan Coca-Cola Holdings
Pvt Ltd (HCCH), the parent of Coca-Cola's largest bottling partner in India.
Jubilant Beverages Ltd will issue ₹2,650 crore in fully paid-up, unsecured, rupee-denominated, listed-rated, redeemable NCDs, according to people familiar with the matter.
The offering will include ₹795 crore from anchor investors and ₹1,855 crore via a non-anchor tranche.
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Jubilant Bhartia Group is set to raise ₹5,650 crore through NCDs to partially fund its ₹12,650 crore acquisition of a 40% stake in Hindustan Coca-Cola Holdings. Jubilant Beverages and Jubilant Bevco will issue bonds with implied annualised yields around 9%. Meanwhile, Jubilant FoodWorks is halting expansion of Dunkin' Donuts and Hong's Kitchen to focus on Domino's Pizza and Popeyes.
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Separately, Jubilant Bevco Ltd is raising ₹3,000 crore through a similar bond issuance.
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This includes ₹900 crore from anchor subscriptions and ₹2,100 crore from the wider market.
Both bond issuances are structured as zero-coupon instruments with tenures of two years, 11 months, and 27 days. They offer implied annualised yields of 9% for Jubilant Beverages and 9.15% for Jubilant Bevco. The NCDs feature a step-up clause that increases the internal rate of return by 25 basis points in the event of a credit rating downgrade. Instead of periodic coupons, a redemption premium will be paid at maturity.
The public issuance opens on June 4. Eight anchor investors have committed ₹900 crore in the Jubilant Bevco tranche. These include HDFC Mutual Fund, Nippon India Mutual Fund, Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund, Aditya Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund, Axis Mutual Fund, Kotak Mahindra Mutual Fund, Nomura Fixed Income Securities Ltd., and
Bajaj Finance Ltd.
There are six anchor investors, including HDFC Mutual Fund, Nippon India Mutual Fund, Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund, Aditya Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund, Axis Mutual Fund, Nomura Fixed Income Securities Ltd., who have committed ₹795 crore in the Jubilant Beverages Ltd. issue.
The proceeds will help finance the acquisition of HCCH by the Jubilant Bhartia Group and funds managed by Goldman Sachs Asset Management. The deal was announced in December 2024 and received approval from the Competition Commission of India on May 1, 2025.
Under the transaction structure, Jubilant Beverages Ltd. will acquire equity shares from
Coca-Cola
entities, while Jubilant Bevco and the investor consortium will subscribe to compulsorily convertible preference shares (CCPS) in Jubilant Beverages Ltd. The funding mix includes ₹5,650 crore of debt, CCPS from private capital providers, and the remainder via equity infusion by Jubilant Bhartia's holding company, JBCL. The transaction pegs the enterprise value of Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages at ₹31,250 crore.
JUBILANT STALLS PLANS
Separately,
Jubilant FoodWorks
Ltd (JFL), operator of Domino's Pizza, has stalled the expansion of global coffee and doughnut chain Dunkin' Donuts and Chinese fast casual brand Hong's Kitchen, to focus on its other larger brands Domino's Pizza and Popeyes, amid the group's acquisition of HCCB. JFL, India's largest food services operator, has roped EY to restructure and streamline the business, as well as explore the possibility of selling off franchisee rights of some of its smaller brands such as Hong's Kitchen and Dunkin' Donuts in India, people directly aware of the development said.
"We have already taken the stance of curtailing any or not doing any expansion in Dunkin' and Hong's," Sameer Khetarpal, managing director of
Jubilant FoodWorks
told analysts on a post Q4 investor call last week.
Domino's Pizza's store count stood at 2,179 restaurants in India across 475 cities as of March 31, '25 . In contrast, there are 31 Dunkin' stores in 14 cities as of March 31, '25, as per JFL's website. JFL had opened its first Dunkin' Donuts in India in 2012, and expanded to over 70 stores rapidly. "However, since then, the chain has shut down most of its unprofitable stores to curtail fixed operating costs and overheads amid subdued sales, and instead focused on smaller and kiosk format outlets," one of the executives said.
Jubilant Bhartia Group, JFL and EY did not respond to email queries.
For the January-March '25 quarter, Domino's India reported like-for-like year-on-year growth of 12.1%, while at an overall group level, JFL reported revenue growth of 19% year-on-year."Execution on pricing, delivery time and product innovation drove order growth of 25%-plus year-on-year. Key downside risks are raw material costs turning inflationary and higher than expected increase in competitive intensity," ICICI Securities wrote in a report on May 15.