KARACHI: The Gadoon Textile Mills Limited — a listed company of the Younus Brother Group — proposes to invest Rs270 million, equilvalent to $2.7m in the Group venture Lucky Electric Power Company Limited (LEPCL).

By virtue of such an equity investment, Gadoon Textile would go on to hold one per cent shares in the 660MW coal-based power project to be set up in Karachi through Lucky Holding Limited (LHL).

Gadoon Textile annou­nced at the stock exchanges on Tuesday that it would recommend to the shareholders for approval of the investment in the forthcoming annual general meeting of the company.

With the approximate investment of $2.7m, Gadoon Textile would be the sponsor of Lucky Electric Power Company to be set up with huge project cost of $1.08 billion financed in the debt/equity ratio of 75:25.

Gadoon Textile told the investors on Tuesday that the company would continue to hold at least 1pc indirect stake in the project from the date of the Letter of Support (LoS) to the sixth anniversary of the commercial operations date of the project.

It was a requirement under the implementation agreement to be signed with government through the Private Power and Infra­struc­ture Board (PPIB), for the sponsors to hold equity investment in lock-in period, the company observed.

The Gadoon Textile Mills stated that the information about the proposed investment in LEPCL was being conveyed to the investors under the requirements of Section 15-D of the Securities and Exchange Ordinance, 1969 and sub-clause xx of Listing Regulation No 35 of the Listing Regulations of the stock exchanges.

Published in Dawn, July 23rd , 2014