UPL (company)

UPL Limited, formerly United Phosphorus Limited, is an Indian multinational company that manufactures and markets agrochemicals, industrial chemicals, chemical intermediates, and specialty chemicals, and also offers pesticides.[4] Headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, the company engages in both agro and non-agro activities. The agro-business is the company's primary source of revenue and includes the manufacture and marketing of conventional agrochemical products, seeds, and other agricultural-related products. The non-agro segment includes manufacturing and marketing industrial chemicals and other nonagricultural products such as fungicides, herbicides, insecticides, plant growth regulators, rodenticides, industrial & specialty chemicals, and nutrifeeds. UPL products are sold in 150+ countries.[5][6]

UPL Limited
FormerlyUnited Phosphorus Limited (1969–2013)
TypePublic
ISININE628A01036
Industry
Founded29 May 1969 (1969-05-29)
HeadquartersUPL House, 610 B/2, Bandra Village, Bandra (East), ,
India[1]
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
  • Rajnikant Shroff (Chairman & MD)
  • Jaidev Shroff (CEO)[2]
Products
RevenueIncrease 46,521 crore (US$5.8 billion)[3] (2022)
Increase 4,832 crore (US$610 million) (2022)
Increase 4,303 crore (US$540 million) (2022)
Total assetsIncrease 82,679 crore (US$10 billion) (2022)
Total equityIncrease 24,661 crore (US$3.1 billion)[3] (2022)
Owners
Number of employees
10,000+[3] (FY21)
Websitewww.upl-ltd.com

United Phosphorus Limited was established on 29 May 1969.[6] The company changed its name to UPL Limited in October 2013.[7]

On 20 July 2018, UPL signed a US$4.2 billion agreement with Platform Specialty Products Corporation (now Element Solutions Inc.) to acquire control of Arysta LifeScience Inc. The acquisition was completed in February 2019,[8][9] making UPL the fifth largest generic agrochemicals company in the world after Bayer, Corteva, Syngenta and BASF.[10][11]

References

  1. "Contact Us". UPL Limited. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
  2. "Global Leadership". UPL Limited. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
  3. "Annual Report 2020-21" (PDF). UPL Limited. Retrieved 8 May 2022.
  4. "Company Overview of UPL Limited". Bloomberg.
  5. "Company Profile for UPL Limited". Reuters. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
  6. "UPL Limited on the Forbes Asia's Fab 50 Companies List". Forbes. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
  7. "UPL LTD – GDR (UPL:Singapore): Company Description – Bloomberg". Bloomberg. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
  8. "UPL completes acquisition of Arysta LifeScience for $4.2 billion". The Economic Times. 4 February 2019. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
  9. "UPL Jumps The Most In Four Years After $4.2 Billion Deal To Acquire Arysta Lifescience". BloombergQuint. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
  10. "All You Need To Know About UPL's Latest Buyout Plan". BloombergQuint. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
  11. "UPL Completes Acquisition of Arysta LifeScience". Successful Farming. 1 February 2019. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
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