Godfrey Phillips India said it is in complete compliance with the country's foreign direct investment norms and rejected allegations of violations regarding its arrangements for manufacturing Marlboro cigarettes.
“The suggestion of alleged violation of FDI laws of India is completely misconceived and misplaced,” the cigarette maker said in a regulatory filing. The company was clarifying over various media reports suggesting alleged violation of FDI norms to manufacture Marlboro cigarettes in India.
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Godfrey Phillips has an exclusive procurement and supply agreement with Philip Morris International to manufacture and distribute Marlboro in the country.
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As per media reports, Philip Morris for years has paid manufacturing costs to Godfrey Phillips to make its Marlboro cigarettes and circumventing the FDI norms.
The company said it had entered into a commercial arrangement with IPM Wholesale Trading (an Indian entity and affiliate of Philip Morris International Inc, USA) to manufacture Marlboro cigarettes in India in May 2009, a year before May 2010 when the restrictions on FDI in manufacture of cigarettes came into being.
“The commercial arrangement referred to above is in complete compliance with the extant regulations governing the FDI laws in India,” the filing said.
“All the business transactions entered and executed between the parties since 2009 are governed by the above referred commercial arrangement,” the company said, adding that all the business transactions in this regard are executed in Indian currency.
Currently, FDI is prohibited in manufacturing of cigars, cigarettes and tobacco substitutes. It is, however, permitted in technology collaboration in any form, including licensing for franchise, trademark, brand name and management contracts in the tobacco sector.
Shares of Godfrey Phillips India settled 9.62 percent higher at Rs 1,032.60 apiece on the BSE.
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