Hyderabad-based Viceroy Hotels Ltd has sold its Chennai hotel project in MRC Nagar to Chennai-based Mahal Hotels Private Limited. “We have finalised the deal with Mahal Hotels and decided to exit the Chennai project. This move will help us reduce the debt by Rs 400 crore. Then we will have a light balance sheet with a debt of about Rs 200 crore," said P Prabhakar Reddy, Chairman and Managing Director, Viceroy Hotels.
This project, which the hospitality chain, had taken up with an outlay of about Rs 650 crore, was under advanced stage of implementation, as per a report in Business Line. The company has been seeking to restructure its business operations bringing down debt on its balance sheet. It had initiated a series of measures, including slump sale of Bangalore and Chennai properties. Reddy said, “This move would help the company focus on the existing projects and thereafter enable us to take up new projects. The debt had become a major issue. Therefore, we decided to exit the Chennai project and focus on projects we currently manage while executing the 21-storey Bangalore Renaissance venture.” He explained, “Likewise, we had brought in investments by JP Morgan in the Bangalore project. This project is being co-developed by Viceroy. The company promoters hold about 32 per cent stake. We had pledged some shares with lenders and recently resumed them after retiring the existing debt.”
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This project, which the hospitality chain, had taken up with an outlay of about Rs 650 crore, was under advanced stage of implementation, as per a report in Business Line. The company has been seeking to restructure its business operations bringing down debt on its balance sheet. It had initiated a series of measures, including slump sale of Bangalore and Chennai properties. Reddy said, “This move would help the company focus on the existing projects and thereafter enable us to take up new projects. The debt had become a major issue. Therefore, we decided to exit the Chennai project and focus on projects we currently manage while executing the 21-storey Bangalore Renaissance venture.” He explained, “Likewise, we had brought in investments by JP Morgan in the Bangalore project. This project is being co-developed by Viceroy. The company promoters hold about 32 per cent stake. We had pledged some shares with lenders and recently resumed them after retiring the existing debt.”
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