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Azim Premji gifts Wipro stock worth 500 crore to sons
Mint Mumbai
|January 25, 2024
Wipro Ltd's founder chair Azim Premji has given a little over 10 million shares, worth about 500 crore, as gift to his two sons, Rishad and Tariq, according to data from the stock exchanges.
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Azim Premji, 78, owned 225,808,537 shares, or 4.32%, in Wipro until last week. On 20 January, Premji gave 5,115,090 shares, each, to elder son Rishad, who is the chairman of Wipro, and to Tariq, who works at Azim Premji Foundation.
Wipro shares ended at ₹484.90 on Friday, implying that the 10,230,180 shares were valued at ₹496 crore.
After the transaction, the Premji family members together own 4.43% shares in Wipro, including Premji owning 4.12%, his wife, Yasmeen owning 0.05% and the two sons, each owning 0.13%.
यह कहानी Mint Mumbai के January 25, 2024 संस्करण से ली गई है।
हजारों चुनिंदा प्रीमियम कहानियों और 10,000 से अधिक पत्रिकाओं और समाचार पत्रों तक पहुंचने के लिए मैगज़्टर गोल्ड की सदस्यता लें।
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