Tree House Education & Accessories Share Price

Tree House Education Accessories Limited was originally incorporated as a Private Limited Company on July 10, 2006 under the name of Tree House Education Accessories Private Limited. Thereafter, Company became a Public Limited Company and a fresh Certificate of Incorporation was granted to the Company on December 22, 2010 by the Registrar of Companies, Mumbai.The Company provides education and related services including leasing of education infrastructure. In its preschools business, the company has gone through a change in its overall business model from self operated centres to franchisee centres in FY 201617. The preschools are operated under the brand names of Tree House, Brainwork and Global Champs. Its preschools serve students, primarily in the age group of 1.5 to 6 years. Its preschools offer standardized services and teaching methodologies. It offers playgroup, nursery, junior kindergarten and senior kindergarten courses. The company provides continuous training to all its preschool teachers on teaching methodologies and early child care, to keep abreast with the changes in teaching methods and student needs. The companys preschool network is largely concentrated in the states of Maharashtra, Gujarat, Karnataka, Rajasthan, West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh. The Company also provides a wide variety of educational services to K12 schools which include designing curriculum and providing teaching aids, supplying methods for imparting education, organizing extra curricular activities for students and teacher training.In 2007, the company acquired the proprietorship firm, Tree House through a slump sale dated April 1, 2007. Also, it launched first franchisee preschool as a part of their expansion plans.In the year 2008, the company launched teacher training program. They started providing educational services and infrastructure facilities to K12 schools. Also, they started day care centers under the name Muskaan. As of June 15, 2011, the company has 223 preschools under the brand name Tree House, in which 149 schools are operated by the company, or selfoperated, and the rest are operated through their franchisees. In recent years, the company has branched into providing educational services to K12 schools. The company intends to provide educational services to additional seven K12 schools, based in Jaipur, Jhunjhunu, Vadodara, Pune and such other cities that will be identified by the K12 school operators, by Fiscal 2013. For such purpose, they have entered into supplemental agreements with certain K12 school operators to provide educational services to four K12 schools. The company entered the capital market with an Initial Public Offering (IPO) which opened on August 10, 2011, where the company offered 84,32,189 shares. The Rs 10/ shares were offered at Rs 135/ (discount of Rs 6/ was offered to the retail investors). The issue was oversubscribed and the company raised a total amount of Rs 112 crores. The companys shares were listed at Bombay Stock Exchange Limited (BSE) and National Stock Exchange of India Limited (NSE) on August 26, 2011.Before the IPO the company also placed 12,64,154 equity shares as a Pre IPO Placement at a price of Rs 150/ each to various investors.In 2012, the company signed a NonBinding Memorandum of Understanding with MT Educare Limited. In 2013, the company won the Best PE/VCbacked Education Company Award at VCCircle Annual Awards 2013. In 2014, the companys board approves MOU to monetize school land in Vadodara. The company also inaugurated its Global Champs preschool center at Dharavi at the hands of Shri Deepak Parekh, Chairman, HDFC Limited.During the financial year ended 31 March 2014, the company opened 86 preschools. During the year under review, the company introduced Day Care services at some preschools and also entered into tie ups with large employers in the IT, ITES, banking and consulting space to provide Day Care services for their employees. During the year under review, Tree House tied up with SNDT University to collaborate on its teacher training programme. During the year under review, the company opened 5 preschool centres in Mumbai under Global Champs brand to provide low cost quality preprimary education. In June 2013, Tree House Education and Accessories gained ownership of the Brainworks Learning Systems Private Limited along with all assets.During the year under review, 12,04,800 warrants of the company were converted into 12,04,800 Equity Shares and were allotted to the promoters of the company. All the warrants converted into equity shares are listed into respective Stock Exchanges except 50,900 Equity Shares for which Listing Approval is sought by the Company from BSE Limited, National Stock Exchange of India Limited (NSE) and MCX Stock Exchange limited (MCXSX)During the financial year ended 31 March 2015, the company opened 119 self operated preschool and 3 franchisees of preschools. The new centres were opened at Agra, Ajmer, Allahabad, Baripada, Beawar, Bhillai, Bikaner, Burdhwan, Cuttack, Dewas, Ghaziabad, Gopalgunj, Gorakhpur, Gwalior, Hajipur, Hazaribagh, Jhansi, Kochi, Kota, Kozhikode, Pen, Ratlam, Trivandrum, Ujjain and Vishakhapatnam. During the year under review, the company expanded its Day Care services to 150 centres across the country.During the year under review, the company raised funds through issue and allotment of 4,545,454 Equity Shares at issue price of Rs 440/ per equity share, aggregating to Rs 1,999,999,760/ to Qualified Institutional Buyers through Qualified Institutions Placement. The object of the issue is for expansion of companies business activities.During the financial year ended 31 March 2016, the company opened 116 selfoperated preschool centres and 2 franchisees of preschools. Also as part of restructuring 85 nos. of selfoperated preschool centres were closed down, thus effectively only 536 preschool selfoperated centres were operational as on 31 March 2016.The company has gone through a change in its overall business model from self operated centres to franchisee centres in FY 201617. This entire shift in the dynamics of the business brought a complete change in the financial results leading to heavy one time write off of Assets in the balance sheet of the company since majority of the centres were converted to franchisee or discontinued operations. Out of the total 542 centers operated by the company till March 31,2016, the company has converted 140 centers into franchise centers and had closed 222 centers as on March 31,2017. During the financial year ended 31 March 2018, the company commenced its services to K12 schools which were discontinued due to lack of manpower.