Sanstar AGM approves MD, JMD re-appointments for five-year term

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Key Highlights
  • Sanstar Limited shareholders approved the re-appointment of Gouthamchand Sohanlal Chowdhary as Managing Director for a five-year term ending August 31, 2031
  • Sambhav Gautam Chowdhary and Shreyans Gautam Chowdhary were re-appointed as Joint Managing Directors for identical five-year terms effective September 1, 2026
  • The AGM regularised Jacques Georges Florent Guglielmi as Nominee Director of Corn Products Development Inc. and appointed Niraj Yogeshbhai Shah as Independent Director for three years
  • All nine resolutions passed by requisite majority, including the adoption of FY26 standalone financial statements and auditor re-appointment
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Sanstar Limited has submitted the voting results and consolidated scrutinizer's report for its 44th Annual General Meeting held on September 23, 2026, confirming all 9 resolutions passed by requisite majority. Among the approved items was the re-appointment of M/s. Keyur J. Shah & Associates as Secretarial Auditor for FY27.

Meeting overview

The AGM was convened at 11:30 am through Video Conferencing and Other Audio-Visual Means and concluded at 11:50 am. The record date for reckoning voting rights was September 16, 2026, with a total of 70,446 shareholders on that date. Three promoter and promoter group members and 21 public shareholders attended via video conferencing. Remote e-voting ran from September 19, 2026 (9:00 am) to September 22, 2026 (5:00 pm) on the NSDL platform, with e-voting at the AGM closing at 12:05 pm on September 23, 2026. CS Keyur J. Shah (Membership No. 9559) of Keyur J. Shah & Associates, Company Secretaries, was appointed scrutinizer by the Board at its meeting on August 13, 2026, and issued the consolidated report on September 25, 2026.

Directors attended physically or virtually as detailed below:

Name Designation Mode of attendance
Gouthamchand Sohanlal Chowdhary Chairman & Managing Director Physically
Shreyans Gautam Chowdhary Joint Managing Director Physically
Sambhav Gautam Chowdhary Joint Managing Director Physically
Atul Agarwal Independent Director Virtually
Harishkumar Shisupaldas Maheshwary CFO Virtually
Fagun Harsh Shah Company Secretary Virtually

Resolutions passed

All nine resolutions — eight ordinary and one special — were approved. The table below summarises each resolution and its outcome.

Resolution Description Type Result
1 Adoption of audited standalone financial statements for FY26 Ordinary Passed
2 Re-appointment of Shreyans Gautam Chowdhary as director retiring by rotation Ordinary Passed
3 Re-appointment of Gouthamchand Sohanlal Chowdhary as Managing Director Ordinary Passed
4 Re-appointment of Sambhav Gautam Chowdhary as Joint Managing Director Ordinary Passed
5 Re-appointment of Shreyans Gautam Chowdhary as Joint Managing Director Ordinary Passed
6 Appointment of Secretarial Auditor and fixation of remuneration Ordinary Passed
7 Regularisation of Jacques Georges Florent Guglielmi as Nominee Director Ordinary Passed
8 Appointment of Niraj Yogeshbhai Shah as Independent Director Ordinary Passed
9 Approval of remuneration for Chairman & MD and Joint MDs under Section 197 Special Passed

Detailed voting results

The following tables present the category-wise voting data for each resolution as submitted in Annexure A.

Resolution 1: Adoption of standalone financial statements

Category Shares held Valid votes polled Votes in favour Votes against % in favour
Promoter and promoter group 128541500 128509100 128509100 0 100
Public – institution 18814910 18024996 18024996 - 100
Public – non institution 52911997 253936 253934 2 99.9992124
Total 200268407 146788032 146788030 2 99.9992124

Resolution 2: Re-appointment of Shreyans Gautam Chowdhary (retiring by rotation)

Category Shares held Valid votes polled Votes in favour Votes against % in favour
Promoter and promoter group 128541500 128509100 128509100 0 100
Public – institution 18814910 18024996 18024996 0 100
Public – non institution 52911997 216136 215891 245 99.88664545
Total 200268407 146750232 146749987 245 99.99983305

Resolution 3: Re-appointment of Gouthamchand Sohanlal Chowdhary as Managing Director

Category Shares held Valid votes polled Votes in favour Votes against % in favour
Promoter and promoter group 128541500 128509100 128509100 0 100
Public – institution 18814910 18024996 18024996 0 100
Public – non institution 52911997 216136 214873 1263 99.4156457
Total 200268407 146750232 146748969 1263 99.99913935

Resolution 4: Re-appointment of Sambhav Gautam Chowdhary as Joint Managing Director

Category Shares held Valid votes polled Votes in favour Votes against % in favour
Promoter and promoter group 128541500 128509100 128509100 0 100
Public – institution 18814910 18024996 18024996 0 100
Public – non institution 52911997 216136 215351 785 99.63680275
Total 200268407 146750232 146749447 785 99.99946508

Resolution 5: Re-appointment of Shreyans Gautam Chowdhary as Joint Managing Director

Category Shares held Valid votes polled Votes in favour Votes against % in favour
Promoter and promoter group 128541500 128509100 128509100 0 100
Public – institution 18814910 18024996 18024996 0 100
Public – non institution 52911997 216136 215367 769 99.6442055
Total 200268407 146750232 146749463 769 99.99947598

Resolution 6: Appointment of Secretarial Auditor and remuneration

Resolution 6 approved the re-appointment of M/s. Keyur J. Shah & Associates, Company Secretaries, Ahmedabad, a Peer Reviewed Firm [UID: S2010GJ126800] of Company Secretaries in Practice (Peer Review No. 7577/2026), as the Secretarial Auditor of the Company for a period of one year commencing from April 1, 2026 till March 31, 2027. The firm is accredited by the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI).

Category Shares held Valid votes polled Votes in favour Votes against % in favour
Promoter and promoter group 128541500 128509100 128509100 0 100
Public – institution 18814910 18024996 18024996 0 100
Public – non institution 52911997 216136 214751 1385 99.35919976
Total 200268407 146750232 146748847 1385 99.99905622

Resolution 7: Regularisation of Jacques Georges Florent Guglielmi as Nominee Director

Category Shares held Valid votes polled Votes in favour Votes against % in favour
Promoter and promoter group 128541500 128509100 128509100 0 100
Public – institution 18814910 18024996 18024996 0 100
Public – non institution 52911997 216136 215305 831 99.61551986
Total 200268407 146750232 146749401 831 99.99943373

Resolution 8: Appointment of Niraj Yogeshbhai Shah as Independent Director

Category Shares held Valid votes polled Votes in favour Votes against % in favour
Promoter and promoter group 128541500 128509100 128509100 0 100
Public – institution 18814910 18024996 18024996 0 100
Public – non institution 52911997 216136 215432 704 99.67427916
Total 200268407 146750232 146749528 704 99.99952027

Resolution 9: Approval of remuneration for Chairman & MD and Joint MDs (special resolution)

Resolution 9 was the sole special resolution on the agenda, covering remuneration payable to Gouthamchand Sohanlal Chowdhary, Sambhav Gautam Chowdhary, and Shreyans Gautam Chowdhary under Section 197 read with Schedule V of the Companies Act, 2013 and Regulation 17(6)(e) of the SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015. The promoter and promoter group were noted as interested in this resolution.

Category Shares held Valid votes polled Votes in favour Votes against % in favour
Promoter and promoter group 128256500 96124100 96124100 - 100%
Public – institution 2156988 1908006 1908006 - 100%
Public – non institution 51830762 113552 105145 8407 92.60%
Total 182244250 98145658 130237251 8407 99.99%

Director appointment details

The new disclosures provide specific terms for the re-appointed leadership team and newly regularised directors.

Managing Director and Joint Managing Directors:

  • Gouthamchand Sohanlal Chowdhary (DIN: 00196397) has been re-appointed as Managing Director for a further term of five consecutive years, effective September 1, 2026, through August 31, 2031. He is liable to retire by rotation.
  • Sambhav Gautam Chowdhary (DIN: 01370802) has been re-appointed as Joint Managing Director for a further term of five consecutive years, effective September 1, 2026, through August 31, 2031. He is liable to retire by rotation.
  • Shreyans Gautam Chowdhary (DIN: 01759527) has been re-appointed as Joint Managing Director for a further term of five consecutive years, effective September 1, 2026, through August 31, 2031. He is also re-appointed as a director retiring by rotation under Section 152(6) of the Companies Act, 2013.

Mr. Gouthamchand Sohanlal Chowdhary is the father of Mr. Sambhav Gautam Chowdhary and Mr. Shreyans Gautam Chowdhary, who are brothers.

Nominee Director:

  • Jacques Georges Florent Guglielmi (DIN: 10603100), nominee of Corn Products Development Inc., has been regularised as a Nominee Director. Originally appointed by the Board as an Additional Director on June 24, 2026, he holds office not liable to retire by rotation. He serves as Vice President, Asia-Pacific and Global Pharma Beauty & Home at Ingredion Incorporated.

Independent Director:

  • Niraj Yogeshbhai Shah (DIN: 06362791) has been appointed as an Independent Director for a first term of three consecutive years. Originally appointed by the Board as an Additional Director on June 24, 2026, he is not liable to retire by rotation. Mr. Shah is an entrepreneur with over two decades of experience in the textile and apparel industry and serves as Managing Director of Rajkrupa Textiles (India) Private Limited.

Compliance and disclosure

The voting results and consolidated scrutinizer's report were submitted to BSE Limited and the National Stock Exchange of India Limited on September 25, 2026, in compliance with Regulation 44(3) of the SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015 and Section 108 of the Companies Act, 2013 read with Rule 20 of the Companies (Management and Administration) Rules, 2014. The results are available on the company website at www.sanstar.in and on the NSDL e-voting portal at www.evoting.nsdl.com .

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Sanstar schedules 44th AGM for Sept 23 with e-voting from Sept 19

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Key Highlights
  • Sanstar Limited schedules its 44th AGM for September 23, 2026, via VC/OAVM
  • Remote e-voting begins on September 19, 2026, with a cut-off date of September 16
  • Book closure runs from September 17 to September 23, 2026
  • Newspaper advertisement published on September 2, 2026, in Financial Express
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Sanstar Limited has scheduled its 44th Annual General Meeting (AGM) for September 23, 2026. The company also published a newspaper advertisement in Financial Express (English and Gujarati editions) on September 2, 2026, to inform shareholders about the event.

The meeting will be held through Video Conferencing (VC) or Other Audio Visual Means (OAVM), as permitted by Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) circulars. Shareholders holding equity shares of face value ₹2 each as on the record date will be eligible to attend and vote.

E-Voting Schedule

The company has disclosed specific timelines for remote e-voting and participation eligibility:

Event Date/Time
Cut-off date for e-Voting Wednesday, September 16, 2026
Remote e-Voting start Saturday, September 19, 2026 at 9:00 am
Remote e-Voting end Tuesday, September 22, 2026 at 5:00 pm
AGM Date Wednesday, September 23, 2026 at 11:30 am

Members who have cast their votes through remote e-voting may attend the AGM but will not be entitled to cast their vote again during the meeting. Only members who have not voted remotely may vote during the AGM via VC/OAVM.

Book Closure Details

The Register of Members and Share Transfer Books will be closed from September 17, 2026, to September 23, 2026. This closure is pursuant to Regulation 42 of the SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015, and Section 91 of the Companies Act, 2013.

Security Type Face Value Book Closure Period Purpose
Equity ₹2 September 17, 2026 to September 23, 2026 Annual General Meeting

Electronic copies of the notice and the Integrated Annual Report for FY25-26 have been dispatched to shareholders with registered email addresses. The dispatch was completed on August 31, 2026. Fagun Harsh Shah, Company Secretary and Compliance Officer, signed the intimation dated August 31, 2026.

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