Asset sale mulled to cut Apollo Hospitals debt


  • Business
  • Thursday, 18 Jul 2019

MUMBAI: The family that controls Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Ltd, India’s largest private hospital chain, is looking to sell assets or bring an outside investor into their holding company to pay down debt.

The aim is to reduce the Apollo shares pledged by the family as collateral to lenders, to 20% of their total holding in the company from about 78% now, said Suneeta Reddy, Apollo’s managing director and one of the four daughters of founder Prathap Reddy.

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