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Subsidiaries, joint ventures and associates
Coromandel has a business assistance agreement to be the strategic equity partner of Foskor, one of the world's leading manufacturers of phosphoric acid, a critical raw material.

CFL and the Gujarat State Fertiliser Corporation (GSFC) signed a joint venture agreement with Groupe Chimique Tunisien (GCT) of Tunisia in 2005, for manufacture of phosphoric acid at La Skhira, Tunisia, at an estimated cost of $180 million. The project is scheduled to be completed by 2008. The JV company, Tunisian Indian Fertilisers SA (TIFert SA) has since been formed at Tunis in Tunisia.

In March 2006, CFL acquired Ficom Organics Ltd, a technical PPC company with a manufacturing facility in Ankleshwar, Gujarat. The company produces agro-chemicals and alkylphenol, and has export house status.

CFL initiated the setting up of a PPC formulation unit in Jammu to cater to the Plant Protection Chemical (PPC) requirements of the North Indian market. Trial production commenced in December 2006.

The Plant Protection Chemicals division has co-marketing arrangements with MNCs like Dupont, FMC, and BASF, to procure and supply their proprietary molecules. Exclusive import sourcing is being done with CNCC, China, and Ostuka Chemicals, Japan.

Awards and certificates

For the ninth time the FAI Best Production Performance Award for 2006, to the phosphoric acid plant in Vizag

Award for Best Energy Conservation in the Fertiliser sector for 2005-06, received by Vizag Plant on 14 December 2006, National Energy Conservation Day

The FAI Best Video Film Award for 2006, to the film on 'Gromor Sulphur' for the fifth time

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Special offerings
Call centre
CFL's call centre 'Hello Gromor' has established a closer link to its customers - farmers and dealers are now just a phone call away. Customers can call the centre on a toll-free number, 1800-425-2828, from anywhere in India, from a BSNL telephone for:

	Immediate response to marketing-related queries
	Clarification on technical doubts on the company's fertilisers, plant protection chemicals, G-Sulphur, and other products
	Technical information on improved crop cultivation practices

Retail centres
So that farmers can get the inputs they require as well as credit in a single shop, without any hassles, Coromandel Fertilisers is setting up a chain of exclusive retail outlets, called Mana Gromor. The first was inaugurated at Sattenapalli in Guntur district by CFL chairman Mr A Vellayan on 4 April 2007. Farmers can get all inputs in these retail centres.

The company plans to set up 100 such retail outlets in Andhra Pradesh and later in Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Maharashtra. Each outlet, to be set up at a cost of Rs 25 lakh, will cater to the needs of 5,000 farmers from 50 villages in the vicinity. Trained personnel will visit the villages, collect soil samples and advise farmers on the fertilisers and pesticides to be used. There would be a laboratory attached to each centre.

Community initiatives
CFL's corporate responsibility straddles a stakeholder base that goes far beyond its shareholders. The company constantly engages in various community development activities in the villages around its locations. The activities include providing drinking water to villages, scholarships to meritorious students, free notebooks, fans and computers to government schools, construction of additional classrooms for poor schools, veterinary camps for cattle, free health / blood donation camps for villagers, AIDS awareness programmes, pulse polio programmes for children, helping in the government's mid-day meal scheme, etc.