The basic difference between Initial Public Offer (IPO) and Follow on Public Offer (FPO) is as the names suggest IPO is for the companies which have not listed on an exchange and FPO is for the companies which have already listed on exchange but want to raise funds by issuing some more equity shares.
Companies usually go to debt market for raising their short term needs. Either they issue bonds or get loans. But if they have massive expansion plans they may not raise sufficient funds in the debt market and even if they could it costs more. Companies come with follow on offer to restructure the business or to raise funds for new business or to expand the existing business.
Similar to an IPO a price band is fixed (usually with the help of Investment banks) for the issue and interested investors can apply for it. Unlike the corporate actions (such as bonus, rights issue; they are applicable only to the existing stake holders) FPO is open to all investors. The price band for the FPO depends on the market value of the existing company shares and the reason for raising funds.
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