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Source: Live Mint “It is a momentous event. We have raised a huge amount of capital in the middle of a tough market, which is a great feat,” Sumer Juneja, managing director for EMEA & India at SoftBank Investment Advisors, told Mint. Swiggy had raised $3.2 billion in private capital in total from marquee investors…
Source: Live Mint Zomato Ltd’s September quarter (Q2FY25) result was decent. A key parameter – the gross order value (GOV) – of food delivery and Blinkit grew by 21% and 122% year-on-year, respectively. Growth rates are in line with management’s guidance. The company needs an average GOV of ₹7 lakh a day per store to…
Source: Live Mint Reliance Industries Ltd’s (RIL’s) shares hit an all-time high of ₹3,217.6 on 8 July but have fallen almost 16% since then. One problem has been weakness in the oil-to-chemicals (O2C) business, where Ebitda fell 19% year-on-year in the first half of FY25 and 24% year-on-year in the September quarter. Despite the drop…
Source: Live Mint Hiren Ved, director and chief investment officer at Alchemy Capital Management, noted that investors are increasingly moving away from traditional FMCG stocks. “They are turning to aggregators and e-commerce platforms, particularly quick commerce, which sell both discretionary as well as non-discretionary consumer items as it provides a better proxy for growth as…
Source: Live Mint Avenue Supermarts Ltd’s shares fell over 8% on Monday after its September quarter (Q2FY25) earnings missed expectations and concerns rose on growth prospects amid intensifying competition from quick commerce companies. Avenue runs the DMart supermarket chain. Standalone Ebitda margin in Q2 dropped 27 basis points year-on-year to 7.9%, which was below analysts’…
Source: Live Mint Delhivery Ltd is on a rocky journey as the market turf is changing for the leading logistics company in the express parcel and part truckload segments. Also, India’s third-party logistics sector is facing some headwinds amid increasing competition from established players and as online marketplaces like Meesho opt for their own delivery…
