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Delhivery accuses Ecom Express of deceptive numbers in its draught IPO papers, ET Retail

.Representative imageNew-age ecommerce strategies firm Delhivery Friday said specific insurance claims on operating metrics through its own smaller rival and also IPO-bound Ecom Express are deceptive. Delhivery, in a declaring to the BSE, stated Warburg Pincus-backed Ecom Express "overstated" grasp as well as hands free operation scale by proclaiming the variety of pincodes not certified through India Post.This is an uncommon occasion of a publicly-listed firm implicating an IPO-bound competitor of overstating realities. "Ecom Express double-counts the amount of RTO (go back to source) shipments as well as hence it ends up inflating its volume on a like-to-like manner," the Gurugram-based company said, debating claims produced by Ecom Express in the DRHP. 'Go back to beginning' is actually a condition made use of by strategies agencies when an item is actually come back or even the shipping is actually terminated, and also the goods get back to the seller. "Ecom Express double matters the amount of RTO (come back to origin) deliveries as well as hence it winds up inflating its amount on a such as to as if basis," the Gurugram-based firm stated, negating insurance claims helped make through Ecom Express in its draught reddish herring syllabus (DRHP). Go back to origin is a term used through logistics organizations for when a product is actually come back or even the shipment is cancelled and also the items goes back to the seller.Ecom Express submitted its wind papers along with the market regulatory authority last month for a going public of allotments worth virtually Rs 2,600 crore. In its own DRHP, Ecom Express had actually stated it handled much more than 514 million cargos in FY24 while Delhivery clocked 740 million. Delhivery has actually challenged such insurance claims citing the above stated explanation on exactly how it counts a cargo. An e-mail sent to Ecom Express failed to quickly generate any sort of feedback on the matter." Ecom Express has actually compared their CPS (virtual bodily bodies) along with Delhivery's CPS which is certainly not similar as a result of variations in the two firms' cost accounting processes, variety of cargos being double-counted through Ecom and also product variation in their weight profiles." Delhivery stated the "CPS comparison is problematic on many counts". Gurgaon-based Ecom Express intends to raise Rs 1,284 crore via concern of brand new reveals and one more Rs 1,315 crore really worth of shares will certainly be marketed by its own existing real estate investors. This is the 2nd effort by the company to go public.The business disclosed an operating revenue of Rs 2,609 crore in budgetary 2024, versus Rs 2,553 crore the previous year, while its net loss limited to Rs 255 crore from Rs 428 crore.
Released On Sep 14, 2024 at 09:16 AM IST.




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