Raymond plans to sell ColorPlus and Park Avenue, Retail News, ET Retail

Raymond is hunting to market its attire retailing manufacturers of ColorPlus and Park Avenue corporations, two folks acquainted with the development mentioned.

Raymond has held talks with Denmark-centered retail team Bestseller to sell the ColorPlus business, but the talks failed devoid of a deal, they stated.

1 of the people quoted earlier said Raymond was searching for a valuation of about ₹500 crore for ColorPlus and Bestseller was not ready to shell out that much dollars for the business that owns about 90 standalone suppliers, apart from marketing via other multi-brand name shops. For Park Avenue, that operates about 70 standalone suppliers, Raymond is in search of “substantially extra” than ₹500 crore of valuation, he claimed.

Equally Raymond and Bestseller declined to comment.

“As a policy we do not take part in any marketplace speculation and possessing reported that, when we have any facts to share, we will,” Vineet Gautam, CEO of Bestseller India, reported in WhatsApp information.

“As company coverage, we do not remark on current market speculations,” a spokesperson for Raymond chimed.

Past yr, Raymond was in the information for laying off additional than 1,000 of its staff amid a stinging pandemic that has hit the business like most of the vendors and brands in India considering that early 2020.

Legacy Indian brands like ColorPlus and Park Avenue have been facing stiff levels of competition in the very last 5-ten many years from global fashion bigwigs of Spain’s Zara, Sweden-dependent H&M and Japan’s Uniqlo among a host of other world wide labels. On the other hand, the emergence of ecommerce platforms have intensified competitions even in tier-2 and tier-3 metropolitan areas.

Raymond has business pursuits from manufacturing, quickly relocating client products (FMCG), actual estate and retail is a significant component of the approximately century-aged group founded in 1925. Bestseller sells its style and way of living products and solutions in 46 nations around the world by means of a lot more than 2,800 chain merchants and 12,000 exterior multi-manufacturer retailers.

In India, Bestseller sells the 5 models such as Jack & Jones, Vero Moda, Only, Selected Homme and Produkt via 375 distinctive manufacturer shops and more than 1,200 store-in-outlets. Raymond’s completely ready-to-wear business, ColorPlus, Park Avenue and informal outfits label Parx, are among the the “four energy brand names” of the Mumbai-based group.