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Delhivery implicates Ecom Express of deceptive numbers in its own draft IPO papers, ET Retail

.Representative imageNew-age ecommerce logistics strong Delhivery Friday claimed certain cases on operating metrics through its own smaller sized rival and also IPO-bound Ecom Express are actually deceptive. Delhivery, in a submission to the BSE, stated Warburg Pincus-backed Ecom Express "misrepresented" range and also automation scale by stating the number of pincodes certainly not approved through India Post.This is an uncommon occasion of a publicly-listed organization indicting an IPO-bound opponent of misrepresenting realities. "Ecom Express double-counts the amount of RTO (come back to source) deliveries and therefore it winds up inflating its own amount on a like-to-like manner," the Gurugram-based agency mentioned, quashing insurance claims helped make through Ecom Express in the DRHP. 'Come back to source' is actually a condition utilized by logistics organizations when a product is actually given back or the shipping is actually cancelled, and also the goods return to the dealer. "Ecom Express double counts the amount of RTO (return to origin) shipments and thus it ends up inflating its volume on a just like to as if manner," the Gurugram-based company claimed, negating cases created through Ecom Express in its draft reddish herring prospectus (DRHP). Come back to source is actually a phrase made use of by coordinations firms for when an item is returned or even the distribution is cancelled and the goods gets back to the seller.Ecom Express submitted its own wind papers with the marketplace regulator final month for an initial public offering of reveals worth almost Rs 2,600 crore. In its DRHP, Ecom Express had mentioned it took care of greater than 514 million shipments in FY24 while Delhivery clocked 740 million. Delhivery has disputed such insurance claims citing the above pointed out description on how it counts a delivery. An email sent to Ecom Express really did not quickly generate any sort of reaction on the concern." Ecom Express has contrasted their CPS (cyber physical systems) along with Delhivery's CPS which is actually not comparable because of distinctions in the two business' cost accounting methods, amount of deliveries being actually double-counted by Ecom as well as component difference in their weight profile pages." Delhivery stated the "CPS comparison is actually difficult on numerous matters". Gurgaon-based Ecom Express plans to raise Rs 1,284 crore by means of concern of new reveals and also yet another Rs 1,315 crore truly worth of allotments are going to be offered for sale by its own existing real estate investors. This is the 2nd effort due to the organization to go public.The company reported an operating revenue of Rs 2,609 crore in financial 2024, against Rs 2,553 crore the previous year, while its own bottom line tightened to Rs 255 crore from Rs 428 crore.
Posted On Sep 14, 2024 at 09:16 AM IST.




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