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Delhivery accuses Ecom Express of deceptive numbers in its own draft IPO documents, ET Retail

.Agent imageNew-age ecommerce logistics firm Delhivery Friday claimed specific insurance claims on functioning metrics through its smaller sized opponent and IPO-bound Ecom Express are deceptive. Delhivery, in a submitting to the BSE, said Warburg Pincus-backed Ecom Express "misrepresented" reach and also hands free operation scale through declaring the number of pincodes not licensed through India Post.This is a rare circumstances of a publicly-listed agency implicating an IPO-bound rival of misrepresenting facts. "Ecom Express double-counts the number of RTO (return to origin) shipments and also hence it winds up inflating its volume on a like-to-like manner," the Gurugram-based company stated, shooting down claims produced through Ecom Express in the DRHP. 'Come back to source' is a condition used through strategies agencies when a product is actually come back or the shipment is cancelled, and also the items go back to the seller. "Ecom Express dual matters the lot of RTO (come back to origin) cargos and also for this reason it winds up inflating its own volume on a like to as if basis," the Gurugram-based company pointed out, shooting down cases made through Ecom Express in its draft red herring program (DRHP). Return to origin is a condition made use of by logistics firms for when an item is actually come back or even the shipping is actually terminated and also the items goes back to the seller.Ecom Express submitted its own wind papers along with the marketplace regulatory authority last month for a going public of reveals worth almost Rs 2,600 crore. In its own DRHP, Ecom Express had actually said it dealt with much more than 514 million cargos in FY24 while Delhivery clocked 740 million. Delhivery has actually contested such claims citing the above stated illustration on exactly how it counts a shipment. An e-mail sent to Ecom Express failed to quickly evoke any kind of feedback on the matter." Ecom Express has contrasted their CPS (cyber physical devices) along with Delhivery's CPS which is not similar as a result of distinctions in both business' price accounting procedures, variety of shipments being double-counted through Ecom as well as component difference in their body weight profiles." Delhivery stated the "CPS comparison is troublesome on a number of counts". Gurgaon-based Ecom Express considers to elevate Rs 1,284 crore through issue of brand new shares and also an additional Rs 1,315 crore really worth of reveals will certainly be marketed through its own existing entrepreneurs. This is actually the 2nd attempt by the company to go public.The provider reported an operating income of Rs 2,609 crore in financial 2024, versus Rs 2,553 crore the previous year, while its bottom line narrowed to Rs 255 crore from Rs 428 crore.
Posted On Sep 14, 2024 at 09:16 AM IST.




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