Textile-to-real estate group Raymond is seeing buoyant sales in the current quarter and expects it to pick up in the coming months. Gautam Singhania, chairman and managing director of Raymond group tells Raghavendra Kamath that real estate sales will continue to be good in the coming years. He chose not to offer any comments on proxy advisory firms’ recommendation to shareholders to oppose his appointment as executive chairman of Raymond Lifestyle.
Raymond Lifestyle posted 70% dip in profit in Q2. How are the sales now? What is your outlook?
The last six months have been slow for all due to no weddings, elections and so on..Q3 and Q4 are looking good. Retail sales are vibrant now. Weddings will continue till May next year. I read somewhere average spending on wedding is `36 lakh and 20% of that goes for clothing.
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In your earlier interactions, you said you have signed five to six joint development agreements. Has the pace of such agreements picked up?
A lot is going on. We started our project in Bandra. A lot is in pipeline. We are excited about real estate. Maharashtra has given a strong mandate to Mahayuti (BJP-Shiv Sena and NCP alliance). It will give good stability to the state for five years. Devendra Fadnavis is known for his dynamics, work on infrastructure and so on which is beneficial for the state including real estate. Mumbai is getting redeveloped and residential societies are getting redeveloped everywhere. So, the pace of redevelopment is large. Our idea is how can we be part of it.
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What is the update on listing of Raymond’s real estate business?
SEBI approval for it came 10 days ago…We are on track for it in the middle of next year, may be August or September.
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