Upcoming IPO 2025: As the countdown to 2025 begins, over 35 companies have secured green signal from the market regulator SEBI and 55 companies are in the pipeline awaiting the green light as of now. Furthermore, the coming year will also witness many big-ticket companies from diverse sectors gearing up to make their public debut.
The last month of the year, December brought a flurry of activity to the stock market, with a variety of IPOs, from mainboard giants to smaller SME ventures, making their debut. While some companies successfully listed on the exchanges, others opened for subscription or awaited their listing dates Here is a round-up of December’s IPO
By Narayanan V, Krishna Barot & Mukesh Jagota On the face of it, the rupee’s ongoing depreciation – it fell 9 paise to close at a new record low of 85.2 against the dollar on Tuesday — should have come as a shot in the arm for India’s labour-intensive exports. The local currency’s decline came
Madhabi Puri Buch won’t forget 2024 in a hurry. In an interview to a business magazine at the beginning of the year, she had proudly proclaimed that she knew exactly “where all the skeletons are hidden”. Just about six months after that statement, the world turned upside down for the first woman chairperson of the
LeadSquared, a Bengaluru-based SaaS unicorn, is setting its sights on profitability by FY26, despite past challenges stemming from the downturn in the edtech sector. The company also aims to achieve IPO-readiness by the next fiscal year, marking a critical milestone in its growth journey. In FY24, LeadSquared reported revenue of Rs 279.3 crore, reflecting a
The GST Council’s decision to exempt gift vouchers from indirect taxation has brought much-needed clarity to the retail and corporate sectors, with industry leaders lauding it as a significant step forward. The council recently clarified that vouchers will not attract GST, as they are neither a supply of goods nor services. This resolves a long-standing
Bengaluru-based IndiQube, which provides co-working and managed office spaces, has filed its draft papers with the regulator for an initial public offering to raise Rs 850 crore. The offer consists of Rs 750 crore of fresh issue of shares while the offer-of-sale component is up to Rs 100 crore. Bengaluru-based IndiQube, a provider of co-working
In anticipation of the US going ahead with higher tariffs on Chinese imports, the Federation of Indian Export Organisations (FIEO) has formulated a strategy to raise its share in the US market. As part of the strategy, the apex body of export promotion councils has identified five sectors where emerging opportunities can be captured within
By Neeraj Agarwala I plan to sell some family gold as prices are high now. It was purchased by my grandfather and there are no bills. Do I have to pay any tax on the sale amount? —D R Rao The sale of gold jewellery is subject to tax under the head ‘capital gains’. Since
Avenue Supermarts, best known for its DMart chain of stores, is accelerating store additions as competition intensifies within grocery retail. The value retailer added as many as 28 stores in the March quarter (Q4) of FY25, its latest business update said, the highest in four years. The latest addition will also see the value retailer
AWL Agri Business, formerly Adani Wilmar, recorded a 7% year-on-year volume growth in the fourth quarter (Q4) of fiscal 2025, it said in a business update on Friday. The company saw a 36% year-on-year revenue growth, with stronger performance in rural towns compared to urban markets. This growth, particularly in the foods category, was driven
It started as a hole-in-the-wall outlet selling namkeen and mithai in Bikaner, Rajasthan, way back in 1937. Today, Haldiram’s is the undisputed bhujia king that marquee global investors are rushing to grab a bite of. It is tough to put a single face behind its grand success story, though. “Every member of the family is
Stock markets worldwide are careening even lower Friday after China matched President Donald Trump’s big raise in tariffs in an escalating trade war. Not even a better-than-expected report on the U.S. job market, which is usually the economic highlight of each month, was enough to stop the slide. The S&P 500 was down 4.8% in
