Raymond Returns
Business Today India|June 11, 2023
An inside look at how Gautam Singhania and his team turned around the fortunes of the diversified business group after three years of falling growth. The path ahead promises to remain challenging, though
ALOKESH BHATTACHARYYA
Raymond Returns

IT’S MY DAUGHTER’S BIRTHDAY.” No, Gautam Hari Singhania was not inviting this correspondent to his daughter Niharika’s 17th birthday bash. He was making the point that on December 10, 2022, Raymond’s real estate business would open for possession the first set of 900 apartments to customers of Ten X Habitat, a 3,103-apartment complex on Thane’s Pokhran Road. This date was decided and announced in early 2021. Big deal? A promoter chooses his daughter’s birthday to announce a new launch. So what? Well, two things. One, this was Raymond Realty’s first project. And two, the delivery date was two years ahead of the RERA deadline of December 2024. Singhania, 58, admits it was risky, and puts the decision down to naiveté. “We didn’t know the game. So, we wrote our own rulebook,” he says, looking relaxed and in control in a dark blue T-shirt, chinos and casual shoes (all made to measure, mind you), as we chat up in the fancy Atelier Lounge on the second floor of JK House, his residence-cum-office in Mumbai. (Read the full interview on page 40.)

With ₹1,115 crore in sales in FY23, real estate’s success has propelled Raymond to profitability after a harrowing time in FY21, and underscored its viability as the next big growth driver for the organisation. Pummelled by the pandemic and, especially, the lockdowns, Raymond’s businesses had seen some of the toughest times in its 98 years. Sales of its traditional businesses—branded textiles, branded apparel, garmenting, high-value cotton shirting and, to a lesser extent, engineering & auto components—plunged between 7 per cent and 59 per cent that fiscal, and the company’s bottom line slumped to a loss of ₹297 crore (see charts).

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