Top 10 food retailers, including Reliance
Fresh, Aditya Birla Retail, Wal-Mart India and Bharti Retail, have
registered accumulated losses of over Rs 13,000 crore in the last
fiscal, ratings agency Crisil said today. "Accumulated losses of food
retailers are estimated to have crossed Rs 13,000 crore in the last
fiscal, an analysis by CRISIL Ratings of top 10 food retailers that are
in gestation phase showed," a Crisil statement said. The companies
analysed by Crisil are Max Hypermarket, Hypercity Retail, Aditya Birla
Retail, Metro Cash & Carry India, Trent Hypermarket, Reliance Fresh,
Heritage Fresh, Spencer's Retail, Bharti Retail and Wal-Mart India.
Commenting on the findings, Crisil Ratings President Ramraj Pai said:
"These losses reflect the challenges in the food and grocery retailing
vertical. Compared with other formats, food retailing is a very local
business where optimal supply chains are critical to lower costs." "The
business also has the lowest gross margins in retailing, which leads to
longer gestation periods. Players, therefore, need a lot of time and
investment to perfect the model and positioning and to scale up to
achieve critical mass," he added. Crisil said retailers are re-working
on their operating model to cut down on losses. "Retailers are now
moving away from large-scale expansions. Exits from unprofitable
categories, rightsizing of stores, closure of unviable and
non-performing stores, focused and calibrated expansion and a renewed
focus on private labels are some of the initiatives which the analysed
retailers are undertaking to achieve faster break-even," Crisil Ratings
Director Anuj Sethi said. The ratings agency said these initiatives
will take time and investment to yield results. Crisil believes these
retailers will continue to expand, backed by promoters. "We estimate as
of March 31, 2014, the 10 retailers have invested about Rs 19,000 crore
for store additions and loss funding – through direct equity infusions,
loans from banks and promoters," it added. Crisil said two large
players that have managed to become profitable are Future Value Retail
Ltd (Future Value) and Avenue Supermarts Ltd. "Future Value (formats
include Big Bazaar and Food Bazaar) has had the first-mover advantage.
It expanded in a low-cost environment and attained critical mass before
the real estate boom led to costly lease rentals. Competition from other
organised players was also less then," it said.
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