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Aditya Birla Fashion Q1 Review - Accelerated Store Addition Plan In Place: ICICI Direct

Aditya Birla Fashion Q1 Review - Accelerated Store Addition Plan In Place: ICICI Direct

<div class="paragraphs"><p>A customer browses merchandise at a Pantaloons department store, operated by Pantaloon Retail India Ltd., at Ambience Mall in New Delhi. (Photographer: Graham Crouch/Bloomberg).</p></div>
A customer browses merchandise at a Pantaloons department store, operated by Pantaloon Retail India Ltd., at Ambience Mall in New Delhi. (Photographer: Graham Crouch/Bloomberg).

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ICICI Direct Report

Covid-19 induced lockdowns significantly disrupted the performance for Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail Ltd. in Q1 FY22.

Green-shoots are visible with ~75% recovery rate in July.

Revenue de-grew 55% QoQ to Rs 812.0 crore (up 151% YoY).

On the base of Q1 FY20, recovery rate was at ~40% of pre-Covid-19 levels.

Higher-than-expected employee and other expenses resulted in profit before tax losses coming in ahead of our estimates.

Profit before tax losses were at Rs 467 crore versus Rs 121 crore in Q4 FY21 and Rs 545 crore in Q1 FY21.

Aditya Birla Fashion's finance cost declined sharply by 32% owing to a substantial decline in debt levels.

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