Thursday, 5 July 2018

Kishore Biyani's Future Lifestyle to buy 30% stake in e-tailer Koovs

Future Consumer is focusing more on home, personal care with 'smart' brands

Kishore Biyani-led Future Lifestyle Fashions Limited has agreed to pick a 29.9 per cent stake in fashion e-tailer Koovs plc. This comes after Wal-Mart announced a deal to buy a significant stake in e-tailer Flipkart and Biyani questioning e-commerce business models.

Koovs will issue 57,876,600 new ordinary shares to Future Lifestyle at a price of 10 pence apiece, representing 24.8 per cent of its enlarged issued share capital, for £5,787,660 (Rs 525 million, $7.6 million). Two representatives Future Lifestyle will join Koovs' Board of Directors in due course.

In addition, Koovs today also announced the formal opening of a bookbuild to raise up to £10 million of equity at a price of 15 pence per share. Future Lifestyle has agreed to make additional investments to take its ownership up to 29.9 per cent within six months of the equity raise. Koovs has also allotted the first tranche of £4.2 million of new ordinary shares to HT Media after an announcement on June 18.

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