Welspun India Ltd. (WIL), a global leader in Home Textiles and part of the $ 2.7 bn Welspun Group, announced FY22 results. Total revenue stood at Rs. 93,773 mn in FY22, up by 26.6 percent YoY. Textile business revenue at Rs. 87,911 mn reported sharp increase in FY22 on account of higher sales volume of Terry Towels by 1 percent YoY, Bed Sheets by 6 percent YoY and Rugs by 19 percent YoY. Speaking about the performance, B.K. Goenka, Chairman, Welspun Group, said “The global economy is going through unprecedented times currently – Ukraine-Russia conflict, logistical challenges, unseen levels of increases in commodity prices and decades’ high inflation in western economies – have all come on the back of an extended pandemic and resulted in dampened business sentiments across industries worldwide.
Against this backdrop, it is very heartening to see that our Home Textile revenues continued its upward trajectory to cross $1bn mark this fiscal, growing by 23 percent and total revenue growing by 27 percent to reach Rs. 9,377 cr. This demonstrates the ability of scaled-up, quality-led, and highly differentiated players to maintain an edge even during challenging times. The recently announced Free Trade Agreements with Australia and Middle East countries would bring in additional advantage for the Indian Home Textiles industry and players like Welspun.
Our Emerging Businesses of E-commerce, Brands, Flooring, and Advanced Textiles have cumulatively grown by 44 percent during the fiscal year under review with all the businesses touching record revenues. The share of these businesses in the overall revenue has steadily increased to 26 percent from 23 percent last year.
Domestic Retail top-line has grown by 66 percent in FY22 and the Welspun brand has become the largest distributed health textile brand in the country. Flooring continued its upward trajectory and has grown by 107 percent this fiscal. The investment in all of our Emerging businesses is starting to reap the desired results to drive our growth plans for the future. Historic highs in cotton and coal prices, global logistics disruptions and related impacts continue to put further pressure on the margin front. We, however, remain focused on our medium to long term strategic priorities and growth pillars by laying emphasis on our long term goal of sustainable growth, profitability, and deleveraging our balance sheet.
