SUMMARY
Infibeam clocked in revenue of $21.09 Mn for the Dec quarter
Strong traction in payment business, GeM contribution may be the factors behind the growth
It aims to process payments worth $7.01 Bn by the end of this year
Ahmedabad-based ecommerce company Infibeam Avenues which runs payments processing services CCAvenue has recorded net profit grew to reach INR 26.6 Cr ($3.6 Mn) for the quarter ended in December 2018 as compared to INR 1.9 Cr ($266K) in December 2017, according to a BSE filing.
According to the company, its total revenue of the company more than doubled to reach INR 150.3 Cr ($21.09 Mn) for the quarter as compared INR 73.6 Cr ($10.3 Mn) in the last year.
Infibeam Avenues managing director Vishal Mehta, reportedly said that strong traction in the payments business, Government e-Marketplace (GeM) contribution, and the synergies its cloud platforms were the major factor behind the company’s increased profit.
He also added that the company also has plans to process payments worth INR 50,000 Cr ($7.01 Bn) by the end of this year.
Infibeam was founded in 2007 by Sachin Dalal, Vishal Mehta and Neeru Sharma. It provides end-to-end ecommerce payments solutions to small and large merchants, enterprises and government.
The strong performance of the company came some months after it had experienced a 71% fall in its share price in October 2018, after a fake message spread through WhatsApp questioned the company’s accounting policies and corporate governance.
The company is also the first ecommerce company in the country to be listed with SEBI (Securities and Exchange Board of India) after it received an approval to raise $69 Mn (INR 450 Cr) through an initial public offering (IPO).
Last year the company had registered a 26% increase in revenues in the first quarter, as it clocked in $13 Mn (INR 91.3 Cr) in against $10.3 Mn (INR 721.3 Mn) in Q1 FY 2018.
In June 2018, the company was looking to raise $292 Mn (INR 2,000 Cr). It also revealed its plans to set up its payments bank. The company is also looking to reduce the number of its subsidiaries for some months.
In January, Infibeam had sold off its subsidiary Infinium India Ltd (IIL) to Ingenius E-commerce in a deal amounting to $8.4 Mn (INR 60 Cr). Further, it had also agreed to sell its wholly-owned unit NSI Infinium Global to Mumbai-based fintech platform Suvidhaa Infoserve.
In December 2018, the company also terminated the deal to acquire Unicommerce eSolutions from Snapdeal claiming that the precedent conditions for the deal were not fulfilled in the time period agreed on during negotiations.
The company has been especially focusing on developing its payment services. Infibeam which claimed to have processed 55.8 Mn transactions in the first half of FY2019 had invested an undisclosed amount in Mumbai-based Instant Global Paytech Private Ltd (IGPL). With this deal, the company is looking to develop a next-generation payment technology platform for offline merchants and retailers transactions in Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities.
