Dollar Industries Limited (DOLLAR) Q4 FY23 Earnings Concall Transcript

Dollar Industries Limited (NSE: DOLLAR) Q4 FY23 Earnings Concall dated May. 31, 2023

Corporate Participants:

Akshay Krishnan — Equity Research Associate

Ankit Gupta — President, Marketing

Ajay Patodia — Chief Financial Officer

Analysts:

Nirvana Laha — Nirvana Capital — Analyst

Ankush Agrawal — Surge Capital — Analyst

SimranJeet Singh Bhatia — Mastertrust — Analyst

Surya Narayan — Sunidhi Securities & Finance Limited — Analyst

Rohit Suresh — Samatva Investments — Analyst

Keshav Garg — Counter Cyclical PMS — Analyst

Vishal Bagadia — Roha Asset Managers — Analyst

Presentation:

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, good day, and welcome to the Dollar Industries Q4 FY ’23 Results Conference Call hosted by ICICI Securities. [Operator Instructions] Please note that this conference is being recorded.

I now hand the conference over to Mr. Akshay Krishnan from ICICI Securities. Thank you, and over to you, sir.

Akshay Krishnan — Equity Research Associate

Hi, everyone. A very wonderful good afternoon, good evening to you. I trust you had a very great day. Representing I said, it’s an absolute pleasure to host the results conference call of Dollar Industry Limited.

The company is represented today by Mr. Ankit Gupta, President, Marketing; and Mr. Ajay Patodia, CFO. Over to the management for the opening remarks, and after we will open the floor for Q&A. Thank you.

Ankit Gupta — President, Marketing

Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for joining us today to discuss the financial results for the quarter four financial year ’23 and financial year ’22 [Phonetic]. As we navigate through a challenging environment, I want to express my appreciation to our dedicated team for their unwavering commitment and hard work during this quarter.

The hosiery industry has faced numerous obstacles, including global economic uncertainties and shift in seasonality and cyclical slowdown in discretionary demand. Despite these challenges, I’m pleased to report that our company has demonstrated resilience and adaptability during the fourth quarter. Our revenues for the quarter showed a growth of 8%, along with the volume growth of around 37%. If we talk about FY ’23 versus FY ’22, then we have achieved volume growth of approximately 5%. The impact of volume growth in quarter four generated as a cash flow of INR140 crores.

However, it is important to acknowledge that our financial results were not as robust as we had initially anticipated due to the ongoing industry headwinds. The hosiery industry, like many others, has experienced a volatility in raw material prices. This has put pressure on our margins. However, we expect FY ’24 to be good with good demand for the product and controlled raw material prices, which will help us to maintain our margins.

To strengthen our brand awareness, company has launched the new PVC for its regular segment, Dollar Always, Lehar, by hoping in Mr. Saif Ali Khan as brand ambassador for the same. We have also launched new product, Dollar Rain Guard, under our umbrella brand Dollar. The new product is getting good response from the market and will add extra volume in company sale and strengthen our product portfolio. Our advertisement expenses for the year FY ’23 stood at INR101 crores, which is 7.22% of our total revenue as compared to INR63.51 crores in FY ’22. Our premium segment brand, Force NXT, and women segment brand, Dollar Missy, gave a growth of 15% and 10% in terms of volume for FY ’23. We are confident that both premium and women segment will help us in achieving volume growth in the future.

Now coming to Project Lakshya. This year, FY ’23, we have added 87 distributors under this project. And currently, we are sitting with 229 distributors up to March 23, which was 142 distributors in FY ’22. We are happy to share that Project Lakshya contribution completes domestic sales, increased from 8.33% in FY ’22 to 19% in FY ’23. The company has already started implementation of Project Lakshya in Tamiladu, and mapping of retailers is in planning stage for Kerala.

During the year, company opened 14 EBOs, Exclusive Brand Outlet, to cater the demand of consumers and generate sales and increase brand awareness for the company. It will also help us change the perceived value in the minds of consumers. In order to cater the demand of consumers, we ensure to supply the products through various modern retail channel from where demand can be fulfilled, as a result of which are this particular business verticals, including e-commerce, showed a growth of 33% in terms of volume. We are confident of our long-term growth on the back of Project Lakshya, industry and economic drivers.

Our commitment to sustainability remains a top priority. We continue to implement environmentally friendly practices throughout our operations, focusing on reducing our carbon footprint and promoting responsible manufacturing processes. This not only aligns with our core values, but also enhances our brand reputation and meets the growing demand for sustainable products.

Thank you all. Now I would hand over the call to our CFO, Mr. Ajay Patodia.

Ajay Patodia — Chief Financial Officer

Thank you, Ankit. Good evening, everyone, and thank you for joining the call. Hope all of you are well.

I will detail the financial performance starting with Q4. The revenue are, as now some of you have read, that it is INR407.57 crore compared with year-on-year INR375.72 crore, a growth of 8% over last year. Our EBITDA stood at INR12.83 crore as compared to INR59.17 crore in Q4 FY ’22, a degrowth of 78%. Profit after tax for the quarter stood at INR3.68 crore as compared to INR37.1 crore, a degrowth of 90% year-on-year.

Coming to the FY ’23 performance, revenue stood at INR1398.52 crore as against INR1349.07 crore in FY ’22, a growth of 4% year-on-year basis. Our EBITDA for the FY ’23 stood at INR103.27 crore as compared to INR223.24 crore in FY ’22, a degrowth of 54%. Profit after tax stood at INR58.24 crore as compared to INR145.87 crore, a degrowth of 60%.

Now moving on to brand-wise contribution. In quarter four FY ’23, Bigboss contributed around 42%, our Dollar Always regular contributed around 42%, our woman segment Missy contributed around 9%, our premium segment Force NXT contributed around 4% and Dollar Socks 2% and our Champion kids brand around 1%. In FY ’23, full-year, Bigboss contributed — contribution is around 42%, Dollar Always regular brand around 37%, our women segment Missy brand around 9%, our premium segment Force NXT around 4% and Dollar Socks around 2% and winterwear Dollar — winterwear around 6%.

With this, we will now open the floor for the question-and-answer.

Questions and Answers:

 

Operator

Thank you. [Operator Instructions] Our first question is from the line of Nirvana Laha from Nirvana Capital. Please go ahead.

Nirvana Laha — Nirvana Capital — Analyst

Hi. Good afternoon. Thanks for the opportunity. So my question is on gross margin. So this quarter, we have seen that gross margin Q-o-Q have dipped another 5%. Now I think you’re at 40%, which must be the lowest in last seven, eight years. So what I want to understand is, is it because you’re carrying a lot — still carrying a lot of high-cost RM inventory?

And secondly, since you do weighted average costing for inventory, I think we were all expecting that your gross margin sequentially will expand. Because in Q3 and Q4, you must have bought some low-cost RM as well, right? So the weighted average costing should have brought the COGS down and the gross margin should have expanded, but the opposite seems to have happened. So can you explain this, please?

Ankit Gupta — President, Marketing

Yes. Hi. So yes, that’s true that we were also expecting that in Q4 we won’t take a hit because of the high-cost inventory. But again, in quarter four, we had to take a price reduction based on the overall industry scenario that was going in the market. And also the — what we thought that the cotton prices would get stabilized. During the month of Feb, it was somewhere around INR65,000. But currently, it is running at somewhere around INR55,000, INR56,000 per candy. So yes, it was because the — the expansion of the cost was mainly due to the high-cost inventory that was lying in our book.

Nirvana Laha — Nirvana Capital — Analyst

Okay. So in terms of realization, this quarter, how much has average realization come down Q-o-Q? I mean what kind of price cuts have you had to take?

Ankit Gupta — President, Marketing

So around 4% to 5% price cut we had to take in the Q4 as well.

Nirvana Laha — Nirvana Capital — Analyst

Okay. And how much high-cost inventory are you still carrying from when cotton prices were higher. So two questions actually. Do you expect this kind of price to now sustain? Or do you expect there cuts in the next two quarters?

And secondly, in terms of inventory, do you see that your COGS will now slowly start becoming lower cost? Or are we going to remain at this level for the next two quarters?

Ajay Patodia — Chief Financial Officer

We think that our COGS now is stable, and our margin also expands because the ASP is already bottomed out. And we think that this price may be the lowest in quarter four. And the continue — in continuing, we think that we get a good margin or good ASP in FY ’24. And we also have a growth in our GP percentage.

Nirvana Laha — Nirvana Capital — Analyst

Okay. So you expect this quarter gross margins to have bottomed down?

Ajay Patodia — Chief Financial Officer

Yes.

Nirvana Laha — Nirvana Capital — Analyst

Okay. And last question from my side. So are other expenses this quarter, if I look Q-o-Q, while revenue has grown 41%, your other expenses also have grown 42%. So normally, there’s a fixed component to these other expenses and it shouldn’t grow as fast as revenue. So can you comment on this? Are there some one-off expenses that — or take — that you have taken this quarter?

Ajay Patodia — Chief Financial Officer

In other expenses, our advertisement expense is also included. Our total advertisement cost is around — FY ’23 is around INR101 crore with compared to FY ’22 only INR63 crores. And in quarter four, it is around INR20.41 crores. And with comparison to in quarter four year-on-year basis, FY ’22 is INR13 crores only. So INR7 crores is from that. And in this quarter, we have to take the provision also — some provisions also for India’s purpose, like we have the — our customer base future lifestyle also in modern trade. The supply is there for centers, stores and for brand factory. So some inventory and some payments are pending with the future lifestyle as the future lifestyle get the NCLT order on fourth of May. So we have to take the expected credit loss of 100% provision for this quarter as per accounting standard.

Nirvana Laha — Nirvana Capital — Analyst

Okay. How much was that?

Ajay Patodia — Chief Financial Officer

Around INR5 crores.

Nirvana Laha — Nirvana Capital — Analyst

INR5crores. Sir, can you give me the Q3 figure for ad spend. Q4 you said it’s INR20.4 crores. What was the figure in Q3?

Ajay Patodia — Chief Financial Officer

In Q3, our ad spend is around INR20.61 crores. And in Q2, it is around INR25.32 crores.

Nirvana Laha — Nirvana Capital — Analyst

Okay. All right. Thank you. I’ll come back in the queue.

Operator

Thank you. Our next question is from the line of Ankush Agrawal from Surge Capital. Please go ahead.

Ankush Agrawal — Surge Capital — Analyst

Yes. Hi. So firstly — so we have given a good volume growth for the quarter, but equally, your value has degrown by about 29%. And you mentioned that we have taken a price cut of about 4.5%, 5%. So I’m just trying what led to such large value degrade during the quarter? I believe it’s not just the price cut, so if you can explain that.

Ankit Gupta — President, Marketing

So it was — actually during the quarter, if you see the brand-wise growth or the contribution during Q4, it was mainly because of the economy range of product, Dollar Always, which is a regular product, which we call. So we saw a volume growth of 53% in that particular range. And since it’s a major chunk, that’s why we saw the LP degrowth at a larger rate.

Ankush Agrawal — Surge Capital — Analyst

Got it. And secondly, sir, again on this profitability. So like can you explain a little bit more like what is affecting it? Because if I look at your traditional fees as well, both of them have reported like around stable profitability sequentially or slight improvement, whereas we have seen another leg of sharp degrowth in profitability sequentially. So just I’m trying to understand what is affecting this? Because, I mean, after three, four quarters of sustained using high-cost inventory, we believe that at some point of time, it should have bottomed out, right? So like — I mean, it’s not adding up to be honest, like after quarter-after-quarter, such kind of sharp reduction in gross profits.

Ankit Gupta — President, Marketing

See, if you ask me about the peer group, I wouldn’t be able to comment on that. But overall, at a yearly — on a yearly basis, if you see the GP margin with all the peer groups, it’s almost at a similar level. Yes, I understand that the profits have always been — the EBIT — if you look at the EBITDA margin from the last three, four years, you’ll always see that there is a gap between our EBITDA margins and the others.

Ankush Agrawal — Surge Capital — Analyst

Yes. What I was talking about is more of a sequential…

Ankit Gupta — President, Marketing

Apart from that, the kind of 4% to 5% price reduction that we had to take in the fourth quarter, so major chunk is that and also the advertisement cost, which remains at a lower level. So last year, fourth quarter, we spent around INR12-odd crores. But this year, fourth quarter, our spend was around INR20 crores. So this is the main reason why — and also the provision that we took. Apart from that, on a yearly basis, we conduct conference or dealer conference, distributor conference to motivate the distributors to take the order booking to showcase our new products. This year, the expenditure was on a higher side, which also led to a low — expanded other expenses basically.

Ankush Agrawal — Surge Capital — Analyst

I was talking more from the gross margin perspective, not on the EBITDA level. But okay still — so just a clarity over here. So do you believe that from here onwards, say, FY ’24, we would be able to revert back to a steady state gross margin, which is a normalized margin of somewhere around 55%. Would that be possible this year? Or do you expect still like, H1, we would still face issues on the gross margin side?

Ankit Gupta — President, Marketing

See, gradually — it’s a process, so gradually, yes, obviously, we’ll come to a steady state. But for looking at the gross profit, you should also include manufacturing or a job work — contracted job work expenses to be added to the COGS. Sorry, cost of material consumed must be added with the manufacturing costs as well to get the exact gross margin thing.

Ankush Agrawal — Surge Capital — Analyst

Yes. So considering that also, do you believe FY ’24 would be normal year? Or it would be still like gradual recovery and it’s only by the time we exit FY ’24, we would be able to reach that level?

Ankit Gupta — President, Marketing

So yes, gradually, it will improve. And by the end of FY ’24, we should see a good improvement in our gross profit margin business.

Ankush Agrawal — Surge Capital — Analyst

Okay. I’ll get back in the queue for further questions. Thank you.

Ankit Gupta — President, Marketing

Thank you.

Operator

Thank you. Our next question is from the line of SimranJeet Singh from Mastertrust. Please go ahead.

SimranJeet Singh Bhatia — Mastertrust — Analyst

Thank you for giving me opportunit. Sir, I have two questions. My first question is, can you guide for some EBITDA margins in the FY ’24 and for FY ’25, if it’s possible?

Secondly, what will be the percentage of advertisement expenses as a percentage of sales we can expect in the FY ’24 going forward?

Ankit Gupta — President, Marketing

So advertisement cost for this particular fiscal would be somewhere around 6.5%.

SimranJeet Singh Bhatia — Mastertrust — Analyst

Okay.

Ankit Gupta — President, Marketing

And that’s what we are looking into. And apart from that, the — on the EBITDA margin side, for this year, the guidance would be somewhere around 11% to 12% with a revenue growth of 12% to 13%.

SimranJeet Singh Bhatia — Mastertrust — Analyst

Great, sir. Great. And have a — all the best sir. All the best to your team.

Ankit Gupta — President, Marketing

Thank you.

Operator

Thank you. Our next question is from the line of Surya Narayan from Sunidhi Securities. Please go ahead.

Surya Narayan — Sunidhi Securities & Finance Limited — Analyst

Yes. Thank you for giving me opportunity. Just to understand the continuous fall — rise in the inventory losses quarter-on-quarter. So where we — and so have we done with that or still something is left for Q1 FY ’24?

Ajay Patodia — Chief Financial Officer

With regards to high-cost inventory?

Surya Narayan — Sunidhi Securities & Finance Limited — Analyst

Yes.

Ajay Patodia — Chief Financial Officer

High-cost inventory is already — we expected this is already bottomed out in the quarter four itself. And from now onwards…

Surya Narayan — Sunidhi Securities & Finance Limited — Analyst

Because if you see, last quarter, we were around INR65,000 and we are down INR10,000. So now INR65,000 also is high. So obviously, there will be, again, some heat on the gross margin for Q1.

Ajay Patodia — Chief Financial Officer

But Surya Narayan, if you’re looking our balance sheet, then our inventory level is already down. It is around INR345 crore against INR475 crore in last year. So I believe that our high-cost inventory is already optimized. And now in quarter — in FY ’24, we have a good percentage of GP margin.

Surya Narayan — Sunidhi Securities & Finance Limited — Analyst

So what kind of, let’s say, any particular — I mean what is the policy of purchase of the raw material, I mean, especially the cotton, whether you are buying for short duration or is that to — for one month or how is it? Because I believe you would be buying for a longer period. That is why these losses are recurring.

Ajay Patodia — Chief Financial Officer

It is actually dependent on the situation basis. Currently, we are not holding cotton more than seven days. Because…

Surya Narayan — Sunidhi Securities & Finance Limited — Analyst

More than seven?

Ajay Patodia — Chief Financial Officer

Not more than seven days, because it is — it conclude around — only around 20% of our total requirement, 80% of our total requirement of yarn and fabric we purchased from the market.

Surya Narayan — Sunidhi Securities & Finance Limited — Analyst

Yes. That comes my second question is that as we are focusing more on the garment side, why we’ll be increasingly be investing in the yarn side? Because there are — again, we have intending to, let say, raise the capacity of yarn and — what was the necessity, because there is a glut in the market and even though the — it is available. So I mean, all kind of boots are available and from the quality manufacturers. So why you thought it was necessary, becaue at a given point of time, we can get quality to gray and gray fabric and get it converted. So that is our focus, rather than making the yarn and fabric altogether. What was the necessity then?

Ajay Patodia — Chief Financial Officer

Surya Narayan, you are 100% correct. But our mill has a — we already had the surplus land. So we’ve only invested in our — in the machinery part also. And the quality of the yarn we produced by imported machinery — import machinery from Murata. And our plant — spinning plant is the state of our technology, you can say. And the quality of yarn producer is used for our premium range of product only. So it is not — you are correct that we can purchase from outside also, but the total contribution for the spinning plant is only 20% of the — our total product. And for quality purpose, for maintain our standard in premium segment, we just expanded our spinning project. As we have the surplus land, we have to only store the machinery and produce we started. So if…

Surya Narayan — Sunidhi Securities & Finance Limited — Analyst

So why are we not investing in the end products rather than the downstream — upstream thing. That is my point.

Ankit Gupta — President, Marketing

Sorry, I didn’t get your question.

Surya Narayan — Sunidhi Securities & Finance Limited — Analyst

Why are we not investing in the downstream rather than in the upstream? If at all any investment has been made, then it can be scraped off, and let’s say, because always we will be taking because cotton is quite volatile. And obviously, we have to deal with that. So rather than dealing that, we can directly deal with the garments and so we should be more focused on the downstream.

Ankit Gupta — President, Marketing

So the major thing is, see, this is one-of-a-kind situation which has happened in this particular fiscal in FY ’23. The industry has not seen such kind of a volatile raw material prices in decades. So based on just one-year problem or a one-year setback, should not be a contributing factor that we should scrap a project or not. Also, the major problem that we were trying to solve by adding the capacity was once — so we have a vision of reaching to INR2,000 crores in a couple of years. So in order to happen that, we also need good quality yarn to maintain the product quality that we have. It’s the quality of Dollar Industry Limited’s product that speaks. We have — the repeat customer of Dollar Industries are there because of the quality at a reasonable price. And that is why we are trying to maintain that 20% in-house yarn manufacturing, which was there earlier also. And that is why we increased the capacity.

Surya Narayan — Sunidhi Securities & Finance Limited — Analyst

But Ankit, is it actually okay — was it okay to retail of, let’s say, for a cost of around 75% to 76%. And increase the turnover or activity level by achieving 42.4% kind of growth, that too 4.5% of reduction in the ASP. Was it meriting? Because sequentially, our cost is rising from around 68% last year this time to around 75%. So was it required? At least we could have, let’s say, downside the market. What was the haste in chasing the market.

Ankit Gupta — President, Marketing

No. See, when you not purchase yarn from the market and directly purchase a fabric from the market, there is an extra cost added to it, right? So you won’t be able to match that cost with the pricing that you have to give it to the market, right? There are N number of players in our segment. So it’s not that we are dealing only in a very premium segment where one or two players are there. But there are N number of players in the market, although we were able to achieve 53% growth in our economic range of products and 14% growth in our big box product. But it only happens when you can maintain a quality and still able to give product at a best possible price in the market. And you can’t have a price difference with the peer group, let’s say, with Lux or Rupa or Amul, right? We have to maintain that as well. So buying great fabric is not a recommended thing for our particular target market, like when we’re serving a particular target market, which is North-India [Phonetic].

So there, it is not recommended. That’s why we procure yarn. And just to maintain that 20% of yarn manufacturing, that’s why we took that call 1.5 years back — we’ll do the expansion, which is [Speech Overlap] how to get constrained in this particular fiscal. And overall, if you see the other peer groups also, their gross profit margin in Q4 was at a similar level at which we are. And at a yearly level also, it’s on a similar line. It’s not that our gross — our — this gross profit margin decline is only contributed by the purchase of cotton. It’s not like that.

Surya Narayan — Sunidhi Securities & Finance Limited — Analyst

Okay. Because what my point is that the majority of the revenue we are getting from the economy range, because economy range is already quite a commodity kind of thing. And there, it was not required. And b, secondly, why at all a movie star was there as our brand celebrity? Why again there was necessity to go for another movie star in our face especially to focus on the economy range. If this economy range — economy is — any way our cash flow, it is running fine. So what was the necessity there?

Ankit Gupta — President, Marketing

So the call to take a celebrity face in our economic range of products is — there were just two factors of — the kind of debate we had internally also. There were two factors that we need a face on the packaging because due to the price increase that has happened in 1.5 years back, so the product pricing has increased considerably in terms of MRP. And every other brand has a face on their packaging, and that’s why it was initiated. That is one of the factors.

Surya Narayan — Sunidhi Securities & Finance Limited — Analyst

But Ankit, even in this case, we have seen price cut of 4% to 5%. If we say our pricing power was to remain intact, then obviously, we could have at least now maintained the price, not even cut the price, but that did not happen. And secondly, out of the around INR20 crores to INR25 crores of run rate of our spend, how much is the celebrities are taking?

Ankit Gupta — President, Marketing

It’s very miniscule as compared to the ad spend that we are doing. So if you ask me the total contribution of the money that we are giving it to the celebrities, it’s like very negligible. It would be what, around 2%, 2.5% of our total cost.

Surya Narayan — Sunidhi Securities & Finance Limited — Analyst

Okay. [Technical Issues] Thank you.

Operator

Thank you. Our next question is from the line of Rohit Suresh from Samatva Investments. Please go ahead.

Rohit Suresh — Samatva Investments — Analyst

Yes, good evening. Thank you for the opportunity. Sir, my first question would be on the athleisure segment. So if I look like around FY ’18, FY ’19, the Force NXT brand was only contributing around 2% to 3%. And if you take it five years down the line today, it’s still contributing only around 3% to 4%, whereas other brands are significantly improving the athleisure part, the competitive landscape has also increased. So how do you see the athleisure part growing to reach that INR2,000 crores that you have targeted, how much — and how do you see the athleisure growing? Because that will be the major — it will be helpful in increasing our margins.

Ankit Gupta — President, Marketing

So our overall, if you see our athleisure segment contributes around 13%. Last year, it was 12% of our total sales. This year it is 13%. And if you’re talking about Force Go Wear as a contribution to sales because that was initially our casual wear brand only. But we are — slowly, we are doing the way with that particular brand. And we have launched Dollar Man athleisure just before the COVID lockdown happened. Like in the month of January we launched and in the month of March, the lockdown was called.

So since then till now, we have significantly increased our total contribution in the athleisure segment. And currently, we are standing at 13%, and also a couple of months back, we have launched women athleisure into the athleisure segment, which will start selling like we have already started dispatch of that particular product and getting a good response out of it. And overall, NXT Force, NXT athleisure is also doing really good. So overall, at a company level, athleisure segment is doing around 13% of the total sales.

Rohit Suresh — Samatva Investments — Analyst

Okay. Sir, and how much do you see this going forward like the contributions when you reach that INR2,000 crores, how much will this segment be a total part of?

Ankit Gupta — President, Marketing

See, contribution based on the volume, the percentage won’t move much because our Big Boss, which is the mid-premium segment and the economy range of products, which is Lehar. So these two has huge volumes. So in order to change the percentage or see a considerable change in the overall percentage would be very difficult. So the percentage movement would be very low, but in the athleisure segment for next two to three years, we are seeing somewhere around 35% to 40% growth year-on-year.

Rohit Suresh — Samatva Investments — Analyst

Okay. Fine. Sir, my second question would be on the project Lakshya. So in your presentation, you said that in the next couple of years, you want around 70% of your distributors to be under the project Lakshya scheme. So but if I’m not wrong, in one of your previous calls, you had said that it’s slightly difficult to get the big distributors, the large distributors under this project. So considering you want to reach that 70%, like how do you plan to reach that 70% considering there are a lot of large distributors who don’t actually want to come into the scheme? So how do you plan on achieving that?

Ankit Gupta — President, Marketing

So see, this particular fiscal year was a setback to our industry. And it has took us back to be very honest. And that’s why only 87 distributors got enrolled in this particular fiscal year. But we aspire to complete this particular project in another 2.5 years time. So we really want to do it. In order to achieve that, we have to add new states to it. The team is very aggressive and enrolling new distributors into it. And yes, we are trying our level best to get that particular enrollment happening. So if you see this year also at a company level, we did a volume growth of somewhere around 5%. But when we map the Lakshya distributor, last year — last full fiscal year versus this full fiscal year, the distributors on an average did around 19% to 20% volume growth. So that is the kind of — that is the kind of results we are getting from that. And that’s where we get a lot of conviction about this particular project. And we really want it to happen. And in the next 2.5, three years’ time, we’ll be — I think we should be able to do it.

Rohit Suresh — Samatva Investments — Analyst

So sir, if I’m not wrong, the distributors under Project Lakshya will be more from the new states and the existing stronger states that you have may still take some more time for — to get the majority of the dealers under the scheme?

Ankit Gupta — President, Marketing

Yes. So we are trying to cover the smaller states first, and so that we can get a good — see, we have to protect our market share as well, the sales in a particular market as well because whenever we start rolling out a particular state, there’s a dent in the sales in the first year. So in order to — so we are trying to implement it in such a manner so that we have a very less amount of sales dent happening in that particular state or we don’t lose our market share because each and every player is becoming very aggressive in the market and also seeing such a good result in the economic range of product showcases that there are some of the regional players who have curbed their working or their market share is being transferred to the organized players. So that’s what we think and therefore, we are working on it.

Rohit Suresh — Samatva Investments — Analyst

Got it. Great. Sir, and my last question would be on the price reductions that you have taken in Q4. Do you see any more reductions in the next couple of quarters?

Ankit Gupta — President, Marketing

Currently, in this quarter, we don’t see any kind of a reduction. But since Q4 until now the cotton candy — cotton prices per candy has reduced by somewhere round INR9,000 to INR10,000, right? And let’s — we are just hoping for the best because the yarn prices have not declined till now. So we are just hoping for the best.

Rohit Suresh — Samatva Investments — Analyst

Got it. Okay, sir. Thank you so much, and wishing you all the very best. Thank you.

Ankit Gupta — President, Marketing

Thank you so much.

Operator

Thank you. Our next question is from the line of Keshav Garg from Counter Cyclical PMS. Please go ahead.

Keshav Garg — Counter Cyclical PMS — Analyst

Sir, I’m trying to understand, sir, instead of focusing on marketing, brand building, distribution and cutting our working capital instead of pushing volumes and increasing our premiumization of our products, sir, it seems that we are focused on the commodity side of the business because we have land that is why we are putting up yarn capacity. So if you look at the industry leader, it is not — is the least integrated amongst all of you. They don’t do anything. They just do some switching and then they focus on branding and marketing. So — and their average selling price is very, very high as compared to us. So how are they managing their quality without setting up a yarn mill?

Ankit Gupta — President, Marketing

So to be very honest, we’re talking about Page Industries, it operates in a different segment, wherein it is a premium market, and we are — the homegrown companies that we are, we cater to a separate market segment, right? So the price at a Jockey level does not matter much. So it has a power that it can procure the fabric and then thereafter it can manufacture goods. And it does not do some amount of stitching. There are 22,000 employees which are being employed for the stitching and the elastic purposes, which are done almost 100% in-house, almost 100%. I wouldn’t say 100%. It is almost 100%, but they employ 22,000 to 25,000 employees, just for that particular process.

Secondly, it’s not that we had land that’s why we are increasing the filling unit or the process from cotton to yarn. Our major focus is still on the branding side. Our focus is still on the sales part of side, increasing the market share. It’s just that we were trying to maintain that 20% in-house yarn manufacturing because of the — since last year, 1.5 years or two years back, there was a huge shortage in the yarn industry also, the proper quality was not coming in, and we are very particular about the quality. And that’s why we took a decision two years back, which is happening. So the machinery orders have already gone through and it’s an investment of somewhere around INR50-odd crores. And we won’t — we don’t want to scrap that particular project, and it’s not that we’ll be having any kind of operational loss due to increase in that particular capacity. But if you see the two, three approaches that we have taken in the past two to three years, it has always been towards building our brand. It has always been increasing our market share in the market. So what we have done is the project Lakshya, the TOC program, which deals with the sales side. Secondly, opening up of the exclusive brand outlets, which deals with the brand awareness, changing the consumer perception towards the brand Dollar.

The third part, which we did was the brand architecture, which no one in the industry has done. So instead of having 16 or 17 or 20 sub-brands under the umbrella brand Dollar, we categorized it into six categories: Dollar Man, Dollar Woman, Dollar Always, Dollar Thermal, Dollar Junior and Dollar Protect. So this is the progressive thinking that the management has. This is where we are heading to, and this is our focus thing. And on the IT infrastructure part, we are implementing SAP. We have already implemented distributor management system among the Lakshya distributors. We are also working upon the auto replenishment system. So to make the system so robust that it will not only help us in the production planning, but also helps us giving insight in such a depth that we’ll be able to take that feedback, convert it into a product and sell it to the market and work it on our advantage. So that’s what we are doing currently.

Keshav Garg — Counter Cyclical PMS — Analyst

Sure. Sir, also, sir, just wanted to share some feedback with you. I’m based in Pune and I went to a club in which all the waiters had a uniform in which the advertisement was being done of Airtel and other brands. Also Dollar, D was also written on the t-shirt of the water. But I asked many people and nobody knew that what that D stands for. So although you are spending on advertisement, but sir, the question is of the effectiveness of that advertisement.

Ankit Gupta — President, Marketing

So let me answer you this way. We did the brand architecture 2.5 years back. It was in, I think, May 2020 when we launched our new brand logo and everything. Before that, we didn’t have any new monic. So the D that you’re talking about is a new monic, which we created 2.5 years back. So while advertising, we are already showing the new monic, but it needs time to have the consumer understand that this D belongs to the Dollar. And that’s why we have to spend a lot on the advertisement. That’s why our advertisement costs are also higher so that it gets registered to the consumer’s mind. So whenever a new brand is launched with a new monic, let’s say, Tommy Hilfiger, that particular red and a blue line did not get registered in two to three years’ time. It’s a process. So obviously, it will take some amount of time. But yes, this is doing wonders. We have gotten a very good feedback from the market, and people are actually liking this new monic concept because they never expected from a homegrown company like Dollar, who are for [Indecipherable] having a new monic and people wearing it with the price. So we are working towards it, and that is our focus that in our next two to three years, people do recognize from that new monic [Foreign Speech].

Keshav Garg — Counter Cyclical PMS — Analyst

Sure, sir. And sir, regarding our inventory and our receivables, are we doing anything to reduce the same? Sir, our operating cycle is almost one year. So I’m sure something can be done to reduce the working capital.

Ankit Gupta — President, Marketing

So our working capital cycle in the last fiscal was somewhere around 155 days. And this year also, we are at a similar level two, three days plus/minus.

Keshav Garg — Counter Cyclical PMS — Analyst

Sir, any scope to further reduce the same?

Ankit Gupta — President, Marketing

Yes, yes. So we are — we have implemented distributor financing scheme. And around 250-odd distributors are already there enrolled in that particular dealer financing scheme. That is one thing that we are doing. And on the inventory side, since we are launching new and new products every day, and there are a lot of SKUs that we have launched in the couple of years. So because of that inventory is on a bit of higher side, but there’s still a scope to reduce it by somewhere around 10 to 12 days.

Ajay Patodia — Chief Financial Officer

Clarify that we also implement production planning model in our [Indecipherable]. In production planning model, we have to integrate with our dealer management system so that we have the data for the last three years in which area, which type of product requires. Stated, then we reduce inventory level at every stage, whether it is grating [Phonetic], whether it is bleaching or whether it is cutting and making stage. So by this method, in working technology, we try to reduce our inventory days and by channel financing, dealer financing scheme, we try to reduce our receivable days. So by FY ’25, our target to achieve the total working capital days within 120 days.

Keshav Garg — Counter Cyclical PMS — Analyst

Sir, I didn’t get the last part. Sir you said your target by FY ’25 is to reduce working capital days by?

Ajay Patodia — Chief Financial Officer

120 days, reduce to 120 days. Currently, it is around 160.

Keshav Garg — Counter Cyclical PMS — Analyst

Sir, if you see our receivables, it is between 100 and 110 days. And if you look at Page, their receivable days are at 11 days. So I mean, sir, why do we need to give such a huge credit period to our distributors?

Ankit Gupta — President, Marketing

So Page has a cash and carry model. And it came — and it plays on the aspiration. People aspire to the Jockey product or when it’s launched in India and it became a status symbol for the youngsters basically. So it has that power to demand that. And he is the only player in that particular segment. And he was there as a sole player for a lot of years, like 20, 22 years. After that, a lot of other players, U.S. Polo or Levi’s or Van Heusen started coming up. But in our kind of market, we grew from economic range of products, and now we are moving up the ladder. So initially, we launched with — in 1972, we launched with economy range of products. And then in early 2000s, we launched Big Boss, which is our flagship brand. And it is like a mid-premium segment, class for mass kind of a thing. So we have grown from that particular level. And it’s a crowded market. We are — at a similar level, we have around five players; three are listed, two are in non-listed space. So yes, so as a policy, we have to extend that credit in the market.

Keshav Garg — Counter Cyclical PMS — Analyst

And sir, just lastly, sir, one last question, sir, is about our price positioning of our products on a blended average basis. Sir, how does our pricing compare with, let’s say, Lux and Rupa?

Ankit Gupta — President, Marketing

So there’s a difference of somewhere around 1.5%, 2% with our peer groups. We are on a lesser side. Initially, to gain market share, I’m talking about 20 years before. So to gain market share to have exceptional growth, that price gap was somewhere around 8% to 10%. And that’s why we gained acceptance in the market also. And slowly and gradually, we are trying to decrease that price and come to a similar level. Until we have managed to reduce it by 8%. And another 1.5% to 2%, I think we’ll be able to reduce it in a couple of years.

Keshav Garg — Counter Cyclical PMS — Analyst

Sure, sir. Best of luck. Just one last feedback, sir, like we are spending 6.5% of our revenue we plan to spend this year on advertisement. So our competitors are also spending in the same ballpark. So until and unless we do something different or we spend more effectively, then sir we are back to square one. It’s not that only we are spending 6.5% and others are spending 1%, 2%. Sir, so that’s all from me, sir. Thank you very much in…

Ankit Gupta — President, Marketing

Thank you so much for the feedback.

Operator

Thank you. Our next question is from the line of Vishal Bagadia from Roha Asset Managers. Please go ahead.

Vishal Bagadia — Roha Asset Managers — Analyst

Hi. Thank you for the opportunity. Sir, just to continue on the spinning capacity…

Operator

Mr. we request you to use the handset, please.

Vishal Bagadia — Roha Asset Managers — Analyst

Yes. Is it better?

Operator

Yes, sir. Please go ahead.

Vishal Bagadia — Roha Asset Managers — Analyst

Yes. Thank you for the opportunity. Sir, just to continue on the spinning capacity, you said that currently, it caters 20% of our yarn requirement. So once the capacity is added, how much of the yarn requirement would be catered, as you are almost doubling the spinning capacity?

Ankit Gupta — President, Marketing

So we are also trying to double our revenue, right? So ultimately, it will be — it will come down to 20% only. In a couple of years, you’ll see that — maybe for a couple of years, you will see that it has gone to 24%, 25%, 26%. But ultimately, it will come down to 20%.

Vishal Bagadia — Roha Asset Managers — Analyst

Okay. And just wanted to understand what is the status of our CapEx, both of integrated warehouse as well as the spinning capacity?

Ajay Patodia — Chief Financial Officer

Regarding warehousing projects in West Bengal hosiery part, it is already completed. Just we are waiting for the completion certificate. And regarding spinning project, due to some delay in machinery part, we have to wait for threre, four months. I expect it by September we commence the trial production.

Vishal Bagadia — Roha Asset Managers — Analyst

Sir, so just to follow up on this. Why is it taking so long to complete the CapEx, because we were targeting — this would have been completed somewhere by November earlier in the previous year, then we shifted it to March of this year. And now we are expecting it should go to September. So what is happening? Why is it just being pushed for almost a year now? And is there any cost escalation because of the same?

Ajay Patodia — Chief Financial Officer

No, no, no cost escalation, because we have to purchase the machinery and from only FMW [Phonetic] is the only vendor who supplied the machine in domestic and Murata in the foreign soil. So there is some part in delay from the vendor side only to supply the machinery and related accessory. So just we wait — and there is no escalation with regard to the price and cost for the machinery parts.

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Operator

Sir, the line for the participant has dropped. Maybe move to the next participant. Our next question is from the line of Ankush Agrawal from Surge Capital. Please go ahead.

Ankush Agrawal — Surge Capital — Analyst

Yes. Hi. Thanks for the opportunity again. So just a couple of data keeping questions. So can you help me with the volume growth and revenue growth for Lakshya scheme for the quarter?

Ankit Gupta — President, Marketing

So see, it would be — it would be very difficult to talk about the growth Lakshya, because there are some distributors who have got enrolled in the last three months who are not there in the previous year. And there are distributors who did 3 months of sales in the last fiscal and a complete full year of sale in this particular fiscal. So FY ’22, we did a INR100-odd crores of business through Lakshya distributor with 142 distributors. And this year with 229 distributors in totality, we did a total business of INR240 crores. So the overall contribution, which was 8.33% grew to 19.33% in this particular fiscal year.

Ankush Agrawal — Surge Capital — Analyst

No, actually, the last quarter, you used to give a number wherein say, for Q3, you gave the number of negative 5% volume growth for distributors who were there in Q3 FY ’22 and distributors were still there in Q3 FY ’23, Lakshya scheme. You should give those numbers. So if you can give that number for Q4.

Ankit Gupta — President, Marketing

Last time also, we gave that in Q3. So last year, in FY ’22 Q3, the distributors who were present there and the distributors who continued in the Q3 FY ’23, we shared our difference in that only. This year, if you compare Q4 this year versus Q4 last year — just give me a second. I think it is on — so there are a lot of new distributors which got enrolled. So let me get back to you with this particular question.

Ankush Agrawal — Surge Capital — Analyst

Yes. Okay. Okay. And lastly, just…

Ankit Gupta — President, Marketing

On overall company level, company level we did a volume growth of 19% vis-a-vis at — sorry, in Lakshya project, we did a volume growth of 19% and value growth of 18%, vis a vis in our regular overall at a company level, we did a volume growth of 5%. So you can actually see the difference which is there.

Ankush Agrawal — Surge Capital — Analyst

Yes. But some of that is also because the number of distributors have increased.

Ankit Gupta — President, Marketing

No. So we have not taken that into consideration in that 19%. We do —

Ankush Agrawal — Surge Capital — Analyst

Okay. So it’s like for like?

Ankit Gupta — President, Marketing

— only those distributors who were present in FY ’22 and FY ’23, for the full year. We have considered them only.

Ankush Agrawal — Surge Capital — Analyst

And can you target for number of distributors to be added this year, FY ’24?

Ankit Gupta — President, Marketing

So we are — we have Tamil Nadu and Karela in the picture. Apart from that, we are doing Odisha, Northeast. So this particular fiscal, I think another 100, 140 new distributors should get in.

Ankush Agrawal — Surge Capital — Analyst

Okay. Okay. Okay. That was all. Thank you.

Ankit Gupta — President, Marketing

Thank you.

Operator

Thank you. Due to time constraint, that was the last question of our question-and-answer session. I would now like to hand the conference over to the management for closing comments.

Ajay Patodia — Chief Financial Officer

I take this opportunity to thank everyone for joining this call. I hope we have been able to address all your queries. For any further information kindly get in touch with us. Thank you once again.

Ankit Gupta — President, Marketing

Thank you, everyone.

Operator

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