Last week, the 26-year-old wine company filed for an IPO. It might just become the most fashionable Indian alcohol brand to go public.
The draft IPO prospectus of Sula Vineyards is more of a playbook. Filed late last week by the Mumbai-based wine company, the prospectus is a 460-page manual on navigating the Indian market and the persistence required to build a business out of alcohol in India.
Sula goes back to the 1990s. It was founded and is run by second-generation entrepreneur Rajeev Samant. It set up its first vineyard in the city of Nashik in Maharashtra in 1996 on a piece of land owned by Samant’s family and introduced its first wine in 2000. It was seed-funded by family, friends and …
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