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Go Fashion (India) Limited ● Chennai, Tamil Nadu ● Founded 2010 ● gocolors.com ↗
Gautam Saraogi · Co-Founder, Executive Director & CEO Prakash Kumar Saraogi · Co-Founder & Managing Director Rahul Saraogi · Co-Founder & Non-Executive Director
$161.92 MnTotal funding (tracked)
3Funding rounds
17 Nov 2021Last round
5,410Team size (sourced)

Go Colors: Business Model Canvas

The nine-block Business Model Canvas, filled in only where a public source states it — empty blocks mean we haven't found a citable fact yet, not that the answer is zero.

Value Propositions

First dedicated branded women's bottom-wear player

Positioned by the company as the pioneer of a branded category that previously had no dominant player.

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Wide style and colour variety

Marketed range of bottom-wear styles and colour options as a core differentiator on its own site.

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Customer Segments

Value-conscious women bottom-wear shoppers

Products priced Rs249–Rs1,599, with the large majority retailed under Rs1,049 — targeting the mass/affordable segment of women's apparel.

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Repeat, high-frequency apparel buyers

Go Colors' own leadership frames its bottom-wear category as a repeat-purchase category rather than a one-off fashion buy.

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Customer Relationships

Frictionless D2C fulfillment (free delivery, COD, easy returns)

Go Colors' own D2C site is built to remove purchase friction, offering free delivery, free cash on delivery, and easy no-hassle returns.

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Exclusive styles and early access for direct customers

The D2C channel is used to build a closer direct relationship with customers by giving them exclusive online styles and early access to new collections not available through EBOs or large-format retail.

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High-frequency repeat-visit relationship strategy

Leadership treats getting customers back into stores repeatedly across the year, rather than a one-off purchase, as central to how it manages the customer relationship.

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Channels

Exclusive Brand Outlets (EBOs)71% of sales, 533 stores across 135 cities

Company-run standalone stores are the dominant sales channel.

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Large Format Stores (LFS)23.1% of sales, 1,597 outlets

Shelf space inside large-format retail chains is the second channel.

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Online2.5% of sales

Smallest channel by revenue share at the time reported.

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Key Activities

Concentrating effort on product, EBO retail, and supply chain

Leadership organizes nearly all day-to-day activity around three priorities -- product development, EBO store execution, and supply chain -- treating other functions as secondary.

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Managing an outsourced, asset-light manufacturing model

Rather than operating captive factories, the company's core sourcing activity is managing relationships with external manufacturers, which leadership says preserves flexibility on cost and quality.

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Low-spend, influencer-led digital marketing~3-4% of revenue spent on digital marketing

Marketing activity is concentrated in a small digital budget centered on social media influencers rather than broad mass-media campaigns.

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Key Resources

In-house-designed, comfort-engineered product catalog1200+ styles, 50+ silhouettes, 120+ colors

The company's core resource is its own bottom-wear design catalog, engineered for stretch, breathability and all-day comfort rather than fast-fashion trend cycles.

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SAP ERP as core operating infrastructure

Store, inventory and business operations run on an SAP enterprise system, which leadership describes as a significant but necessary investment as the company scaled.

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Owned retail real estate footprint, now expanding internationally800+ EBOs in India + first Dubai store

Beyond its 800+ India-based exclusive brand outlets, the company has begun building an owned international retail footprint, starting with its first store outside India, in Dubai.

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Key Partnerships

Sequoia Capital (Peak XV Partners) as first outside investor$10M investment, Nov 2014

Sequoia Capital India, later renamed Peak XV Partners, was the company's first external institutional investor.

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Third-party manufacturer / job-work supplier network

Instead of owning factories, the company depends on a network of external manufacturing partners it can switch between for better quality or price, rather than a small set of exclusive suppliers.

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Revenue Streams

Retail sale of branded women's bottom-wear

Core revenue is direct retail sale of bottom-wear apparel under the Go Colors brand.

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Cost Structure

Total operating expenses near 73% of revenueExpenses ~72.7% of sales (TTM)

Trailing-twelve-month total expenses were about Rs609 crore against Rs838 crore of sales, roughly 72.7% of revenue, leaving an operating profit margin near 28%.

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Depreciation is a large expense line relative to profitDepreciation ~Rs137 Cr TTM vs Rs53 Cr net profit

On a trailing-twelve-month basis, depreciation of about Rs137 crore was recorded against sales of Rs838 crore -- a cost roughly 2.6x the period's Rs53 crore net profit.

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Store rent held near 15% of revenueRent ~15% of revenue (per-store target)

Leadership tracks store rent-to-revenue as a core cost-discipline metric, targeting around 15% of revenue as the threshold for a healthy store.

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Gross margin held above 60% in the EBO businessGross margin >60% in EBO business

Leadership frames healthy EBO unit economics around gross margins above 60%, implying product cost of goods sold is held under roughly 40% of revenue.

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FAQs on Go Colors

What is Go Colors's business model?

Go Colors's core value proposition centers on First dedicated branded women's bottom-wear player, Wide style and colour variety.

How does Go Colors make money?

Go Colors's cited revenue streams include Retail sale of branded women's bottom-wear.

Sources & corrections. Every fact on this page is compiled from cited public sources — follow the "source" links beside each entry. Profile sources: www.screener.in www.bseindia.com · Last verified 23 Oct 2026. · Report a correction