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Parle Products IPO buzz is back, and this time the numbers are staggering. The company behind Parle-G, Monaco and Melody is reportedly in talks to go public at a valuation north of $10.5 billion, a figure that would make it one of the priciest consumer-goods listings India has ever seen.
According to sources cited by Moneycontrol, the Chauhan family-owned FMCG major has begun early groundwork for a public listing that could hit the markets sometime next year. The issue size itself is no small number either, sources peg it at over $1 billion, roughly ₹9,530 crore, which would rank it among the biggest IPOs to come out of India’s packaged foods space in recent memory.
To steer the process, Parle has reportedly roped in Kotak Mahindra Capital, Axis Capital and HSBC Securities as advisors, with talk of a fourth banker possibly joining the syndicate before things move further. That said, nothing here is set in stone yet; the valuation, the size, even the final structure of the offer could shift depending on how investors are feeling and where the markets stand closer to launch.
When Moneycontrol reached out, Parle’s CMO Mayank Shah didn’t exactly confirm anything, but he didn’t shut it down either. He kept it diplomatic, saying the company doesn’t comment on speculation but is “like any company of our scale”, always weighing options that could fuel growth.
Founded way back in 1929, Parle Products has spent nearly a century building what is arguably the most recognisable biscuit brand on the planet. Parle-G alone has achieved a kind of cultural permanence in Indian households that few products can claim. And notably, this Parle is not the same entity as Parle Agro, the makers of Frooti and Appy Fizz, which split off from the family business years ago and now run entirely independent operations.
The numbers behind the IPO chatter are worth pausing on. Parle Products pulled in operational revenue of ₹15,568.49 crore in FY25, an 8.5% jump over the previous year. Profit, though, told a rougher story; it slid 39% to ₹979.53 crore. Even so, the 2025 Burgundy Private Hurun India 500 report had already ranked Parle as the seventh most valuable unlisted company in the country, pegging its worth at around ₹75,420 crore, or roughly $8 billion.
If a listing does go through at the reported $10.5 billion mark, it would immediately draw comparisons with Britannia Industries, India’s other biscuit behemoth, which is already publicly traded and carries a market cap of ₹1,29,449 crore as of July 2. For the first time, investors would get to weigh two of India’s biggest biscuit-makers side by side on the stock exchange.
There’s also chatter that the offering could lean heavily on an offer-for-sale structure, letting existing shareholders, largely the Chauhan family, cash out a slice of their long-held stake rather than the company raising fresh capital. It’s a pattern that’s fairly common among India’s older, cash-rich family businesses that don’t really need outside money but do want liquidity.
Whether this actually reaches SEBI’s desk as a formal filing is still an open question. But if Parle-G does make its Dalal Street debut, it won’t just be another IPO, it’ll be a piece of Indian childhood finally getting a stock ticker.
