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The Raymond Shop partners with Aparshakti Khurrana
Mumbai: The Raymond Shop partners with renowned B-town celebrity couple, Aparshakti Khurrana and Aakriti Ahuja exemplifying a shared commitment to style, elegance, and sartorial excellence. This partnership highlights Raymond’s men’s wardrobe offering as a preferred destination for people who know their style. The Raymond Shop has 1000 plus outposts across 600 towns and cities in India, spreading across the length and breadth of the country.
Aparshakti and Aakriti love The Raymond Shop’s wide range of men’s fashion and the unparalleled shopping experience it provides to all its customers alike. The premium fashion destination also caters to a diverse brand offering such as Raymond Fine Fabrics, Raymond Ready to Wear, Park Avenue, Parx, and Colorplus; each brand offering a seamless experience to all its customers.
Raymond has been around for 99 years and is known for its excellence in designs offering the best in menswear fashion. Whether you need an outfit in casual, semi-formal, formal, or Indian wear, Raymond has got you covered from fine fabrics tailored into custom suits to ready-to-wear formal and casual wear. The custom tailoring services ensure every fabric is meticulously crafted to give you a perfectly fitted ensemble.
Aparshakti Khurrana and Aakriti Ahuja partnering up with The Raymond Shop exhibit their affinity for the brand’s classic style and commitment to quality. Their love for classy and elegant fashion aligns perfectly with what Raymond as a premium menswear brand truly stands for.
The Raymond Shop is like a symbol of excellence in men’s fashion, a one-stop fashion destination for a full wardrobe dressing solution. It’s all about premium, personalised services, timeless designs, and exceptional craftsmanship that stand as a beacon of perfection. By partnering with The Raymond Shop, Aparshakti, and Aakriti are strengthening the ties that appreciate and value both great quality and timeless attire.
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UK’s OnlyFans seeks US investor at $3bn valuation after owner’s death
The adult video platform is seeking stability after the death of its billionaire owner
LONDON: OnlyFans is looking for a new partner. The London-based adult video platform is in advanced talks to sell a minority stake of less than 20 per cent to Architect Capital, a San Francisco-based investment firm, in a deal that would value the business at more than $3bn (£2.2bn).
The move is driven by an urgent need for stability. Leonid Radvinsky, the Ukrainian-American billionaire who owned OnlyFans, died of cancer last month at the age of 43, leaving the future of one of Britain’s most profitable privately held businesses suddenly uncertain.
The choice of Architect Capital is not arbitrary. The firm has deep expertise in financial services, which aligns neatly with OnlyFans’ ambitions to offer banking products to its creators, many of whom have long struggled to access basic financial services because of the nature of their work.
The numbers behind OnlyFans are, by any measure, staggering. The platform posted revenues of $1.4bn in the year to 30th November 2024, with a pre-tax profit of $684m, up four per cent on the prior year. Payments to creators totalled $7.2bn over the same period, a rise of nearly ten per cent. Radvinsky personally collected $701m in dividends from the business in 2024 alone, on top of more than $1bn in such payments he had already received. The platform, run through its parent company Felix International, hosts 4.6m creator accounts, with performers keeping 80 per cent of subscription proceeds and the platform pocketing the remaining 20 per cent. It has 377m fan accounts in total.
The current minority stake talks represent a notable scaling back of ambitions. In January, OnlyFans was reported to be in discussions with Architect about selling a majority stake of 60 per cent. Before that, the company had explored a sale to a consortium led by Forest Road Company, a Los Angeles-based investment firm. Neither deal materialised.
OnlyFans has built an enormously lucrative business on content that mainstream finance has long refused to touch. Now, with its owner gone and a $3bn valuation on the table, it is looking for the kind of respectable institutional backing that might finally persuade the banks to take its calls.
