{"id":1001895,"date":"2026-04-09T08:12:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T02:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1001895"},"modified":"2026-04-09T09:40:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T04:10:25","slug":"costly-raw-materials-weigh-heavy-on-d2c-luggage-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/09\/costly-raw-materials-weigh-heavy-on-d2c-luggage-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"Costly raw materials weigh heavy on D2C luggage companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several new-age luggage makers currently seeking to raise funds may need to rework their cost structures to factor in increasing raw material prices stemming from the West Asia conflict, said merchant bankers and investors. <\/p>\n<p>Mokobara, Nasher Miles and Uppercase are among the startups looking to raise fresh capital for growth even as cash burn in the space remains elevated, driven largely by aggressive customer acquisition spending. <\/p>\n<p>Three key inputs for luggage makers \u2013 polypropylene, polycarbonate and polyamide \u2013 together comprising 40-45% of total production costs, have surged 35-50% in the past month, aggravating the financial strain, according to Crisil Ratings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several new-age luggage makers currently seeking to raise funds may need to rework their cost structures to factor in increasing raw material prices stemming from the West Asia conflict, said merchant bankers and investors. Mokobara, Nasher Miles and Uppercase are among the startups looking to raise fresh capital for growth even as cash burn in the space remains elevated, driven largely by aggressive customer acquisition spending. Three key inputs for luggage makers \u2013 polypropylene, polycarbonate and polyamide \u2013 together comprising 40-45% of total production costs, have surged 35-50% in the past month, aggravating the financial strain, according to Crisil Ratings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1001895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}