{"id":951345,"date":"2025-07-31T08:39:36","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T03:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=951345"},"modified":"2025-07-31T09:03:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T03:33:38","slug":"lenskart-acquires-80-stake-in-spains-meller-for-rs-407-cr-ahead-of-ipo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/31\/lenskart-acquires-80-stake-in-spains-meller-for-rs-407-cr-ahead-of-ipo\/","title":{"rendered":"Lenskart acquires 80% stake in Spain\u2019s Meller for Rs 407 cr ahead of IPO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eyewear retailer Lenskart, backed by SoftBank, has acquired an 80% stake in Spain-based Stellio Ventures S.L., which operates the Gen Z-focused fashion eyewear brand Meller, for Rs 407 crore. The acquisition was made through Lenskart\u2019s Singapore arm and comes as the Gurugram-based company prepares for a public listing later this year. <\/p>\n<p>The stake buy forms part of a broader strategy to expand Lenskart\u2019s product footprint in Europe, diversify its sunglasses portfolio, and boost its social media and ecommerce capabilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eyewear retailer Lenskart, backed by SoftBank, has acquired an 80% stake in Spain-based Stellio Ventures S.L., which operates the Gen Z-focused fashion eyewear brand Meller, for Rs 407 crore. The acquisition was made through Lenskart\u2019s Singapore arm and comes as the Gurugram-based company prepares for a public listing later this year. The stake buy forms part of a broader strategy to expand Lenskart\u2019s product footprint in Europe, diversify its sunglasses portfolio, and boost its social media and ecommerce capabilities.<\/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":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-951345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951345","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=951345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}