The company that has held the distributorship of Polo and Ralph Lauren products in Asia is chaired by a businessman that controls 40.13% of the voting capital of DCIL through what?
Dickson Concepts Dickson Concepts (International) Ltd. () is a Bermuda incorporated, Hong Kong based listed company (on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange). It has held the distributorship of Polo and Ralph Lauren products in Asia for in excess of twenty years. The company is chaired and controlled by Dickson Poon, who is also the company's Executive Chairman.
V. Vaidyanathan V. Vaidyanathan is founder and Executive Chairman of Capital First Ltd. He founded Capital First Ltd. by acquiring an equity stake in an existing wholesale NBFC, and then securing an equity backing of Rs. 810 crore in 2012 from reputed PE Warburg Pincus and concluded a successful buyout of the company which resulted in buyout of other majority and minority shareholders through an open offer to public. As part of the process, fresh capital of Rs. 1.00 billion was infused into the company, the board of directors was reconstituted, the business of the company was changed from wholesale to retail lending, and a new brand, Capital First was created. Post the buyout, Vaidyanathan holds shares and options totaling 13% of the company on a fully diluted basis through personal holdings and related entities.