As per the newspaper reports, Reliance Retail is planning to aggressively expand into offline pharmacy stores under it’s subsidiary brand Netmeds. Reliance had acquired a majority stake in online pharmacy start-up Nedmeds in August 2020. Along with online, Reliance is currently running offline pharmacies under shop in shop format within it’s retail store network; Reliance … Read more
Reliance Retail Ventures Limited (RRVL) is acquiring 100% of METRO India. METRO India started operations in India in 2003 as the first company to introduce cash-and-carry business format in the country. It currently operates 31 large format stores across 21 cities with about 3,500 employees. The business claims to have over 3 mn B2B customers … Read more
Alongside Q2 FY 23 results, Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) has announced demerger and listing of a subsidiary, Reliance Strategic Investments Limited (RSIL) to focus on the financial services segment. RSIL is currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of RIL and is a RBI-registered non-Deposit taking Systemically Important (ND-SI) Non-Banking Financial Company (NBFC). RIL will demerge it’s financial … Read more
Asia’s second-wealthiest man, Reliance Industries Ltd. Chairman Mukesh Ambani, is setting up a family office in Singapore, according to people familiar with the move. The Mumbai-based billionaire has picked a manager to hire staff for the new entity and get it running, the people said, asking not to be identified because the matter is private. … Read more
How the Reliance (RIL) empire gets divided between the three siblings has been a hotly debated topic over the last few years. Many attribute the unprecedented fund raising of about Rs 1.65 lakh crore in 2020 to be the 1st step in that direction. Funds were raised from a multitude of reputed global strategic and … Read more
India’s biggest retailer Reliance will acquire dozens of small grocery and non-food brands as it targets building its own $6.5 billion consumer goods business to challenge foreign giants like Unilever, two sources familiar with the plan told Reuters. Reliance, run by Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani, plans to build a portfolio of 50 to 60 grocery, … Read more
Viacom18 (V18) is amongst the leading players in the Indian television sector with 38 channels in nine languages across various genres including general entertainment, movies, sports, youth, music and kids. Besides, it also has OTT streaming platform Voot. V18 is currently a 51:49 JV between Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) owned TV18 and Paramount Global. RIL … Read more
In a bonanza for gas producers, Reliance Industries is set to get a record price of around $10 per MMBtu for the KG gas, while state-owned ONGC is likely to fetch more than double the rate for its Mumbai High and other fields, sources said. The government-dictated price for natural gas produced in the country … Read more
Mukesh Ambani and Gautam Adani tiptoed around each other for years to reach the top two rungs of Asia’s wealth ladder. While one of them built an empire in telecom and retail, the other established a lock on transport and energy distribution. Increasingly, though, the two billionaires from India’s Gujarat state are starting to overlap, … Read more