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Reliance Retail Ventures Ltd (RRVL) will 'rapidly' scale its online business, expand dark stores and strengthen omni-channel capabilities, as the retailer expects these investments to translate into higher margins and earnings growth, a top company official said. Outlining a three-year roadmap, Reliance Retail CFO Dinesh Taluja said the company will invest in the infrastructure of JioMart and omni-channel reach across platforms, even as margins have come under pressure from rising technology and dark-store investments. "We are looking at growing our online businesses pretty rapidly during this year. We will expand dark stores. We will grow our omni-channel platforms. We will grow JioMart," Taluja said in the company's earnings call. Besides, it will also focus on improving the operational metrics around availability, speed, and reliability with a market-by-market focus on achieving positive unit economics. "Each market, the unit economics, we need to have a clear path to positive u
Reliance Industries will seek shareholders' nod for approval of internal transactions of over Rs 16.64 lakh crore spread over the next five fiscal years involving digital services subsidiaries Jio Platforms and Reliance Jio Infocomm, according to the notice for the 49th AGM filed by the company on Friday. The meeting is scheduled to be held on June 19, 2026. The biggest pie of over Rs 13 lakh crore in the overall transaction will go to Reliance Jio from Reliance Retail in lieu of telecom services sold through its retail network. "The monetary value for transactions... for FY 2027-28 is estimated to be Rs 2,20,000 crore; and... in each of the subsequent financial years from FY 2028-29 to FY 2031-32 is estimated to be up to Rs 2,80,000 crore" for sale of Reliance Jio's recharge vouchers, Jio Fibre etc by Reliance Retail. The total estimate includes a payment of Rs 76,800 crore by Reliance Jio to RIL for roll out of its telecom network on EPC (engineering, procurement, and constructio
Reliance Retail Ventures Ltd, the holding entity of the country's leading retailer Reliance Retail, has appointed former Flipkart executive Jeyandran Venugopal as its President & CEO. In his new role, Venugopal will work closely with Isha Ambani, Executive Director of RRVL and the Leadership Team of Reliance Retail, under the overall guidance of Mukesh Ambani and Manoj Modi. Venugopal, who has 25 years of global leadership experience across retail, e-commerce, technology, and business transformation, will strengthen the retail portfolio, accelerate omnichannel growth, and drive technical and operational excellence across the value chain at Reliance Retail. Earlier, Venugopal worked with Walmart's e-Commerce platform Flipkart, where he most recently served as Chief Product and Technology Officer (CPTO), leading large cross-functional teams across Product, Engineering, Design, Data Science, IT, Security, and Infrastructure. Venugopal, whose career reflects managing ...
Reliance Retail, the country's leading retailer, has completed the internal restructuring process, in which its consumer business has been transferred on a going-concern basis to a new entity -- New Reliance Consumer Products Ltd (New RCPL). New RCPL has now become a direct subsidiary of Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL), in which the billionaire Mukesh Ambani-led group will hold an 83.56 per cent stake, according to a late-night regulatory filing on Monday. As per the scheme of arrangement among Reliance Retail Ltd (RRL) and Reliance Retail Ventures Ltd (RRVL) and their shareholders and creditors, and Reliance Consumer Products Ltd (RCPL), it has transferred the FMCG brands business from RRL to a new entity named New Reliance Consumer Products Ltd (New RCPL). The "scheme has become effective from December 01, 2025, and in terms of the Scheme, RCPL, a subsidiary of the company, stands dissolved effective December 01, 2025," it said. "Further, in terms of the Scheme, as a consideration