Through a blend of online events, video-guided tours and parties, and digital catalogues called "flipbooks", the company's sales have awakened after the easing of the lockdown.
Video-calls, whatsapp catalogues, tailored web-parties tap customers
Here's a timeline of Reliance Jio Platforms' six mega investment deals with foreign players and one additional commitment announced since April 22, 2020
Starting with Facebook Inc on April 22, Reliance has sold almost 25 per cent of equity in Jio Platforms.
An agreement between Ambani's Reliance and Future, which already has a partnership with Amazon.com Inc., could be announced as early as next month
Future Supply Chain Solutions (FSC) is a third-party supply chain and logistics service provider that offers warehousing facilities also.
Reserved and mostly invisible to the public, Modi is viewed by many insiders and others in India's business world as the right hand of billionaire Mukesh Ambani.
In April, Facebook had announced an investment of $ 5.7 billion (Rs 43,574 crore) in Jio Platforms.
The app is not yet available on Apple or Google Play Store and has to be downloaded from jiomart.com
Once regarded as cheap me-too products, the lockdown has changed how customers engage with private labels. Will the trend outlast the pandemic?
"The current crisis is demonstrating the adaptability and durability of Amazon's business as never before, but it's also the hardest time we have ever faced," said Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO.
Called bharatemarket.in, the announcement comes at a time when e-tailers Amazon and Flipkart and offline player Reliance Retail are trying to woo small traders
Its revenues for FY20 grew by 24.8 per cent on a yearly basis to Rs 62,936 crore. Ebitda for FY20 grew by 56 per cent y-o-y to Rs 9,654 crore.
Jio Platforms, Reliance Retail and WhatsApp also enter into a commercial partnership agreement
The biggest lesson in the situation is redefining the hygiene of the shopping environment, which will now be an ongoing exercise, says Big Bazaar CEO Sadashiv Nayak
RRVL will acquire 7,86,191 equity shares representing 100 per cent of the equity share capital of SKDS
Deloitte ranked 250 firms globally in its annual report based on their revenues for FY2018. The Indian retail major secured the 56th spot this year against the 94th rank the previous year
Billionaire Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries is India's answer to US giants Exxon, AT&T and Amazon - all rolled into one, Bernstein Research said on Tuesday. "Reliance has disrupted the energy and telecoms industry in India and is on the cusp of doing the same to retail, fintech, and media," it said in a report adding the company has an enviable track record of innovation and execution. For the oil-to-telecom conglomerate, energy remains core business and is expected to further expand as India is forecast to be the fastest-growing market for fuel and chemical products over the next decade, it said adding the company's partnership with BP of the UK and Saudi Aramco will support this. Reliance owns the world's largest single-site oil refining complex and has multiple petrochemical plants. Three years back it forayed into telecom business and has reached 34 per cent share of market revenue. "Based on the current net add run-rates it will likely reach 44 per cent share by the end ..
Firm's revenue grew 27.4 per cent YoY during the quarter to touch Rs 45,327 cr
RIL's net profit for October-December 2019 increased by 13.5 per cent to Rs 11,640 crore, beating street estimates