Welcoming the truce between the Ambani brothers Mukesh and Anil, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Monday said it would do a lot of good to the business world.
The Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance group ended 2007 by overtaking the Tata group in market capitalisation stakes and this despite the latter's acquisition of Corus steel. Last year's number one, the Tata group, is now a distant number two with a market capitalisation of Rs 3.20 trillion.
Anil Ambani Group firm Reliance Infrastructure has agreed to pay the levy, although under protest, and has asked the Mukesh Ambani firm to resume natural gas supplies to its power plant.
Kishore Biyani's Future Group is getting its act together on supplying its private labels outside the group's 1,000-odd outlets, even as Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Retail has already marched ahead by starting to sell some of its private brands to kiranawalas (independent stores).
Reliance Industries Ltd will invest Rs 75,000 crore in rolling out 5G mobile telephony services, expanding retail network and setting up renewable energy capacity in Uttar Pradesh in the next four years, its chairman Mukesh Ambani said on Friday. Ambani also announced foray of the oil-to-telecom conglomerate into bio-energy business, converting agriculture waste into gas which can be used as fuel in industries, run automobiles or light kitchen stoves. Speaking at the Uttar Pradesh Global Investors Summit 2023 here, Ambani said his group will set up 10 GigaWatts of renewable energy capacity and roll out 5G services across the state in the next 10 months.
A Bench headed by Justice S H Kapadia, while setting aside the high court order, directed Reliance Energy to submit its financial bid for the project within three months.
The MoU says the gas supply agreement is with Reliance Energy and for the Dadri power project, senior counsel Harish Salve representing RIL said. "Nowhere does it say that the gas will go to RNRL," Salve told the division bench of Justices J N Patel and K K Tated. REL and RNRL are both Anil Ambani group companies.
In a major development, the two Ambani brothers -- Mukesh and Anil -- on Sunday decided to bury their differences and create an environment of harmony, co-operation and collaboration between their groups. "All existing non-compete agreement between the two groups executed in January 2006 cancelled," the Anil Ambani group said in a statement. The harmony comes within a few days of the Supreme Court declining to give any relief to the younger brother in the gas dispute.
Anil Ambani group counsel Mukul Rohtagi said he had no objection.
Domestic brokerage Sharekhan's last month's analysis of buy and sell transactions by mutual funds shows that the fund houses purchased stocks from sectors such as infrastructure, IT, telecom and healthcare, while offloading shares from oil and gas and banking sectors. Domestic mutual funds are lapping up the buying opportunity present in the bear gripped stock market and made net purchases worth Rs 3,179 crore (Rs 31.79 billion) in equities in June.
Ambani said Reliance ended last year with a net debt of Rs 154,478 crore.
While Mukesh is likely to make a foray into the specialty stores, is choosing the same date to launch the much-awaited Reliance Money.
Reliance Energy Ventures Ltd shares listed on the bourses on Friday and traded at Rs 48.90.
RNRL and Mukesh Ambani's RIL are fighting a legal battle over the terms of gas supply agreement for Anil Ambani Group's gas-based Dadri power project. Two weeks ago, government lawyer Mohan Parasaran had stated in the court that the Empowered Group of Ministers had decided that $4.2 per mmbtu would be the minimum price of KG basin gas.
Riding on a strong stock market rally, Anil Ambani-led diversified business conglomerate Reliance Group has crossed Rs one lakh crore market valuation.
Mukesh Ambani Group-controlled Indian Petrochemicals Corporation Ltd said on Friday there would be no change in its management post amalgamation of its subsidiaries with itself.
Justice Markandey Katju recused himself from the matter saying his wife held shares of Reliance Industries.
The Ambani brothers -- Mukesh and Anil -- have emerged among the biggest beneficiaries of the people's mandate in favour of the Congress-led UPA government as their group companies added close to Rs 90,000 crore (Rs 900 billion) of wealth in just five trading sessions after the results were declared.
Bharti group's Sunil Mittal retained his fourth position, followed by Wipro's Azim Premji at the fifth slot.
India's second richest person Gautam Adani received a total remuneration of Rs 9.26 crore in the fiscal year ended March 31, 2024, lower than most industry peers as well as his own key executives.
The board of directors have proposed a dividend of Rs 3.50 per share on the face value of Rs 10 per share to the shareholders.
Oil-to-telecom conglomerate Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) has surprised the street with a better than expected performance in its oil-to-chemicals (O2C) division in October-December 2024 (Q3FY25). RIL executives attributed it to favourable feedstock sourcing and higher volumes. However, they also listed cost optimisation and other measures.
The Indian economy has the potential to grow by more than 7.5 per cent annually and become the third largest in the world in the coming decades, Reliance Group Chairman Mukesh Ambani said.
The options would be convertible into equal number of equity shares and would be vested based on the specified criteria, the Mukesh Ambani group flagship firm informed the Bombay Stock Exchange. The vesting period would range between one to seven years from the date of the grant and the exercise period would extend up to five years from the date of vesting, RIL added.
Adani group opened a $1.2 billion copper plant, bought a port in Odisha, raised stakes in a cement company and stitched an alliance with rival Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries, all in a matter of one week in signs that the apples-to-airport conglomerate has shrugged off the Hindenburg effect and is back to rapid expansion spree. In the last one week, Adani group has through regulatory filings and press statements announced expansions and investments in its mainstay ports business, diversification into metal refining, fund infusion into a two-year-old cement foray and continuing progress in the commissioning of its mega solar project.
The JV was expected to open 56 exclusive high-end stores for the four focus brands, Miss Sixty, Energie, Killah & Murphy&Nye, in the top 10 cities in the first three years. As per the original plans, Darshan Mehta president and chief executive of Reliance Brands, was to spearhead the JV with separate business heads for each of the four brands.
Mukesh Ambani remains the country's wealthiest promoter as his stake in Reliance is now worth Rs 3.25 trillion!
The group of four ministers or G-4, headed by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, had its final meeting on Tuesday and decided to either withdraw and amend the Special Leave Petition or file separate affidavit or an interlocutory application this week, a top source said.In its present form, the government is seeking annulment of the part of the Ambani family MoU that provides for dividing gas from RIL's KG-D6 fields between companies run by brothers Mukesh and Anil Ambani.
While GBP 50 million is earmarked for grassroots and recreational cricket, the 18 English county teams will get a share of GBP 470 million with larger pie allocated for those clubs that don't own a 'Hundred Franchise'.
A new round of conflict started on Friday between the Ambani brothers, with the faction led by Mukesh
Sun Pharma's Dilip Shanghvi is India's richest person.
Led by a $6.5 billion surge in personal net worth on Tuesday, Gautam Adani, chairman of the Adani Group, is back in the top 20 of the world's richest list and is now ranked 19th globally. Adani is also now India's second richest with a net worth of $66.7 billion as of Tuesday, per the Bloomberg Rich List, while Mukesh Ambani, chair of Reliance Industries, is ranked number one in India and number 13 in the world with a net worth of $89.5 billion.
Mukesh Ambani group's flagship company Reliance Industries on Thursday posted a net profit of Rs 2,799 crore (Rs 27.99 billion) in the October-December quarter, up from Rs 1,776 crore (Rs 17.76 billion) in the year-ago period.
Mukesh Ambani group company Reliance Petroleum may not have found much favour with investors during its nearly eight-month stay on the bourses, but the company has found mention in a list of the world's 15 biggest IPOs in 2006.
Reliance had already invested Rs 3,900 crore in the state.
Tata Group chairman Natarajan Chandrasekaran on Thursday said the group's recently launched super app Neu is on an open architecture and it will host non-group brands as well. The Tatas finally launched its super app Tata Neu on April 7, after piloting it for months, but the group chairman claimed there was no delay in the commercial launch. Stating that the app has received an overwhelming response in the past seven days of going live, Chandrasekaran said the app is on an open architecture and will host products and services from non-Tata group companies.
Ambani brothers' split is proving to be a blessing in disguise for the investors as they have seen nearly doubling of their wealth in less than four months since Reliance Industries began trading on a post-demerger split basis.
Billionaire Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries Ltd has spent $13 billion on acquisitions in the past five years across new energy, telecom, retail and media business to script a pivot away from core oil and petrochemicals business to clean energy and consumer facing verticals. Last week, Reliance bought oncology platform Karkinos Healthcare for Rs 375 crore, adding another stack to its diagnostic and digital healthcare ecosystem, Morgan Stanley said in a report.
The Supreme Court on Friday rejected division of gas under the Ambani family MoU and said that it was government's right to decide the price and utilisation of the fuel, which is a national asset.
