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Innovation focus area for Reliance Retail, Jio
Financial Express Ahmedabad
|August 08, 2025
THE COMPETITIVE DOMESTIC telecom market is prompting leader Reliance Jio to innovate at an unprecedented scale.
Nearly half of Jio's patent applications till date came in FY25 alone, Reliance Industries' latest annual report released Thursday said.
RIL's digital services unit Jio Platforms submitted 1,654 patent applications during the year. This is 32% higher than last year. And when compared with the total cumulative filing of 3,341 till date, FY25 constitutes almost 50%. The report reveals that 154 patents were granted during the year, taking the total number of patents granted to the company to 485.
Reliance Retail, on the other hand, stepped up investments in FY25, ploughing in ₹33,696 crore, up 37.5% from FY24, when ₹24,506 crore was put in mainly into infrastructure development and expansion of its business.
This story is from the August 08, 2025 edition of Financial Express Ahmedabad.
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