RIL recasts investment strategy for acquisitions
Business Standard|September 20, 2022
Reliance Industries (RIL) has been distilling its investment strategy for acqusitions and buying stake in companies to meet new goals. The share of the new energy vertical-its key focus area-accounts for more than a fourth (26 per cent) of the total war chest of $6.4 billion, ploughed into acquisitions and picking up stake from 2018 to date, reveals the latest Morgan Stanley data.
SURAJEET DAS GUPTA
RIL recasts investment strategy for acquisitions

Nearly half the incremental investments made on deals by RIL between August 2020 and September this year ($3.3 billion) has been spent energy acqui global companies with technology and expertise. By comparison, the telecommunications (telecom) and internet vertical accounts for less than a fourth of the incremental money spent in the past two years. In retail, it is a mere one-tenth.

Retail has been a straggler for RIL. Its share in the total pie invested since 2018 remains stagnant, falling from 13 per cent in August 2020 to 11.78 per cent this September.

The money put in for picking up stake is not even close to $1 billion, although this is a key vertical earmarked for future growth, along with new energy and telecom.

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