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A man walks past Reliance Industries Jio telecoms logo on a street in Mumbai. Reliance's July-September numbers come days after the impressive debut of Jio Platforms, the conglomerate's digital services arm, which has raised more than $3bn in the country's biggest initial public offering.
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India's Reliance Industries reports best ever quarterly sales in Q3

Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries on Friday reported its highest ever quarterly revenue, saying net profit rose 41% in the third quarter, helped by strong performances from its core oil-to-chemicals arm and digital services division.Reliance's July-September numbers come days after the impressive debut of Jio Platforms, the conglomerate's digital services arm, which raised more than $3bn in the country's biggest initial public offering earlier this week.The retail-to-refining giant led by billionaire tycoon Mukesh Ambani is India's most valuable company by market capitalisation.The conglomerate reported revenue of 3.62tn rupees ($38bn), up 27.8% year-on-year and its highest ever quarterly sales figure, according to a company statement.Reliance has aggressively expanded into telecom and green energy businesses over the last decade, but it still relies on its traditional oil business for profits.The conglomerate owns and operates the world's largest refinery complex in the eastern Indian state of Gujarat.The sector has faced multiple challenges, with the ongoing Mideast conflict affecting supplies, but Reliance has managed to diversify crude imports.Reliance "delivered a strong performance despite a complex operating environment", Ambani said in the statement."Our ability to optimise feedstock sourcing and product placement along with operations across the value chain enabled us to improve margin capture," Ambani added.Jio's strong listing has also pushed the growth.Launched a decade ago, Jio's wireless service disrupted the market with steep discounts that helped it rapidly win customers from rival telecom firms Bharti Airtel and Vodafone.With more than 530mn subscribers, the firm currently makes most of its money from telecoms, but has expanded in recent years into newer areas including digital services and artificial intelligence.Analysts see Jio as the key to Reliance's strategy to evolve beyond its traditional business and a touchstone of its future tech ambitions.Ambani said Reliance has set "multiple global benchmarks.""It demonstrates the depth of confidence investors place in Jio's solid foundation and strong growth visibility," he added. 

Backed by Meta, Alphabet's Google and institutional investors, the IPO is being closely watched as a gauge of demand for new listings at a time when AI-related companies face greater scrutiny. About 90% of Jio's revenue comes from its telecoms business.
Business

Ambani's record Jio Indian IPO subscribed over five times as demand surges

Demand for Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani's $3.2bn Jio Platforms IPO swelled to more than five times the shares on offer on Thursday, and the retail portion of the country's biggest ever stock offering was fully subscribed.The offering is the first by Ambani's Reliance Industries in 20 years and a key part of the billionaire's long-term vision to transform the group from an oil-to-chemicals company into a broader consumer, retail and technology business.Institutional investors drove demand, with qualified institutional buyers bidding for almost 12 times their quota, exchange data showed. Retail investors, who account for about a third of the offering, had bid for 1.45 times their allocation by Thursday, the second of three days of public bidding.Backed by Meta, Alphabet's Google and institutional investors, the IPO is being closely watched as a gauge of demand for new listings at a time when AI-related companies face greater scrutiny. About 90% of Jio's revenue comes from its telecoms business.The IPO has attracted strong retail demand largely because of the Reliance brand, which extends far beyond Jio Platforms' telecoms business, an analyst tracking the IPO said.Reliance shares have risen about 330-fold since 1990, making the stock a long-term investment favourite for many Indian families. Announcing the listing in June, Ambani called it: "A deeply emotional moment for me, for the entire Reliance Family, and millions of its shareholders."Jio helped bring streaming, digital payments and online services to millions of Indians through low-cost data and free calls. Its next phase of growth is focused on 5G, home broadband, cloud and AI services.The IPO was fully subscribed within 90 minutes on its first day, driven by institutional investors who filled their allocation within minutes. Such a start is unusual for a deal of this size in India, where large offerings typically attract most bids late in the process.The IPO values Jio Platforms at up to $108.3bn, potentially making it one of India's most valuable listed companies when trading starts on October 28.Earlier this week, Jio allotted $853mn of shares to more than 200 domestic and international investors, including Abu Dhabi Investment Authority and BlackRock, after the reserved portion drew bids totalling more than $25bn.Jio's telecoms arm, led by Mukesh Ambani's son Akash, was built on a 2016 bet that cheap mobile data would dramatically increase internet use in India. Low prices and free voice calls quickly won customers from Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea.Jio is now India's largest telecoms operator, with more than 500mn subscribers, making it the world's second-largest telecoms operator in a single country after China Mobile. 

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio shakes hands with India's Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, before a bilateral meeting at the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in Mumbai on Tuesday. Rubio plans to encourage India's Reliance Industries to refine more Venezuelan crude at its local refineries and potentially begin producing oil in the South American country, he told reporters in Mumbai.
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Rubio to encourage India's Reliance to produce, refine more Venezuelan oil

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio plans to encourage India's Reliance Industries to refine more Venezuelan crude at its local refineries and potentially begin producing oil in the South American country, he told reporters in Mumbai on Tuesday.Rubio landed in India's sweltering financial capital days after President Donald Trump waived potential sanctions on the world's top buyers of Russian oil, a list that includes India. The move is likely to help pave the way for a trade deal between New Delhi and Washington, but has been panned by US lawmakers, who complain that the Trump administration has been far too soft on Moscow.During the two-day visit to Mumbai and Jamnagar in the western part of the country, Rubio is slated to meet government and business leaders, including Foreign Minister S Jaishankar and billionaire Mukesh Ambani, chairman of Reliance Industries, which operates the world's largest refining complex."We will talk about (refining more Venezuelan crude) tomorrow with Reliance...They have done so in the past, and I think as more and more of Venezuelan oil comes online, that is something they can do," Rubio told reporters.Reliance's two massive refineries at the Jamnagar complex, with a combined capacity of about 1.4mn barrels per day of crude oil, are able to process the ultra-heavy crudes coming out of Venezuela, some of which have a sludge-like consistency. As Venezuela's oil production has increased following the Trump administration's capture of former Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro in January, Reliance has emerged as a significant importer of the nation's crude.Asked whether he would discuss the possibility of Reliance itself producing oil with Venezuela, Rubio said the matter had been discussed in the past, and that the matter would come up again. While Reliance is a major refiner of Venezuelan crude, it is not active inside the South American country."We are going to go see what the holdup is and what opportunities exist...this is a company that has had a presence in Venezuela in the past, and whose refining capabilities are substantial," he said.Rubio's visit comes as Trump removed one potential stumbling block to a trade deal between the countries last Friday when he waived potential tariffs that would have punished New Delhi for its extensive purchases of Russian crude oil.Legislation signed by Trump in September authorises the administration to impose tariffs of up to 100% on the top five importers of Russian oil, which would include India, which stands at number two on that list after China.Trump's decision to waive all substantive provisions of that bill has upset both Democrats and Republicans who have pushed him to up economic pressure on Moscow for its war with Ukraine.Rubio has said the effort to finalise a trade deal was a factor in the decision to waive those tariffs, and a comprehensive trade deal is almost complete, raising the possibility that it could be signed during his visit.He said the Trump administration was entering a 60-day review period, during which it would consider which new tariffs, if any, to impose.While the Trump administration has in the past pressed India to cut Russian oil imports, the US signed a deal with Russia last week to import diesel in a bid to cut domestic fuel prices before the midterm elections, making it unclear to what extent that remains a foreign policy priority."Every country has a complex set of factors that they have to take into account," Rubio told reporters on Monday when asked about India's Russian oil purchases.India imports more than 85% of its crude oil requirements to help power its fast-growing economy.

Flames emerge from flare stacks at Nahr Bin Umar oil field, north of Basra. Iraq is offering its crude at a discount of about $25 to $30 per barrel to Dubai benchmarks to entice buyers to lift cargoes from terminals inside the Strait of Hormuz, a document seen by Reuters this week showed.
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India's Reliance books supertanker at record freight price to lift Iraqi crude

India's Reliance Industries has paid a record $23mn to $25mn to charter a supertanker to lift Iraqi crude, pointing to a limited pool of ships available in the Gulf and the soaring costs of every voyage, three shipping sources said. Shipping traffic via the Strait of Hormuz, through which Iraq's seaborne oil must pass, is still well below the average of 125 to 140 vessels a day seen before the Iran war began at the end of February, putting further strain on buyers seeking to get cargoes out.Reliance, the operator of the world's biggest refining complex in India's western state of Gujarat, booked the tanker to load 2mn barrels of oil at 1200 World Scale — a measure of freight costs — which was 12 times the benchmark freight rate, to lift Iraqi crude, the sources said.That translated into a total cost of $23mn to $25mn for the charter hire — among the highest prices paid during the conflict, according to calculations by ship brokers.Before the war, freight costs were 0.8 to 0.9 times the benchmark, working out at about $2mn.Despite paying the record freight rate, Reliance is still expected to save millions of dollars on the cargo because of steep discounts offered by Iraq's state oil marketer SOMO, the sources said.The vessel will be supplied by South Korea's Sinokor, one of the few shipowners continuing to send tankers through the Strait of Hormuz as attacks on commercial vessels have increased the risks of navigating the waterway.Reliance and Sinokor did not respond to emailed requests for comment.Iraq is offering its crude at a discount of about $25 to $30 per barrel to Dubai benchmarks to entice buyers to lift cargoes from terminals inside the Strait of Hormuz, a document seen by Reuters this week showed. Several Indian and Chinese refiners have sought vessels this week to enter the Strait and load crude at Iraq's Basrah Oil Terminal, attracted by the steep discounts, other shipping sources said.However, no vessels have been fixed so far as shipowners are wary of entering the waterway, they said.

A guard walks past the Reliance Industries logo near the entrance to Dhirubhai Ambani Knowledge City in Navi Mumbai, India. The retail-to-refining giant led by billionaire tycoon Mukesh Ambani is India's most valuable company by market capitalisation.
Business

India's Reliance profit beats estimate on resilient oil business

Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries reported better-than-expected quarterly profit on Friday, helped by a steady performance across its core oil-to-chemicals arm and consumer-facing divisions.The retail-to-refining giant led by billionaire tycoon Mukesh Ambani is India's most valuable company by market capitalisation.It said net profit attributable to owners of the company came in at 209.46bn rupees ($2.17bn) for the April-June quarter, down more than 22% from the same period last year.This beat the average analyst estimate of 198.23bn rupees.The drop in profit was expected as the bottomline in the same quarter last year was drastically boosted by a one-off gain from the sale of a key investment.Revenue from operations meanwhile rose over 25% year-on-year to hit 3.11tn rupees.However, that was accompanied by a nearly 31% jump in the "cost of materials consumed".Despite having aggressively expanded into telecoms and green energy over the last decade, Reliance still depends on its traditional oil business for profits.The conglomerate owns and operates the world's largest refinery complex in the Indian state of Gujarat.This business has faced multiple headwinds from the Mideast conflict, but a Reliance statement said it was able to weather the storm through "crude basket diversification, efficient product placement in deficit markets and favourable ethane cracking economics".Chairman Ambani added that the oil-to-chemicals unit delivered a "strong performance", helped by "all-time high" refining margins."This was achieved despite a challenging global energy market backdrop with disrupted supply chains," he said in a statement.Reliance's consumer-facing businesses also helped prop up its overall June quarter performance.The company's telecoms arm, which is set for its own IPO later this year, saw its average revenue per user rise 3.3% year-on-year.The company said the slight uptick was due to a "better subscriber mix" and came despite several discount schemes that were rolled out for fixed broadband customers.The retail unit meanwhile posted a 7.4% on-year rise in gross revenue, driven by growth across grocery, fashion and consumer electronics verticals.But margins dropped slightly as the conglomerate invests in infrastructure for its quick commerce push.Reliance Industries shares have fallen more than 15% this year, underperforming the benchmark Nifty index.

A guard walks past the Reliance Industries logo near the entrance of Dhirubhai Ambani Knowledge City in Navi Mumbai. The oil-to-telecoms giant, led by Asia's richest man Mukesh Ambani, is India's most valuable company by market capitalisation.
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India's Reliance Industries misses profit estimate

Reliance Industries, one of India's biggest companies, on Friday reported weaker quarterly profits than expected, as a muted performance in its retail business overshadowed strong growth in its telecoms division.The oil-to-telecoms giant, led by Asia's richest man Mukesh Ambani, is India's most valuable company by market capitalisation.The conglomerate said net profit came in at 186.45bn rupees ($2.05bn) for the October-December quarter, up just 0.57% from the same period last year.Analysts had on average expected a bottom line of 198.96bn rupees, according to estimates compiled by Bloomberg.Revenue from operations for Reliance meanwhile rose 10.5% year-on-year to 2.69tn rupees.But this was accompanied by a 11.5% jump in expenses that it said included the cost of complying with India's new labour laws.Despite its aggressive push into retail, telecoms and green energy, Reliance continues to rely on its traditional oil business for profits.While its core oil-to-chemicals (O2C) division struggled for parts of 2024 and 2025 — as global uncertainty roiled the industry — it has started to bounce back.In a statement, Ambani noted that the "robust growth" in the O2C business was led by "significantly higher fuel margins" and "operational flexibility".Reliance's consumer-facing businesses have long been fast-growing bright spots.But for the December quarter, the conglomerate's retail unit was hurt by weaker margins.The telecoms unit, which is gearing up for a public listing later this year, saw its average revenue per user grow 5.1% year-on-year.The company attributed the bump to higher demand for 5G services.Reliance Industries shares have slipped over 7% so far this year. 

Reliance has been trying to sell grades including Murban and Upper Zakum on the spot market to domestic and international refiners, according to people at the companies receiving those offers
Business

India’s Reliance trying to sell Mideast oil in rare offer

India’s Reliance Industries Ltd is seeking to sell cargoes of Middle Eastern oil, an unusual move for a refiner that’s normally a major buyer.There’s heightened focus on the actions of the nation’s oil processors since the US slapped sanctions on key supplier Russia. Reliance has been trying to sell grades including Murban and Upper Zakum on the spot market to domestic and international refiners, according to people at the companies receiving those offers. They asked not to be named as they aren’t authorised to speak publicly.India’s largest privately owned refiner, controlled by billionaire Mukesh Ambani, is typically a major importer of oil from the Middle East and Russia. The recent sanctions on Moscow’s two largest oil companies have spurred expectations that Indian processors will have to buy more barrels from countries such as Saudi Arabia.Yet the offers suggest Reliance has ample supply for now, though the reasons why are unclear. Traders are watching Indian buying patterns closely to see whether refiners will hoover up grades tied to benchmark crude prices — potentially supporting oil futures — or find ways to sustain imports from Russia.The Mumbai-based company has already sold a cargo of Iraqi Basrah Medium crude to a Greek buyer. It’s unclear how much crude Reliance is looking to offload in total; and it could choose to sell some but not all of the cargoes.A Reliance Industries spokesperson didn’t reply to an email seeking comment.Refiners in India, the world’s third-largest importer of crude, are busy trying to diversify their supply sources after Western sanctions made buying discounted Russian oil more difficult and risky.Reliance had been Indian’s top importer of Russian crude this year, but snapped up millions of barrels from the Middle East last month following the White House penalties against Russia, which were aimed at depriving the Kremlin of funds for its war in Ukraine.Reliance said last month that it would abide by the US sanctions, and would be adapting its operations to meet the compliance requirements. The refiner previously had a term supply deal for around 500,000 barrels a day from Russian producer Rosneft PJSC.