Reliance Industries news and archive

Amesh Wijesekera wins Circular Design Challenge’s UK prize

London-based, Sri Lankan-born designer Amesh Wijesekera has won the UK prize for the Circular Design Challenge (CDC), India’s biggest sustainability award. The competition, organised by R|ElanTM, the next-generation fabric brand of India's largest conglomerate, Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), challenges designers to showcase products and...

Retail

Reliance Industries to focus more on consumer brands

Reliance Industries is pivoting from an oil-led conglomerate into a more consumer-facing company. With this in view Reliance is looking to buy fashion and child-focused retailers abroad and partner global sports and beauty brands as a part of its expansion into consumer markets. The company is also seeking to partner brands in two segments where...

Fashion

R|Elan teams up with LFW to launch second edition of EarthTee2

R|Elan ‘Fashion for Earth’ has launched the second edition of EarthTee2 made in partnership with Lakmé Fashion Week (LFW). The limited-edition EarthTee2 are made using R|Elan GreenGold - the greenest fabric with the lowest carbon footprint in the world - manufactured by recycling 50,000 PET bottles collected at the recently concluded LFW -...

Retail

Reliance Industries ready for big bang online foray

Reliance Industries is set to launch its own business-to-consumer marketplace that will sell everything from food to fashion. The hybrid online-to-offline venture will take advantage of the synergies between Reliance Jio Infocomm and Reliance Retail’s stores. Reliance Retail is planning a business-to-business marketplace as part of its...

Business

Reliance Industries acquires ITC’s brand John Players

Reliance Industries has acquired ITC’s brand John Players. This includes the brand and distribution rights through 750 stores, including 65 exclusive franchise outlets. The acquisition will help Reliance Industries bolster its own-brand apparel business, which will be an important element of its upcoming e-commerce business. It will strengthen...

Fashion

Reliance Industries, UN join hands to launch launch Circular Design Challenge

Reliance Industries has collaborated with the United Nations for the ‘Fashion for Earth’ initiative under which it will start the ‘Circular Design Challenge’ for fashion designers and textiles industry. The design challenge was announced during the Winter Festive 2018 edition of Lakme Fashion Week (LFW) and will be open to all fashion/accessory...

Retail

Gujarat sees a spurt in khadi sales by 40 per cent in last two years

As per Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC), khadi sales in Gujarat have grown 40 per cent over the past two years. The state sold khadi worth Rs 165 crore in the financial year 2017-18, compared to Rs 118 crore in 2015-16. Big corporates and brands such as Arvind, Reliance Industries, and Raymond’s have purchased khadi in huge...

Fashion

Reliance Industries, UN and LFW launch Circular Design Challenge program

Reliance Industries has launched Circular Design Challenge in partnership with the United Nations and Lakme Fashion Week. The collaboration will provide thrust on use of materials in a sustainable manner and inculcate participation of the people in sustainable fashion, thereby making them partners in contributing to the enhancement of the...

Apparel

Vimal’s ‘Unformals’ explores co-branding opportunities

After unveiling a new range of fabrics called ‘Unformals’ with the aim of attracting the young, who want to follow the formal corporate dressing, while maintaining a trendy look, Vimal, the textile brand of Reliance Industries is looking at exploring co-branding opportunities with its competitors, who also happen to be their customers. Since...

Apparel

'Unformals' to account for 20 percent of Vimal’s portfolio

Vimal, the textile brand from Reliance Industries expects its ‘Unformals’ collection to account for 20 percent of its portfolio in the future. The new range of fabrics called ‘Unformals’ is aimed at attracting the young, who want to follow the formal corporate dressing, while maintaining a trendy look, The brand was launched with a new campaign,...

Apparel

Vimal targets youth with ‘Unformals’

Known for fabrics and saris in colourful prints, Vimal, the textile brand from Reliance Industries is all set to unveil a new range of fabrics called ‘Unformals’ aiming to attarct the young, who want to follow the formal corporate dressing, while maintaining a trendy look. To begin with, the new offerings would form 5-10 percent of the company’s...

Apparel

Vimal launches anti-fungal fabric

Vimal, the flagship textile brand of the Mukesh Ambani run Reliance Industries has launched DEO2, an anti-microbial deo-treatment that arrests growth of fungi on fabrics and keeps them fresh in humid and warm climates. All fabrics, worsted as well as PV suitings, woven at Vimal will be treated with this innovative technology, thus making Vimal...