Reliance Nippon IPO sets price band, seeks to garner Rs1,542 crore

Reliance Nippon Life Asset Management Ltd (RNAM), comes up with an initial public offering (IPO), to raise up to Rs. 1,542 crore with the company, on Thursday.  The price band set of Rs. 247-252 per share. RNAM is a subsidiary of Reliance Capital, with Japan’s Nippon Life Insurance Co, as its strategic partner.

The offer will run from 25 to 27 October, involves a 10 percent stake sale in the company. Its two main shareholders viz. Nippon Life will sell up to 2.55 million and Anil Ambani’s Reliance Capital will sell up to 1.12 million shares, each.

JM Financial, Citic CLSA, Nomura and Axis Capital are the main banks managing the offer, while the book runners namely - Edelweiss, IIFL Holdings, SBI Capital Markets and Yes Securities.

Kalyan Jewellers lines up Rs. 135.00 crore investment in Uttar Pradesh

Kerala-based Kalyan Jewellers has lined up investment of about Rs 135 crore to expand its track in the market in Uttar Pradesh. The Indian jewellery store chain, Kalyan Jewellers, which already run a company owned retail store in Noida, on today, 4th October 2017, announced to launch its 116th outlet in Lucknow.

As stated by the Executive Director of Kalyan Jewellers, Mr. Ramesh Kalyanaraman, the company have invested close to Rs 75.00  crore in the Lucknow market and by the end of this financial year, its third UP store would materialize in Kanpur. “Uttar Pradesh was a big market and contributed almost 10% to the country’s jewellery segment, which is still dominated by the local unorganized players. Before entering this market, proper diligence and market research had conducted to explore flourishing prospects in the business. We found that our brand provided the perfect proposition to the state customers taking into account of the product, design and value”, Kalyanaraman added.

The company has also under planning to launch new stores in other cities of the North, including Bhopal and Indore. The company claims a dedicated customer base of almost 1.5 million with 70% repeat buyers.

Kalyanaraman informed over the past few weeks, the domestic jewellery segment had registered an unpick in demand and the players were optimistic that the momentum would further pick up in the months ahead.