Reliance Retail, run via Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s conglomerate Reliance Industries Ltd, is in complex talks to get the rights for attractiveness store Sephora in India, the Mint newspaper reported on Wednesday, bringing up two folks conversant in the topic.Sephora’s operations will switch from Arvind Models Ltd to Reliance Retail if an settlement is reached, in step with the file. Reliance, Arvind Models and Sephora didn’t in an instant reply to Reuters’ requests for remark.
Sephora, owned via French luxurious items workforce LVMH, has 25 shops in 13 towns in India with manufacturers in classes similar to cosmetics, fragrances, skin care, make-up and hair care, in step with Arvind Models’ annual file for the monetary yr 2021-22.
Reliance plans to construct a portfolio of fifty to 60 grocery, family and private care manufacturers inside six months and is hiring a military of vendors to take them to mom-and-pop shops and larger stores around the country, resources had instructed Reuters in Would possibly.
Previous this yr, Reliance had signed a long-term franchise maintain French model area Balenciaga and partnered with Hole Inc to promote the U.S. clothes store’s manufacturers in the neighborhood.