Reliance Industries Consolidates Treasury Stock Under One Entity

“No new shares have been acquired and Mukesh Ambani’s stake in RIL has not gone up,” the company said.

Mukesh Ambani, chairman and managing director of the Reliance Industries Ltd., right, and his wife Nita Ambani, left, arrive for the company’s annual general meeting in Mumbai, India. (Photographer: Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg)

Reliance Industries Ltd. has undertaken an internal reorganisation of treasury shares via a scheme of arrangement. 17.19 crore non-voting shares held by subsidiaries of the company, and classified as public shareholding, have been merged with Reliance Services and Holdings Ltd., a company controlled by Petroleum Trust, the company said in a media statement. The Petroleum Trust has been classified as a promoter entity group since 2002, the statement said.

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