Reliance Retail Ventures Ltd, the retail business of Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries Ltd, is looking to raise Rs 3,048 crore through an infrastructure investment trust (InvIT) of its warehousing and logistics infrastructure assets.
It has been reported that Reliance was planning to monetise the warehousing and logistics assets of its retail business through an InvIT and that the group had set up a trust under the name of Intelligent Supply Chain Infrastructure Trust for this purpose. Reliance Retail will hold a minimum of 25% units of the trust and balance will be sold to incoming investors.
Of the total issue proceeds of Rs3,048 crore, around Rs100 crore will be used for acquiring equity shares of a special purpose vehicle (SPV) created to hold the warehousing assets, while a sum of Rs2,928 crore will be used to provide a loan to the SPV for acquisition of the warehousing and related logistics assets.
