Tycoon Birla to rap India’s love for gold with jewellery enterprise
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Feb 22, 2024
Billionaire Kumar Mangalam Birla plans to begin promoting gold jewellery on this planet’s second-biggest bullion market by July as his conglomerate diversifies into new areas to faucet the Indian client.
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The Aditya Birla Group’s branded-jewelry retail enterprise can be rolled out nationwide underneath a privately-held firm, Birla mentioned on the sidelines of an occasion to announce the launch of his paints enterprise within the north Indian state of Haryana.
“The group is shifting in the direction of extra consumer-facing companies, that’s the place the world is shifting,” he mentioned.
The gold jewellery enterprise would be the Mumbai-based group’s third main transfer into a brand new enterprise over the past couple of years following paints and B2B e-commerce for constructing supplies. Birla can be competing in a market that’s dominated by small retailers and nationwide chains just like the Tata Group’s Tanishq and Warburg Pincus LLC-backed Kalyan Jewellers India Ltd.
Birla had earlier earmarked 50 billion rupees ($604 million) for the jewellery enterprise. India’s gold demand is anticipated to rebound to as a lot as 900 tons within the subsequent two years from 748 tons in 2023 supported by rising incomes because the economic system grows, in accordance with the World Gold Council.
Carrying and gifting gold is taken into account auspicious throughout weddings and festivals in India.
