India: Reliance to buy dozens of brands in $6.5b consumer goods play

India: Reliance to buy dozens of brands in $6.5b consumer goods play

The Reliance Industries Ltd. logo is displayed atop the company's gas station in Mumbai, India, on Thursday, July 19, 2012. Photographer: Dhiraj Singh/

India’s biggest retailer Reliance will acquire dozens of small grocery and non-food brands as it targets building its own $6.5 billion consumer goods business to challenge foreign giants like Unilever, two sources familiar with the plan told Reuters.