Reliance Buys Majority Stake In Online Pharmacy Netmeds For $83 Million
Reliance received a majority stake in on-line pharmacy Netmeds for approximately Rs 6.2 billion.
Bengaluru:
Reliance Industries Ltd has received a majority stake in on-line pharmacy Netmeds for approximately 6.2 billion rupees ($83.08 million) in money, days after e-commerce massive Amazon.com Inc introduced an internet drug gross sales provider in India.
The oil-to-telecoms conglomerate stated past due on Tuesday its funding represents about 60% conserving in Vitalic Well being Pvt. Ltd. and 100% direct possession of its subsidiaries.
Vitalic and its subsidiaries, jointly referred to as Netmeds, had been included in 2015. Netmeds is a certified e-pharma portal that gives authenticated prescription and over-the-counter (OTC) drugs at the side of different well being merchandise in India.
The COVID-19 disaster, which spurred a wave of on-line buying groceries, has ended in higher festival between Amazon, Walmart-owned Flipkart, Reliance’s upstart on-line grocery provider, JioMart and a variety of alternative smaller avid gamers for a proportion on the earth’s 2d maximum populous nation.
India is but to finalize rules for on-line drug gross sales, or e-pharmacies, however expansion of on-line dealers corresponding to Medlife, Netmeds, Temasek-backed PharmEasy and Sequoia Capital-backed 1mg has threatened conventional drug retail outlets.
Many dealer teams are towards e-pharmacies, pronouncing they’d result in sale of medications with out correct verification.
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