The stake was bought by Tata Digital Ltd., a unit of Tata Sons. Tata on Friday declined to give further details on the deal. BigBasket did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
India’s antitrust regulator, Competition Commission of India, had in March
approved the Tata-BigBasket deal, wherein India’s largest conglomerate has picked up 64.3% stake in the online grocery. Media reports have said the deal is worth about Rs 9,500 crore ($1.31 billion), and will involve buying out Chinese giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s stake.
The deal comes as e-commerce sales, especially of food and groceries, have accelerated in India as the COVID-19 pandemic spurred a big shift to online shopping.
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