DEN Networks
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Company type | Public |
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BSE:533137 NSE:DEN | |
Industry | Telecommunications |
Founded | 2007 |
Headquarters | New Delhi,India[1] |
Key people | S.N.Sharma, CEO |
Products | |
Owner | Reliance Industries(74.9%)[2][3] |
Website | www |
DEN Networks Limitedis an Indiancable televisionandbroadbandservice provider company in India. It is owned by Sameer Manchanda and was acquired byReliance Industriesin 2018 along withHathway.[4]In 2003, it stood as one of the three major cable distributors in India alongside Hathway and InCablenet.[5]
On 17 October 2018, Reliance Industries announced that it had acquired a 66% stake in DEN for₹2,290 crore(US$270 million). The shares would be held through multiple Reliance subsidiaries including Jio Futuristic Digital Holdings Private Limited, Jio Digital Distribution Holdings Private Limited, Jio Television Distribution Holdings Private Limited, Reliance Industries Limited Digital Media Distribution Trust, Reliance Content Distribution Limited and Reliance Industrial Investments and Holdings Limited. At the time of the acquisition, DEN had 106,000 broadband subscribers.[6][7][8]The acquisition received approval from theCompetition Commission of Indiain January 2019.[9]Reliance acquired an additional 12.05% stake in DEN in March 2019 taking its total stake in the company to 78.62%.[10][11]
References
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