Videocon Industries announced that its wholly-owned arm Videocon Energy Ventures will get hold of a 10% participating interest in the exploration and production concession of Anadarko Mozambique Area (Anadarko), a Mozambique-based indirect arm of Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, US.
Videocon Retail, a part of the Videocon Industries, is all set to invest Rs 8 billion for strengthening its electronic retail format Next Retail and mobiles, music, entertainment and lifestyle chain Planet M by 2011.
Moreover, Videocon is in talks with Japanese majors Mitsui and Hitachi in order to establish a logistics company in a JV for supporting its retail operations.