Reliance Retail launches AJIO Beauty, widening its digital challenge to Nykaa

Reliance Retail has introduced AJIO Beauty, combining AJIO’s fashion-led audience with Tira’s beauty capabilities. The platform lists more than 1,500 Indian and global brands and says it can deliver across 19,000-plus pin codes.

— Source publishedFri, 24 Jul, 2026, 21:58 IST·First seen Fri, 24 Jul, 2026, 22:18 IST·Source Business Today · Latest

What happened

Reliance Retail launched AJIO Beauty, integrating AJIO’s fashion audience with Tira’s beauty expertise. The platform carries over 1,500 brands across beauty

Key facts

  • Over 1,500 Indian and global brands
  • Deliveries to 19,000+ pin codes

Why this matters

Beauty brands, logistics partners and enabling-tech targets gain another scaled buyer and distribution route as Reliance combines AJIO’s audience with Tira’s capabilities to accelerate digital beauty share.

What to watch

  • Whether AJIO Beauty launches distinct loyalty benefits, bundled coupons or cross-platform cart integration with AJIO and Tira.
  • Brand overlap versus channel-exclusive assortment between AJIO Beauty and Tira, particularly prestige, K-beauty and emerging Indian brands.
  • Delivery-speed claims, dark-store/store-fulfillment expansion and serviceability quality beyond headline pin-code coverage.
  • Nykaa and Myntra Beauty responses through exclusives, creator commerce, faster delivery, pricing, loyalty or ad-spend escalation.
  • Evidence of incremental demand: app traffic, repeat rates, average order value, beauty share of AJIO orders and seller/brand onboarding momentum.
  • Any consolidation of backend operations, unified membership or brand-side commercial terms across Reliance's beauty platforms.
  • Bundle beauty offers with AJIO fashion purchases, major sale events and Reliance loyalty/payment ecosystems to reduce acquisition costs.
  • Position AJIO Beauty around fashion-beauty trends, affordable premiumization and creator discovery, while reserving Tira for premium service, offline experiences and exclusive prestige brands.
  • Pursue brand-exclusive digital drops and launch partnerships that make AJIO Beauty a required channel rather than a duplicate storefront.
  • Integrate inventory and delivery nodes across AJIO, Tira and Reliance stores to offer faster delivery in top cities and broader availability in non-metro markets.
  • Use customer data from fashion browsing to personalize beauty recommendations, especially fragrance, makeup, haircare and occasion-led routines.