{"id":1030959,"date":"2026-08-25T08:19:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T02:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1030959"},"modified":"2026-08-25T08:28:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T02:58:48","slug":"softbank-pares-nearly-2-6-stake-in-lenskart-for-rs-2888-crore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/25\/softbank-pares-nearly-2-6-stake-in-lenskart-for-rs-2888-crore\/","title":{"rendered":"SoftBank pares nearly 2.6% stake in Lenskart for Rs 2,888 crore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Technology investor SoftBank Group has once again trimmed its holding in Lenskart Solutions, selling nearly a 2.6 per cent stake in the eyewear retailer for Rs 2,888 crore through open market transactions on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>In June, SoftBank sold a 3.25 per cent stake in Lenskart for Rs 2,873 crore. <\/p>\n<p>In the latest transaction, Japan-based SoftBank Group, through its affiliate SVF II Lightbulb (Cayman) Ltd, offloaded a total of 4.5 crore equity shares in 22 tranches, amounting to a 2.58 per cent stake in Gurugram-based Lenskart, as per the block deal data on the BSE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technology investor SoftBank Group has once again trimmed its holding in Lenskart Solutions, selling nearly a 2.6 per cent stake in the eyewear retailer for Rs 2,888 crore through open market transactions on Monday. In June, SoftBank sold a 3.25 per cent stake in Lenskart for Rs 2,873 crore. In the latest transaction, Japan-based SoftBank Group, through its affiliate SVF II Lightbulb (Cayman) Ltd, offloaded a total of 4.5 crore equity shares in 22 tranches, amounting to a 2.58 per cent stake in Gurugram-based Lenskart, as per the block deal data on the BSE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1030959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1030959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1030992,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030959\/revisions\/1030992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}