July 10 (Reuters) - U.S. private investment firm Bain
Capital is in talks to buy Indian ice-cream maker Vadilal and
eyeing control of Vadilal Industries VDLI.NS and Vadilal
Enterprises VADE.BO , CNBC-TV18 reported citing sources on
Monday.
Bain Capital is also interested in merging the two Vadilal
entities into one company, CNBC-TV18 said in a tweet.
Vadilal's ice cream business is valued over 30 billion
rupees ($363.11 million) as per deal talks, CNBC-TV18 added.
($1 = 82.6189 Indian rupees)
(Reporting by Aleef Jahan in Bengaluru; Editing by Nivedita
Bhattacharjee)
((aleefjahan.cs@thomsonreuters.com;))