Reliance Industries

Reliance Industries Limited

Public
Type BSE: 500325
NSE: RELIANCE

Traded as LSE: RIGD

Industry Conglomerate

Predecessor(s) Reliance Commercial Corporation

Founded 1966

Founder(s) Dhirubhai Ambani

Headquarters Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Area served Worldwide

Mukesh Ambani
Key people
(Chairman & MD)

Products Oil and gas, petroleum, petrochemicals,

 polyester, textiles, retail, insurance,
telecom

Revenue US$ 58.55 billion (2011)[1]

Net income US$ 04.54 billion (2011)[1]

Total assets US$ 63.84 billion (2011)[1]

Total equity US$ 34.12 billion (2011)[1]

Employees 23,365 (2010)[1]

 Reliance Life Sciences

 Reliance Industrial Infrastructure Limited
 Reliance Logistics
Subsidiaries Reliance Clinical Research Services
 Reliance Solar
 Relicord
 Infotel Broadband Ltd.

Website RIL.com

Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) (BSE: 500325, NSE: RELIANCE, LSE: RIGD) is an Indian
conglomerate company headquartered in Mumbai, India. The company operates through three
business segments: petrochemicals, refining, and oil and gas, other segment of the company
includes textile, retail business, special economic zone (SEZ) development and
telecom/broadband business. RIL is the largest publicly traded company in India by market
capitalization and second-largest public corporation in India when ranked by revenue.[2][3] The
company is listed on Fortune Global 500 and Forbes Global 2000.

Prominence
In September 2008 Reliance Industries was the only Indian firm featured in the Forbes's list of
"world's 100 most respected companies".[4] In 2010 it stood at 13th position in the Platts Top 250
Global Energy Company Rankings.[5]

Products
Though the company's petrochemicals, refining, and oil and gas-related operations form the core
of its business, other segments of the company include textiles, retail business,
telecommunications, and special economic zone (SEZ) development. Reliance Retail has entered
into the fresh foods market as Reliance Fresh.

Businesses
Major subsidiaries and associates

 Reliance Life Sciences participates in medical, plant and industrial biotechnology

opportunities. Specifically, these relate to biopharmaceuticals, pharmaceuticals, clinical
research services, regenerative medicine, molecular medicine, novel therapeutics, biofuels,
plant biotechnology, and industrial biotechnology.[6]
 Reliance Institute of Life Sciences (Rils), established by Dhirubhai Ambani Foundation, is
an institution of higher education in various fields of life sciences and related technologies.[7]
 Reliance Logistics (P) Limited is a single-window solutions provider for transportation,
distribution, warehousing, logistics, and supply chain needs, supported by in-house state of
the art telematics and telemetry solutions.[8]
 Reliance Clinical Research Services (RCRS), a contract research organisation (CRO) and
wholly owned subsidiary of Reliance Life Sciences, has been set up to provide clinical
research services to pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device companies.[9]
 Reliance Solar, the solar energy initiative of Reliance, aims to bring solar energy systems
and solutions primarily to remote and rural areas and bring about a transformation in the
quality of life.[10]
 Relicord is a stem-cell banking service controlled by Reliance Industries.[11]
 Infotel Broadband is a broadband service provider which gained 4G licensees for operating
across India, now it is wholly owned by RIL for 4,800 crore (US$912 million).[12]

[edit] Reliance Industrial Infrastructure Limited

Reliance Industrial Infrastructure Limited (RIIL)[13] was incorporated in September 1988 as

Chembur Patalganga Pipelines Limited, with the main objective being to build and operate cross-
country pipelines for transporting petroleum products. The company's name was subsequently
changed to CPPL Limited in September 1992, and thereafter to its present name, Reliance
Industrial Infrastructure Limited, in March 1994. It has been promoted by Mr. Satyapal Jain and
his associates. The company set up a 200-millimetre diameter twin pipeline system that connects
the Bharat Petroleum refinery at Mahul, Maharashtra, to Reliance's petrochemical complex at
Patalaganga, Maharashtra. The pipeline carries petroleum products including naptha and
kerosene. It has commissioned facilities like the supervisory control and data acquisition system
and the cathodic protection system, a jackwell at River Tapi, and a raw water pipeline system at
Hazira. The infrastructure company constructed a 70,000 kilolitre petrochemical product storage
and distribution terminal at the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) Area in Maharashtra. RIIL is
mainly engaged in the business of setting up and operating industrial infrastructure. The
company is also engaged in related activities involving leasing and providing services connected
with computer software and data processing.

[edit] Reliance retail

Reliance Retail is the retail business wing of the Reliance business. Many brands like Reliance
Fresh, Reliance Footprint, Reliance Time Out, Reliance Digital, Reliance Wellness, Reliance
Trendz, Reliance Autozone, Reliance Super, Reliance Mart, Reliance iStore, Reliance Home
Kitchens, Reliance Market (Cash n Carry) and Reliance Jewel come under the Reliance Retail
brand.

[edit] Environmental record

Reliance Industry is the world's largest polyester producer and as a result one of the largest
producers of polyester waste in the world. In order to deal with this large amount of waste, they
had to create a way to recycle the waste. They operate the largest polyester recycling center that
uses the polyester waste as a filling and stuffing. They developed an innovative recycling process
resulting in an award in 'Team Excellence'.[14]

Reliance owns world's largest refinery in Jamnagar which happens to be "zero discharge"
refinery. Effluent Treatment Plants based on worlds best available technology processes the
waste release and converts waste in to usable product. Reliance has also planted more than 5
million trees around this refinery in order to reduce the carbon foot print.

[edit] Awards and recognition

 International Refiner of the Year in 2005 at the 23rd Annual Hart's World Refining and Fuels
Conference [15]
 According to survey conducted by Brand Finance and The Economic Times in 2010,
Reliance is the second most valuable brand in India.[16]
 The Brand Trust Report , 2011 has ranked Reliance industries as the 6th most trusted brand
in India.[17]

[edit] Stock
Reliance has more than 3 million shareholders, making it one of the world's most widely held
stocks. Reliance Industries Ltd has continued to grow since its split in January 2006.

On 30 May 2011, Reliance Industry's stock slumped 4% as due to reports that the Federal Bureau
of Investigation was probing a former upstream regulator for the company's alleged favouring of
private-sector energy companies.[18] The leaked CAG’s draft report affected RIL’s shares,
making the stock descend by 10.5% by 23 June 2011.[19]