The Reliance Group, founded by Dhirubhai H. Ambani (1932-2002), is India's largest private sector enterprise, with businesses in the energy and materials value chain. Group's annual revenues are in excess of US$ 66 billion. The flagship company, Reliance Industries Limited, is a Fortune Global 500 company and is the largest private sector company in India.
Backward vertical integration has been the cornerstone of the evolution and growth of Reliance. Starting with textiles in the late seventies, Reliance pursued a strategy of backward vertical integration - in polyester, fibre intermediates, plastics, petrochemicals, petroleum refining and oil and gas exploration and production - to be fully integrated along the materials and energy value chain.
The Group's activities span exploration and production of oil and gas, petroleum refining and marketing, petrochemicals (polyester, fibre intermediates, plastics and chemicals), textiles, retail, infotel and special economic zones. Reliance enjoys global leadership in its businesses, being the largest polyester yarn and fibre producer in the world and among the top five to ten producers in the world in major petrochemical products. Major Group Companies are Reliance Industries Limited, including its subsidiaries and Reliance Industrial Infrastructure Limited. Dhirubhai Ambani founded Reliance as a textile company and led its evolution as a global leader in the materials and energy value chain businesses. He is credited to have brought about the equity cult in India in the late seventies and is regarded as an icon for enterprise in India. He epitomized the spirit 'dare to dream and learn to excel'. The Reliance Group is a living testimony to his indomitable will, single-minded dedication and an unrelenting commitment to his goals.
Corporate Ranking & Ratings:
· RIL continues to be featured, for the sixth consecutive year, in the Fortune Global 500 list of the World's Largest Corporations, ranking for 2010 is as follows:
1. Ranked 175 based on Revenues
2. Ranked 100 based on Profits
· RIL is ranked 68th in 2010, in the Financial Times' FT Global 500 list of the world's largest companies (up from previous year's 75th rank).
· RIL has been ranked at 20th position, on the basis of sales, in the ICIS Top 100 Chemicals Companies list. RIL is the only Indian company in the world's Top 20 chemical companies in the global ranking. RIL has also been named as the 8th biggest gainer in the list in terms of operating profits.
· RIL is the only Indian company to get a perfect score from CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets (CLSA) in a list of Asia's best companies in terms of CSR and termed the Company as the region's 'Corporate Good Guy'. In its 'Ethical Asia' 2010 report, CLSA has named RIL among its top picks for providing very good data and going well beyond required disclosure.
· RIL is rated as the 33rd 'Most Innovative Company in the World' in a survey conducted by the US financial publication- Business Week in collaboration with the Boston
· Consulting Group (BCG). Further, in 2010, BCG has ranked RIL second amongst the world's 10 biggest, 'Sustainable Value Creators', companies for creating the most shareholder value for the period 2000 to 2009.
