Reliance Industries Limited

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Type	Public
Traded as	BSE: 500325, NSE: RELIANCE, LSE: RIGD BSE SENSEX Constituent
Industry	Conglomerate
Predecessor(s)	Reliance Commercial Corporation
Founded	1966
Founder(s)	Dhirubhai Ambani
Headquarters	Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Key people	Mukesh Ambani (Chairman and MD)
Products	Crude oil, natural gas, petrochemicals, petroleum, polyester, textiles, retail, 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	22,661 (2011)[1]
Subsidiaries	Reliance Life Sciences Reliance Industrial Infrastructure Limited Reliance Logistics Reliance Clinical Research Services Reliance Solar Relicord IndiaWin Sports Pvt. Ltd. Infotel Broadband Ltd. [2]
Website	RIL.com

Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) (BSE: 500325, NSE: RELIANCE, LSE: RIGD) is an Indian conglomerate company headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, 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 capitalisation and is the second largest company in India by revenue behind Indian Oil.^[3] It is also India's largest private sector company by revenue and profit. The company is ranked 134th on Fortune Global 500 list in 2011.^[4]

Products[link]

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[link]

Major subsidiaries and associates[link]

• 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.^[5]
• 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.^[6]
• 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.^[7]
• 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.^[8]
• 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.^[9]
• Relicord is a stem-cell banking service controlled by Reliance Industries.^[10]
• 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$957.6 million).^[11]

Reliance Industrial Infrastructure Limited[link]

Reliance Industrial Infrastructure Limited (RIIL)^[12] 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.

Reliance Retail[link]

See 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.

Environmental record[link]

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 centre that uses the polyester waste as a filling and stuffing. They developed an innovative recycling process resulting in an award in 'Team Excellence'.^[13]

Reliance owns world's largest refinery in Jamnagar which is a "zero discharge" refinery. Effluent treatment plants based on the best available technology processes the waste released and convert 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.

Awards and recognition[link]

• International Refiner of the Year in 2005 at the 23rd Annual Hart's World Refining and Fuels Conference^[14]
• According to survey conducted by Brand Finance and The Economic Times in 2010, Reliance is the second most valuable brand in India.^[15]
• The Brand Trust Report, 2011 has ranked Reliance industries as the 6th most trusted brand in India.^[16]
• 'Responsible Care Company' awarded by the American Chemistry Council, USA in March, 2012^[17]
• RIL has been ranked at 20th position across the world, on the basis of sales, in the ICIS^[18] Top 100 Chemicals Companies list.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website

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