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The Reliance Group, founded by Dhirubhai H. Ambani, is India's largest private sector enterprise, with businesses in the energy and materials value chain. The flagship company, Reliance Industries, is a Fortune Global 500 company and is the largest private sector company in India. Dhirubhai Ambani founded Reliance as a textile company and led its evolution as a global leader in the materials and energy value chain businesses. It was in 1957 when he returned to India after a stint with a Besse& Co., Aden he started yarn trading business from a small 500 sq.ft. office in Masjid Bunder, Mumbai. He set up his brand new mill in Naroda, Gujarat. In 1996 Reliance went on to become the biggest textile brand ‘Only Vimal’.
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. Starting as a small textile company, Reliance has in its journey crossed several milestones to become a Fortune 500 company in less than 3 decades. The company operates world-class manufacturing facilities across the country at Allahabad, Barabanki, Dahej, Dhenkanal, Hazira, Hoshiarpur, Jamnagar, Kurkumbh, Nagothane, Nagpur, Naroda, Patalganga, Silvassa and Vadodara. It is India’s largest and most profitable private sector company. its motto ‘Growth is Life’ aptly captures the ever-evolving spirit of Reliance. In just over four decades, the company has emerged as one of India’s most valuable, stakeholder-centric organisations, building valuable assets for India and innovating for a better future for all Indians.
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Reliance Industries is India’s largest private sector company. Its activities span hydrocarbon exploration and production, petroleum refining and marketing, petrochemicals, advanced materials and composites, renewables (solar and hydrogen), retail and digital services. It became one of the first businesses to manage a fully integrated Oil-to-Chemicals (O2C) portfolio. Its O2C business includes world-class assets comprising refinery, crackers, and downstream assets that are deeply and uniquely integrated, supported by best-in-class logistics and supply chain infrastructure. Its Retail business is the relentless commitment to serve customers at scale while working in close partnership with a broader ecosystem of merchants and producers, small-scale manufacturers, vendors, kirana store owners, and global companies, to create an inclusive growth platform for shared prosperity.
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Oil and Gas Exploration & Production: Its quest to secure India’s energy needs led it to explore and discover Oil & Gas fields in deep-sea waters. In 2002-2003, it made a significant deep-sea discovery of gas reserves in the Krishna Godavari basin-the KG D6 Block.
Retail: Reliance Retail, the largest and most successful retailer in India, has adopted a multichannel strategy through an integrated network of physical stores, digital commerce, and new commerce platforms to serve its customers across diverse consumption baskets. This ensures that Reliance Retail operates at an unparalleled and unmatched scale in the Indian retail industry.
Refining & Marketing: The Jamnagar refinery complex was commissioned in a record 30 months, redefining the timelines for project completion of such scale. Presently, Reliance is recognised as among the top companies in the world in project management. The Jamnagar refinery complex houses some of the world's largest units, such as the Fluidised Catalytic Cracker (FCC), Coker, Alkylation, Paraxylene, Polypropylene, Refinery Off-Gas Cracker (ROGC) and Petcoke gasification plants.
Textiles: From its plant at Naroda, the company spearheaded the manufacturing and marketing of the most iconic brand in the history of textiles in India: 'Vimal'. its manufacturing division at Naroda houses one of the largest and most modern textile complexes in the world, an achievement recognised by The World Bank. Through Vimal, the company brought in a new era in fabrics. Vimal became not only a flagship brand of Reliance but also one of the most trusted brands in the country. It is also the first major retail chain in the country.
Polymers: The company offers a wide range of grades for diverse applications across sectors such as packaging, agriculture, automotive, housing, healthcare, water and gas transportation, and consumer durables. Its products are exported to many countries.
Polyesters: The company is one of the largest producers of polyester fibre and yarn in the world. Having invested significant amounts on R&D in the polyester sector, Its Reliance Technology Centre, Reliance Testing Centre and Reliance Fibre Application Centre constantly develop and introduce innovative products for the textile industry.
Fibre Intermediates: Its fibre intermediates sector comprises the Purified Terephthalic Acid (PTA), Ethylene Glycols (EG) & Ethylene Oxide (EO) businesses.
Aromatics: Aromatics are cyclic unsaturated hydrocarbons containing one or more Benzene rings. Aromatics is one of the major product lines of its Petrochemicals sector.
Elastomers: The company produces synthetic rubber under the brand names Relflex and Reliance Sibur Elastomers Pvt Ltd.
Reliance Composites Solutions: the company entered the composites business in 2017. This is part of its efforts to bring value-added, new-age materials to its downstream manufacturers and help them establish a leadership position for India in this large and globally growing market.
Digital Services-Jio: Reliance Jio was launched in 2016 to empower every Indian with affordable access to a digital life - a gateway to the world -enabled with the world’s best digital technologies. Presently, Jio has not only ushered in a digital revolution across India, in how Indians connect to the world, but also in how India will go on to shape the digital future.
Reliance Bioenergy: Since its inception in 2023, Reliance Bioenergy has rapidly emerged as India's largest bioenergy producer. At the forefront of transforming waste into energy, it is pioneering a circular economy approach to achieving net carbon zero at Reliance.
Media & Entertainment: The company is one of India’s largest media houses, with an omni-channel presence, bringing authentic news and wholesome entertainment to diverse Indian audiences.
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