RELIANCE

Introduction: Founded by Dhirubhai Ambani, Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) owns businesses across India engaged

in energy, petrochemicals, textiles, natural resources, retail and telecommunications. Reliance is the most profitable

company in India, the 2nd

largest publicly traded company in India by market capitalization and the second largest

company in India as measured by revenue after the government-controlled Indian Oil Corporation. The company is ranked

114th on the Fortune Global 500 list of the world's biggest corporations, as of 2014. RIL contributes approximately 20%

of India's total exports. On 31 March 2013, the company had 123 subsidiary companies and 10 associate companies.

The Reliance Group is among India’s top 3 private sector business houses on all major financial parameters, with assets

in excess of Rs.180,000 crore, and net worth to the tune of Rs.89,000 crore. Across different companies, the group has a

customer base of over 100 million, the largest in India, and a shareholder base of over 12 million, among the largest in the

world. Through its products and services, the Reliance Group touches the life of 1 in 10 Indians every single day. It has a

business presence that extends to over 20000 towns and 4.5 lakhs villages in India, and 5 continents across the world.

In October 2005, after the split was formalized, Mukesh Ambani got Reliance Industries and IPCL. Anil Ambani received

telecom, power, entertainment and financial services business of the group. The Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group includes

Reliance Communications, Reliance Infrastructure, Reliance Capital, Reliance Natural Resources and Reliance Power.

Products & Brands: Operations span from the exploration and production of oil and gas to the manufacture of petroleum

products, polyester products, polyester intermediates, plastics, polymer intermediates, chemicals, synthetic textiles and

fabrics.

Strategy: Their sustainable development strategy draws on their proven technology and risk management framework and

evolves from the materiality analysis that they have been performing over the years. The focus areas under their

sustainability development strategy include the following: Energy Security, Health & Safety, Corporate Governance and

Transparency, Product Responsibility, Climate Change and Waste Management

CSR Initiative: To provide impetus to various philanthropic initiatives of RIL, Reliance Foundation was set up in 2010 as

an expression of its vision towards sustainable growth in India. They have started many schools, colleges and hospitals

as part of their CSR initiative. Some of Reliance's initiatives to promote environment protection include investing in

renewable energy sources, promoting green plantations and spreading environmental awareness.

Specific Facts:

1. Reliance Infrastructure is the 1st private company in India to construct a rail project (Delhi Airport Metro Express) on

PPP basis, the project became operational on February 2011.

2. Reliance power has become the 1st Indian company to earn Carbon credits, United Nations registered Reliance

Power’s Sasan power project to earn as many as 22.5 million credits in the next 10 years, the UN Clean Development

Mechanism, the world’s second- biggest greenhouse gas market issues tradable credits to emission-busting projects in

developing countries.

3. Reliance Infrastructure’s Dahanu Thermal Power Station (DTPS). The 500 MW project, around 100 km north of

Mumbai, has emerged the only power plant in the world to win a certification -— ISO 50001:2011 – for energy

management systems and endeavours in the field of energy use and environment conservation.

Other unique facts: Group company Reliance Globalcom is the world's largest sealink cables company with more than

1,50,000 km of sea cables. Reliance Mutual Fund is India's largest mutual fund company with assets of more than 1.1

trillion rupees. Reliance Mediaworld operates the world's largest dome theatre, IMAX, in Mumbai. Reliance power has

placed World's largest order worth $8.29 billion to Shanghai Electric Group to supply power equipment based on

supercritical technology. Reliance Communication was the first company in India to issue bills in braille for visually

impaired customers.

Latest News:

1. RCOM gearing up to launch 4G services, to bid for spectrum in auctions.

2. Reliance Power planning to scrap gas based 7,480 mw Dadri project and has initiated giving back around 2,100

acres of land at Dadri in Uttar Pradesh back to the land owners

3. Reliance plans to sell 3.1 percent stake in unit Network18, worth $32 million at the current market price to comply

with rules mandating public ownership in listed firms.