Reliance Industries Limited(RIL) - Sensex stocks 1

Reliance Industries Limited (RIL)

Key data:

Industry: Petro chemicals
No of shares: 14,53,00,000
Face value: Rs 10.
BSE code: 500325
NSE code: RELIANCE
Chairman & Managing Director: Mukesh Ambani

Share holding pattern (as on 30th June 2008):

Promoters: 51.37%
Foreign & Institutional investors: 26.21%
Public & others: 22.42%

About Reliance industries limited:

The Reliance Group, founded by Dhirubhai Ambani in 1966, 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$ 34 billion. The flagship company, Reliance Industries Limited, is a Fortune Global 500 company and is the largest private sector company in India.

Till recently the companies oil based operations forms the major portion of its business. It is expanding its operation beyond oil presently. After severe differences between the Ambani brothers (the son’s of the founder Dhirubhai Ambani) Mukesh Ambani and Anil Ambani the Reliance group was divided between them in 2006.

What reliance says about its business?

"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 and retail.

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.

The Group exports products in excess of US$ 20 billion to 108 countries in the world. Major Group Companies are Reliance Industries Limited (including main subsidiaries Reliance Petroleum Limited and Reliance Retail Limited) and Reliance Industrial Infrastructure Limited."

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References:

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