Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group
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| Private | |
| Industry | Conglomerate |
| Predecessor | Reliance Commercial Corporation |
| Founded | 1966 |
| Founder | Dhirubhai Ambani |
| Headquarters | Dhirubhai Ambani Knowledge City, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India |
Key people |
Anil Ambani (Chairman) |
| Products | Telecom, financial services, construction, entertainment, Power, health care, aviation, Defence |
| Revenue |
 US$15.4 billion (2012) |
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US$2 billion (2012) | |
| Profit |
US$3.5 billion (2012) |
| Total assets |
US$29 billion (2012) |
| Total equity |
US$40 billion (2012) |
Number of employees | 120,000 (2012) |
| Subsidiaries |
Reliance Power Reliance Communications Reliance Infrastructure Reliance Capital Reliance Entertainment Reliance Health |
| Website |
relianceadagroup |
Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Ventures Limited) is an Indian conglomerate, headquartered in Navi Mumbai, India. The company, which was formed after Dhirubhai Ambani's business was divided up, is headed by his younger son Anil Ambani.[1] It has a market capitalisation of ₹890 billion (US$13 billion) and net assets worth ₹1,800 billion (US$27 billion).[2] The Reliance Group operates in over 20,000 towns and 450,000 villages in India, and abroad.
Reliance Group has four listed companies. Reliance Power, Reliance Communications, Reliance Infrastructure, and Reliance Capital, with a shareholder base of over 12 million. The group provides telecom, financial services, construction, entertainment, power, health care, manufacturing, defence, aviation, and transportation services.
History
Reliance group was founded by Dhirubhai Ambani in 1966 as a polyester firm. Reliance later entered into financial services, petroleum refining, power sector. By 2002 Reliance had grown into a U$15 billion conglomerate. After the death of Dhirubhai Ambani on 6 July 2002, Reliance was headed by his sons. The group was formed after the two brothers Mukesh Ambani and Anil Ambani, split Reliance Industries.[3][4] Anil Ambani got the responsibility of Reliance Infocomm, Reliance Energy, Reliance Capital and RNRL. Reliance Group entered the power sector through Reliance Power, and the entertainment sector by acquiring Adlabs. In October 2010, Reliance power placed world's largest order worth $8.29 billion to Shanghai Electric Group to supply power equipment based on Supercritical steam generator technology.[5] Reliance power was first Indian company to earn carbon credits, and the United Nations registered Reliance Power’s Sasan power project is planned earn as many as 22.5 million credits in the next 10 years, under the UN Clean Development Mechanism, a greenhouse gas market which issues tradable credits to emissions-lowering projects in developing countries. Reliance Power has coal mines in Indonesia, and has also made major acquisitions in UK and USA.
The brand ambassador of Reliance is Anushka Sharma for Reliance Communication, Abhishek Bachchan and Sonu Nigam for Big 92.7 FM. Virender Sehwag was formerly the brand ambassador for Reliance Communication, then known as Reliance Infocom.
Operations
Reliance Communications
Companies in this group include Reliance DTH, Reliance Globalcom, Reliance IDC (Data centre), Reliance Infratel, Reliance Properties and Reliance Communication. Reliance Communication was the first company in India to issue bills in braille for visually impaired customers. Group company Reliance CloudXchange is the world's largest sealink cable company, with more than 1,50,000 km of sea cables.
Reliance Capital
Companies in this group include Reliance General Insurance, Reliance Life Insurance, Reliance Mutual Fund amc, Reliance Money, Reliance housing finance and Reliance Securities. Reliance Mutual Fund is India's largest mutual fund company with assets of more than 1.1 trillion rupees.
Reliance Power
The company was incorporated in January 1995 as Bawana Power Private Limited and changed its name to Reliance Delhi Power Private Limited in February 1995. Its name was changed to Reliance Energy Generation Limited in March 2004, and finally to Reliance Power Limited in July 2007.[6]
The company provides power generation, transmission and distribution.
Reliance Infrastructure
Reliance Infrastructure was the first private company in India to construct a rail project (Delhi Airport Metro Express) on PPP basis. The project became operational on February 2011. The company's Dahanu Thermal Power Station (DTPS)is a 500 MW project, around 100 km north of Mumbai, and is the only power plant in the world to be certified ISO 50001:2011 for energy management systems and endeavours in the field of energy use and environment conservation. Projects by the group include Delhi Airport Metro Express, Mumbai Metro, Pipavav Shipyard, Reliance Cement, Reliance Power and Reliance Roads.
The Reliance Cement presently has plants with total installed capacity of 5.5 Million Tonne Per Annum (MTPA), of these 2.8 MTPA is at Maihar in Madhya Pradesh, 2.2 MTPA at Kundanganj in Uttar Pradesh and 0.5 MTPA at Butibori in Maharashtra.
Reliance Entertainment
Companies in this group include Bigadda, Bigflix, Big Music, BIG Star Entertainment Awards, Codemasters, IM Global, Jump Games (ParadoX Studios), Phantom Films, Riverstone Pictures, Reliance Big Pictures, Reliance Broadcast Network, Reliance Games, Reliance MediaWorks and Talenthouse.
Reliance Mediaworld operates the world's largest dome theatre, IMAX, in Mumbai. Group company BIG Cinemas is India’s largest cinema chain, with over 516 screens in India, US, Malaysia and Netherlands, and over 35 million viewers. The company has over 205 screens in 24 U.S. cities, and 72 screens in Malaysia that play Hollywood features, Chinese and Tamil films. In 2009, Big Cinemas associated with Pathe Theatres in three cities in the Netherlands to begin screening Indian movies. It also set up Nepal’s first Multiplex in Kathmandu.
BIG FM 92.7 is a radio station in Singapore and Bhutan.
Reliance Health
Reliance Health provides health services through the Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital at Andheri, Mumbai. It also plans to venture into diversified insurance administration, health care delivery and integrated health, health informatics, information management and consumer Health.
Major acquisitions
| Date | ||
|---|---|---|
| May 2000 | BSES | Reliance Power |
| Oct 2003 | FLAG Telecom, 207Mn$ | Reliance Globalcom |
| July 2005 | Metro Adlabs (51% stake), 74Mn$ | Reliance Entertainment |
| Apr 2008 | Lowry Digital USA, 7.5Mn$ | Reliance Big Entertainment |
| May 2008 | Vanco | Reliance Globalcom |
| Apr 2010 | Codemasters UK (50% stake) | Zapak |
| Sept 2011 | Bloomberg UTV (66% stake) | Reliance Capital |
| Mar 2015 | Pipavav Shipyard | Reliance Infrastructue |
| Oct 2015 | MTS India | Reliance Communication |
References
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|title=at position 38 (help) - ↑ "Reliance ADA Group". Reliance ADA Group. Retrieved 14 August 2010.
- ↑ "Mukesh to double enterprise value to US$160 bn: Rediff.com Business". Business.rediff.com. 18 June 2010. Retrieved 14 August 2010.
- ↑ "Reliance set to split between Anil and Mukesh Ambani – Central Government may intervene!". IndiaDaily. Archived from the original on 9 October 2008. Retrieved 14 August 2010.
- ↑ "Reliance Power, Shanghai Electric ink $8.3 bln deal". in.reuters.com. Reuters. 28 October 2010. Retrieved 28 July 2016.
- ↑ "Reliance Power Limited: Private Company Information". Business Week. Retrieved 16 January 2008.