• Founder:- Dhirajlal Hirachand Ambani• Established :- 1966• Indian conglomerate holding company• Headquarter in Mumbai• Operates in major segment as:-

Petrochemicals Refining Oil & gas Textile Retail business Special Economic Zone development Telecom/ Broadband business

About Reliance Industries Limited

http://markets.ft.com/research/Markets/Tearsheets/Business-profile?s=RELIANCE:NSI

Merger & Acquisition

About Infotel:-

• Information and Telecommunication oriented services to the customer.

• Headquarter in Tamilnadu

• Provides services for 1. Internet service provider2. Security Solutions3. Software solutions provider

Acquisition of Infotel Broadband Services Limited by RIL

• RIL owner Mukesh Ambani acquired 95 % for Rs. 4,800 crore.

• Strategy behind acquisition:-Infotel Broadband Service won broadband spectrum in 22 zones of IndiaReliance will pay the broadband spectrum fees of Rs. 12, 848 Crore to Govt.

on behalf of Infotel Broadband ServicesValue Creation opportunity in wireless broadband opportunity

http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2010-06-12/news/27612484_1_division-of-reliance-empire-wave-of-value-creation-world-class-consumer-experiences

Acquisition of Infotel Broadband Services Limited by RIL

• Infotel Broadband and renamed it as Reliance Jio Infocomm.

• Reliance Jio deal worth 1,200 with RComm.

• Anil Ambani will share fibre-optic cable network to help rolling out 4G services (cable length1,20,000km)

http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2010-06-12/news/27612484_1_division-of-reliance-empire-wave-of-value-creation-world-class-consumer-experiences

Acquisition of Infotel Broadband Services Limited by RIL

About IPCL:- Established in March,1969Business includes:-

• Polymers• Synthetic fibre,• Fibre intermediaries• Solvents• Industrial chemicals• Catalysts• Polysters etc.

Merger of RIL & IPCL

• June, 2002 Government divested 26% share to Reliance Industries Ltd. for Rs. 1,440 Crore.

• RIL Increased its stake to 46% in IPCL

• Total cost of merger:- Rs. 2,641.45 Crore

• Date of merger:- 5th September, 2007

• As a result, RIL's equity will expand to Rs 1453.6 crore from Rs 1394 crore

• In August 2006, IPCL merged with six polyester manufacturing companies • Apollo Fibres• Central India Polyesters• India Polyfibres• Orissa Polyfibres• Recron Synthetics• Silvassa Industries with IPCL.

Merger of RIL & IPCL

http://www.icis.com/V2/companies/9146131/reliance+industries/financial.html

• Indirectly RIL also acquired with those 6 polyster manufacturing companies

• Earlier RIL was supplying raw material to IPCL

• Reliance will be able to offer end to end products

Merger of RIL & IPCL

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2007-03-10/india-business/27877639_1_ipcl-merger-ril-share-ipcl-shareholders

DIVERSIFICATION

The Company's operations can be classified in various segments namely:

Petroleum Refining & Marketing business

Petrochemicals business

Oil and Gas Exploration & Production business

Reliance Retail Ltd (RRL)

Reliance Textile Ltd

Reliance Telecom Ltd

Different Business Lines -

•Why & When Reliance industry limited diversify their business?

Diversification-

Reliance Retail (R R L)

Type Supermarket

Founded 30 October 2006

Headquarters Mumbai, India

Key people Mukesh Ambani, CEO

Industry Retail

Unrelated & Unsuccessful

Reliance Fresh Reliance Super

Reliance Footprints

Reliance Mart

Reliance Digital

Reliance Trends

Major Business Divisions

Reliance iStoreReliance Jewel

Reliance TimeOut

Reliance Living

RIL – (In Sport Business)

•The Mumbai Indian team is founded in 2008•Owner – Reliance Industries Limited (RIL)•Consecutive Win - in CLT (2012 & 2013) & IPL (2013)•Big accessibility to the financial RIL

Unrelated & Successful

IT is Successful

Reliance Petroleum Ltd

• Industry - Petroleum and Gas ; Founded - 2008•Headquarters - Ahmedabad, India•Reliance Industries has closed all its 1,432 petrol pumps

in the country.

Related & Unsuccessful

Reliance Petroleum Ltd - Conti....

•Reliance owned less 3% of the 36,936 petrol pumps in the country.• IOC, BPCL & HPCL own 34,304 pumps.•Other private players are Essar Oil and Shell India.•Reliance shut down all pumps

Related & Unsuccessful

Equity Strategic Alliance

• RIL and BP form strategic partnership called Indian Gas Solutions in oil & gas business.

http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2011-11-18/news/30415026_1_gas-fields-marketing-of-natural-gas-joint-venturehttp://www.ril.com/html/aboutus/major_milestones.html

Co-operative Strategies

Licensing• Reliance Jio with KMC over 4G Network

• Reliance brand- Steve Madden

• Reliance Retail’s partnership with Grand vision

http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2011-03-02/news/28649360_1_reliance-brands-steve-madden-steve-maddenhttp://rilnews.wordpress.com/2013/09/12/reliance-jio-signs-license-agreement-with-kmc-over-4g-network/http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/cnbc-tv18-comments/reliance-jio-gets-unified-licence-to-offer-all-telecom-svcs_974315.html

Co-operative Strategies

Technology Tie-ups

• RIL tie-up with Boeing

• RIL tie-up with RCOM

• RIL ties-up with Samsung

http://www.tribuneindia.com/2013/20130523/main6.htmhttp://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2013-04-02/news/38218218_1_reliance-jio-infocomm-reliance-communications-rcomhttp://www.ibtimes.co.in/articles/443378/20130307/reliance-team-samsung-budget-4g-devices.htm

Co-operative Strategies

Franchising• Reliance Retail – Hamleys

• Reliance Digital – iStore

http://www.financialexpress.com/news/reliance-retail-to-open-20-hamleys-toy-stores/742723http://www.techinasia.com/apple-india-franchise-stores-plan/

www.ril.com/downloads/pdf/PR12082008.pdf

Co-operative Strategies

• Slow cycle market• Fast cycle market• Standard cycle market

Co-operative Dynamics

Generic Business Strategies- Porter

OVERALL COST LEADERSHIP DIFFERENTIATION

COST FOCUS DIFFERENTIATION

COMPETITIVE

SCOPE

COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE

LOW COST HIGH COST

BROAD

NARROW

Reliance Fresh Food Bazaar

Nature's Basket

Generic Business Strategies- Porter