...Dhirubhai Ambani and Reliance "Our dreams have to be bigger. Our ambition higher. Our commitment deeper. And our efforts greater. This is my dream for Reliance and for India." - Dhirubhai Ambani. "The country has lost an iconic proof of what an ordinary Indian fired by the spirit of enterprise and driven by determination, can achieve in his own lifetime. Not only did Ambani build a large and diversified business conglomerate but also inspired many first generation entrepreneurs with his success." - Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Prime Minister, Republic of India. "Dhirubhai built an empire that is rock solid and he will always remain an icon." - Kumar Mangalam Birla, Chairman, Aditya Vikram Birla Group. The Death of an Icon The 6th of July 2002 was a black day in the Indian corporate history. The Founder and Chairman of the Reliance group of Industries (Reliance), Dhirajlal Hirachand Ambani (Dhirubhai) died after a 13 day battle for survival. A perfect combination of entrepreneurship and leadership, Dhirubhai transformed Reliance from a company with a turnover of Rs 640 million in 1976, to one with a turnover of Rs 620 billion in 2002. Starting with a small textile mill in Naroda, in 1966, Dhirubhai took Reliance into various areas like petrochemicals, polyester filament yarn, oil and gas exploration and production, refining and marketing of petroleum, textiles, power, telecom services, information management and financial services (Refer Exhibit I for Reliance Group of Companies)...
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...Introduction Foreign Market Entry Modes The decision of how to enter a foreign market can have a significant impact on the results. Expansion into foreign markets can be achieved via the following modes: ▪ Exporting (Direct/ Indirect Exporting) ▪ Licensing/ Franchising ▪ Contract Manufacturing ▪ Management contract ▪ Assembly Operation ▪ Fully Owned Manufacturing Facility ▪ Joint Venture ▪ Mergers & Acquisitions ▪ Strategic Alliance ▪ Third Country Location ▪ Counter Trade ▪ Direct investments Heading : Mahindras Take a Giant Leap with Insurance Arm Deal By : Satish John, Mumbai. Date : 21st Septermber 2012 News Paper : Economic Times Us-based LeapFrog’s purchase of 15% in a key Mahindra & Mahindra Group subsidiary hasgiven the auto to tourism group several fold returns on its original investment and the third such high return investment for its investors in less than a decade. LeapFrog, the world’s largest insurance investor for low-income customers on Thursday said ti would buy a 15% stake in Mahindra Insurance Brokers for Rs. 80.41 Crore. This firm which is subsidiary of the much bigger and better know M&M Financial services was started in 2004 for a measly Rs. 50 Lakh.The LeapFrong purchase values the firm at Rs. 520 crore. LeapFrog specfialises in investing in companies that cater to rural markets.”We feel very proud that we invested Rs. 50 Lakh and today...
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...A Study on Reliance Retail Supply chain Operations Operations Management-Assignment MBA- 1st Semester, Sec-‘B’ Submitted by George Vincent Table of Contents 2 BACKGROUND OF RETAIL 2 3 COMPANY PROFILE 5 3.1 RELIANCE RETAIL LIMITED 5 3.2 THE RELIANCE EMPIRE 5 3.3 BACKGROUND 10 4 A GLANCE AT EXISTING RELIANCE 12 5 “FARM TO FORK” 13 6 SUPPLY CHAIN MODELS 14 6.1 RELIANCE FRESH: (MODEL 1) 14 6.2 UPDATED POLICY 16 6.3 WHOLESALE TRADING (WST): (MODEL 2) 17 BACKGROUND OF RETAIL India is a land of retail democracy- hundreds of thousands of weekly haats and bazaars are located across the length and breadth of our country by people’s own self-organizational capacities. Our streets are bazaars – lively, vibrant, safe and the source of livelihood for millions. India has the highest shop density in the world, with 11 outlets per 1000 people. This does not include the village haats. Our retail democracy is characterized by 1. High levels of livelihoods in retail with nearly 40 million employed which accounts for 8% of the employment and 4% of the entire population. 2. High levels of self - organization. 3. Low capital input 4. High levels of decentralization Retail in India has started with the concept of weekly markets, where all the traders gather at one big place to sell their products every week. The people come to these weekly markets to buy the household items for the next one week. Village fairs and melas were also common...
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... (2008-2010) [pic] J K BUSINESS SCHOOL SOHNA ROAD, GURGAON (HARYANA) SUBMITTED TO: SUBMITTED BY: PROF.KHUSHAL KATARIA HEMANT PAL SINGH FACULTY GUIDE ROLL. NO.-JKBS083193 J K BUSINESS SCHOOL MBA PREFACE All the learning’s in our MBA course is practice oriented. However, hands-on experience in the corporate world during our course is very necessary to be able to test the ability and extent of learning of the student before fully entering the corporate world. The two months training which I underwent at Reliance, Jai Agency, Delhi(West) in was a wonderful learning experience. I was assigned with the project “SWOT analysis of reliance communication with competitor” With the guidance and suggestions provided by Mr. BHUPENDRA SINGH, my Industry Guide, I started first phase of my Project by doing a market analysis, After that I started with the second phase which involved research work pertaining to the customer analysis. In this report I have explained what I undertook based on research and my personal experience. I have also tried to understand business relations with the market developers, business strategies, and ethics and work compliance in an industry as an additional part of my study. HEMANT PAL SINGH JKBS083193 MBA II SEM ACKNOWLEDGEMENT It is my proud privilege...
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... Introduction * Dhirubhai Ambani is referred as India's "Businessman of the Century". Founder of Reliance Group India. Childhood * Dhirubhai Ambani (Dhirajlal Hirachand Ambani) was born on 28 December 1932, at Chorwad, Junagadh in the now state of Gujarat (India). * Parents Name: Hirachand Gordhanbhai Ambani and Jamnaben. Entrepreneurship * Dhirubhai was the second son of a school teacher and started his entrepreneurial career by selling "pakora" to pilgrims in Mount Girnar. * At the age of 17, Dhirubhai went to Aden (now part of Yemen) and worked for A. Besse & Co. Ltd., the sole selling distributor of Shell products. * Two years later Dhirubhai was promoted to manage the company’s filling station at the port of Aden. * In the year 1958,Dhirubhai Ambani returned to Mumbai and started his first company, Reliance Commercial Corporation, a commodity trading and export house. * The first office was set up at the Narsinathan Street in Masjid Bunder. It was a 350 Sq.in partnership with Champaklal Damani. * In the year 1965, Dhirubhai Ambani started his own company. * In the year 1966, as a first step in Reliance's highly successful strategy of backward integration, he started the textile mill in Naroda, Ahmedabad. * Textiles were manufactured using polyester fibre yarn. Dhirubhai started the brand "Vimal". * Dhirubhai diversified his business with the core specialisation being in petrochemicals and additional interests...
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...Reliance The company wasfounded by the legendary Dhirubhai Ambani (1932-2002), 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. 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. Dhirajlal Hirachand Ambani also known as Dhirubhai...
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... Growth is Energy Growth is Value Growth is Happiness Growth is Life... Late Shri Dhirubhai Ambani Founder Chairman G rowth, in all its facets, has been a distinguishing factor at Reliance, ever since our inception. Our philosophy envisions growth as a universal concept, that represents multiple possibilities and touches all aspects of life. This explains why we have put in motion some of the most ambitious plans, aligned to the needs of India as it develops into a world-force. The continuing expansion of our key business verticals places us at a vantage point with reference to the aspirations of India. We have taken strategic decisions in key areas that will drive our growth and also create better outcomes for our youthful nation. Strategy at Reliance is about making prudent choices, balancing risks and return, building competitive advantages and envisioning the future through the power of innovation. Innovation has always been a cornerstone of our operations. It has enabled us to make significant technology-driven breakthroughs that add value to existing businesses, and create new ones. We are partnering with leading global institutions renowned for excellence to strengthen our experience and expertise. From the manufacturing landscape to high-growth consumer service sectors, Reliance is making progress possible each day. We are helping the country meet its growing energy demand in a safe and responsible manner, creating value for society through our retail and telecom...
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...NTRODUCTION: AN INVITATION TO BOMBAY The envelope was hand-delivered to our house in Golf Links, Tan enclave in New Delhi whose name captured the clubbable lifestyle of its leisured and propertied Indian residents, soon after we had arrived in the middle of a north Indian winter to begin a long assignment. It contained a large card, with a picture embossed in red and gold of the elephant-headed deity Ganesh, improbably carried on the back of a much smaller mouse. Dhirubhai and Kokilaben Ambani invited us to the wedding of their son Anil to Tina Munim in Bombay. In January 1991, just prior to the explosion in car ownership that in later winters kept the midday warmth trapped in a throat-tearing haze overnight, it was bitterly cold most of the time in Delhi. Our furniture had still not arrived-a day of negotiations about the duty payable lay ahead at the Delhi customs office where the container was broken open and inspected-and we camped on office chairs and fold-up beds, wrapped in blankets. The Indian story was also in a state of suspension, waiting for something to happen. The Gulf War, which we watched at a big hotel on this new thing called satellite television, was under- cutting many of the assumptions on which the Congress Party’s family dynasty, the Nehrus and Gandhis, had built up the Indian state. The Americans were unleashing a new generation of weap- ons on a Third World regime to which New Delhi had been close; its Soviet friends were standing by, even agreeing with...
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...Telecom Industry in India 1. INDUSTRYOVERVIEW 1.1 Background The Indian Telecommunications network is the third largest in the world and the second largest among the emerging economies of Asia. Today, it is the fastest growing market in the world. The telecommunication sector continued to register significant success during the year and has emerged as one of the key sectors responsible for India’s resurgent India’s economic growth. 1.1.1 Growth This rapid growth has been possible due to various proactive and positive decisions of the Government and contribution of both by the public and the private sector. The rapid strides in the telecom sector have been facilitated by liberal policies of the Government that provide easy market access for telecom equipment and a fair regulatory framework for offering telecom services to the Indian consumers at affordable prices. 1.1.2 Wireline Vs Wireless It has also undergone a substantial change in terms of mobile versus fixed phones and public versus private participation. The preference for use of wireless phones has also been predominant in the sector. Participation of the private entities in the telecom sector is rapidly increasing rate there by presenting the enormous growth opportunities. There is a clear distinction between the Global Satellite Mobile Communication (GSM) and Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) technologies used and the graph below shows the divide between the two. 1.2 Segment wise Status 1.2.1 Wireline Services...
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...Party had anything to do with the contracts" and that "the reference to the Indian Congress party with respect to Contract No M/10/57 is not justified at all." The impression left in an average reader's mind is that the Authority, by its repeated asseverations to the above effect, wanted to drive home the innocence of the Congress Party beyond all ambiguity or misunderstanding, although this seemingly contradicts its opinion that the sources, materials and documents collected by [Volcker] were "authentic and reliable". Another incongruity There is yet another incongruity as well: Of the four from India named by Volcker report as non-contractual beneficiaries (meaning that they had no obligation to supply food or humanitarian goods to Iraq), Reliance Petroleum and Prof Bhim Singh had already corroborated the entries about them, with the former maintaining that the allocations were handled as a regular commercial transaction, and the latter, that an offer of the allocation of the specified number of barrels was indeed made to him but not accepted as a matter of principle. This lends a semblance of credence to the...
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...NTRODUCTION: AN INVITATION TO BOMBAY The envelope was hand-delivered to our house in Golf Links, Tan enclave in New Delhi whose name captured the clubbable lifestyle of its leisured and propertied Indian residents, soon after we had arrived in the middle of a north Indian winter to begin a long assignment. It contained a large card, with a picture embossed in red and gold of the elephant-headed deity Ganesh, improbably carried on the back of a much smaller mouse. Dhirubhai and Kokilaben Ambani invited us to the wedding of their son Anil to Tina Munim in Bombay. In January 1991, just prior to the explosion in car ownership that in later winters kept the midday warmth trapped in a throat-tearing haze overnight, it was bitterly cold most of the time in Delhi. Our furniture had still not arrived-a day of negotiations about the duty payable lay ahead at the Delhi customs office where the container was broken open and inspected-and we camped on office chairs and fold-up beds, wrapped in blankets. The Indian story was also in a state of suspension, waiting for something to happen. The Gulf War, which we watched at a big hotel on this new thing called satellite television, was under- cutting many of the assumptions on which the Congress Party’s family dynasty, the Nehrus and Gandhis, had built up the Indian state. The Americans were unleashing a new generation of weap- ons on a Third World regime to which New Delhi had been close; its Soviet friends were standing by, even agreeing with...
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...THE INDIAN INSTITUTE OF PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT, AHMEDABAD THESIS TOPIC “Critically analyze the customer preference and satisfaction measurement in Indian Telecom Industry” SUBMITTED BY Naman Shah PGP/SS/06-08 ALUMNI REFERENCE ID: SS/06-08/AHD/MKTG/2 SUMISSION DATE: 27th August, 2008 GUIDED BY Prof. Pabitra Ranjan Chakravorty Senior Research Associate (Marketing) IIPM, Ahmedabad. I LETTER OF CONSENT IIPM Ahmedabad 19, Inquilab Society, Gulbai Tekra, Ahmedabad-380015 To, The Dean, IIPM-Ahmedabad Date: November 6, 2007 Respected Sir, Subject: Letter of Consent I, Prof. Pabitra Ranjan Chakravorty, a faculty of Marketing Management of IIPM-Ahmedabad, expressing my interest in guiding for a thesis on “To critically analyze the customer preference and satisfaction measurement in Indian Telecom Industry” to Mr. Naman Shah, a student of PGP/SS/06-08. This is to inform that I shall support him as a guide for his thesis on the above mentioned topic and extend my knowledge and help in all ways possible. Thank You. Yours faithfully, Prof. Pabitra Ranjan Chakravorty. II LETTER OF APPROVAL III PREFACE The customers are very important and play a crucial role in any process of marketing. Today, customers are the kings of the market because the customer loyalty and customer preference are built by the products and the services offered to the customers and they seek for the more benefits and money’s worth for the amount they spend. That is where the...
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...When people think of the company name Reliance they think success, a story as unique as its founder Dhirubhai H. Ambani, who built the Reliance Empire from an initial capital of just $300. It is a story of dreams becoming reality, of an Indian enterprise transforming itself into a global corporation. Today, Reliance Industries is led by the eldest son of Dhirubhai H. Ambani, his name is Mukesh D. Ambani. He is the Chairman and Managing Director in India. The company covers the entire energy value chain, starting with oil and gas and continuing on through refining, petrochemicals, chemical and textiles. The birth of reliance all start with a man name Dhirajlal Hirachand Ambani, one of the leading Indian businessmen, was born on December 28, 1932 in Chorwad, Gujarat. He is popularly known by Dhirubhai Ambani, he was the heads The Reliance Industries, India's largest private enterprise. Dhirubhai started off as a small time worker with Arab merchants in the 1950s and moved to Mumbai in 1958 to start his own business in spices. After making modest profits, he saw the opportunity to move in the textiles business and opened his mill near Ahmedabad. Dhirubhai founded Reliance Industries in 1958. After that it was a story of expansions and successes. He started working as a clerk for an oil company that was the sole distributor of Shell products there. While in Aden, he realized that a discrepancy between the rial-sterling exchange rate and the intrinsic value of the silver content...
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...RELIANCE: STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS Dhirubhai Ambani evokes strong reactions from people but nobody can be indifferent to his achievements. To the many happy shareholders of Reliance, he is good enough to deserve the Bharat Ratna and at the other extreme he is vehemently reviled for his business methods. On being criticized on his modus operandi of openly using political influence for corporate gain, Dhirubhai has repeatedly asserted: ''That is only a minor element of our work. Why not focus on the major portion related to implementation, where so many organizations goof up?'' He adds: ''I give least importance to number one. I was nothing but a small merchant but I reached this level here. I consider myself fortunate to be in this position, but I have no pride. I am as I was.'' [pic]Reliance is globally admired for its rapid and time-bound implementation methods and those are where lateral thinking is employed to the maximum. Reliance executives are constantly encouraged to think out-of-the-box, rather than traditionally or sequentially. The top bosses themselves have this tremendous ability to think laterally and look at business as a series of processes as illustrated by their quotes: ''The leadership of Reliance Industries has always shunned incremental thinking,'' says Anil Ambani, MD of the Reliance group. Older brother Mukesh Ambani says: ''We workin concentric circles, rather than in straight ranks, but there's always a center of accountability. We don't believe...
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...2009 Weekly Business Digest Week ending July 5, 2009 [TYPE THE DOCUMEN T TITLE] [Type the abstract of the document here. The abstract is typically a short summary of the contents of the document. Type the abstract of the document here. The abstract is typically a short summary of the contents of the Networth – Everything finance document.] The Finance Club of IIMB 05/07/2009 Table of Contents India Business News World Business News Food For Thought INDIA BUSINESS NEWS Indian Stocks Advance, Driving Sensex Higher for a Second Week India’s stocks rose, driving the benchmark index higher for a second week, led by Larsen & Toubro Ltd. (L&T), after the government pledged investment in the nation’s railways and left freight and passenger fares unchanged. L&T, the largest engineering company, added 2.6%. Tata Steel Ltd., the biggest producer of the metal, increased 4.2% on speculation it will avoid higher costs to transport raw materials after the government announced the railway budget. on June 15, the Bombay High Court had ordered RIL to sell the gas for 44% less than the government-set price. Indian business in declined 20%: FICCI Gulf has ABG Plans to Raise $150 Million to Fund Expansion ABG Shipyard Ltd., bidding for control of Great Offshore Ltd., plans to raise $150 million to fund expansion, reviving a proposal from April last year. ABG, which originally sought to raise $200 million, will seek shareholder approval for the new plan on July 7, Chief...
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