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1. AN ASSIGNMENT
ON
PRACTICAL APPLICATION
WITH RESPECT TO
STRATEGIC PERSPECTIVE
“STUDY ON MUKESH AMBANI”
Submitted to: Prepared By:
Prof. Kalpesh Ganotra Hitesh Sasani (25)
Saptarshi Chakraborty (28)
Rajkumar Singh (38)
MBA-II, SEM-III Rajesh Yadav (42)
(DR.J.K.PATEL INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT) Pinal Thummar (56)
M.B.A PROGRAMME Nishant Soni (57)
Affiliated to: Gujarat Technological University
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2. Presentation Flow
 Introduction
 Early Life And Education
 Career
 Awards And Honours
 S.W.O.T. Analysis Of Mukesh Ambani
 Strategic Management
 Mukesh Ambani And Strategic Management
 Reliance Industries Limited
 Reliance-I.P.C.L Merger (Value Creation Through Integration)
 Other Partnerships, Mergers And Acquisitions By Reliance
 Financial Position Of Reliance Industries Limited
 Major Subsidiaries And Associates
 Conclusion
 Source Of Information
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3. Introduction
 They say a good businessman can spot business in every opportunity, but a great
businessman sees opportunity in every venture. Needless to say, a personification of
this avowal can very well take form of Mukesh Ambani, head honcho of Reliance
industries Limited (RIL) in every sense of good reason.
 Being a chemical engineer to a Stanford drop out, the journey of one of the true
visionaries and business magnate is relived in this short report about Mukesh Ambani.
 Right from his early age to his education, career and the milestones he has achieved
are a rare feat and is enough to make every Indian proud.
 Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani was born on April 19, 1957 in the city of Aden in Yemen.
 Mukesh Ambani is the eldest son of Dhirubhai Ambani, the late patriarch of the
Reliance Empire and Kokilaben Ambani. He has a brother, Anil Ambani, and two
sisters - Dipti Salgaoncar & Neena Kothari.
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4. Introduction
 He is an Indian business magnate, the chairman and managing
director of Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries,the
largest private sector enterprise in India listed in Fortune
500 magazine.
 As of 2011, he is the second richest man in Asia and the ninth
richest man in the world with a personal wealth net worth of
$22.6 B and earning worth $3,019,935 as of November 2011.
 (Source- http://www.forbes.com/wealth/billionaires)
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5. Early Life And Education
 From childhood, Mukesh Ambani was industrious and had a
strong urge to become famous.
 He used to live with his family in the Usha Kiran skyscraper at
Altamount Road in the 60’s until Dhirubhai Ambani then
purchased a 14-floor apartment block called 'Sea Wind' in Colaba,
 Mukesh Ambani was educated at Abaay Morischa School in
Mumbai.
 And his indomitable wish to become famous and well known
across the world made him one of the most successful
entrepreneurs of the world.
 Being the first child, he received all the love and attention of his
parents. His father was keen on providing an all-round
development to his four children.
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6. Early Life And Education
 He completed his graduation with a bachelor`s degree in chemical
engineering from the University of Mumbai, Department of Chemical
Technology (UDCT), now Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai. He
stood sixth in the University exams.
 Mukesh later enrolled for an MBA from Stanford University but completed
only one year of the two year program and dropped out in the year 1980.
 It was early 80s, and during that time the World Bank's Young Professional's
Programme (YPP) was quite famous. Mukesh was keen to pursue the
prestigious YPP after completing his MBA. All this would take him a year
and a half, after which he would return to India, to work on the polyester
plant.
 But his father was to start work on the polyester plant right away. So, to help
him build the PFY plant, Dhirubhai pulled his eldest son Mukesh out of
Stanford where and Mukesh decided to return to India immediately.
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7. Career
 Mukesh Ambani joined Reliance in 1981 and it was his brain behind Reliance's
backward integration from textiles into polyester fibres and further into
petrochemicals, petroleum refining and going up-stream into oil and gas exploration
and production.
 It was not easy task for him to prove his efficiency and business acumen in a nation
where parallel economy (black market) prevails. Mukesh had to work hard for business
enhancements.
 In this process, he directed the creation of 60 new, world-class manufacturing facilities
involving diverse technologies that have raised Reliance’s manufacturing capacities
from less than a million tonnes to twelve million tonnes per year.
 Mukesh made his father's dream come true when he launched Reliance Infocom
Limited in 2002. It grew as the largest and most complex information and
communications technology initiative in the world. Reliance Infocom has been
renamed as Reliance Communications Limited, and is now under Anil Dhirubhai
Ambani Group.
 Mukesh's greatest accolade came in 2004 when he was ranked 13th in Asia's Power 25
list of The Most Powerful People in Business, published by the Fortune magazine. The
Asia Society, Washington D.C., USA, conferred on him the Asia Society Leadership
Award in May 2004.
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8. Career
 Anil used a combination of threat of disclosures and appeal to
mother to finally get Reliance Communications Limited, Reliance
Energy Limited and Relianc Infocomm. And his 30% share will
help him infuse much needed funds in the three companies.
 He is a member of the Prime Minister's Council on Trade and
Industry, Government of India and the Board of Governors of The
National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER), New
Delhi.
 Mukesh Ambani is married to Nita Ambani, who looks after the
social and charitable arm of Reliance Industries.
 He also owns the Mumbai Indians I.P.L cricket team which he
bought for the highest bid of $111.9 million.
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9. AWARDS AND HONOURS
Year of Award or Honour Name of Award or Honor Awarding Organization
2010 Global Vision Award at The Awards Dinner Asia Society
2010 Business Leader of the Year NDTV India
2010 Businessman of the Year Financial Chronicle
2010 Juran Quality Medal for 2009[32] Indian Merchant's Chamber (IMC)
School of Engineering and Applied Science
Dean's Medal
2010 University of Pennsylvania.
United States-India Business Council
Leadership Award
2007 United States-India Business Council.
2007 Chitralekha Person of the Year Award Government of Gujarat.
2004 World Communication Award Total Telecom.
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10. Swot Analysis
Strengths: Weakness:
People
Money Not Charismatic and
Image Flamboyant.
Brand Value
Indian Never spends money lavishly
Opportunities: Threats:
Automobile Sector Competitors
South East Asian Countries Share Market
Large Market Oil Deficiency
Acquisitions, Mergers and Security
Takeovers
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11. Strategic Management
 “Strategic management is an ongoing process that evaluates
and controls the business and the industries in which the
company is involved; assesses its competitors and sets goals
and strategies to meet all existing and potential competitors;
and then reassesses each strategy annually or quarterly [i.e.
regularly] to determine how it has been implemented and
whether it has succeeded or needs replacement by a new
strategy to meet changed circumstances, new technology, new
competitors, a new economic environment., or a new social,
financial, or political environment.” (According to Lamb,
Robert, Boyden, Competitive strategic management,
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hal)
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12. Mukesh Ambani And Strategic Management
 Always thinks ‘out of the box’. Apart from traditional and conventional beliefs, Mukesh
Ambani always does things in an unconventional ways.
 Doing things in a different way. When generating funds from public by means of
shares, its difficult to gain trust and convince them so It has gone into their psyche that to
do things differently.
 Empower ordinary people to extra ordinary things. The other thing that is not visible
externally is methods, processes, systems that moved Reliance away from a system that is
totally owner-driven. Reliance were among the last to put up a polyester plant.
 Investment in excellence is investment in the future. Mukesh Ambani run Reliance
Industries Limited has been accorded with the second position in the list of world’s 10
biggest ’sustainable value creators’. By generating the largest shareholder value in terms
of market capitalization, Mukesh Ambani and Reliance Industries Limited, both, are held
as the finest corporate entities of the world today.
 Self belief and opportunity analysis is essential for an entrepreneur. In the journey of
an entrepreneur, the most important thing is self-belief and the ability to convert that
belief into reality. He believed that we could raise money from the capital market and
return it with profits. His second belief was that India is a great opportunity.
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13. Reliance Industries Limited
 The Reliance Group, founded by Dhirubhai H. 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$ 44 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, retail and special economic zones.
 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.
 Major Group Companies are Reliance Industries Limited (including main subsidiary
Reliance Retail limited) and Reliance Industrial Infrastructure Limited.
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14. Reliance-I.P.C.L Merger
(Value Creation Through Integration)
 Before the merger, Reliance was supplying raw materials to IPCL to make final products such as
rubber. Now, Reliance will be able to offer end-to-end product solutions.
 The Reliance-I.P.C.L merger took place on April 18, 2007.
 After the merger, Reliance’s revenue will be increased from chemicals by 4 per cent to 48 per cent of
the total. Later, analyst said that one share of Reliance will be equal value of four shares of IPCL.
But, according to the book value formula the ratio would be 1:2. Reliance Industries would add more
than Rs 11,000 crore in its balance-sheet and Rs 1,163 crore to its profit as well.
 The new development would make RIL as a pan-Indian and perhaps Asian dominant firm. It also
would result in substantial tax savings for the merged companies because both companies are buying
and selling products from each other.
 In 2002, Reliance had paid Rs 1,491 crore to the government to take 26 per cent stake in IPCL. Then,
in August 2006, the Gujarat High Court had legitimate the merger of six polyester manufacturing
companies such as Apollo Fibres, Central India Polyesters, India Polyfibres, Orissa Polyfibres,
Recron Synthetics and Silvassa Industries with IPCL.
 From the above merger, we can conclude that the Reliance-IPCL merger; a tactical masterstroke by
Mukesh Ambani resulted in profit of Rs 1,163 crore.
 Not only did he acquire IPCL, Mukesh Ambani also acquired six polyester manufacturing companies
which got merged with ipcl a year earlier. Thus we can say that he obtained a major portion of
petrochemical units in a bunch.
 So acquiring IPCL was a definite competitive advantage for Mukesh Ambani and a strategic move on
his quest to become the richest Indian and ninth richest person in the world.
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15. OTHER PARTNERSHIPS, MERGERS AND
ACQUISITIONS BY RELIANCE
 In 2004, The European Commission approved the acquisition of the German specialty polyester
manufacturer 'Trevira' by Reliance.
 In 2008, during the year, Reliance signed an agreement to acquire certain polyester (capacity) assets of
Hualon, Malaysia.
 In the Refining & Marketing business, Reliance took over majority control of Gulf Africa Petroleum
Corporation (GAPCO) and started shipping products to the East African markets in 2008
 Reliance also signed MoU with GAIL (India) Limited to explore opportunities of setting up
petrochemical plants in feedstock rich countries outside India in 2008
 During 2010, RIL and British Petroleum announced a strategic partnership in the oil and gas business.
This partnership comprises BP taking 30 per cent stake in 23 oil and gas production sharing contracts that
Reliance operates in India, including the KG-D6 block, and the formation of a joint venture (50:50) for
sourcing and marketing gas in India.
 During 2010, the Company took a significant step by entering into partnerships in the United States of
America with Atlas Energy, Pioneer Natural Resources and Carrizo Oil & Gas through three distinctive
joint venture agreements. It has also entered into a separate joint venture with Pioneer Natural Resources
aimed at addressing the mid-stream opportunity in gas evacuation and transportation.
 During 2010, RIL and Russia's SIBUR announced a joint venture for the setting up of a facility for
producing 100,000 tonnes of butyl rubber in India.
 During 2010, RIL acquired a 95% stake in Infotel Broadband Services Limited, which emerged as a
successful bidder in all the 22 circles of the auction for Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) spectrum
conducted by the Department of Telecommunication, Government of India. RIL has invested Rs.
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16. Financial Position Of Reliance Industries Limited
 After the demise of Dhirubhai Ambani in 2002 the Reliance
Industries Limited was carried forward by Mukesh Ambani
 He took reliance to the pinnacle of the private sector company in
India.
 Facts And Figures speak for themselves.
 Revenue crossed Rs. 2,50,000 crore mark (Rs. 2,58,651 crore, US$
58.0 billion)
 Net Profit crossed Rs. 20,000 crore mark (Rs. 20,286 crore, US$
4.5billion)
 Total Assets crossed Rs. 2,80,000 crore mark (Rs. 2,84,719 crore,
US$ 63.8 billion), unparalleled in the Indian Private sector.
 Exports crossed Rs. 1,40,000 crore mark (Rs. 1,46,667 crore, US$
32.9 billion), 13.4% of India's total exports.
 RIL declares Dividend of 80%. Payout of Rs 2,385 Crore, one of the
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17. Major Subsidiaries And Associates
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18. Conclusions
 Through its uniqueness and providing that quality products, RIL has
made its name felt. It is a company which has succeeded due to the hard
work and sincerity of its employees. So it is truly the employees
company. And all credit must go to Mukesh Ambani.
 A shrewd businessman who knows the value of money and invests in
future prospects with a guaranteed return
 A person who also takes care of the Corporate Social Responsibility by
means of Bal Kalyan programme, Dhirubhai Ambani hospital, Project
Jagruti and initiative to combat HIV and T.B
 He very well understands the fact that unlike money, time lost can never
be regained.
 According to him one needs to find opportunity in every adversity.
 As Mukesh Ambani rightly says: “One of his biggest obsessions is that
senior people must give bright 25-year-olds the opportunity to
contribute meaningfully.” - Mukesh Ambani, after recalling the
opportunities he received as a young man.
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19. Source Of Information
 http://www.ril.com/html/aboutus/mukesh_ambani.html
 Bloomberg Business Week:
http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=7388031&ticker
=RIL:IN
 http://www.forbes.com/profile/mukesh-ambani/
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mukesh_Ambani
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliance_Industries
 http://www.askmen.com/celebs/men/business_politics_60/95_mukesh_ambani.html
 http://www.technicalsymposium.com/mukehambani-biography.html
 http://www.ayushveda.com/mens-magazine/why-is-he-famous/
 http://connect.in.com/mukesh-ambani/biography-387.html
 http://archives.digitaltoday.in/indiatoday/20050704/cover.html
 http://business-standard.net.in/india/news/ambanis-seal-deal-finally/212046/
 http://luxpresso.com/news-lifestyle/what-you-didnt-know-about-mukesh-ambani/6733
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