The brand has revamped its website, www.reliancedigital.in, to make it more interactive and informative. Customers who visit the site and fill in their details get special discounts on products when they shop at the store. Reliance Digital in the first phase of the revamping its brand, will focus on top metros and satellite towns, and cover around 150 cities in the second phase.

Reliance Digital which currently has 27 stores across Mumbai, Delhi, Gurgaon, Ghaziabad, Jalandhar, Bengaluru, Mangalore, Hubli, Hyderabad, Vijaywada, Vizag, Secundrabad, Chennai, Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Nashik and Nagpur plan to focus on the country’s top metros and satellite cities in its Phase I expansion, and 150 cities in Phase II. The first Reliance Digital outlet to have undergone a revamp is the Vashi store in Mumbai which now claims to be more customers focused, convenient, informative and service oriented. It also has an Experience Zone to help customers feel, enjoy, test and try the products.

Reliance provides consumers with a wide range of high quality products at competitive prices. Reliance Digital has geared itself to be completely customer centric in its offerings and services. They offer wide range of state-of-the-art CDIT products to our customers and make it easy for them to understand and use its products.

Reliance Digital has set themselves high targets and standards so that their customers get the best at our store through products, solutions, service and a life-long relationship. Since its inception in 2006, Reliance Retail has grown into an organization that caters to millions of customers, thousands of farmers and vendors.

Reliance Industries restarted a crude-distillation unit and coker at one of its two Jamnagar refineries on 17th November after shutting them in the last week of October. A 100,000 barrel-a-day vacuum gasoil unit, which produces fuels such as gasoline and diesel, was offline for about three months from early May to September. Reliance exported 1.05 million tons of gasoline in July and August combined, while 2.01 million tons of diesels were shipped overseas in the same period. The two plants at Jamnagar are capable of processing 1.2 million barrels a day of crude, making enough fuel to meet about 75 percent of the U.K.’s consumption.

Reliance’s Jamnagar facility in India’s western state of Gujarat is centered on two refineries, a 580,000 barrel-a-day plant completed in December 2008 and an older 660,000 barrel-a- day unit. The plants can process a combined 1.24 million barrels of oil a day, or about 1.6 percent of global refining capacity. Reliance Industries imports of crude are also headed for an increase, with the company importing about 1.7 million tons in the first week of November, compared with nearly 3.7 million tons for all of October.

Mukesh Ambani’s group, which has Reliance Industries (RIL) as its flagship company, Mukesh Ambani said after receiving the Dwight D Eisenhower Global Award for leadership from the Business Council for International Understanding(BCIU), “My wife Nita is building a university of a world scale and world size and we are finalizing broad partnerships with many of the American universities. We look forward to really equipping tomorrow’s youth with the skills and the knowledge and the competencies that they would need in India in the coming decades.”

Mukesh Ambani’s wife Nita Ambani is leading the efforts for setting up a varsity which would be set up by RIL’s philanthropy arm Reliance Foundation. Nita Ambani in a lecture delivered at the London School of Economics (LSE) last month had said that Reliance Foundation had taken up the challenge of setting up a world class university in India. LSE had also said that it would collaborate with Reliance Foundation for establishing world class universities in India. Nita Ambani said, “The (proposed) university will break new grounds in the use of technology and it will be a university that looks global with Indian soul,”

Reliance Industries is leading the efforts for setting up a varsity which would be set up by RIL’s philanthropy arm Reliance Foundation. As the company looks forward for equipping tomorrow’s youth with the skills and the knowledge and the competencies that they would need in India in the coming decades.

Reliance Industries has recently received the Dwight D Eisenhower Global Award for leadership from the Business Council for International Understanding. The award recipient’s represents as the finest in entrepreneurship, innovation and leadership on the world’s stage and embody the pioneering view of commercial diplomacy established by BCIU founder President Eisenhower.

Close on the heels of Reliance Trends returning to UP, the company’s other standalone niche specialty stores including, Reliance Digital, Reliance Footprints and Reliance Music are following suit. While Reliance Footprints and Reliance Digital are expected to be launched in Lucknow early next year, talks for setting up Reliance Music stores are in the final stages. This is our third year of operations and already they are the largest chain of apparel stores in the country. The plan is to take this forward by launching 100 stores by 2011-12 and 155 stores by 2012-13. All the locations have been identified and work is going on at these sites at various stages, Sirdeshmukh informs.
Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries didn’t have smooth sailing in UP for a while. Three years ago, it was forced to close shop in the state as Reliance Industries had made a failed attempt to foray into the organized retail sector in India’s most populous state through Reliance Fresh.
Reliance Trends houses some of the best brands from various parts of the world including their collections. The store’s core principle is – ‘Fashion at great value’. It offers a mix of private brands across men’s, women’s and children’s categories. The collection offers high fashion, latest trends, cuts and styles and top-quality material backed by technology and innovation.
Reliance Trends seems unbeatable as they offer fashionable and trendy clothes at prices unmatched in the market. Reliance Trends is leaving no stone unturned in tapping the homogeneous mix of world famous brands and private brands and is all set to expand to 56 stores by the end of current financial year.

Personal Life:-
He Married to Nita Ambani and has three children Akash, Anant and Isha.
Career:-
Even while pursuing his studies in chemical engineering Mukesh Ambani began working almost full time for Reliance. In 1981, he officially joined and quickly became a part and reason of progress. He was the mastermind behind Reliance’s backward integration of textiles into polyester fibers and other petrochemicals. Then he led the creation of 51 new world-class production facilities which included a range of technologies, which increased production capacity in manifold ways. He also designed the largest oil refinery at Jamnagar. Dhirubhai’s dream project Reliance Infocomm was also entrusted to Mukesh Ambani but later on went to his brother Anil Ambani. His next step is to enter the retail trade in a great way to retail stores across the country. At present there are many different outlets such as Reliance Autozone, Reliance Digital which are solely under Reliance Retail.
Achievements:-
1) Chosen as the businessman of the year 2007 by an opinion poll conducted by NDTV India.
2) United States-India Business Council (USIBC) leadership award for Global Vision 2007 in Washington.
3)He was the 42nd among the ”World’s Most Respected Business Leaders” and second among the four Indian CEOs as per the survey conducted by Pricewaterhouse Coopers and published in FT, London, Nov 2004
4) In October 2004 he was awarded by Total Telecom as “Most Influential Person in Telecommunications in 2004″
5) Chosen as “Telecom Man of the Year 2004″ by Voice and Data magazine in Sep 2004.
6)”Chitralekha Person of the Year Award – 2007″ by Gujarat CM Narendra Modi.
7) Conferred the Penn Engineering Dean’s Medal for application of engineering and technology in January 2010

Under the proposed transaction, Reliance will acquire a 60% interest in Marcellus Shale acreage in Central and Northeast Pennsylvania that is currently held in a 50‐50 joint venture between Carrizo and ACP II Marcellus LLC, an affiliate of Avista Capital Partners. Pursuant to the transaction, Reliance will acquire 100% of Avista’s interest and 20% of Carrizo’s interests in the joint venture. Upon completion of the transaction, Reliance and Carrizo will own 60% and 40% interests, respectively, in a newly formed joint venture between the companies.

Reliance will pay a total consideration of $392 million, comprising of $340 million of cash and $52 million of drilling carry obligations. The drilling carry obligations will provide for 75% of Carrizo’s share of development costs over an anticipated two year development program. The joint venture will have approximately 104,400 net acres of undeveloped leasehold in the core area of the Marcellus Shale in Central and Northeast Pennsylvania, of which Reliance’s 60% interest will represent approximately 62,600 net acres. This acreage is expected to support the drilling of approximately 1,000 wells over the next 10 years, with a net resource potential of about 3.4 Tcfe (2.0 Tcfe net to Reliance). The transaction allows for additional growth in the development acreage, at pre‐agreed terms.

Carrizo will serve as the development operator for the joint venture and Reliance has the option to act as a development operator in certain regions in the coming years as part of the joint venture. The transaction is anticipated to close by mid‐September 2010. Commenting on the joint venture, Mr. Walter Van de Vijver, President, International E&P Business, Reliance Industries said, “Reliance is excited about the opportunity to further expand presence in the Marcellus Shale in the United States. We are pleased to establish a long‐term partnership with Carrizo, which has demonstrated operating expertise in the shale plays. The proposed joint venture will supplement strengths achieved through our recent joint ventures and further expands our footprint in North American shale gas operations.”
Jefferies & Company, Inc. acted as lead financial advisor and Vinson & Elkins LLP acted as legal counsel to Reliance. BNP Paribas and Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank provided strategic advise to RIL in respect of this investment.

Mukesh Ambani’s RIL-Infotel has installed, as per the source, five WiMax base station in which three are from Alvarion and two are from Samsung. The company is checking interoperability among various BTSs and devices along with factors that hold key to a business.

Infotel won BWA spectrum in all 22 telecom circles across the country for a whopping Rs 12,847.77 crore. On the same day RIL had announced to acquire 95 per cent stake in the company.

The entry of Mukesh Ambani into telecom will create death knell for several players. The mobile industry is yet to recover from shocks following the implementation of the per second billing concept. Mukesh Ambani, when launched Reliance Infocomm, was the first to take on Vodafone and Bharti Airtel with cost effective schemes. Mahendra Nahata created history when HFCL won several mobile circles when the telecom industry was opened up for private players in mid 1990s. But Nahatas could not complete their mission. Mukesh Ambani, who settled his issues with brother Anil Ambani, can now enter telecom space and is looking for buying out operators.

The success of WiMax trials being run by Reliance-Infotel will be a big blow to Qualcomm, the evangelist of TD LTE technology, which is expected to make foray into global market by late 2012 or early 2013.

According to WiMax Forum, there are more than 300 WiMax devices of all types like datacards, Indoor CPE, WiMax Hand Sets etc, already certified by it for use in more than 540 mobile WiMax networks in 140 countries. There are more addition expected by WiMax Forum to this existing range of devices.

Source:http://news-views.in/mukesh-ambani-back-with-a-bang/

According to the United Nations representative, Mukesh Ambani, the top Indian industrialist will also look at the special needs of the least developed countries of the world as well as other landlocked developing countries along with other small islands and developing states. As per the sources, the Millennium Development Goals are eight international goals which at least 23 global organizations and 192 United Nations member states have agreed to achieve by the tear 2015. All these goals are developmental goals and will work for the benefit of the underprivileged sections of the society worldwide.

This golden opportunity will also strengthen the presence of Reliance Industries globally. Reliance Chief Mukesh Ambani feels proud to be associated with this noble cause which includes reducing poverty, reducing child mortality rates, fighting disease epidemics like AIDS and developing a global partnership for development. According to the world body, this MDG advocacy group will support the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon in mobilizing global action and building political will. To set this initiative rolling, the first task of the advocacy group is the preparation for the MDG Summit which will be held in September this year and this Summit can be seen as a turning point in the collective effort to achieve the set goals by 2015.

The elder of the two Ambani siblings, Mukesh is also the member of the Prime Minister’s Council on Trade and Industry and the Board of Governors of the National Council of Applied Economic Research. Not just on the national front, Mukesh Ambani is also active in the international scene. He also holds the position of the Vice Chairman of The World Business Council for Sustainable Development.

Source:http://news-views.in/un-names-mukesh-ambani-in-mdg-advocacy-group/