HISTORY
Dhirubhai H. Ambani
Founder Chairman, Reliance Industries Limited, India
December 28, 1932 – July 6, 2002
Major Group Companies : Reliance Industries Limited, India’s largest private sector company.
Birthplace : Chorwad, village in Saurashtra (Gujarat), India
Father’s Name : Hirachand Govardhandas Ambani
Mother’s Name : Jamunaben Hirachand Ambani
Family: wife: Smt. Kokilaben Ambani
Four Children : Two sons Mukesh & Anil and Two daughters, Dipti Salgaokar who lives in Goa & Nina Kothari who resides in Chennai.
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About Sh. Dhirubhai Ambani
Few men in history have made as dramatic a contribution to their country’s economic fortunes as did the founder of Reliance, Sh. Dhirubhai H Ambani. Fewer still have left behind a legacy that is more enduring and timeless.
As with all great pioneers, there is more than one unique way of describing the true genius of Dhirubhai: The corporate visionary, the unmatched strategist, the proud patriot, the leader of men, the architect of India’s capital markets and the champion of shareholder interest. But the role Dhirubhai cherished most was perhaps that of India’s greatest wealth creator. In one lifetime, he built, starting from the proverbial scratch, India’s largest private sector enterprise.
When Dhirubhai embarked on his first business venture, he had a seed capital of barely US$ 300 (around Rs 14,000). Over the next three and a half decades, he converted this fledgling enterprise into a Rs 60,000 corer colossus—an achievement which earned Reliance a place on the global Fortune 500 list, the first ever Indian private company to do so.
Dhirubhai is widely regarded as the father of India’s capital markets. In 1977, when Reliance Textile Industries Limited first went public, the Indian stock market was a place patronized by a small club of elite investors which dabbled in a handful of stocks.
Undaunted, Dhirubhai managed to convince a large number of