Reliance raises USD 150 million by pioneering forays into overseas capital markets with first ever international GDR offering by an Indian corporate organization.
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Reliance commissions Hazira plant. This sets the foundation for Reliance becoming one of the world’s largest integrated producers of polyesters.
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Reliance sets up first petrochemicals and polyester filament yarn plant in Patalganga in record time, demonstrating Founder-Chairman Dhirubhai Ambani’s belief in economies of scale and RIL Chairman and Managing Director Mukesh Ambani’s capability to execute world-class and global scale facilities ahead of schedule.
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Reliance goes public for the first time by announcing its IPO and raises Rs 2.8 crore (USD 3.28 million), thus ushering in the Equity Cult in India.
• Initial share price is Rs 10
• Issue oversubscribed seven times with 58,000 investors by the year end
• Receives approval for BSE listing of Reliance as Reliance Textile Industries Ltd.
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The World Bank certifies Reliance Textile Industries as India’s finest composite textile mill by developed country standards. The World Bank called the mill India’s 'most modern textile plant’, barely nine years after Shri Dhirubhai Ambani set up the mill at Naroda.
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Dhirubhai Ambani sets up the Naroda textile unit. The legendary apparel brand “Vimal” brings fashionable yet affordable textiles to millions of Indians.
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Reliance Commercial Corporation was housed on the first floor of this building at Masjid Bunder. Reliance’s first sign board can be seen here.
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Shri Dhirubhai Ambani moved from trading in spices to trading in yarn in the year 1961. Began large-scale import of yarn.
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Dhirubhai Ambani starts a spice trading company, Reliance Commercial Corporation, at Masjid Bunder, Mumbai, in partnership with Trambhakbhai Damani.
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