Mukesh propelled Reliance's business from textiles, polyester fibres, petrochemicals, power generation, information technology to retailing.
Today, Reliance is the world's largest producer of polyester fibre and yarn, 4th largest producer of paraxylene, 5th largest producer of Purified Terepthalic Acid and the 7th largest producer of Polypropylene.
Mukesh was the brain behind the world's largest grassroot petroleum refinery at Jamnagar with a present capacity of 660,000 barrels per day (33 million tonnes per year). He also set up the Reliance's mammoth communications technology initiative, Reliance Infocomm (which now belongs to Anil Dhirubhai Ambani group).
"His genius, his strength is that he's enormously good at executing large projects," Nandan Nilekani, chairman, Infosys, told Newsweek.
Mukesh continues to steer the company's offshore, deep water oil and gas exploration and production program, and the company has a pan-India petroleum retail network of 5,800 outlets. He is also at the helm of Reliance Life Sciences initiative since 2001.
Image : Mukesh Ambani (left) speaks with Indian President APJ Abdul Kalam during the Dhirubhai Ambani Memorial Lecture on the business icon's first death anniversary in Mumbai, July 6, 2003.
Photograph: Sebastian D'Souza/AFP/Getty Images
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