Ambani, Dhirubhai

Ambani, Dhirubhai
▪ 2003
Dhirajlal Hirachand Ambani 
      Indian industrialist (b. Dec. 28, 1932, Chorwad, Gujarat, India—d. July 6, 2002, Mumbai [Bombay], India), was the founder of Reliance Industries, a petrochemicals, communications, power, and textiles conglomerate and the only privately owned Indian company in the Fortune 500. Ambani, the third of five children born to a village schoolteacher, migrated to the British colony of Aden at age 17 to join his brother. He started his career as a clerk at A. Besse & Co., which in the 1950s was the largest transcontinental trading firm east of Suez. In 1958 he returned to Bombay. He became a commodities and textiles trader and set up the first Reliance textile mill in 1966, earning the sobriquet “the Prince of Polyester.” He gradually shaped Reliance into a petrochemicals megalith, despite a stodgy economy and crippling government regulations and bureaucracy. In 1977 Ambani took Reliance public after nationalized banks refused to finance him. Despite allegations of political manipulation, corruption, and engineered raids on competitors, investor confidence in Reliance was unshaken—owing in part to the handsome dividends the company offered, as well as the founder's charisma and vision. Ambani was credited with introducing the stock market to the average investor, and thousands of investors attended the Reliance annual general meetings, which were sometimes held in a football stadium, with millions more watching on television. Share prices collapsed in 1995 amid serious accusations of crony capitalism and accounting irregularities but rebounded after an inquiry cleared the group. Ambani suffered his first stroke in 1986 and handed over the day-to-day running of the company to his sons. A year later, however, he returned to his office at Reliance Industries.

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