Chairmans Message - New Reliance For A New World - Reliance Group India

If the last century was about meeting human needs, the new millennium is about matching human aspirations.

We live in a world where the young are reaching higher, dreaming bigger and demanding more; a world that is challenging the limits of hope and possibility.

Nowhere is this more strikingly visible than in India – a country that wakes up every morning a little younger in age, but infinitely more ambitious in spirit.

India's demographic transition is an extraordinary moment in world history. Today, over 600 million young people, or more than 1 in 2 Indians, are below the age of 25. In 15 years, this number is set to touch 700 million, making India the largest community of youth anywhere in the world.

New India shows the impatience of youth; the desire for real and rapid change -- for a quality of life that is second to none.

Transportation, communications, energy, information, entertainment, technology, education, healthcare and personal finance, New India wants world-class products and services.

The Reliance Group embodies the spirit of this new resurgent India.

Our goal is not just to build a great enterprise for our stakeholders, but, more importantly, to build a great future for our country and the world at large; to give hundreds of millions of people the power to fulfill their dreams, shape their own destiny, and the means to realize their true and diverse potential.

Energy and communications, financial services and infrastructure, new economy and old --- our businesses will span the entire varied landscape of emerging human aspirations.

We will work with commitment and resolve to create pathways that connect ambition to achievement, promise to performance, potential to reality....

We will bridge the gap between quantity and quality; leveraging our strength in managing large-scale operations even as we deliver best-of-class products and services to our consumers. Focussing on the burgeoning aspirations of our young consumers will remain one of our key driving values.

We will rethink every business process, product and service from the standpoint of the consumer – with a commitment to enhance experience at every touch point.

Our founder, the legendary Dhirubhai Ambani, gave us a simple mantra for entrepreneurship: "Think big. Think fast. Think Ahead."

We will think bigger. We will think faster. But, most important of all, we will Think Better – to stay ahead of competition and of our times.

Welcome to the Reliance Group.

It is the New Reliance for the New World!

Anil Dhirubhai Ambani
Chairman, The Reliance Group