‘Golden decade next’, Mukesh Ambani’s 10-year plan for Reliance Industries
Live MintMumbai: Mukesh Ambani, India’s richest man, said on Thursday that Reliance Industries Ltd aims to double sales in about seven years, even as the company explores ways to boost profitability of its mainstay refinery and chemicals businesses. RIL has invested about ₹ 2.5 trillion in telecom unit Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd, through which Ambani wants to venture into e-commerce, healthcare, education and agriculture in the next two years. On the consumer side, Ambani’s immediate bet is on optical fibre-based fixed-line broadband which, he claimed, offers hundreds of megabits per second of data speeds and will allow RIL to offer smart home solutions. “It is our belief that the rapidly increasing demand for petrochemicals maximizing oil-to-chemicals conversion will play a catalytic role in determining profitability of hydrocarbons businesses of the future,” Ambani said.