Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) is an Indian conglomerate

Conglomerate (company)

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 company headquartered at Mumbai, India. The company operates through three business segments: petrochemicals, refining, and oil and gas, other segment of the company includes textile, retail business, special economic zone (SEZ) development and telecom/broadband business. RIL is the largest publicly traded companies in India by market capitalization

Market capitalization

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In September 2008 Reliance Industries was the only Indian firm featured in the Forbes

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's list of "world's 100 most respected companies".