Reliance Retail is the latest addition in the business portfoliio of Reliance Group. The Reliance Group, founded by Dhirubhai H. Ambani (1932-2002), is India's largest private sector enterprise, with businesses in the energy and materials value chain. Group revenues add up to USD 20 billion. The flagship company, Reliance Industries Limited, is a Fortune Global 500 company.  The Group's activities span exploration and production of oil and gas, petroleum refining and marketing, petrochemicals (polyester, fibre intermediates, plastics and chemicals) and textiles.   Reliance enjoys global leadership in its businesses, being the largest polyester yarn and fibre producer in the world and among the top five to ten producers in the world in major petrochemical products.  The Group exports products worth USD 5 billion to more than 100 countries in the world. There are 25,000 employees on the rolls of Group Companies. Major Group Companies are Reliance Industries Limited and Indian Petrochemicals Corporation Ltd.