India’s Mukesh Ambani beats Jack Ma to become Asia’s richest man

MUMBAI - Indian Businessman  Mukesh Ambani overtook Alibaba Group founder Jack Ma to become Asia's richest person as he positions Reliance Industries.

The chairman of India's refining-to-telecoms conglomerate, Ambani was estimated to be worth US$44.3 billion (S$60.5 billion) on Friday (July 13) with Reliance Industries rising 1.6 percent to a record 1,099.8 rupees, according to Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

Ma's wealth stood at US$44 billion at the close of trading on Friday in the US, where the company is listed. Ambani has added US$4 billion to his fortune this year as Reliance doubled its petrochemicals capacity and investors cheered the success of his disruptive telecom upstart Reliance Jio Infocomm.

Then earlier this month, the tycoon unveiled plans to leverage his 215 million telecom subscribers to expand his e-commerce offerings, taking on the likes of Amazon.com and Walmart.

Ambani, best known for executing large-scale projects, spearheaded construction of the world's largest refining complex in Jamnagar, owns the most-widespread mobile data network globally and claims to have India's biggest as well as most-profitable retail firm.

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At this month's annual shareholders' meeting, Ambani said Reliance saw its "biggest growth opportunity in creating a hybrid, online-to-offline new commerce platform," involving the group's Reliance Retail and Reliance Jio businesses. The "size of Reliance will more than double" by 2025, Ambani said at the meeting.

Jio will introduce a fiber-based broadband service across 1,100 Indian cities in August in what Ambani said would be the biggest greenfield fixed-line rollout anywhere in the world.

Mukesh Ambani's is having three kids and recently his two eldren children got engaged in a star-studded event at Mumbai, India.

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The billionaire inherited Reliance from his much-storied father Dhirubhai Ambani, who is credited with sparking an equity culture among middle-class Indians and using their savings to build the group's textile and petrochemical manufacturing units.

Dhirubhai's death in 2002 left the group in the hands of Mukesh and his younger brother Anil Ambani. The brothers eventually split the company in 2005, as per a family pact brokered by their mother, after years of acrimony.

Let's have a look at the Business tycoon lifestyle:

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Many congratulations To Ambani family for topping the Asia's richest person list!