Monday, October 17 2005 12:07 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

Mumbai: Reliance Industries Limited's (RIL), Hazira manufacturing division has won the '2005 ASTD BEST Award' from the American Society for Training & Development Award (ASTD). BEST organizations are the one's who achieve enterprise wide success through learning by creating, supporting and championing learning opportunities for results and a learning culture.

According to Tony Bingham, ASTD's President and CEO, "The 2005 ASTD BEST Award winners set the standard of excellence for exceptional practices in employee learning and development." Bingham continues, "The winning organizations understand how to leverage employee learning with other critical business functions to achieve maximum impact, efficiency, and performance across the enterprise."

This elite club has Global Conglomerates like IBM, Hewlett Packard, Intel Corporation, Merck & Co, QUALCOMM, General Electric, Deloitte & Touche, Lockheed Martin Corporation, Barclays Bank plc, Toshiba America Business Solutions, Inc and many others.

Reliance is the first petrochemicals company from India to have won this award. It is also the first petrochemicals company from Asia and second Petrochemicals Company, after Dow Chemicals globally. RIL - Hazira Unit was ranked 13th amongst the '2005 ASTD BEST Award' winners.