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  Tata Group - Information from Reference.com
Jamshedji Tata came from a business family and made his fortune from cloth mills in the interior of Maharashtra.
Tata Group's aim is to improve the quality of life of the communities it serves.
Tata Tinplate is the most profitably run tinning line in India with a state of the art facilities.
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  CalendarHome.com - - Calendar Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Jamsetji Tata was born to Nusserwanji and Jeevanbai Tata on 3 March 1839 in Navsari, a small town in South Gujarat.
Nusserwanji Tata was the first businessman in a family of Parsi Zoroastrian priests.
Tata Steel (formerly TISCO - Tata Iron and Steel Company Limited) is Asia's first and India's largest integrated private sector steel company producing 4 million tonnes of steel annually.
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 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal
Jamshedji Tata was born to Nusserwanji and Jeevanbai Tata on 3 March 1839 in Navsari, a small town in South Gujarat.
Jamshedji joined him in Bombay at the age of 14 and enrolled at the Elphinstone College.
Tata Steel (formerly TISCO - Tata Iron and Steel Company Limited) is Asia's first and India's largest integrated private sector steel company producing 4 million tonnes of steel annually.
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 webindia123-Indian personalities-Industrialists-Jamshedji Tata
Jamshedji Tata is considered to be the path-finder of modern industrial builders.
Jamshedji's father Nasarvanji Tata used to trade in jute with China and Britain.
Jamshedji Tata was the main person behind the idea to start an Iron and steel Factory.
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 Random Thoughts :: Tatas
Tata is India's largest conglomerate, with revenues in 2005-06 of Rs 967,229 million (US $21.9 billion), the equivalent of about 2.8% of India's GDP, and a market capitalisation of US $57.6 billion now (only 28 of the 96 tata group companies are publicly listed).
Jamshedji Tata came from a business family and made his fortune from cloth mills in the interior of Maharashtra.
Tata surprised the credit default swap segment of the derivative markets by deciding to raise $6.17 billion of debt for the deal through a new subsidiary of Corus called "Tata Steel UK", rather than by raising the debt itself.
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 Timesnow.tv - NOW BLOGS - Blog Posts, Comments, Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Tata Steel today said it will shortly seek approval of its revised offer from the board of Corus Group Plc and the $11.3 billion transaction is likely to be finished by the middle of March this year.
Tata Steel said the financing arrangements relating to Tata Steel UK, as also those put in place prior to the announcement of its revised offer for Corus on December 10, 2006 remained in place.
He was appointed chairman of Tata Industries in 1981 finally 10 years later in 1991, Ratan Tata found himself in the hot seat as the chairman of Tata Sons.
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 Ranchi : Tourism @ Ranchi Express Online : Portal to Jharkhand, India [Ranchi, Jamshedpur, Dhanbad, Bokaro etc.]
Jamshedji Nusserwanji Tata, founder of the Tata Empire.
Tata Steel has constructed this lake as a water reservoir for its plant and the city.
On the mountaintop are the guesthouse of Tata Steel and Forest Department.
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 The Hindu Business Line : The Tata wheel comes full circle
At the Tata Archives in Pune, the story of the group's 178-year journey is laid out in an exhibit of understated elegance amidst the gardens of the Tata Management Training Centre.
The story is told simply as facts speak for the richness and daring of Jamshedji, and his dream of a great modern industrial base for India, which found an echo in the Bombay Plan drawn up by his worthy descendant JRD Tata.
Jamshedji Tata, ever the man of action, wanted to marry the dynamism and intelligence of the modern mind with powers of an ascetic.
www.thehindubusinessline.com /2007/03/05/stories/2007030501400900.htm   (522 words)

  
 The Hindu News Update Service
Tata Group Chairman Ratan Tata, Corus Group Chairman Jim Leng, Corus Chief Executive Philippe Varin, Natsteel President Ooh Soon, Tata Steel Managing Director B Muthuraman were among others who took part in the celebrations marked a remote- control helicopter show and cultural events.
Incidentally, aviation was the passion of JRD Tata, the fourth Chairman of Tata Group, who is credited with launching India's first airline -- Tata Airlines -- that was later nationalised as Air-India, the country's flag carrier.
Tata Steel employees and commoners too took part in the celebrations that saw a colourful float drive by showcasing the domestic steel major's stride in the past century and its rise as a global player.
www.hindu.com /thehindu/holnus/002200703031522.htm   (292 words)

  
 Tata, Corus to merge after shareholders' meeting
The takeover will make Tata Steel, the flagship of the Tata empire, the world's fifth-largest steelmaker, vaulting from 56th place after it beat Brazilian rival CSN in a bidding contest for Corus in January.
Leng is likely to be deputy chairman and serve as a director on the Tata Steel board, a company official who wished not to be named told AFP by telephone from Jamshedpur, where Tata's largest steel plant is located.
Tata Steel Managing Director B. Muthuraman, meanwhile, said the financial structure for the funding of Corus acquisition would be finalised within the next few weeks.
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 Tata Group - TvWiki, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Tata is one of the oldest and best-known groups of companies in India.
TISCO (Tata Iron and Steel Company Ltd) is India's first private Iron and Steel Company, and also the first company founded by J.N. Tata (the founder of the Tata Groups).
TELCO (Tata Engineering and Locomotives Ltd) is a company of Tata group of companies which produces automobiles for the Indian Market.
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 Tata Group | Tata Steel | Media reports | The Romance of Tata steel
RM Lala has traced a hundred years, and more, of the exciting history of Tata Steel, from men searching for iron ore and cooking coal in jungle areas, traversing in bullock carts before the site was found, to the company's modern status as a world class company.
JRD Tata, Chairman of Tata Steel for forty-six years, set out his own guiding principles, one of which was: "Nothing is worth attempting that will not profit the nation." And in that pursuit he laid down certain ethical standards which four successive Chairmen of Tata Steel have upheld.
Not everybody is aware that in the 1990s, Tata Steel, according to a respected international consultant, was heading for possible extinction, struggling as it was with outdated machinery and with government-controlled prices.
www.tata.com /tata_steel/media/20070829_4.htm   (1022 words)

  
 IndianNGOs - Corporate Social Responsibility
A TATA Company shall be committed to be a good corporate citizen not only in compliance with all relevant laws and regulations but also by actively assisting in the improvement of the quality of life of the people in the communities in which it operates with the objective of making them self-reliant.
TATA companies are encouraged to develop social accounting systems and to carry social audit of their operations.
A TATA Company shall strive to provide a safe and healthy working environment and comply, in the conduct of its business affairs, with all regulations regarding the preservation of the environment of the territory it operates in.
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 The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 5 Num 473   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
With heavy industries such as steel plants, motor manufacturing units, cement factories in the midst of 17 small and large parks, reserved forests, jungle, sports grounds, golf clubs and vast green fields, the town is unique in adjusting industrial excellence with natural serenity.
Jamshedji Nussurwarnji Tata, the founder of Tata Group, some 100 years ago planned the city around 140 kilometres north from Ranchi, the capital of Jharkhand, and 251 kilometres from Kolkata.
Industrial giant Tata developed a large lush green park-- Jubilee Park-- in the heart of the city sprawling over 225 acres of land.
www.thedailystar.net /2005/09/24/d50924050254.htm   (558 words)

  
 Parsi Khabar » 100 years since Jamshedji Tata met Charles Perin
Jamshedji Nusserwanji Tata said, ” At last, I have found my man.” He said, ” I’ve been told that you build steel plant wherever advised.
Tata Steel had 40 years of regulated environment, but then it had 20 years of liberal economy thereafter, and another 40 years before independence to do whatever it wanted, Saran said.
But then, unlike many in the modern steel industry, the Tatas never benchmarked success to aggregate steel-making capabilities and this is what is possibly the crucial differentiator for Tata Steel.
parsikhabar.net /100-years-since-jamshedji-tata-met-charles-perin   (1137 words)

  
 The Sunday Tribune - Spectrum
Around 65 per cent of the shares in Tata Sons are held by different Parsi Charitable Trusts in keeping with the spirit of public service endorsed by the company’s founder, Jamsetji Tata.
The Tatas had to pump in between Rs 500 and Rs 700 crore to protect the investments of fixed deposit holders and stakeholders.
Ratan Tata is keen on this sector because his mentor JRD Tata is known as the "Father of Indian Aviation." The first Indian airline, Tata Airlines took off when JRD Tata flew a Pussmoth carrying the first ever air mail from Europe to India.
www.tribuneindia.com /2007/20070211/spectrum/main1.htm   (1841 words)

  
 rediff.com: Staid Tata group dons racier mantle: Reuters
Tata, with an $8.5 billion turnover, was dethroned as India's top private group by sales last year when the Reliance conglomerate topped with $12.36 billion after its 540,000-barrels-a-day refinery (Reliance Petroleum) went on stream.
The Tata group, which has 94 companies and 225,000 employees, seems bemused over the hoopla surroundings its purchase of VSNL but acknowledges it is in the middle of a period of change and most market watchers are upbeat about the new look Tata.
Tata Power is bidding for Enron's $2.9-billion Indian power plant, and another anticipated big event is the possibility of an initial public offering of TCS, possibly India's biggest.
www.rediff.com /money/2002/mar/15tata.htm   (866 words)

  
 Asia Times
Jamshedji Tata planted the seeds of the business house when the country was firmly in the hands of the British, and Indian independence was a blip on the very distant horizon.
Jamshedji Tata was followed by J R D Tata, who built a strong reputation for integrity even as he diversified the group into consumer products, chemicals and heavy engineering.
R Gopalkrishnan, executive director, Tata Sons Ltd and the man tipped to take over from Tata after two years, went a step further and called a press conference where he grandly declared, "The reputation and image of our group is being sullied deliberately by [competitors] through use of half truths and untruths.
www.atimes.com /atimes/South_Asia/DK12Df05.html   (2028 words)

  
 Tata, a man of values and vision : ratan tata, rajdeep sardesai, corus : IBNLive.com : CNN-IBN
Ratan Tata:: Integrity is very important to me. I have tried to continue the foundations of the Group in terms of operating with integrity and with a value system.
Even the Tata Indica, when you first started it, there was a lot of criticism.
Ratan Tata:: I think today the country should be growth-oriented and the policies of the government should be growth-oriented.
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 Tata
TATA ELXSI is a technology company of the Tata Group in India.
Tata Power has a presence in all areas of power sector generation (thermal, hydro, solar and wind) transmission and distribution.
Inspired by a powerful vision, the founders of Tata Power pioneered the generation of electricity in India with the commissioning of India’s first large hydro-electric project in 1915.
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 Tata Group at AllExperts
Tata is one of the oldest and most respected business conglomerates in India and South Asia, with revenues in 2004-05 of $17.8 billion (Rs 799,118 million), the equivalent of about 2.8 per cent of the India's GDP.
TISCO, now Tata Steel was established in 1907 to set up India's first iron and steel plant in Jamshedpur.
Tata Group has played a pioneering role in a variety of fields after India's freedom.
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 PIB Press Release
Jamshedji N Tata has written this letter to Swami Vivekananda asking him to take the leadership of a Research Institute for Science in India.
And the Tata Steel was established in Jamshedpur.
Jamshedji brought two establishment to this country — first one was steel plant and the other was an educational research institution.
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 Jamshedji Tata
Jamshedji Tata is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
Tata is one of the oldest and best-known groups of companies in India.
Narendranath Dutta was born in Shimla Pally, Kolkata, West Bengal, India on 12 January 1863 as the son of Viswanath Dutta and Bhuvaneswari Devi.
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 Deccan Herald News page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Foremost among the ‘temples and monuments of modern India’, the Taj was conceived by Jamshedji Tata, the archetypal Indian industrialist.
When Jamshedji undertook the huge business risk involved in shelling out 5,00000 pound sterling into a project whose success was not a foregone conclusion, he was signalling the arrival of India’s business genius.
The dream of Jamshedji Tata has now grown into a network of 65 of the world’s finest hotels in cities across the globe and the 100-year-old Taj Mahal Hotel at Mumbai stands tall among them, steeped in glory and proudly announcing the arrival of the entrepreneurial acumen of the country.
www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/sep19/edits.asp   (948 words)

  
 Business quiz on Tata group
Established in 1907 by its founder J N Tata, Tata Steel is today Asia's first and India's largest integrated private sector steel company.
Jamshedji, founder of the group, believed that Mumbai, the commercial capital of India, required a hotel that would enhance its reputation among the greatest cities of the world.
In late 1800s, he took a foreign guest to dinner at a hotel, only to be told that his guest was allowed but not him as the hotel was `only for Europeans.' The same evening, he decided to build a hotel in India which would attract people from all over the world.
in.rediff.com /money/2003/nov/21quiz.htm   (883 words)

  
 Jamshedpur, Information about Jamshedpur, Jamshedpur Tour
Jamshedpur was established as a result of the Parsi industrialist Jamshedji Tata's efforts in 1908.
The gigantic factory complex of the Tata Iron and Steel Company (TISCO) dominates the well-planned city of Jamshedpur and was established in 1912.
Tata Steel presented this park to the citizens of Jamshedpur in its Golden Jubilee Year in 1958.
www.indovacations.net /english/AboutJamshedpur.htm   (889 words)

  
 Remembering Jamshedji - Deccan Herald   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Jamshedji was a keen supporter of social reform in India and Swami Vivek-ananda was very passionate about science and development.
When Jamshedji told Swami Vivekananda about his plans to start a steel mill in India, Vivekananda said that though manufacturing technology could be imported from outside, the science of steel needed to be developed in India itself if we had to make real progress.
Thus the original scheme of Jamshedji Tata became a tripartite venture with the association of the Government of India and the Maharaja of Mysore.
www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/july222004/metro13.asp   (494 words)

  
 Geneva Motor Show: Tata Cliffrider hoping to cross over - Autoblog
The Tata Cliffrider is derived from the Tata “Crossover” C oncept, which was originally unveiled at the last Geneva Auto Show.
Tata cars, buses and trucks are already being marketed in several countries in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and South East Asia and in Australia.
Tata is popular for their trucks and they shouldnt make anything in auto industry but trucks.
www.autoblog.com /2006/03/04/geneva-motor-show-tata-cliffrider-hoping-to-cross-over   (1769 words)

  
 Corus says ‘I will’ to Tata : HindustanTimes.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
In London, Corus Group PLC gave a unanimous approval nod to be made a subsidiary of the company that Jamshedji Tata 99 years ago during the British Raj in a corner of what is now Jharkhand.
Tata Steel has created a war-chest of $9.5 billion, clearly indicating that the Tatas are prepared to raise the offer price in case the shareholders reject the offer or wait for a rival bid.
Tata Steel currently makes 5.3 million tonnes, but is swallowing Corus that makes 18.2 million tonnes on the sheer strength of its cost-cutting abilities in a fragmented industry that is consolidating worldwide.
www.hindustantimes.com /news/181_1825290,0002.htm   (456 words)

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