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  Ratan Tata - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ratan Naval Tata (born December 28, 1937, in Bombay) is the present Chairman of the Tata Group, a leading Indian conglomerate established by earlier generations of his family.
Tata was honoured by the Government of India with the Padma Bhushan on 26th January 2000, on the occasion of the 50th Republic Day of India.
Tata was conferred the title of honorary economic advisor to Hangzhou city in the Zhejiang province of China in February 2004.
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 Rs 1-lakh car by 2008: Ratan Tata
Tata Sons Chairman Ratan Tata's dream project, the 'people's' car, is all set to become a reality by 2008.
Asked if Tata would use its brand name to sell Daewoo vehicles in overseas markets, he said though the new company was named Tata Daewoo, the Indian brand name may not be used in geographies where it is not recognised.
Tata has taken him too far to do what is not at all needed and required.
www.rediff.com /money/2005/may/07tata.htm   (501 words)

  
 Ratan Tata, Honeywell Chairman Cote honoured
Ratan Tata and Honeywell International CEO David M Cote were awarded at the US-India Business council event.
Ratan Tata, Chairman of the Tata Group of Industries spoke about India-US bilateral ties, underlining how both the nations were committed to the pursuit of freedom and free enterprise.
Ratan Tata also mentioned that the success of his company was due to the legacy and value system left behind by his predecessors and that has driven the organisation.
news.webindia123.com /news/Articles/World/20060623/371698.html   (378 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | World | South Asia | Corus takeover: Who is Ratan Tata?
Ratan revamped the operations of Tata Steel and made it one of the lowest cost-producers in the world.
Ratan Tata's most important concern, however, was to protect his toplines and bottomlines in the face of ever-increasing competition from domestic and global players.
Ratan Tata has a long way to go before he can bid farewell (or 'tata' to use the Hindi word) to the world of work.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/south_asia/6071090.stm   (916 words)

  
 Ratan Tata Joins USC Board of Trustees
“Ratan Tata is highly esteemed, certainly in India, but in the rest of the world as well for his extraordinary talents as a business leader and his dedication to humanitarianism,” said USC President Steven B. Sample.
Tata was appointed director-in-charge of The National Radio & Electronics Co. Limited in 1971 and, a decade later, was named chairman of Tata Industries Limited, which he transformed into a strategy think tank for the Tata Group and a promoter of new ventures in high-technology businesses.
Tata was appointed chairman of Tata Sons Limited in 1991.
www.usc.edu /uscnews/stories/11551.html   (583 words)

  
 Ratan Tata: on future of manufacturing on www.balendu.com
RATAN TATA: India is, by and large, not yet world class in manufacturing.
A view of Tata Motors’ engineering research centre in Pune, where the blueprint of the Rs 1-lakh car is being finalisedThe other day, we were at Tata Motors looking at plant enhancements and I saw a few of the shower booths for checking the leaks.
RATAN TATA: There are a couple of views on what it may not have.
www.balendu.com /ratan_tata.htm   (4452 words)

  
 BW Online | July 26, 2004 | Ratan Tata: No One's Doubting Now
Ratan Tata's plan -- sketched out a decade before he became chairman, back when he ran the group's business-development arm -- was to build a more focused company without abandoning the best of Tata's manufacturing tradition.
Tata says the ventures are meant to be profitable, but he admits he is also motivated by a family tradition of charity and good works.
Ratan Tata is nonetheless doubling down his bet and plans to invest an additional $3 billion to expand the network, install new technology, and market its service.
www.businessweek.com /magazine/content/04_30/b3893068.htm   (2223 words)

  
 Ratan Tata Tata-Corus entity chairman : HindustanTimes.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Ratan Tata, chairman of Tata Sons, will be at the helm of the merged entity called Tata Steel and Corus after the board of the Anglo-Dutch company accepted the Indian steel major's $8 billion takeover bid on Friday.
Ratan Tata, who had earlier described the deal as a "defining moment for Tata Steel, would be chairman of the merged entity, while Jim Leng of Corus will be its deputy chairman, Muthuraman announced, adding the decision would result in "the right partner, at the right time and on right terms".
Responding to questions, he said that Tata Steel did not intend to export iron ore. He said Tata Steel had initiated expansion plans in its Jamshedpur plant while new units were on the anvil in other places in Jharkhand and Chattisgarh.
hindustantimes.com /news/181_1825483,00050003.htm   (506 words)

  
 Man of the week: RATAN TATA, Jan 5, 2003, The Week   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Tata began conducting the AGM in a methodical manner that has since become his hallmark, and in the hours that followed he engaged Nair in arguments over financial accounting and legal issues.
Tata convinced the Assam chief minister, the Union home secretary and the home minister that the medical aid scheme implemented in 1997 was meant to benefit his employees and their families.
Tatas were convinced of the need to develop Tata Teleservices and decided to invest some of the VSNL reserves in it.
www.the-week.com /23jan05/events1.htm   (1815 words)

  
 Sir Ratan Tata Trust - Information
Sir Ratan Tata, the younger of the two sons of Jamsetji Tata, was born on 20th January 1871.
This instance of Sir Ratan's largesse could be viewed as a precursor to the present grant bestowing policy of the Trust, with regards the issue at hand and the manner in which the same can be effectively addressed.
The Sir Ratan Tata Trust was established in 1919 with a corpus of Rs.
www.srtt.org /info.html   (1381 words)

  
 Tata Steel - Newsroom
The Tata Medical Centre (TMC) is slated to be completed by December 2007 and will have 150 beds as well as an outpatient and ambulatory care facility for patients suffering from cancer.
Ratan Tata, Chairman, Tata Group and Chairman of Tata Medical Centre Trust, "All of us in the Tata Group are the inheritors of a legacy of creating institutions that make a difference to the world we live in.
Accordingly, the Tata Medical Centre will be mandated to provide service, education and research facilities for the North East and North Eastern regions of the country as well as neighboring countries.
www.tatasteel.com /newsroom/press282.asp   (601 words)

  
 Tata Group | About us | Pioneers | Sir Ratan Tata
Sir Ratan Tata, the younger of group founder Jamsetji Tata's two sons, died in 1918 at the age of 47.
In 1912, when few men from backgrounds comparable to Sir Ratan were even remotely interested or even aware of poverty and destitution, he encouraged the University of London to institute a chair at the London School of Economics to investigate and research the causes of destitution and poverty.
At the age of 47, Sir Ratan died, leaving behind his widow, Lady Navajbai Tata, who was to outlive him by 44 years.
www.tata.com /0_about_us/history/pioneers/ratan_tata.htm   (432 words)

  
 Indian Steel Company Remains Unique - Newsweek: International Editions - MSNBC.com
Ratan Tata says his company is not driven to grow "over everybody's dead bodies." This is a company where 66 percent of the profits of its highly successful investment arm, Tata Sons, go to charity.
Tata is a trend breaker among Asian family conglomerates, a breed whose incestuous flaws were exposed during the regionwide financial crisis of 1998.
Ratan says India today is a nation where top officials are writing the right policies, but are often foiled in execution by business lobbies, provincial politicians or leftists in the ruling coalition.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/8359069/site/newsweek   (2440 words)

  
 Tata Steels Itself For Change
Tata hails the Indica as India's first indigenous car because, he says, 95% of its components are made by Indians (albeit designed by Italian draftsmen and assembled in a secondhand Nissan plant transported from Australia).
Ratan Tata, with one foot stuck in the past and one in the future, hasn't had the steel to get rid of businesses that don't pay their way.
Ratan Tata has kept the group from crashing, but it will be up to his successor to bring it out of its tailspin.
www.ericellis.com /tata.htm   (3427 words)

  
 Ratan Tata to give Hatfield talk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Ratan Tata, chairman of Tata Sons, the holding company of the Tata Group, India's largest and most successful business conglomerate, will give the 2006 Hatfield address, Monday, April 10, at 4:30 p.m.
Tata, who earned a bachelor of architecture degree at Cornell in 1962, will deliver a talk, "The Imperative for Change in the India of Today." He will speak as the 26th Robert S. Hatfield Fellow in Economic Education, considered the highest honor the university awards to distinguished individuals from the corporate sector.
Tata joined the Tata steel division in 1962 and became chairman of the conglomerate in 1991.
www.news.cornell.edu /stories/march06/tata.hatfield.prewrite.html   (231 words)

  
 Ratan Tata and Telco build an Indian car
Ratan Tata's grand vision puts India on the global auto-map.
Tata Engineering had pushed India into an exclusive club of just 9 countries that design and build cars from the ground up and yet there has not been sufficient jubilation in the country.
But the Telco team, goaded by the confidence of Ratan Tata, rolled up its sleeve and put its head down on the job.
www.goodnewsindia.com /Pages/content/milestones/indica.html   (793 words)

  
 Secret behind Ratan Tata's success- The Economic Times   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Observing that Indian industry needs to be socially responsible, industrialist Ratan Tata has urged business leaders to create livelihood opportunities in rural areas as well as ensure jobs in the future for the country's growing young population.
According to Tata, while that might be true in the short term, the goodwill gained by bringing mobile medical units to rural communities in India and offering job training in South Africa has paid off for the Tata Group in the long term.
Tata pointed out that in the last few years, other countries have started to look at India with a great deal of interest, particularly in the IT industry.
economictimes.indiatimes.com /articleshow/1499620.cms   (767 words)

  
 TIMEasia Magazine: Shaking The Foundations
For much of their 138-year history, the Tata family companies were the heart of India's insular business establishment—the last business group you'd have turned to for radical thinking, or owning anything abroad.
The group's founder, J.N. Tata, was a nationalist driven by the idea of a strong, self-reliant India.
Tata is the only one with an international strategy." If the group has a geographical tilt, it is towards the developing world.
www.time.com /time/asia/covers/501060619/tata.html   (1075 words)

  
 Sir Ratan Tata and Mahatma Gandhi
Around the same time, Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata, born in Navsari, also in Gujarat, a great Indian patriot and the founder of the House of Tatas, battled too for India's freedom, of somewhat another genre, sowing the earliest seeds of Industry in the country and economic self-reliance.
His second son, Sir Ratan Tata, inheriting his father's great sense of generosity for the good of the country, had extremely meaningful interaction with Gandhi in the great chapter of India's road to freedom.
Sir Ratan Tata, (1871-1918) was Knighted in 1916.
www.rediff.com /money/2004/aug/16tata.htm   (1503 words)

  
 Ratan Tata - the people's tycoon - Man of the Year 2004
Ratan Tata does not belive that tapping the creamy layer is the key to business success.
Ratan Tata went to chaebol town and returned with the heavy commercial vechicle division of the beleaguered Daewoo Motor Corporation.
Tata officials said that the manufacturing costs of the estate and the station wagon are not much different; hence the price similarity.
www.dancewithshadows.com /ratan_tata.asp   (1209 words)

  
 Domain-B : Indian Business : People : In the news : Tata Group raises retirement age; Ratan Tata to stay chairman till ...
Mumbai: Tata Sons, the holding company for the Tata group companies, has enhanced the retirement age for the directors on the boards of various Tata companies.
According to the earlier policy adopted by the Tata Group in 2000, the retirement age for executive and whole time directors in group companies was 65 years while the non-executive directors were to retire at the age of 70.
According to sources, Ratan Tata who is 67 years old would have turned 70 in the year 2007.
www.domainb.com /people/in_the_news/20050628_raises.html   (375 words)

  
 The Hindu Business Line : Tatas interested in nuclear power — We are for coal-based power projects: Ratan Tata
The Tata group was active in a small way in renewable energy; it was looking to have a pilot plant for bio-fuels.
The Tata Group will be interested in getting into nuclear power as and when the Government permits the domestic private sector into this field, according to Mr Ratan Tata, Chairman, Tata Sons.
To a question, Mr Tata, who was here to participate in a function to unveil the re-designed Business Line, said the group's telecom business had a long way to go, but the group was committed to improving services.
www.thehindubusinessline.com /2006/02/24/stories/2006022402450100.htm   (532 words)

  
 Ratan N. Tata, Chairman of India's Tata Group: Linking shareholder value and social responsibility
Tata Group is also unique in that nearly two thirds of the equity of the parent firm, Tata Sons Ltd., is held by philanthropic trusts endowed by Sir Dorabji Tata and Sir Ratan Tata, sons of Jamsetji Tata, who founded the family business in the 1860s.
Tata: All I can say is that more and more people are being driven by a real dedication, but they're still individuals, they still need help in creating institutions.
Tata: The Trusts will have an increase in cash of about Rs.100 crore (US $22.7 million) The holdings of the Trusts by and large are holdings in Tata Sons Ltd., which is still a privately held company.
www.synergos.org /globalgivingmatters/features/0503ratanntata.htm   (1731 words)

  
 CIOL : News : Ratan Tata steps down at VSNL
Ratan Tata is chairman of the Tata group, India's second largest conglomerate with interests from salt to software.
Ratan Tata cited the parent group's expansion and additional responsibilities from being on the Indian government's Investment Commission as reasons for the move, the statement said.
Ratan Tata will continue to be involved with the Tata group's strategy in the telecoms space, the statement said.
www.ciol.com /content/news/2005/105041203.asp   (477 words)

  
 Top British Univ honours Ratan Tata : HindustanTimes.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Ratan Tata, chairman of the Tata Group, has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Warwick, one of Britain's top universities.
He praised Ratan Tata for transforming the Tata Group with his "vision, flair and skill" to make it an icon of Indian industry.
Internationally Ratan Tata is a member of the international advisory boards of the Mitsubishi Corporation, the American International Group, and is also a member of the board of trustees of the Ford Foundation.
www.hindustantimes.com /news/181_1430169,00050003.htm   (360 words)

  
 TCS - Media reports > Tata's Ratan
He can take justifiable pride in Tata Steel being a judged the world's best steel company, but the announcement was diluted by news of a sharp fall in first-quarter profits, which reflects the industry's global over capacity problem.
Mr Tata has two more years to go as group chairman, and his thoughts must surely be turning to what he can do as a last hurrah.
Mr Tata is conscious of the need to prevent the group from being perceived as a fuddy-duddy, hence it's new logo.
www.tcs.com /0_media_room/reports/200108aug/20010801_tata_ratan.htm   (572 words)

  
 Ratan Tata at the crossroads
Ratan Tata, 63, has announced that he will retire as chief executive of Tata group companies at age 65.
There were also powerful advisers on Tata company boards: for example, N A Palkhiwala, the eminent lawyer, who as chairman of ACC had the temerity to declare that the cement major was not a Tata company.
Ratan Tata is not one to rest on his oars.
www.expressindia.com /fe/daily/20000712/fed11052.html   (504 words)

  
 Businessworld: The Ratan Tata interview   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
For the first time, the Tata group chairman talks in great detail about what features the Rs 1-lakh small car will sport and, more importantly, what it will not.
Tata also explains why he thinks most Indian companies are chasing the wrong manufacturing model; and why India has lost the chance to be the factory of the world.
As the years go by, Ratan Tata is beginning to look more and more like one of the all-time great business leaders India has had.
www.businessworld.in /jan2405/index.asp   (423 words)

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