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  Tata Group - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tata is one of the oldest and largest business conglomerates in India, with revenues in 2005-06 of $21.9 billion (Rs 967,229 million), the equivalent of about 2.8 per cent of India's GDP, and a market capitalisation of $47.4 billion.
Tata Group's aim is to improve the quality of life of the communities it serves.
Tata Motors TELCO (Tata Engineering and Locomotives Ltd) is a company of Tata group of companies which produces automobiles for the Indian Market.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tata_Group   (861 words)

  
 Tata Mutual Fund   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Tata Asset Management Ltd. is a part of the Tata group - one of India's largest and most respected industrial group.
The Tata Group is one of India's best-known conglomerate in the private sector with a turnover of around US $ 14.25 billion (equivalent to 2.6 % of India's GDP).
By combining ethical values with business acumen, globalisation with national interests and core businesses with emerging ones, the Tata Group aims to be the largest and most respected global brand from India: fulfilling its long-standing commitment to improving the quality of life of its stakeholders.
www.tatamutualfund.com /aboutus/corporate_profile.asp?click_action=AU   (222 words)

  
 India's Tata Group: Empowering marginalized communities
As the Tata Group, a leader in Indian business and philanthropy, observes the centenary of the death of founder Jamsetji Tata, the company is riding on a wave of national economic growth that its successes have contributed to in measurable ways.
She maintains that the Tatas are one of the few philanthropic forces in India with the potential, by virtue of their credibility, professionalism, and reach, to play a convening role for collaborative action on the problems that threaten individual, local and national development.
Jamsetji Tata set the tone in the 1860s with his determination to harness his wealth to bring self sufficiency to Indians at a time when its citizens were still laboring under the yoke of British colonial rule.
www.synergos.org /globalgivingmatters/features/0503tatagroup.htm   (2131 words)

  
 Tata Group pursuing foreign acquisitions - Boston.com
Gopalakrishnan's comments came amid media reports that Tata Steel was in talks to buy London-based steelmaker Corus Group PLC for $10.6 billion, in what would have a definite bearing on the global steel industry and would be the biggest overseas purchase by any Indian company.
Tata Steel has little presence in Europe, and Corus, the world's ninth-largest steel producer, previously said it would make sense for the company to team up with a low-cost partner with assets in countries such as Brazil, India and Russia.
The biggest acquisition for the Tata Group so far has been the 30 percent stake in New York-based Energy Brands Inc., for which it is paying $677 million.
www.boston.com /business/articles/2006/10/06/tata_group_pursuing_foreign_acquisitions   (733 words)

  
 Tata projects: 10,000 jobs up for grabs!
The Tata group, which is a major player in the hospitality business in the country also committed major investment in tourism sectors of Orissa by signing a separate MoU for setting up of 4 units of their budget category hotels under the brand name IndiOne.
Tata Steel has also drawn up plans for development of Gopalpur region where it is in possession of 3200 acres of land acquired by it for its earlier proposed steel plant.
Ratan Tata said, "This steel plant and the port project along with the investment being planned by Tata Consultancy Services and the Taj group of Hotels is a concerted effort by the Tata Group to increase its presence in Orissa.
www.rediff.com /money/2004/nov/18tata.htm   (1400 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.
The group has seen more mergers and acquisitions by value in the last three years than ever before, including the largest acquisition abroad by an Indian group when it bought British tea maker Tetley in 2000 to became the world's largest producer of packaged teas.
www.indiaabroad.com /money/2002/mar/15tata.htm   (866 words)

  
 JRD Tata: A life extraordinary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The year 2004 is significant for the Tata Group, asĀ it marks the 100th birth anniversary of JRD Tata and Naval Tata and the death centenary of Jmsetji Tata.
In contrast, the Tata Group companies are run by professionals who firmly believe in the trusteeship concept laid down by J N Tata as also by Mahatma Gandhi.
Tata's personal interest in technology, combined with India's isolation in the 1950s and 1960s, spurred several group companies, particularly Tata Steel and Tata Chemicals, to innovate in their fields.
us.rediff.com /money/2004/aug/19tata.htm   (2131 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   (602 words)

  
 TACO Group > Tata Group
Founded by Jamsetji Tata in the 1860s, the Tata Group's early years were inspired by the spirit of nationalism.
The Tata Group is increasingly focusing on new technology areas, and has the largest footprint in the information technology and communication sector in India.
Thus, nearly two-thirds of the equity of Tata Sons, the Tata Group promoter company, is held by philanthropic trusts, which have created a host of national institutions in science and technology, medical research, social studies and the performing arts.
www.tacogroup.com /tatagroup/index.htm   (409 words)

  
 TATA-AIG | About Tata AIG Life
Tata AIG Life Insurance Company Ltd. "Tata AIG Life" offers a broad array of life insurance products to individuals, associations and businesses of all sizes, with a wide variety of additional coverage to ensure our customers can find an insurance product to meet their needs.
Tata AIG is a joint venture of the Tata Group and American International Group, Inc. (AIG).
The Tata Group (www.tata.com) is one of India's best-known industrial groups with an estimated turnover of around US $14.25 billion (approximately 2.6% of India's GDP).
www.tata-aig-life.com /AboutTataAIG/AboutTataAIG.htm   (567 words)

  
 Tight-Lipped Tata Circles Corus - Forbes.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
But the Tata patriarch, Ratan Tata, is being stingy with the details of when he might move and how much he is willing to spend.
The Tata Group, one of India's largest private sector conglomerates, has been growing nicely, adding $2 billion worth of international companies to its stable since the start of last year.
Ratan Tata, who has been the chairman of the family business since 1991, is credited to a large extent for its growth and global competitiveness.
www.forbes.com /2006/10/14/ratan-tata-corus-face-cx_rd_1013autofacescan04.html   (561 words)

  
 The Raw Story | Indian multinational Tata group continues to expand
New Delhi- Tata Steel, the company set to take over the Anglo-Dutch steel maker Corus, is just one of the many businesses of the Tata group, one of the India's largest business conglomerates.
The group's revenues have increased by about seven times since Ratan Tata took over and is expected to touch 24 billion dollars in the next financial year, according to business analysts.
What also sets aside the Tata group from many other Indian business houses is its strong adherence to business ethics and a commitment to corporate social responsibility.
rawstory.com /news/2006/Indian_multinational_Tata_group_con_10202006.html   (572 words)

  
 Ratan Tata Joins USC Board of Trustees
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.
The Tata Group is India’s largest conglomerate as measured by market capitalization, but its current success is firmly rooted in its 19th century history and the mission that it has adhered to unwaveringly — to place India in the first league of industrialized nations.
www.usc.edu /uscnews/stories/11551.html   (528 words)

  
 Tata AIG General Insurance Company Limited
Tata Group has shown over years that it is a value driven company and has pioneering contributions in various fields including insurance, aviation, iron and steel.
Tata companies have forged a number of global alliances with eminent international partners in several fields.
American Insurance Group is the leading U.S. based international insurance and financial services organization and the largest underwriter of commercial and industrial insurance in the United States.
www.bimaonline.com /cgi-bin/ind/insurers/tataaig.asp   (381 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)

  
 Tata Steel – Setting Sustainability Standards
For Jamsetji Tata, the progress of enterprise, welfare of people and the health of the enterprise were inextricably linked.
Successive generations of Tata Group leaders have always held the belief that no success in material terms is worthwhile unless it serves the interest of the nation and is achieved by fair and honest means.
Tata Steel subscribes to the thought that there is a difference between making money for oneself and creating wealth for others and will therefore, not rest on its great achievements alone, however splendid they are, but as trustees of this wealth will administer and utilize it for the common good.
www.tatasteel.com /corporatesustainability/default.asp   (307 words)

  
 Tata group in major overdrive
Tata Steel is also investing Rs 4,500 crore (Rs 45 billion) to expand its Jamshedpur plant capacity by 1.8 million tonne, which should be completed by August 2008, added Muthuraman.
The company, which marks the Tata group's foray into the burgeoning business of drug discovery, is in the process of appointing senior and talented scientific hands at its Bangalore facility.
The new company, which will combine the resource capability of the Tata group and the world's best talent in innovative discovery, is currently in the process of setting up one of the best drug discovery units in Bangalore.
www.rediff.com /money/2006/may/11tata.htm   (1326 words)

  
 Ratan N. Tata, Chairman of India's Tata Group: Linking shareholder value and social responsibility
Tata Group operates more than 80 companies ranging from software and automobiles to steel, consumer goods and telecommunications.
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: 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)

  
 Dataquest : TATA GROUP: The Empire Strikes Back   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Tata Sons, the holding company at the centre of the 80-odd Tata operating companies, is awash with cash after the TCS float.
TCS, as a division of Tata Sons was the holy vault-now that it has been unlocked, it would be largely upto TCS to reconfigure the group.
Under the chairmanship of Krishna Kumar, it is handling the call centre of Tata Teleservices and VSNL belonging to the Tata group.
www.dqindia.com /dqtop20/2005/artdisp.asp?artid=72755   (1085 words)

  
 Tata Broadband -- Tata Broadband
The DWDM technology used by Tata Broadband is the first of its kind in India and only the second in all of Asia (after Japan).
What this means, basically, is that Tata Broadband will be delivering its services to other service providers, such as Internet service providers, cellular services providers, national and long-distance telephone operators, data centres, call centres, cable operators and video service providers.
This was a mammoth task that required expertise and focus of a high order (it helped that the Tatas have over 70 years of experience in laying underground cables).
www.tatadwdm.com /bb_tatabrdbnd.htm   (379 words)

  
 India's Tata Steel may bid for Corus - Boston.com
Shares in Corus Group PLC soared 16 percent Thursday after India's Tata Steel said it was considering a possible bid for the London-based steelmaker.
Tata Steel, responding to Indian newspaper reports that it was contemplating a $10.6 billion bid for the Anglo-Dutch steelmaker, said it was reviewing a number of global opportunities following recent industry consolidation.
Shares in Tata Steel, which is a subsidiary of the sprawling Tata Group, closed 2.7 percent higher on the Mumbai Stock Exchange at 537.35 Indian rupees ($11.77).
www.boston.com /business/articles/2006/10/05/tata_steel_considering_bid_for_corus   (470 words)

  
 The Tata Power Company Limited   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Tata Power is willing to put in more than Rs 10,000 crore over the next four to five years in generation and distribution and is also looking at acquisitions in India.
Tata Power has applied for 6 mines of 1.5 billion tones capacity on the eastern coast of the country to supply to its coal based plants even as it is planning a coal berth at an investment of Rs.
Tata Power Company (TPC) is planning to sell its 100% arm Tata Power Broadband Ltd. The proposed sale is a part of the company's move to focus on its core business of power.
www.tatapower.com /news.php?op=details&id=63   (2009 words)

  
 TATA Mutual Fund
Tata Mutual Fund offers investors a broad range of managed investment products in various asset classes and risk parameters, within operational flexibility to suit their varied investment needs.
At the Tata Group our purpose is to improve the quality of life of the communities we serve.
Leveraging this asset to enhance Group synergy and becoming globally competitive is the route to sustained growth and long-term success.
www.tatamutualfund.com   (647 words)

  
 Indian Steel Company Remains Unique - Newsweek: International Editions - MSNBC.com
As a whole, the Tata Group is India's largest company by market cap, with $17.6 billion in revenues and $1.9 billion in profits in the 12 months through March, roughly three times its results a decade ago.
Tata is shifting out of tea production in India by selling majority stakes in its plantations to its workers, who as owners now pick on average 50 bushels a day, up from 30 before.
Tata is a trend breaker among Asian family conglomerates, a breed whose incestuous flaws were exposed during the regionwide financial crisis of 1998.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/8359069/site/newsweek   (2410 words)

  
 Tata group set to enter credit card biz - Sify.com
While the group will be a late entrant in the highly competitive credit card industry, the move is significant as the group sees the business as the first step to enter banking business, once the rules allow such entry.
Tata would be paid a fee for lending the Tata brand name to the card, marketed both by SBI-GE and by the group.
Tata Group, through the erstwhile finance company Tata Finance, had a credit card with American Express bank some years ago, the card didn't take off and Tata Finance's problems later brought it to a premature end.
sify.com /finance/fullstory.php?id=13957471   (332 words)

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