Tata Group is an Indian Multinational corporation conglomerate company headquartered in Mumbai,

Maharashtra, India.[3] It encompasses seven business sectors: communications and information

technology, engineering, materials, services, energy, consumer products and chemicals. Tata Group was
founded in 1868 by Jamsetji Tata as a trading company. It has operations in more than 80 countries
across six continents. Tata Group has over 100 operating companies with each of them operating
independently. Out of them 32 are publicly listed.[4] The major Tata companies are Tata Steel, Tata
Motors, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Tata Power, Tata Chemicals, Tata Global Beverages, Tata
Teleservices, Titan Industries, Tata Communications and Taj Hotels.[5] The combined market
capitalisation of all the 32 listed Tata companies was INR 8.4 Trillion ($ 141.27 billion) as of July 2014.[6]
Tata receives more than 58% of its revenue from outside India.[7]

The Tata Group is owned primarily by various charitable trusts (established by Jamsetji Tata's sons at his
behest) that maintain a majority stake in the holding company. The current chairman of the Tata group
is Cyrus Pallonji Mistry, who took over from Ratan Tata in 2012.[8] Tata Sons is the promoter of all key
Tata companies and holds the bulk of shareholding in these companies. The chairman of Tata Sons has
traditionally been the chairman of the Tata group. About 66% of the Equity (finance)of Tata Sons is held
by philanthropic trusts endowed by members of the Tata family.

The Tata Group and its companies & enterprises is perceived to be India's best-known global brand
within and outside the country as per an ASSOCHAM survey.[9] The 2009, annual survey by the
Reputation Institute ranked Tata Group as the 11th most reputable company in the world.[10] The
survey included 600 global companies. The Tata Group has helped establish and finance numerous
quality research, educational and cultural institutes in India.[11][12] The group was awarded the
Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy in 2007 in recognition of its long history of philanthropic activities