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Tata Group

Type Public

Industry Conglomerate

Founded 1868; 149 years ago

Founder Jamsetji Tata

Headquarters Bombay House, Mumbai, Maharashtra,

India

Area served Worldwide

 Key people Natarajan Chandrasekaran(Chairman)[1]
Saurabh Agarwal (CFO)[2]

Products Airlines
Automotive
Consumer goods
Chemicals
Defence & Aerospace
Electrical distribution
Engineering services
Financial services
Healthcare
Information technology
Locomotives
Real estate
Steel
Telecommunication

Revenue US$100 billion[3] (2017)

Total assets US$126 billion[3] (2017)

Owner Tata Sons

Number of 695,699 (2017)[3]

employees

Subsidiaries List of subsidiaries

Website www.tata.com

Tata Group is an Indian multinational conglomerate holding company headquartered in Mumbai,

Maharashtra, India. It was founded in 1868 by Jamsetji Tata and gained international recognition
after purchasing several global companies. It is one of India's largest conglomerate and is owned by
"Tata Sons", a charity registered with the Charity commissioner in India.[4][5]
Each Tata company or enterprise operates independently under the guidance and supervision of its
own board of directors and shareholders. There are 30 publicly listed Tata enterprises with a
combined market capitalisation of about $130 billion as of March 2017.[3]Tata companies with
significant scale include Tata Steel, Tata Motors, Tata Consultancy Services, Tata Power, Tata
Chemicals, Tata Global Beverages, Tata Teleservices, Titan, Tata Communications and Taj Group.

Contents
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1Chairman
2Subsidiaries
3Philanthropy
 4Controversies and criticisms
o 4.1Munnar, Kerala
o 4.2Kalinganagar, Odisha
o 4.3Supplies to Burma's military regime
o 4.4Land acquisition in Singur
o 4.5Dhamra Port, Odisha
o 4.6Soda extraction plant in Tanzania
o 4.7Data and intellectual property theft
o 4.8Fire breakout at headquarters
5See also
6References
7External links

Chairman[edit]
Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata (18681904)
Sir Dorab Tata (19041932)
Nowroji Saklatwala (19321938)
JRD Tata (19381991)
Ratan Tata (19912012)
Cyrus Pallonji Mistry (20122016)
Ratan Tata (20162017)
Natarajan Chandrasekaran (2017Present)[6]

Subsidiaries[edit]
Main article: List of entities associated with Tata Group

Bombay House, the head office of Tata Group

Tata Bus
Tata Tigor

Packages of Tata Tea

HimalayanTata Mineral Water

Tata bus in Madrid, Spain

Thai assembled Tata Xenon pickup truck

The Taj Mahal Palace Hotel, owned by a Tata subsidiary

This section lists the Tata companies and details their business:
Chemicals

Tata Chemicals
Advinus Therapeutics
Brunner Mond
General Chemical Industrial Products
Magadi Soda Company
Rallis India
Tata Pigments Limited
Consumer products

Casa Dcor
Eight O'Clock Coffee
Fastrack, youth fashion brand
Himalayan, mineral water brand
I-shakti
Infiniti Retail (Crom)
Landmark Bookstores
Tanishq
Tata Ceramics
Tata CLiQ
Tata Coffee
Tata Global Beverages, the world's second largest manufacturer of packaged tea and tea
products
Tata Industries
Tata International Ltd.
Tata Refractories
Tata Salt
Tata Sky
Tata Starbucks, a 50:50 joint venture company, owned by Starbucks Corporation and Tata
Global Beverages
Tata Swach
Tata Zoya
Tetley
Titan Eye+, optical stores from Titan Industries
Titan Industries
Voltas, consumer electronics company
Westside
Energy

Hooghly Met Coke and Power Company

Jamshedpur Utilities and Services Company
Powerlinks Transmission
Tata Petrodyne
 Tata Power, one of the largest private sector power companies
Tata Power Delhi Distribution Ltd (formerly known as North Delhi Power Ltd)
Tata Power Solar, started as a joint venture between Tata Power and BP Solar, now a wholly
owned company
Tata Power Trading
Tata Projects
Engineering

Hispano Carrocera
TAL Manufacturing Solutions
TASL (Tata Advanced Systems Limited)
Tata Advanced Materials
Tata Advanced Systems
Tata AutoComp Systems Limited (TACO)
Tata Consulting Engineers Limited
Tata Marcopolo
Tata Cummins
Tata Motors, manufacturer of commercial vehicles (largest in India) and passenger cars
Jaguar Land Rover (manager of Tata's English brands Jaguar cars and Land Rover)
Tata Daewoo Commercial Vehicle
Tata Motors European Technical Centre
Tata Petrodyne
Tata Precision Industries
Tata Projects
Tata Technologies Limited
Telco Construction Equipment
Telcon Construction Equipment
TRF
Voltas Global Engineering Centre
Information systems and communications

CMC Limited
Computational Research Laboratories
INCAT
Nelco
Nelito Systems
Tata Business Support Services
Tata Communications
Indicash ATM
Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (TCS), one of the world's largest IT services companies
Tata DoCoMo
Tata Elxsi
Tata Interactive Systems
Tata Teleservices
Tatanet, managed connectivity and VSAT service provider
VSNL International Canada
Services
 Air Asia India, joint venture with Air Asia
Drive India Enterprise Solutions
e-Nxt Financials ltd.
The Gateway Hotels & Resorts
Ginger Hotels
The Indian Hotels Company
Mjunction
Roots Corporation
Taj Hotels
TajAir
Tata Advanced Systems Limited
Tata Africa Holdings
Tata AG
TATA AIA Life Insurance
TATA AIG General Insurance
Tata Asset Management
Tata AutoComp Systems
Tata Capital
Tata Financial Services
Tata Housing Development Company Ltd. (THDC)
Tata Industrial Services
Tata Interactive Systems
Tata International AG
Tata Investment Corporation
Tata Limited
Tata NYK
Tata Quality Management Services
Tata Realty and Infrastructure Limited
Tata Services
Tata Sons
Tata Strategic Management Group
TKM Global, Logistics and Supply Chain
Vistara
Vivanta By Taj
Steel

JAMIPOL
NatSteel Holdings
Tata Bearings
Tata BlueScope Steel
Tata Metaliks
Tayo Rolls
Tata Sponge Iron
Tata Steel
Tata Steel Europe
Tata Steel KZN
Tata Steel Processing and Distribution
 The Tinplate Company of India
TM International Logistics
Acquisitions:

February 2000 Tetley Tea Company, $407 million[7]

March 2004 Daewoo Commercial Vehicle Company, $102 million
August 2004 NatSteel's Steel business, $292 million
November 2004 Tyco Global Network, $130 million
July 2005 Teleglobe International Holdings, $239 million
October 2005 Good Earth Corporation
December 2005 Millennium Steel, Thailand, $165 million
December 2005 Brunner Mond Chemicals, $10 million
June 2006 Eight O'Clock Coffee, $220 million
November 2006 Ritz Carlton Boston, $170 million
January 2007 Corus Group, $12 billion[8]
March 2007 PT Kaltim Prima Coal (KPC) (Bumi Resources), $1.1 billion
April 2007 Campton Place Hotel, San Francisco, $60 million
January 2008 Imacid Chemical Company, Morocco[9]
February 2008 General Chemical Industrial Products, $1 billion
March 2008 Jaguar Cars and Land Rover, $2.3 billion
March 2008 Serviplem SA, Spain
April 2008 Comoplesa Lebrero SA, Spain
May 2008 Piaggio Aero Industries S.p.A., Italy
June 2008 China Enterprise Communications, China
October 2008 Miljo Grenland / Innovasjon, Norway
April 2010 - Hewitt Robins International, United Kingdom
July 2013 - Alti SA, France
December 2014 - Energy Products Limited, India
June 2016 - Welspun Renewables Energy, India

Philanthropy[edit]
The Tata Group has helped establish and finance numerous research, educational and cultural
institutes in India.[10][11] The Tata Group was awarded the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy in 2007 for
philanthropic activities.[12] Some of the institutes established by the Tata Group are:

The Energy and Resources Institute (formerly known as Tata Energy and Research Institute), a
non-governmental research institute
The JRD Tata Ecotechnology Centre
National Centre for Performing Arts
Tata Center for Technology & Design at Massachusetts Institute of Technology[13]
Tata Centre for Technology & Design at IIT Bombay[14]
Tata Cricket Academy
Tata Football Academy
Tata Institute of Social Sciences
Tata Management Training Centre
Tata Medical Center, inaugurated on 16 May 2011 by Ratan Tata[15]
Tata Memorial Hospital
 Tata Trusts, a group of philanthropic organisations run by the head of the business
conglomerate Tata Sons[16]

Tata Cancer Hospital

The Tata Group donated 2.20 billion ($50 million) to the Harvard Business School (HBS) to build
an academic and a residential building on the institute's campus in Boston, Massachusetts. The new
building is called the Tata Hall and is used for the institute's executive education programmes.[17] This
amount is the largest given from an international donor to Harvard Business School.

Ratan Tata, the former chairman of Tata Group[18]

In 2017, Tata Football Academy has won the bid to form a football club based on Jamshedpur of
Jharkhand in the 4th edition of Indian Super League along with Bengaluru FC.

Controversies and criticisms[edit]

The Tata Group has also attracted several controversies and criticisms, including the following.
Munnar, Kerala[edit]
The Kerala Government filed an affidavit in the high court saying that Tata Tea had 'grabbed' forest
land of 3,000 acres (12 km2) at Munnar. The Tatas said they possessed 58,741.82 acres
(237.7197 km2) of land, which they are allowed to retain under the Kannan Devan Hill (Resumption
of Lands) Act, 1971, and there was a shortage of 278.23 hectares in that. The then Chief Minister of
Kerala V.S. Achuthanandan, who vowed to evict all on government land in Munnar, formed a special
squad for the Munnar land takeover mission and started acquiring back properties. However, later
he had to abort the mission as there were many influential land grabbers and faced opposition from
his own party.
Kalinganagar, Odisha[edit]
On 2 January 2006, policemen at Kalinganagar, Odisha, opened fire at a crowd of tribal villagers.
The villagers were protesting the construction of a compound wall on land historically owned by
them, for a Tata steel plant. Some of the corpses were returned to the families in a mutilated
condition. When pushed for comment, TATA officials said the incident was unfortunate but that it
would continue with its plans to set up the plant.[19]
Supplies to Burma's military regime[edit]
Tata Motors reported that deals to supply hardware and automobiles to Burma's military junta had
come in for criticism from human rights and democracy activists. In December 2006, Gen. Thura
Shwe Mann, Myanmar's chief of general staff visited the Tata Motors plant in Pune.[20] In 2009, TATA
Motors announced that it would press ahead with plans to manufacture trucks in Myanmar.[21][22]
Land acquisition in Singur[edit]
The Singur controversy[23] in West Bengal led to further questions over Tata's social record, with
protests by locals and political parties (though the involvement of Mamata Banerjee's party was
widely criticised as an act for political gains) over the forced acquisition, eviction and inadequate
compensation to those farmers displaced for the Tata Nano plant. As the protests grew, and despite
having the support of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) state government, Tata eventually
pulled the project out of West Bengal, citing safety concerns. The Singur controversy was one of the
few occasions when Ratan Tata was forced to publicly address criticisms and concerns on any
environmental or social issue. Ratan Tata subsequently embraced Narendra Modi, the then Chief
Minister of Gujarat, who quickly made land available for the Nano project.[24]
In a historic judgement on Aug 31 2016, the Honorable Supreme Court of India set aside the land
acquisition by the West Bengal Government in 2006 to facilitate Tata Motors to set up its Nano plant,
and directed the West Bengal government to take possession of the land and distribute it to the land
owners within 12 weeks.[25]
Dhamra Port, Odisha[edit]
On the environmental front, the Port of Dhamara controversy has received significant coverage, both
within India and in Tata's emerging global markets.[26][27]
The Dhamra port, a venture between Tata Steel and Larsen & Toubro, has come in for criticism for
its proximity to the Gahirmatha Sanctuary and Bhitarkanika National Park, from Indian and
international organisations, including Greenpeace. Gahirmatha Beach is one of the world's largest
mass nesting sites for the Olive Ridley Turtle, and Bhitarkanika is a designated Ramsar site and
India's second largest mangrove forest. TATA officials have denied that the port poses an ecological
threat, and stated that mitigation measures are being employed with the advice of the IUCN.[28] On
the other hand, conservation organisations, including Greenpeace, have pointed out that no proper
environment impact analysis has been done for the project, which has undergone changes in size
and specifications since it was first proposed, and say that the port could interfere with mass nesting
at the Gahirmtha beaches and the ecology of the Bitharkanika mangrove forest.[29][30]
Soda extraction plant in Tanzania[edit]
Tata group, along with a Tanzanian company, joined forces to build a soda ash extraction plant in
Tanzania.[31] Environmental activists oppose the plant because it would be near Lake Natron, and it
has a very high chance of affecting the lake's ecosystem and its neighbouring dwellers.[32]
It could also jeopardise the Lesser Flamingo birds there, which are already endangered. Lake
Natron is where two-thirds of Lesser Flamingos reproduce.[33] Producing soda ash involves drawing
out salt water from the lake, and then disposing the water back to the lake. This process could
interrupt the chemical makeup of the lake.[31] 22 African nations are against the creation of the project
and have signed a petition to stop its construction.[31]
Data and intellectual property theft[edit]
In April 2016, a U.S. Federal Grand Jury awarded Epic Systems a $940 million judgement against
Tata Consultancy Services and Tata America International Corp. Filed Oct. 31, 2014, the charges
accused Tata of "brazenly stealing the trade secrets, confidential information, documents and data"
and that the 6,477 unauthorized downloads could be used to enhance Tata's competing product,
Med Mantra.[34][35][36]
Fire breakout at headquarters[edit]
 On 16 June 2016, a fire broke out at corporate headquarters of the company in Mumbai. Owing to
quick containment, no casualties were reported. [37]

See also[edit]

Mumbai portal

Food portal

drink portal

Companies portal
Cars portal

Pallonji Mistry
Noel Tata
Sir Dorabji Tata and Allied Trusts
Tata Sons
Tata Communications
Tata Consultancy Services
Make in India
Make in Maharashtra

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