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Stake[31]
Acquisitions[edit]
February 2000 – Tetley Tea Company, $407 million[32]
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[33]
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[34]
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 - Sold Off in 2015
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
May 2018 – Bhushan Steel Limited, India
February 2021 - BigBasket (68%) by Tata Digital
June 2021 - 1mg (55%) by Tata Digital
October 2021 – Air India, Air India Express and 50% stake in Air India SATS
for ₹18,000 crore (US$2.3 billion).
January 2022 - Nilachala Ispat Nigam Ltd, $1.5 billion
Former companies[edit]
Tata Interactive Systems
Tata Oil Mills Company and its subsidiary Lakmé Cosmetics
Philanthropy[edit]
Tata Group has helped establish and finance numerous research, educational and
cultural institutes in India,[35][36] and received the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy.[37] Some
of the institutes established by the Tata Group are:
In 2020, Tata Group has donated INR 15 billion to PM Cares Fund to fight
against COVID-19 pandemic in India.[49]
Tata Trusts[edit]
Most of the philanthropic activities of the group are carried out by various trusts
incorporated by the members of the Tata family.
1. Sir Dorabji Tata Trust and Allied Trusts[50]
o Sir Dorabji Tata Trust
o Lady Tata Memorial Trust
o JRD Tata Trust
o Jamsetji Tata Trust
o Tata Social Welfare Trust
o JN Tata Endowment
o Tata Education Trust
o RD Tata Trust
o The JRD and Thelma J Tata Trust
2. Sir Ratan Tata Trust & Allied Trusts[51]
o Sir Ratan Tata Trust
o Tata Education and Development Trust
o Navajbai Ratan Tata Trust
o Bai Hirabai J. N. Tata Navsari Charitable Institution
o Sarvajanik Seva Trust
The company has attracted controversy for reports of political corruption, cronyism,
[52]
theft,[10] mass killings,[53][54][b] and exploitation of its customers, Indian citizens,[59][60][61] and
natural resources.[62][63]
Munnar, Kerala[edit]
The Kerala Government filed an affidavit in the high court alleging that Tata Tea had
"grabbed" forest land of 3,000 acres (12 km2) at Munnar. The Tatas provided that 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 (2.7823 km2) in that. The 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, the mission was aborted due to both influential landholders and
opposition from Achuthanandan's own party.[64]
Kalinganagar, Odisha[edit]
On 2 January 2006, Kalinganagar, Tribal Orissa villagers protested against the
construction of a new steel plant for Tata Steel on land historically owned by them.
Some of the villagers had been evicted without adequate relocation. Police retribution
was brutal: 37 protesters were injured and 13 killed, including 3 women and a 13-year-
old boy. One policeman was hacked to death by a mob after police had opened fire on
protestors with tear gas and rubber bullets. Family members of the deceased villagers
later claimed that the bodies had been mutilated during post-mortem examination.[65]
Supplies to Burma's military regime[edit]
In December 2006, Myanmar's chief of general staff, General Thura Shwe Mann, visited
the Tata Motors plant in Pune.[66] In 2009, Tata Motors announced that it would
manufacture trucks in Myanmar. Tata Motors reported that these contracts to supply
hardware and automobiles to Burma's military were subsequently criticised by human
rights activists.[67][68]
Singur land acquisition[edit]
The Singur controversy[69] in West Bengal was a series of protests by locals and political
parties over the forced acquisition, eviction, and inadequate compensation to those
farmers displaced for the Tata Nano plant, during which Mamata Banerjee's party was
widely criticised as acting for political gain. Despite the support of the Communist Party
of India (Marxist) state government, Tata eventually pulled the project out of West
Bengal, citing safety concerns. Narendra Modi, then Chief Minister of Gujarat, made
land available for the Nano project.[70]
On August 31, 2016, in a historic judgement, the Honorable Supreme Court of India set
aside the land acquisition by the West Bengal Government in 2006 that had facilitated
Tata Motors' Nano plant, stating that the West Bengal government had not taken
possession of the land legally, and were now required to repossess and return it to local
farmers within 12 weeks without compensation.[71]
Dhamra Port, Odisha[edit]
The Port of Dhamara has received significant coverage, sparking controversy in India,
and in Tata's emerging global markets.[72] The Dhamra port, an equal joint venture
between Tata Steel and Larsen & Toubro, has been criticised for its proximity to the
Gahirmatha Sanctuary and Bhitarkanika National Park by Indian and international
organisations, including Greenpeace; Gahirmatha Beach is one of the world's largest
mass nesting sites for the olive ridley turtle, and India's second largest mangrove
forest, Bhitarkanika, is a designated Ramsar site, and critics claimed that the port could
disrupt mass nesting at Gahirmtha beaches as well as the ecology of the Bitharkanika
mangrove forest.[73][74] Tata Steel employed mitigation measures set by the project's
official advisor, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), and the
company pledged to "adopt all its recommendations without exception" when
conservation organisations asserted that a thorough environmental impact analysis had
not been done for the project, which had undergone changes in size and specifications
since it was first proposed.[75]
Proposed soda extraction plant in Tanzania[edit]
In 2007, Tata Group joined forces with a Tanzanian company to build a soda
ash extraction plant in Tanzania.[76] 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,[77] jeopardising endangered lesser
flamingo birds. Lake Natron is where two-thirds of lesser flamingos reproduce.
Producing soda ash involves drawing out salt water from the lake, and then disposing
[78]
the water back to the lake. This process could interrupt the chemical makeup of the
lake.[76] 22 African nations signed a petition to stop its construction.[76]
Epic Systems trade-secret case judgement[edit]
In April 2016, a U.S. Federal Grand Jury awarded Epic Systems a US$940 million
judgement against Tata Consultancy Services and Tata America International Corp.
Filed 31 October 2014; the suit charged that "6,477 unauthorized downloads could be
used to enhance Tata's competing product, Med Mantra."[10][79][80] In 2017, U.S. District
Court Judge William Conley reduced the Award to $420 million; the company states that
the judgement is also being appealed, as "not supported by evidence presented during
the trial and a strong appeal can be made to superior court to fully set aside the jury
verdict.”[81]
2018 NCLT verdict[edit]
In July 2018, the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT), which "adjudicates issues
relating to Indian companies,"[82] issued a verdict in the company's favor on charges of
mismanagement leveled in 2016 by ousted chairman, Cyrus Mistry.[83]
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Further reading[edit]
Raianu, M. (2021). Tata: The Global Corporation That Built Indian Capitalism. Harvard University
Press. ISBN 978-0-6742-5953-9.
Witzel, M. (2010). Tata: Evolution of a Corporate Brand. Penguin Books Limited. ISBN 978-8-
1847-5391-2.
Lala, R.M. (2017). The Creation of Wealth: The Tatas From The 19th To The 21st
Century. Penguin Random House India Private Limited. ISBN 978-9-3511-8347-1.
Casey, P. (2014). The Greatest Company in the World?: The Story of TATA. Penguin Books
Limited. ISBN 978-9-3511-8810-0.
Casey, P. (2021). The Story of TATA: 1868 to 2021. Penguin Random House India Private
Limited. ISBN 978-9-3530-5737-4.
Shah, S. (2018). The Tata Group: From Torchbearers to Trailblazers. Penguin Random House
India Private Limited. ISBN 978-9-3530-5370-3.
Kuber, G. (2019). The Tatas: How a Family Built a Business and a Nation. Harper. ISBN 978-9-
3527-7938-3.
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