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Tata Group is an Indian multinational corporation 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 has operations in more than 80 countries across six continents and its companies export products and services to 80 nations. It has over 100 operating companies each of them operates independently out of them 31 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, Tata Communications and Taj Hotels.[5] The combined market capitalisation of all the 31 listed Tata companies was $76.76 billion as of July 2012. Tata receives more than 58% of its revenue from outside India.[6]
The group takes the name of its founder, Jamsetji Tata, a member of whose family has almost invariably been the chairman of the group. The current chairman of the Tata group is Ratan Tata, who took over from J. R. D. Tata in 1991. The company is currently in its fifth generation of family stewardship.[7] 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 capital of Tata Sons is held by philanthropic trusts endowed by members of the Tata family.
The 2009, annual survey by the Reputation Institute ranked Tata Group as the 11th most reputable company in the world.[8] The survey included 600 global companies. The Tata Group has helped establish and finance numerous quality research, educational and cultural institutes in India.[9][10] The group was awarded the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy in 2007 in recognition of its long history of philanthropic activities.[11]
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1 History 2 Subsidiaries 3 Acquisitions 4 Philanthropy 5 Controversies, and Environmental record
o 5.1 Munnar, Keralao 5.2 Kalinganagar, Orissao 5.3 Dow Chemical, Bhopal Gas Disastero 5.4 Supplies to Burma’s military regimeo 5.5 Land acquisition in Singuro 5.6 Dhamra Porto 5.7 Soda extraction plant in Tanzania
6 Recognition 7 See also 8 References 9 External links
[edit] History
The Tata Group was founded as a private trading firm in 1868 by entrepreneur and philanthropist Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata.[12] In 1902 the group incorporated the Indian Hotels Company to commission the Taj Mahal Palace & Tower, the first luxury hotel in India, which opened the following year. After Jamsetji’s death in 1904, his son Sir Dorab Tata took over as chair of the Tata Group. Under Dorab’s leadership the group quickly diversified, venturing into a vast array of new industries, including steel (1907), electricity (1910), education (1911), consumer goods (1917), and aviation (1932).[13]
Following Dorab’s death in 1932, Sir Nowroji Saklatwala became the group’s chair. Six years later Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata (J.R.D.) took over the position. His continued expansion of the company into new sectors—such as chemicals (1939), technology (1945), cosmetics (1952), marketing, engineering, and manufacturing (1954), tea (1962), and software services (1968)—earned Tata Group international recognition. In 1945 Tata Group established the Tata Engineering and Locomotive Company (TELCO) to manufacture engineering and locomotive products; it was renamed Tata Motors in 2003. In 1991 J.R.D.’s nephew, Indian business mogul Ratan Naval Tata, succeeded him as chairman of the Tata Group.[14] Upon assuming leadership of the conglomerate, Ratan aggressively sought to expand it, and increasingly he focused on globalizing its businesses. In 2000 the group acquired London-based Tetley Tea, and in 2004 it purchased the truck-manufacturing operations of South Korea’s Daewoo Motors. In 2001 Tata Group partnered with American International Group, Inc. (AIG) to create the insurance company Tata-AIG.
[edit] Subsidiaries
Main article: List of entities associated with Tata Group
Bombay House, the head office of Tata Group
Tata Bus1
Tata Nano
Packages of Tata Tea
Himalyan–Tata Mineral Water
This section lists the Tata companies and details their business:
Chemicals
Tata Chemicals Rallis India Tata Pigments Limited General Chemical Industrial Products Brunner Mond Advinus Therapeutics Magadi Soda Company
Consumer Products
Tata Salt I-shakti Casa Décor Tata Swach Tata Global Beverages Eight O'Clock Coffee Tata Ceramics Infiniti Retail (Cromā) Tata Tea Limited is the world's second largest manufacturer of packaged tea and tea
products. Tetley Tata Coffee Tata Industries Titan Industries Trent (Westside) Tata Sky TajAir Tata International Ltd. Tanishq Tata Refractories Westland
Energy
Tata Power is one of the largest private sector power companies. Tata BP Solar, a joint venture between Tata Power and BP Solar Hooghly Met Coke and Power Company Jamshedpur Utilities and Services Company Tata Power Delhi Distribution Ltd (Formerly Known as North Delhi Power Ltd) Powerlinks Transmission Tata Power Trading Tata Projects
Engineering
TAL Manufacturing Solutions Tata AutoComp Systems Limited (TACO) Hispano Carrocera Tata Motors, manufacturer of commercial vehicles (largest in India) and passenger cars Jaguar and Land Rover Tata Daewoo Commercial Vehicle Tata Projects Tata Consulting Engineers Limited Tata Cummins Telco Construction Equipment TRF
Voltas, consumer electronics company Voltas Global Engineering Centre Tata Advanced Materials Tata Advanced Systems Tata Motors European Technical Centre Tata Petrodyne Tata Precision Industries Telcon Construction Equipment
Information Systems and Communications
Computational Research Laboratories INCAT Nelco Nelito Systems Tata Business Support Services Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (TCS) is Asia's largest software company. Tata Elxsi Tata Interactive Systems Tata Technologies Limited Tata Teleservices Virgin Mobile India Tata Communications CMC Limited VSNL International Canada Tatanet, Managed connectivity and VSAT service provider Tata Teleservices Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra)
Services
Tata Sons The Indian Hotels Company Ginger Hotels Roots Corporation Landmark Tata Housing Development Company Ltd. (THDC) Tata Limited TATA AIG General Insurance TATA AIG Life Insurance Tata AG Tata Asset Management Tata Financial Services Tata Capital Tata International AG Tata Investment Corporation
Tata Advanced Systems Limited Drive India Enterprise Solutions Mjunction services Tata Quality Management Services Tata Realty and Infrastructure Limited Tata Interactive Systems Tata Africa Holdings Tata AutoComp Systems Tata Industrial Services Tata NYK Tata Services Tata Strategic Management Group Taj Hotels
Steel
Tata Steel Tata Steel Europe Tata Steel KZN Tata Steel Processing and Distribution JAMIPOL NatSteel Holdings Tata BlueScope Steel Tata Metaliks Tata Sponge Iron Tayo Rolls The Tinplate Company of India TM International Logistics
Core Sciences
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
[edit] Acquisitions
February 2000 – Tetley Tea Company, $407 million 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, $167 million December 2005 – Brunner Mond Chemicals, $120 million June 2006 – Eight O'Clock Coffee, $220 million November 2006 – Ritz Carlton Boston, $170 million January 2007 – Corus Group, $12 billion
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[6]
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 June 2008 – Neotel, South Africa October 2008 – Miljo Grenland / Innovasjon, Norway
[edit] Philanthropy
The Tata Group has helped establish and finance numerous quality research, educational and cultural institutes in India.[9][10] The Tata Group was awarded the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy in 2007 in recognition of the group's long history of philanthropic activities.[11] Some of the institutes established by the Tata Group are:
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Tata Institute of Social Sciences Indian Institute of Science National Centre for Performing Arts Tata Management Training Centre Tata Memorial Hospital Tata Football Academy Tata Cricket Academy Tata Trusts, a group of philanthropic organisations run by the head of the business
conglomerate Tata Sons[15]
The JRD Tata Ecotechnology Centre The Energy and Resources Institute (earlier known as Tata Energy and Research
Institute) – a non governmental research institute.
The Tata Group has donated a Rs. 220 crore ($50 million) to the prestigious Harvard Business School (HBS) to build an academic and a residential building on the institute’s campus in Boston, Massachusetts. The new building will be called the Tata Hall and used for the institute’s executive education programmes.[16] The amount is the largest from an international donor in the business school's 102-year-old existence.
The recent The Brand Trust Report,[17] 2011 has ranked TATA as the second most trusted brands of India.
In a 2011 investor poll conducted by equity research firm Equitymaster, TATA Group was voted as the most trustworthy among the Indian corporate houses[18]. Over 61% of the respondents "showed their confidence in the Tata Group". The Tata Group retained its "Most Trustworthy" status in the 2012 edition of the poll.
Ratan Tata, the chairman of Tata Group.
One Tata project that brought together Tata Group companies (TCS, Titan Industries and Tata Chemicals) was developing a compact, in-home water-purification device. It was called Tata swach which means “clean” in Hindi and would cost less than 1000 rupees (US $21). The idea of Tata swach was thought of from the 2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean, which left thousands of people without clean drinking water. This device has filters that last about a year long for a family of five. It is a low-cost product available for people who have no access to safe drinking water in their homes.[19] The advantage of this device is that it does not require the use of electricity.[20]
TCS also designed and donated an innovative software package that teaches illiterate adults how to read in 40 hours. “The children of the people who have been through our literacy program are all in school,” says Pankaj Baliga, global head of corporate social responsibility for TCS.[19]
In 1912, Tata Group expanded their CEO’s concept of community philanthropy to be included in the workplace. They instituted an eight-hour workday, before any other company in the world. In 1917, they recommend a medical-services policy for Tata employees. The company would be among the first worldwide to organise modern pension systems, workers’ compensation, maternity benefits, and profit-sharing plans.[19]
Trusts created by Tata Group control 65.8% of company shares,[21] so it can be said that about 66% of the profits of Tata Group go to charity.[22] The charitable trusts of Tata Group fund a variety of projects, for example the Tata Swach and the TCS project. They founded and still support such cherished institutions as the Indian Institute of Science, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, the National Centre for the Performing Arts and the Tata Memorial Hospital. Each Tata Group company channels more than 4 percent of its operating income to the trusts and every generation of Tata family members has left a larger portion of its profit to them.[19]
After the Mumbai attacks, Salaries of then heavily attacked Taj Hotel employees were paid despite the hotel being closed for reconstruction. About 1600 employees were provided food,
water, sanitation and first aid through employee outreach centres. Ratan Tata personally visited families of all the employees that were affected. The employee’s relatives were flown to Mumbai from outside areas and were all accommodated for 3 weeks. Tata also covered compensation for railway employees, police staff, and pedestrians. The market vendors and shop owners were given care and assistance after the attacks. A psychiatric institution was established with the Tata Group of Social Science to counsel those who were affected from the attacks and needed help. Tata also granted the education of 46 children of the victims of the terrorist attacks.[23][24]
[edit] Controversies, and Environmental record
Despite their public commitment to philanthropy the Tata group has attracted several controversies. Here are some:
[edit] Munnar, Kerala
The Kerala Government had 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, on the other hand, say they possess 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 is a shortage of 278.23 hectares in that. The then Chief Minister of KeralaV.S. Achuthanandan, who vowed to evict all government land in Munnar, formed a special squad for the Munnar land takeover mission and started acquiring back of the encroached government properties. However, later he had to abort the mission as there were many influential land grabbers and faced opposition from his own party.
[edit] Kalinganagar, Orissa
On 2 January 2006, policemen at Kalinganagar, Orissa, 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.[25]
[edit] Dow Chemical, Bhopal Gas Disaster
In November 2006, survivors of the Bhopal gas disaster were outraged by Ratan Tata’s offer to bail out Union Carbide and facilitate investments by Carbide’s new owner Dow Chemical. Tata had proposed leading a charitable effort to clean-up the toxic wastes abandoned by Carbide in Bhopal. At a time when the Government of India has held Dow Chemical liable for the clean-up and requested Rs. 100 crores from the American MNC, survivor’s groups felt that Tata’s offer was aimed at frustrating legal efforts to hold the company liable, and motivated by a desire to facilitate Dow’s investments in India.[26]
[edit] Supplies to Burma’s military regime
Tata Motors reported deals to supply hardware and automobiles to Burma’s oppressive and anti-democratic military junta has 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.[27] In 2009, TATA Motors announced that it would press ahead with plans to manufacture trucks in Myanmar.[28][29]
[edit] Land acquisition in Singur
The Singur controversy[30] 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 is widely criticized 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 Chief Minister of Gujarat, who quickly made land available for the Nano project.[31]
[edit] Dhamra Port
On the environmental front, the Port of Dhamara controversy has received significant coverage, both within India and in Tata’s emerging global markets.[32][33]
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.[34] 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 that the port could interfere with mass nesting at the Gahirmtha beaches and the ecology of the Bitharkanika mangrove forest.[35][36]
Protests by Greenpeace to Dhamra Port construction is also alleged to be less on factual data and more on hype and DPCL's (Dhamra Port Company Limited) response to Greenpeace questions harbours on these facts.[37][38]
[edit] Soda extraction plant in Tanzania
Tata group, along with a Tanzanian company, joined forces to build a soda ash extraction plant in Tanzania.[39] The Tanzanian government is all for the project.[39] On the other hand, environmental activists are opposing the plant because it would be near Lake Natron, and it could possibly affect the lake's ecosystem and its neighbouring dwellers.[40]
Tata was planning to change the site of the plant so it would be built 32 km from the lake, but the opposition still thinks it would negatively disturb the environment.[40] It could also jeopardise the Lesser Flamingo birds there, which are already endangered. Lake Natron is where two thirds of Lesser Flamingos reproduce.[41] 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 make up of the lake.[39] Twenty-two African nations are against the creation of the project and have signed a petition to stop its construction.[39]
[edit] Recognition
The international brand consultancy Brand Finance has ranked the $68-billion conglomerate, Tata Group, as 50th most valuable brand in the world. The most recent Global 500 report by Brand Finance shows that despite the controversies, Tata Group's brand value has soared to $15.08 billion for the current year compared to $11.2 billion last year in 2010.[42]
[edit] See also
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Tata SteelFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Tata Steel Limited
Type Public
Traded asBSE: 500470
BSE SENSEX Constituent
Industry Steel
Founded 1907
Founder(s) Jamsedji Tata
Headquarters Mumbai, Maharashtra, India [1]
Area served Worldwide
Key people
Ratan Tata
(Chairman)
B Muthuraman
(Vice Chairman)
Hemant M. Nerurkar (MD)
ProductsSteel, flat steel products, long steel
products, wire products, plates
Revenue US$ 27.738 billion (2012)[2]
Profit US$ 01.125 billion (2012)[2]
Total assets US$ 28.904 billion (2012)[2]
Total equity US$ 08.445 billion (2012)[2]
Employees 81,622 (2012)[2]
Parent Tata Group
Subsidiaries Tata Steel Europe
Website www.tatasteel.com
Tata Steel Limited (BSE: 500470) (formerly TISCO and Tata Iron and Steel Company Limited) is an Indian multinational steel-making company headquartered in Mumbai, India and a subsidiary of Tata Group. Its marketing headquarter is located at Tata Centre in Kolkata. It is the tenth-largest steel producing company in the world, with an annual crude steel capacity of 23.5 million tonnes, and the largest private-sector steel company in India measured by domestic production.[3][4]
Tata Steel is a multinational corporation with operations in numerous countries. It largest plant is located in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India. In August 2007 Tata Steel acquired the UK-based steel maker Corus in what was, to date, the largest international acquisition by an Indian company.[5] Tata Steel is listed on Bombay Stock Exchange and National Stock Exchange of India, and employs about 80,000 people.[6][7]
Tata Steel is ranked 401st in the 2012 Fortune Global 500 ranking of the world's biggest corporations.[2] It is the eighth most-valuable Indian brand according to an annual survey conducted by Brand Finance and The Economic Times in 2010.[8][9] The company was recognized as the world's best steel producer by World Steel Dynamics in 2005.[10] It has also been listed as World's most ethical companies by Forbes.[11]
Contents
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1 History o 1.1 Corus acquisition
2 Operations o 2.1 Asia o 2.2 Africa
o 2.3 Australia o 2.4 North America o 2.5 Europe o 2.6 Major expansion projects
3 Market sectors 4 Major competitors 5 Controversies
o 5.1 Dhamra Port 6 References 7 External links
[edit] History
TISCo was established by Jamsetji Tata August 26, 1907.[12] [13] In year 1939, it had largest steel plant in the British empire. A modernization and expansion program was launched in year 1951. Later, the program was upgraded to 2 MTPA project. In 1990, it started expansion plan and established its subsidiary Tata Inc. in New York.[14] The company changed its name TISCO to Tata Steel in year 2005.[15]
In August 2004, Tata Steel entered into definitive agreements with Singapore based NatSteel Ltd to acquire its steel business for Singapore $486.4 million (approximately Rs 1,313 crore) in an all cash transaction.
In 2005, Tata Steel acquired 40% Stake in Millennium Steel in Thailand for $130 million (approx. Rs 600 crore).
In 2007 Tata Steel through its wholly owned Singapore subsidiary, NatSteel Asia Pte Ltd acquired controlling stake in two rolling mills: SSE Steel Ltd, Vinausteel Ltd located in Vietnam.
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Tata Motors Limited
टा�टा� मो�टार्स�
Type Public
Traded as
NSE: TATAMOTORS
BSE: 500570
NYSE: TTM
BSE SENSEX Constituent
Industry Automotive
Founded 1945
Founder(s) Jamshedji Tata
Headquarters Mumbai, Maharashtra, India[1]
Area served Worldwide
Key peopleRatan Tata, (Chairman)
Ravi Kant, (Vice-Chairman)
Products
Automobiles
Commercial vehicles
Automotive parts
ServicesVehicle leasing
Vehicle service
Revenue US$ 34.575 billion (2012)[2]
Profit US$ 02.821 billion (2012)[2]
Total assets US$ 28.540 billion (2012)[2]
Total equity US$ 06.507 billion (2012)[2]
Employees 59,759 (2012)[2]
Parent Tata Group
Divisions Tata Motors Cars
Subsidiaries
Jaguar Land Rover
Tata Daewoo
Tata Hispano
Website www.tatamotors.com
Tata Motors Limited formerly TELCO, (NSE: TATAMOTORS, BSE: 500570, NYSE: TTM) is an Indian multinational automotive manufacturing company headquartered in Mumbai, India and a subsidiary of the Tata Group. Its products include passenger cars, trucks, vans and coaches. It is the world's eighteenth-largest motor vehicle manufacturing company, fourth-largest truck manufacturer and second-largest bus manufacturer by volume.[2]
Tata Motors has auto manufacturing and assembly plants in Jamshedpur, Pantnagar, Lucknow, Sanand, Dharwad and Pune, India, as well as in Argentina, South Africa, Thailand and the United Kingdom. Tata Motors has produced and sold over 6.5 million vehicles in India since 1954.[3]
Originally a manufacturer of locomotives, the company manufactured its first commercial vehicle in 1954 in a collaboration with Daimler-Benz AG, which ended in 1969.[4] In 2010, Tata Motors surpassed Reliance to win the coveted title of 'India's most valuable brand' in an annual survey conducted by Brand Finance and The Economic Times.[5]. Tata Motors was ranked as India's 3rd Most Reputed Car manufacturer [6] in the Reputation Benchmark Study - Auto (Cars) Sector, launched in April 2012. Tata Motors has been ranked 314th in the Fortune Global 500 rankings of the world's biggest corporations for the year 2012.[2]
Tata Motors is a cross-listed company; its stock trades on the Bombay Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange as TTM.
Contents
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1 History
2 Operations o 2.1 Tata Motors Cars o 2.2 Tata Daewoo o 2.3 Tata Hispano o 2.4 Jaguar Land Rover o 2.5 HV Transmission and HV Axles o 2.6 Tata Technologies o 2.7 European Technical Centre
3 Joint ventures o 3.1 Tata Marcopolo o 3.2 Fiat India Automobiles o 3.3 Telcon Construction Solutions
4 Products o 4.1 Commercial vehicles o 4.2 Military vehicles o 4.3 Electric vehicles
5 Notable vehicles o 5.1 Tata Ace
6 References 7 External links
[edit] History
The second-generation Tata Indica; one of the best selling cars in the history of the Indian automobile industry
Tata Nano, the world's cheapest car
Tata entered the commercial vehicle sector in 1954 after forming a joint venture with Daimler-Benz of Germany. After years of dominating the commercial vehicle market in India, Tata Motors entered the passenger vehicle market in 1991 by launching the Tata Sierra, a multi utility vehicle. After the launch of three more vehicles, Tata Estate (1992, a stationwagon design based on the earlier 'TataMobile' (1989), a light commercial vehicle), Tata Sumo (LCV, 1994) and Tata Safari (1998, India's first sports utility vehicle).
Tata launched the Indica in 1998, the first fully indigenous Indian passenger car. Although initially criticised by auto-analysts, its excellent fuel economy, powerful engine and an aggressive marketing strategy made it one of the best selling cars in the history of the Indian automobile industry. A newer version of the car, named Indica V2, was a major improvement over the previous version and quickly became a mass-favorite. Tata Motors also successfully exported large quantities of the car to South Africa. The success of Indica played a key role in the growth of Tata Motors.[7]
In 2004 Tata Motors acquired Daewoo's South Korea-based truck manufacturing unit, Daewoo Commercial Vehicles Company, later renamed Tata Daewoo.[8]
In 2005, Tata Motors acquired a 21% controlling stake in the Spanish bus and coach manufacturer Hispano Carrocera.[9] Tata Motors continued its market area expansion through the introduction of new products such as buses (Starbus & Globus, jointly developed with subsidiary Hispano Carrocera) and trucks (Novus, jointly developed with subsidiary Tata Daewoo).
In 2006, Tata formed a joint venture with the Brazil-based Marcopolo, Tata Marcopolo Bus, to manufacture fully built buses and coaches.[10]
In 2008, Tata Motors acquired the British car maker Jaguar Land Rover, manufacturer of the Jaguar, Land Rover and Daimler luxury car brands, from Ford Motor Company.[11][12][13][14]
In May 2009 Tata unveiled the Tata World Truck range jointly developed with Tata Daewoo.[15] Debuting in South Korea, South Africa, the SAARC countries and the Middle-East by the end of 2009.[15]
Tata acquired full ownership of Hispano Carrocera in 2009.[16]
In 2010, Tata Motors acquired an 80% stake in the Italy-based design and engineering company Trilix for a consideration of €1.85 million. The acquisition formed part of the company's plan to enhance its styling and design capabilities.[17]
In 2012, Tata Motors announced it will invest around Rs 600 crore on developing Futuristic Infantry Combat Vehicles in colloboration with DRDO.[18]
[edit] Operations
Tata Motors has vehicle assembly operations in India, the United Kingdom, South Korea, Thailand, Spain and South Africa. It plans to establish plants in Turkey, Indonesia and Eastern Europe.[19]
Tata Motors' principal subsidiaries include Jaguar Land Rover, Tata Daewoo and Tata Hispano.
Tata Consultancy ServicesFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Tata Consultancy Services Limited
Type Public
Traded as
BSE: 532540
NSE: TCS
BSE SENSEX Constituent
Industry IT services, IT consulting
Founded 1968
Founder(s) JRD Tata
Headquarters Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Area served Worldwide
Key people
Ratan Tata
(Chairman)
N. Chandrasekaran
(CEO & Managing Director)
ServicesIT, business consulting and outsourcing
services
Revenue US$ 10.17 billion (FY 2011/12)[1]
Profit US$ 2.2 billion (FY 2011/12)[1]
Employees 238,583 (as of 31 March 2012)[2]
Parent Tata Group
SubsidiariesCMC Limited
TCS China
Website www.tcs.com
Tata Consultancy Services Limited (TCS) (BSE: 532540, NSE: TCS) is an Indian multinational information technology (IT) services, business solutions and outsourcing services company headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra. TCS is a subsidiary of the Tata Group and is listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange and the National Stock Exchange of India. It is one of India's most valuable companies[3] and is one of the five largest India-based IT services firms.
Contents
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1 History o 1.1 1968 to 2000 o 1.2 2000 to present o 1.3 Acquisitions
2 Products and services
o 2.1 Service lines 3 Operations
o 3.1 Locations o 3.2 Tata Research Development and Design Center o 3.3 Innovation Labs
4 TCS BPO 5 Employees 6 Sponsorships 7 Recognition 8 See also 9 References 10 External links
[edit] History
[edit] 1968 to 2000
Tata Consultancy Services was founded in 1968. One of its first contracts was to provide punched card services to sister company TISCO (now Tata Steel). In the following years it worked on an Inter-Branch Reconciliation System (IBRS) for the Central Bank of India [4] and provided bureau services to Unit Trust of India.
In 1975, TCS conducted its first campus interviews, held at IISc, Bangalore. The recruits comprised 12 Indian Institutes of Technology graduates and three IISc graduates, who became the first TCS employees to enter a formal graduate programme.[5]
In 1979, TCS delivered an electronic depository and trading system called SECOM for the Swiss company SIS SegaInterSettle. TCS followed this up with System X for the Canadian Depository System and automating the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE).[6] TCS associated with a Swiss partner, TKS Teknosoft, which it later acquired.[7]
In 1981, TCS established India's first software research and development center, the Tata Research Development and Design Center (TRDDC) in Pune.[8] In 1985 TCS established India's first client-dedicated offshore development center, set up for client Compaq (then Tandem).
In the early 1990s the Indian IT outsourcing industry grew rapidly due to the Y2K bug and the launch of a unified European currency, Euro. TCS created the factory model for Y2K conversion and developed software tools which automated the conversion process and enabled third-party developers and clients to make use of it.[9] By 2004, E-Business was contributing half a billion dollars (US) to TCS.[10]
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Tata Power
Type Public
Traded asBSE: 500400BSE SENSEX Constituent
Industry Electric utility
Founded 1911
Founder(s) Dorabji Tata
Headquarters Mumbai, Maharastra, India
Key people Ratan Tata, Chairman
Productselectrical powernatural gas
ServicesElectricity generation and distributionnatural gas exploration, production, transportation and distribution
Revenue19,450.76 crore (US$3.52 billion)
(2011)[1]
Net income2,147.53 crore (US$388.7 million)
(2009-2010)[1]
Employees 3,809 (2010)
Parent Tata Group
Website www.tatapower.com
Tata Power (BSE: 500400) is India’s oldest and largest private sector electric utility company[2]
[citation needed] with an installed generation capacity of over 5000 MW.[3] On the 22 March 2011 it has announced partnership with Sunengy, to build India's first floating solar plant.[4]
Contents
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1 History 2 Operations
o 2.1 International operations o 2.2 Strategic Electronics Division
3 Future projects 4 See also 5 External links 6 References
[edit] History
The firm started as the Tata Hydroelectric Power Supply Company in 1911, which amalgamated with the Andhra Valley Power Supply Company in 1916; it commissioned India’s first[citation needed] large hydro-electric project in 1915 in Bhivpuri and Khopoli, Karjat. Today the company is India’s largest[citation needed] private sector electricity generating company with an installed generation capacity of over 5000 MW. It has a presence in thermal, hydro, solar and wind areas of power generation, transmission and retail.
[edit] Operations
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The thermal power stations of the company are located at Trombay in Mumbai, Mundra in Gujarat, Jojobera and Maithon in Jharkhand, Haldia in West Bengal and Belgaum in Karnataka. The hydro stations are located in the Western Ghats of Maharashtra and the wind farms in Ahmednagar, Supa, Khanke, Brahmanwel, Gadag, Samana and Visapur.[citation needed]. The company installed India’s first 500 MW unit at Trombay, the first 150 MW pumped storage unit at Bhira,
and a flue gas desulphurization plant for pollution control at Trombay. It has generation capacities in the States of Jharkhand and Karnataka , and a distribution company in Delhi, servicing over one million consumers spread over 510 km2 in the North Delhi area. The peak load in this area is about 1,259 MW, with energy consumption of over 6,900 MUs.[citation needed] TATA Power announced on 24 July 2012, commissioning of the second unit of 525 MW capacity of the Maithon mega thermal project in Dhanbad. The first unit of identical capacity was commissioned in September 2011. [5]
[edit] International operations
The company has executed overseas projects in the Middle East, Africa and South East Asia including the Jebel Ali ‘G’ station (4 x 100 MW + desalination plant) in Dubai, Al-Khobar II (5 x 150 MW + desalination plant) and Jeddah III (4 x 64 MW + desalination plant) in Saudi Arabia, Shuwaikh (5 x 50 MW) in Kuwait, EHV substations in UAE and Algeria, and power plant operation and maintenance contracts in Iran and Saudi Arabia.
[edit] Strategic Electronics Division
The firm's Strategic Electronics Division (SED) has engaged in defence systems and engineering for over four decades. It works with the MoD and laboratories to provide products and solutions for the defence requirements of the country.
It has already cleared the Joint Receipt Inspection (JRI) for the first two lots of Pinaka launchers and command posts; the third and fourth lots have successfully undergone factory acceptance tests.[citation needed] It has recorded significant success in the offsets opportunity with five orders worth about Rs. 13 crores from IAI, Israel. Phased deliveries have already started.[citation needed] Phase II of Bengaluru factory upgrade is underway.[citation needed]
[edit] Future projects
Tata Power has entered into a 51:49 joint venture with PowerGrid Corporation of India for the 1200 km Tala transmission project, India’s first transmission project executed with public-private partnership financing.[6]
The company has won a contract for building 4000 MW power plant at Mundra. For the first time in India[citation needed], a 4000MW power plant is being built in one single large construction project; all earlier large projects have involved stage construction.[7]
The company has also entered into a 74:26 joint venture with Damodar Valley Corporation for building a 1050 MW coal based thermal power plant at Maithon in Dhanbad district of Jharkhand, into a 74:26 joint venture with Tata Steel Limited for setting up of power plants to meet the captive requirements of Tata Steel. It has commissioned 120MW power plant in Jojobera in 2009 and in the process of commissioning another 120 MW.[7]
Tata Power has announced its partnership with Sunengy an Australian firm to build India's first floating solar plant based on Liquid Solar Array technology.[8
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Tata Chemicals Limited
Type Public (BSE: 500770)
Industry Chemicals
Founded 1939
Founder(s) Dorabji Tata
Headquarters Mumbai, India
Area served Global
Key peopleRatan Tata, Murali Sastry (Chief Innovation Officer)[1]
Products
Basic and industrial chemicals, nitrogenous and phosphatic fertilizers, industrial (re)finishing products, coatings and crop nutritions
Revenue9,543 crore (US$1.73 billion) (2009-
2010)[2]
Operating income
1,559 crore (US$282.18 million)
Profit 723 crore (US$130.86 million)
Employees 4,645 (2011)
Parent Tata Group
Subsidiaries Tata Chemicals Europe
Website www.tatachemicals.com
Tata Chemicals Limited (TCL) (BSE: 500770) is an Indian global company with interests in chemicals, crop nutrition and consumer products headquartered in Mumbai, India.[3] The company is one of the largest chemical companies in India with significant operations in India and Africa.[4] Tata Chemicals is a subsidiary of Tata Group conglomerate.[5]
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1 Plant locations 2 Research and Development Center 3 Product range 4 References 5 External links
[edit] Plant locations
Mithapur (Gujarat) Babrala (UP) Nanded (Maharashtra) Haldia (West Bengal) Northwich , Cheshire (United Kingdom) East Hanover , New Jersey (United States) Magadi (Kenya)[6]
Tata Chemicals has the second largest soda ash production capacity plant in India. This was the second soda ash plant built in India by Shri Kapilram Vakil that started operating in the year 1944. The township Mithapur, derives its name from "Mith" which means salt in Gujarati language.
Since 2006 Tata Chemicals has owned Brunner Mond, a United Kingdom-based chemical company with operations in Magadi (Kenya) and General Chemicals, in United States of America.
On March 27, 2008, Tata Chemicals Ltd acquired 100 per cent[7] stake in US-based General Chemical Industrial Products Inc (GCIP) for $1.05 billion (around Rs 4,000 crore) to become the world’s second largest maker of soda ash.[8] With all these acquisitions, combined capacity of production has increased to around 5.17 million tonnes of soda ash.
In April 2010, Tata Chemicals acquired 25% stake in ammonia-urea fertilizer complex in Gabon for US$290 million.[4] The first phase of the plant will have a full operational capacity of 2,200 million tonnes of ammonia and 3,850 million tonnes of urea per day.[4]
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Tata Global Beverages Limited
Type Public
Traded as BSE: 500800, NSE: TATAGLOBAL
Industry Non-alcoholic beverages
Founded 1964 (Calcutta)
Founder(s) JRD Tata
Headquarters Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Key people Percy T. Siganporia (CEO & MD)
ProductsTea, coffee, dairy products, water, pepper
and other plantation crops
Revenue 6,034 crore (US$1.09 billion) (2011)
Employees 3,166 (2011)
Parent Tata Group
Subsidiaries
Good Earth Teas
Tata Coffee
Tetley
Website www.tataglobalbeverages.com
Tata Global Beverages Limited (formerly Tata Tea Limited) is an Indian multinational non-alcoholic beverages company headquartered in Kolkata, West Bengal, India and a subsidiary of the Tata Group. It is the world's second-largest manufacturer and distributor of tea and a major producer of coffee.[1]
Tata Global Beverages markets tea under the major brands Tata Tea, Tetley, Good Earth Teas and JEMČA. Tata Tea is the biggest-selling tea brand in India, Tetley is the biggest-selling tea brand in the United Kingdom and Canada and the second biggest-selling in the United States [2] and JEMČA is the biggest-selling tea brand in the Czech Republic.[3]
[edit] History
[edit] 1980 to 1990
Contents
[hide]
1 History o 1.1 1980 to 1990 o 1.2 1990 to 2000 o 1.3 2000 to 2010 o 1.4 2010 to present
2 Operations 3 Marketing strategy 4 Jaago Re! 5 See also 6 References 7 External links
In the early 1980s, the tea industry in India was experiencing rising input and labor costs and dwindling margins as well as high taxes. India was facing competition on the world market not just from China, but also from other countries entering the business.
In 1983, Tata Tea bought the stake belonging to the James Finlay group to form the individual entity Tata Tea. In the same year, the company decided to move from the commodities business to consumer branding. The first brand Tata Tea was introduced. This was followed by other brands like Kannan Devan, Agni, Gemini and Chakra Gold. In spite of being the largest market in the world, the concept of branded tea took time to be accepted.[citation needed]
In 1987, Tata Tea set up a fully owned subsidiary, Tata Tea Inc., in the USA.
[edit] 1990 to 2000
In the 1990s, Tata Tea decided to take its brands into the global markets. It formed an export joint venture with Britain's Tetley Tea in 1992. Other new enterprises included a majority interest in Consolidated Coffee Ltd. (Tata Coffee Ltd.) and a joint venture to manage agricultural estates in Sri Lanka. Tata Tea Inc. in the United States processed and marketed instant tea from its facility in Florida, based on sourcing of instant tea products out of Munnar and Kerala. In 1993, they entered into a joint venture with Allied Lyons PLC in the UK to form Estate Tata Tetley.
In the mid-1990s, Tata Tea attempted to buy Tetley and the Lankan JVC acquired 51% shareholding in Watawala Plantations Ltd.
In 1997 the company was embroiled in a major scandal known as the "Tata Tapes controversy" which related to funds the company provided to the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), an armed-struggle group operating in Assam.
By 1999, Tata Tea’s brands had a combined market share of 25% in India.[citation needed] The company had 74 tea gardens and was producing 62 million kilograms of tea a year, two-thirds of it packaged and branded. Towards the end of the year, the tea business was hit by a drought in much of India. In addition, Russia, once the largest buyer of Indian tea, temporarily withdrew from the market.
[edit] 2000 to 2010
Tetley tea canister from Canada
An important step for Tata Tea was the acquisition of the Tetley Group (based in the United Kingdom) in 2000. It was a £271 million ($432 million) leveraged buyout. Tata Tea reportedly outbid the American conglomerate Sara Lee in what was described as the largest takeover of a foreign company by an Indian one to date. At the time, Tetley was the world's second largest tea company after Unilever's Brooke Bond-Lipton and had an annual turnover of £300 million. It was the market leader in Britain and Canada and a popular brand in the United States, Australia and the Middle East.
Established in 1837, Tetley was the first British tea company to introduce the tea bag to the UK in 1953. The tea bag was followed by the first round tea bag in 1989 and the 'no drip, no mess' drawstring bag in 1997. Tetley now contributes for around two thirds of the total turnover of Tata Tea.
From 2005, Tata Tea began a restructuring exercise to divest direct ownership of plantations in India, a process facilitated by subsidised loans from the World Bank's International Finance Corporation.[4]
In 2007, Tata Tea launched the campaign Jaago Re! to awaken youth to social issues. The campaign was extended into 2008. In 2009, their campaign revolve around the issue of corruption with a new adline 'Ab Se Khilana Bandh, Pilana Shuru'.
The international trade union IUF criticized the company in 2009 for not allowing statutory maternity leave to pregnant tea pluckers, and for locking out 1,000 workers on the Nowera Nuddy Tea Estate in West Bengal for so long that the local government began distributing food coupons for emergency rations to workers and their families.[5] In May 2010, a crop sprayer died of suspected poisoning on a Tata estate in Assam, leading to protests at which two more workers were shot dead by riot police.[6]
[edit] 2010 to present
On January 30, 2012 Tata Global Beverages and Starbucks announced the creation of a 50-50 joint venture called Tata Starbucks Limited, which will own and operate Starbucks Cafe branded as Starbucks Coffee "A Tata Alliance" throughout India. The stores will start beginning to operate in 2012, launching initially in Delhi and Mumbai.
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Tata Teleservices Limited
Type Public (BSE: 532371)
Industry Telecommunications
Founded 1996
Headquarters Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Key people
Ratan Tata(Chairman)Srinath Narasimhan(MD & CEO)
ProductsFixed-line and mobile telephony, broadband and fixed-line internet services, digital television and network services
Revenue 3,191 crore (US$577.57 million) (2011)[1]
Parent Tata Group
DivisionsTata DoCoMo (CDMA/GSM)Virgin Mobile India (CDMA/GSM)
Website www.tatateleservices.com
Tata Teleservices Limited (TTSL) (BSE: 532371) is an Indian broadband and telecommunications service provider based in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. It is a subsidiary of the Tata Group, an Indian conglomerate. It operates under the brand name Tata DoCoMo in various telecom circles of India.
In Nov 2008, Japanese telecom giant NTT Docomo picked up a 26 per cent equity stake in Tata Teleservices for about Rs 13,070 crore ($2.7 billion) or an enterprise value of Rs 50,269 crore ($10.38 billion).[2]
In Feb 2008, TTSL announced that it would provide CDMA mobile services targeted towards the youth, in association with the Virgin Group on a Franchisee model basis.
Tata Teleservices provides mobile services under the following brand names:
Tata DoCoMo (CDMA & GSM mobile operator, wireless broadband) Virgin Mobile (CDMA & GSM mobile operator) T24 Mobile (GSM mobile operator)
Contents
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1 Market data 2 Business areas 3 Branding 4 Rural Telephony 5 Retail 6 Value added services 7 See also 8 References 9 External links
[edit] Market data
Tata Indicom in April 2009, crossed the 35 million subscribers mark in the wireless category with an overall subscriber base of over 36 million.
Tata Teleservices is no. 2 slot in terms of Market Share in Delhi NCR region with a subscriber base of 5 million.
[edit] Business areas
Tata Teleservices offers multiple tariff plans in both the Post-paid and Pre-Paid category. It also offers Mobile Value Added Services to subscriberss.
[edit] Branding
The Tata Docomo brand is endorsed by Bollywood actress Kajol কা�জল & cricketers Irfan Pathan and Yousuf Pathan.
Tata Teleservices launched the Virgin Mobile Brand to target the youth segment.
[edit] Rural Telephony
TTSL also maintains a distribution network across villages, wherein people are appointed and trained by TTSL – who visit villages on a bicycle or a two-wheeler at defined times on defined days of the week, selling recharge vouchers and servicing equipment; each runner covers between 200 and 300 customers.
The company joined hands with Tata Chemicals, Tata Kisaan Sansar network, disseminating information through these centres and using them as local distributors.
[edit] Retail
The company's retail business has around 3,000 outlets nationally, comprising 600 TTSL owned stores and around 2,500 stores in the Franchisee format. Tata Indicom(Now Tata DoCoMo CDMA) already covers the top 700 towns in India in terms of population through Tata DoCoMo CDMA Exclusive Stores.
Tata Docomo also maintains an online portal for its customers i-choose where the customers can buy Tata DoCoMo CDMA post-paid connections and prepaid recharge vouchers with an upfront commitment of activation and delivery of the handset within 72 hours.
[edit] Value added services
Tata Teleservices, in October 2007 launched Tata Zone, an infotainment portal on Tata Docomo BREW-enabled mobile phones, in Hindi. This service has applications, pricing details, downloads and browsing instructions in Hindi.
The rationale behind this was simple: - 66% of all Indians speak Hindi, while less than 5% understand English.
Under its VAS bouquet, TTSL offers services such as News, Games, Faith and Prayers, Ringtones, Streaming TV, Fun Shows, Video Zone, Song Download Express, Cricket, Internet Surfing, Astrology, and Mobile Office among others.
Tata DoCoMo CDMA plans to provide m-commerce, mobile advertising and social networking under its VAS offerings.
TATA TELESERVICES LTDTata Teleservices Limited spearheads the Tata Group's presence in the telecom sector. The Tata Group includes
over 90 companies, over 395,000 employees worldwide and more than 3.5 million shareholders.
Incorporated in 1996, Tata Teleservices is the pioneer of the CDMA 1x technology platform in India. It has embarked
on a growth path since the acquisition of Hughes Tele.com (India) Ltd [renamed Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra)
Limited] by the Tata Group in 2002. It launched mobile operations in January 2005 under the brand name Tata
Indicom and today enjoys a pan-India presence through existing operations in all of India's 22 telecom Circles. The
company is also the market leader in the fixed wireless telephony market. The company's network has been rated as
the 'Least Congested' in India for six consecutive quarters by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India through
independent surveys.
Tata Teleservices Limited has also become the first Indian private telecom operator to launch 3G services in
India under the brand name Tata DOCOMO, with its recent launch in all the nine telecom Circles where it bagged the
3G license. In association with its partner NTT DOCOMO, the Company finds itself favorably positioned to leverage
this first-mover advantage. With 3G, Tata DOCOMO stands to redefine the very face of telecoms in India. Tokyo-
based NTT DOCOMO is one of the world's leading mobile operators—in Japan, the company is the clear market
leader, used by nearly 55 per cent of the country's mobile phone users.
Tata Teleservices Limited also has a significant presence in the GSM space, through its joint venture with NTT
DOCOMO of Japan, and offers differentiated products and services under the Tata DOCOMO brand name. Tata
DOCOMO arises out of the Tata Group's strategic alliance with Japanese telecom major NTT DOCOMO in
November 2008. Tata DOCOMO has received a pan-India license to operate GSM telecom services—and has also
been allotted spectrum in 18 telecom Circles. The company has rolled out GSM services in all of these 18 telecom
Circles in the quick span of just over a year.
Tata DOCOMO marks a significant milestone in the Indian telecom landscape, and has already redefined the very
face of telecoms in India, being the first to pioneer the per-second tariff option—part of its 'Pay for What You Use'
pricing paradigm. Tokyo-based NTT DOCOMO is one of the world's leading mobile operators—in the Japanese
market, the company is the clear market leader, used by over 50 per cent of the country's mobile phone users.
The Tata Teleservices Limited bouquet comprises four other brands as well—Virgin Mobile, Walky (which is the
brand for fixed wireless phones), the Photon family (the company's brand that provides a variety of options for
wireless mobile broadband access, and T24. TTSL recently entered into a strategic partnership agreement with
Indian retail giant Future Group to offer mobile telephony services under a new brand name—T24—on the GSM
platform. The exciting new brand was unveiled in February and the company announced the commercial launch of
GSM operations under the brand name T24 in June, starting with the city of Hyderabad. It has now launched T24
GSM services in Kolkata, Bhubaneswar, Lucknow and Ahmedabad.
Today, Tata Teleservices Ltd, along with Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra) Ltd, serves over 85 million customers in
more than 450,000 towns and villages across the country, with a bouquet of telephony services encompassing Mobile
Services, Wireless Desktop Phones, Public Booth Telephony and Wireline Services.
In December 2008, Tata Teleservices announced a unique reverse equity swap strategic agreement between its
telecom tower subsidiary, Wireless TT Info-Services Limited, and Quippo Telecom Infrastructure Limited—with the
combined entity kicking off operations with 18,000 towers, thereby becoming the largest independent entity in this
space—and with the highest tenancy ratios in the industry. Today, the combined entity—which has been re-
christened as VIOM Networks—has a portfolio of nearly 45,000 towers.
TTSL's bouquet of telephony services includes mobile services, wireless desktop phones, public booth telephony,
wireline services and enterprise solutions..
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Titan Industries
Type Public
Joint venture
Industry Luxury goods, accessories
Founded 1987
Headquarters Bengaluru [1] , India
Area served Global
Key people Bhaskar Bhatt, MD
Products Watches, Jewellery, Eyewear & Precision Engineering
Revenue 7,216.30 crore (US$1.31 billion)(FY2011)[2]
Operating income 628.44 crore (US$113.75 million)(FY2011)[3]
Net income 430.42 crore (US$77.91 million)(FY2011)[4]
Employees 6,000
Parent Tata Group
Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation
Website www.titanworld.com
Titan Industries is the world's fifth largest wrist watch manufacturer and India's leading producer of watches
under the Titan, Fastrack, Sonata, Nebula, RAGA, Regalia, Octane & Xylys brand names. It is a joint venture
between the Tata Group, and the Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation (TIDCO).[5] Its product
portfolio includes watches, accessories and jewellery, in both contemporary and traditional designs. It exports
watches to about 32 countries around the world with manufacturing facilities in Hosur, Dehradun, Goa and
manufactures precious jewellery under the Tanishq brand name, making it India's only national jewellery brand.
Contents
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1 Watch division
o 1.1 HTSE technology
2 Precision Engineering Division
3 Jewellery division
o 3.1 Titan Eye + :Prescription Eyewear Division (PEW)
4 Face of Titan
5 References
6 External links
[edit]Watch division
A Sonata wrist watch
A wrist watch from TITAN
Titan Watch division was started in 1987. At launch it was the third watch company in India
after HMT andAllwyn. Titan formed a joint venture with Timex, which lasted until 1998, and set up a distribution
network across India. As of 2010, Titan watches account for a 60% share of the total Indian market and are
also sold in about 40 countries through marketing subsidiaries based in London, Aden, Dubai and Singapore.
Titan watches are sold in India through retail chains controlled by Titan Industries.
Titan Industries has claimed to have manufactured the world's slimmest wrist watch – Titan Edge.[6]Produced
indigenously after four years of research and development, the Titan Edge has a total thickness of 3.5 mm and
a movement of 1.15 mm. Apart from the Titan Edge, Titan also offers Steel, Regalia, Raga, Fastrack,
Technology, Nebula, Bandhan, Sonata, Octane, special RHosur, Tamil Nadu. Fastrack is a popular brand
among youth in India. Fastrack watches come in a variety of styles, shapes and colors. On 4 March 2010, Titan
Industries announced the launch of its first Titan flagship store, located at Opposite Shoppers Stop, Bandra
Linking Road, Mumbai, India. The store is spread over 2,500 sq ft (230 m2) and houses more than 1500
watches on display from Titan like Purple, Automatics, Orion, Raga, Edge, Nebula, and many more.[7]
On November 16, 2011, Titan Industries acquired Swiss watch maker Favre-Leuba for Euro 2 million.[8]
[edit]HTSE technology
In July 2011, Titan launched the HTSE (High Tech Self Energized) collection of watches which run on light.
[9] According to Titan, these watches can be charged with as low as 200 lux of light, which makes them
chargeable with light even from a candle.[10] In its press release, the company said that "HTSE draws its design
inspiration from the most complex self-energising bodies built by mankind — space stations, satellites and
spaceships. Targeted at the tech-savvy, young urban male, this ultra-modern assortment is truly an epitome of
style and technology."[11] These watches are at current[when?] available at select outlets in select cities throughout
the world.
[edit]Precision Engineering Division
Precision Engineering Division of Titan was started in 2002. It has become one of the leading manufacturers of
Precision Parts for Automotiveand Aerospace Industries.
The Diverse Product range includes pointers, dashboard clusters like Fuel Gauge, Temperature Gauge, Gear
Shift Indicators, Clocks for Automobiles and any kind of Injection molded Plastic
parts, Electromechanical Assemblies for automobiles, all kinds of pressed and turned parts for automobiles.
The Tooling Sector of Precision Engineering Division manufactures all kinds of Press Tool, Molds, Jigs,
Fixtures for various industries.
Titan Automation Solution, a part of Precision Engineering Division is a leading Automation Solution Provider
for all kind of industries. They made significant contributions to add value during the product development
stages of the low-cost water purifier, Tata swach, developed by Tata Chemicals. The Automation Solution
applied its precision engineering capabilities to supply automation solutions for the development of special
assembly presses that enabled mass production of Tata swach.[12]
[edit]Jewellery division
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Tanishq is currently the most prominent jewellery brand of India, and it pioneered the concept of branded
jewellery and ornaments in India. The name Tanishq has been formed by combining "Ta" (the first two letters of
Tata) and "Nishk or Nishkh" (meaning gold coin or necklace in Sanskrit).[13]
Tanishq is India's largest jewellery brand with a wide range of jewellery in 22Kt pure gold studded
with diamonds or coloured gems. It is the fastest growing jewellery brand in India.[citation needed]Tanishq,
established in 1995, challenged the established family jeweller and introduced new rules in precious jewellery;
a category as old as civilization. Tanishq challenged the age-old jeweller's word with Tata's guaranteed purity.
Tanishq's initial foray into the jewellery business was a failure though. Tanishq at first introduced 18 Kt gold
jewellery advertising 18 Kt as the 'international standard.' This less pure gold was completely rejected by the
market dominated by (purported) 22 Kt gold. Later on, it exploded the market with facts about rampant impurity
across India. It introduced technology-backed challenge in a category completely governed by blind individual
trust. Tanishq introduced innovations like Karatmeter, the only non destructive means to check the purity of
gold; machine made jewellery, which offers superior finish and value to the customer and handcrafted jewellery
which is influenced by various jewellery traditions of India.
Tanishq has set up production and sourcing bases with thorough research of the jewellery crafts of India. The
135,000 sq ft (12,500 m2). factory is equipped with the latest and most modern machinery and equipment. The
factory complies with all labour and environmental standards, located at Hosur, Tamil Nadu. The brand brings
together the work of karigars, who specialize in different styles of making jewellery. Karigars, who continue to
be an exploited lot with other jewellers, are paid fair remuneration and work under good working conditions in
Tanishq.
[edit]Titan Eye + :Prescription Eyewear Division (PEW)
The PEW business is Titan's latest retailing venture. Titan Eye +, the third major line of consumer business
from Titan Industries Ltd, ventured into the eyewear segment in March 2007. The move was an initiative to re-
define the industry and straddle the marketplace with exacting quality standards, unparalleled in India’s
eyewear industry.
Titan Eye+ offers wide range of stylish and contemporary eyewear through 190 exclusive optical stores across
the country. Benchmarked against the best in the world, Titan Eye+ will herald standardization Titan Eye +, in
sync with Tata ‘s principles of quality and trust, offers international quality standards and practices coupled with
various aspects such as transparency in pricing, style and contemporary design in the eyewear segment and
new practices in the highly fragmented and undifferentiated Indian optical retail segment.[14] .
[edit]Face of Titan
The Company also runs a one of a kind contest in the retail industry called the Face Of Titan (FOT) contest to
identify the most talented Sales person, Manager & Service personnel Technician & Cashier.[citation needed] The
contest recognizes the best based on a set of parameters that give a measure of the overall development of
the individual in each of the categories mentioned above and is not solely on sales.
This program was conceived as an assessment center for front-line staff - by Aparna Ponnappa, inspired at
that time by staff who expressed their desire to 'perform' and 'be recognized' for what they do. This program
enabled the retail wing of Titan to empower staff to take charge of their own skill development and provided
them with a healthy and fun environment to compete and showcase their own talent.
The contest leapfrogged into the digital era from the year 2006-07 with the introduction of IT in the capturing of
survey data across all of its 200+ stores, that year also saw the introduction of the data gathered at the store
level being used to profile the staff at various levels using a custom built web based software developed by
I.GEN Labs.
TITAN company has good reputation in Indian stock market (NSE). Sonata reached the top 100 most trusted
brands of India in a study - The Brand Trust Report conducted by Trust Research Advisory. The same study
has also ranked Titan as 10th Most Trusted Brand.[15]
Tata CommunicationsFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tata Communications Limited
Type Public
Traded as BSE: 500483
NSE: TATACOMM
NYSE: TCL
Industry Telecommunications
Founded 1986
Founder(s) JRD Tata
Headquarters Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Key people Vinod Kumar (CEO & MD)
Revenue US$ 2.6 billion (2011)[1]
Operating income US$ (182 million) (2011)
Employees 7700 (2010)[2]
Parent Tata Group
Website www.tatacommunications.com
Tata Communications Limited (BSE: 500483, NYSE: TCL, NSE: TATACOMM; (formerly VSNL)[3] is an Indian
global telecommunications company located in Mumbai. It owns a submarine cable network,[4] a Tier-1 IP
network, and also rent data center and colocation space.[5] It operates India's largest data center in Pune.
[6] Tata Communications acquired Teleglobe, a company based in Canada, and DishnetDSL, an Indian
company, and is the largest shareholder in South African operator Neotel.[7] Tata Communications currently has
a cable network of more than 235,000 kilometers.[citation needed]
Contents
[hide]
1 History
2 Subsidiaries
3 Formula 1
4 Cloud Services
5 References
6 External links
[edit]History
It was founded as VSNL (Videsh Sanchaar Nigam Limited) in 1986.[8]. VSNL was the first indian PSU to be
listed in the NYSE in 2000. In 2002 Tata Communications acquired a 45% stake in VSNL. Then in 2004 VSNL
international , the international arm on VSNL was launched. On 13 February 2008 VSNL, formerly owned by
the government, was taken over by the Tata Group and renamed Tata Communications Ltd.[9][10]. In 2009 Tata
Communications and TYCO telecommunications complete TGN-intra Asia cable system.
[edit]Subsidiaries
Tata Communications Transformation Services (TCTS)
Tata Communications Internet Services (TCIS)
Tata Communications Banking Infrasolutions Limited (TCBIL)
[edit]Formula 1
Tata Communications made an agreement for race coverage with Formula 1 Management in 2012.[11]
COMPANY INTRODUCTION
The Indian Hotels Company Limited (IHCL) and its subsidiaries are collectively known as Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces and is recognised as one of Asia's largest and finest hotel company. Incorporated by the founder of the Tata Group, Mr. Jamsetji N. Tata, the company opened its first property, The Taj Mahal Palace Hotel, Bombay in 1903. The Taj, a symbol of Indian hospitality, completed its centenary year in 2003.
Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces comprises 93 hotels in 55 locations across India with an additional 16 international hotels in the Maldives, Malaysia, Australia, UK, USA, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Africa and the Middle East.
Spanning the length and breadth of the country, gracing important industrial towns and cities, beaches, hill stations, historical and pilgrim centres and wildlife destinations, each Taj hotel offers the luxury of service, the apogee of Indian hospitality, vantage locations, modern amenities and business facilities.
IHCL operate in the luxury, premium, mid-market and value segments of the market through the following:
Taj (luxury full-service hotels, resorts and palaces) is our flagship brand for the world's most discerning travelers seeking authentic experiences given that luxury is a way of life to which they are accustomed. Spanning world-renowned landmarks, modern business hotels, idyllic beach resorts, authentic Rajput palaces and rustic safari lodges, each Taj hotel reinterprets the tradition of hospitality in a refreshingly modern way to create unique experiences and lifelong memories.
Taj also encompasses a unique set of iconic properties rooted in history and tradition that deliver truly unforgettable experiences. A collection of outstanding properties with strong heritage as hotels or palaces which offer something more than great physical product and exceptional service. This group is defined by the emotional and unique equity of its iconic properties that are authentic, non- replicable with great potential to create memories and stories.
Taj Exotica is our resort and spa brand found in the most exotic and relaxing locales of the world. The properties are defined by the privacy and intimacy they provide. The hotels are clearly differentiated by their product philosophy and service design. They are centered around high end accommodation, intimacy and an environment that allows its guest unrivalled comfort and privacy. They are defined by a sensibility of intimate design and by their varied and eclectic culinary experiences, impeccable service and authentic Indian Spa sanctuaries.
Taj Safaris are wildlife lodges that allow travelers to experience the unparalleled beauty of the Indian jungle amidst luxurious surroundings. They offer India's first and only wildlife luxury lodge circuit. Taj Safaris provide guests with the ultimate, interpretive, wild life experience based on a proven sustainable ecotourism model.
Vivanta by Taj Hotels & Resorts span options for the work-hard-play-hard traveller across metropolitan cities, other commercially important centres as well as some of the best-loved vacation spots. Stylish & sophisticated, Vivanta by Taj delivers premium hotel experiences with imagination, energy & efficiency. It's the flavour of contemporary luxury, laced with cool informality and the charming Taj hospitality. Created for the cosmopolitan global traveller and bon vivant, Vivanta by Taj Hotels & Resorts create experiences that will amuse, invigorate & inspire you. Vivanta revels in a spirit that presents the normal with an unexpected twist. Experiences which make you pause & appreciate the hidden beauty in life! It challenges your expectations of a hotel and unfolds multiple layers of delight. Innovative cuisine concepts, the smart use of technology & the challenge to constantly engage, energize and relax you all add up to make Vivanta by Taj the new signature in hospitality.
The Gateway Hotel (upscale/mid-market full service hotels and resorts) is a pan-India network of hotels and resorts that offers business and leisure travelers a hotel designed, keeping the modern nomad in mind. At the Gateway Hotel, we believe in keeping things simple. This is why, our hotels are divided into 7 simple zones- Stay, Hangout, Meet, Work, Workout, Unwind and Explore.
As travel often means more hassle than harmony, more stress than satisfaction, modern travelers are looking for smarter choices. Driven by our passion for perfection, we welcome our customers to a refreshingly enjoyable and hassle-free experience, anytime, everywhere. Offering the highest consistency in quality, service and style we set new standards and take the unwanted surprises out of traveling. Our warm welcomes make our guests feel at home, away from home and our crisp and courteous service empowers them to get more done with greater effectiveness and control. And through our unrivalled network we provide service that is effortless, simple, never overwhelming, always warm.
Ginger (economy hotels) is IHCL's revolutionary concept in hospitality for the value segment. Intelligently designed facilities, consistency and affordability are hallmarks of this brand targeted at travelers who value simplicity and self-service.
Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces is committed to replicate its domestic success onto international shores with plans to build an international network of luxury hotels, which will provide an exemplary product-service combination and in the process create a global brand. The current international portfolio includes luxury resorts in the Indian Ocean, business and resort destinations in the Middle East and Africa, serviced apartments in the UK, the first hotel in Australia and three a top-end luxury hotels in the US.
Throughout the Company's expansion, its mandate has been twofold: to infuse a sense of Indian heritage and culture within each diverse property, while also anticipating the needs and desires of the sophisticated traveller. Over the years, the Taj has won international acclaim for its quality hotels and its excellence in business facilities, services, cuisine and interiors.
The Taj strengthened its presence in the Indian Ocean rim with the Exotica Brand. The Taj Exotica was evolved as part of Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces intent to position it as a brand that is clearly differentiated by its product philosophy and service design. The Taj Exotica Resort and Spa, in Maldives is centered on high-end accommodation, intimacy and an environment that allows its guest's unrivalled comfort and privacy.
Taj Hotels further expanded its global footprint by securing management contracts at Palm Island, Jumeirah in Dubai, Saraya Islands in Ras Al Khaimah, Aldar Group in Abu Dhabi, UAE Langkawi in Malaysia and Thimpu in Bhutan. The
most significant additions to the portfolio have been The Pierre, the iconic landmark hotel on New York's Fifth Avenue, Taj Boston and Blue, Sydney.
The presence of Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces internationally has been developed through a network of Taj regional sales and PR offices in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Dubai, Singapore, Australia, Japan, Russia and the United States of America.
At the Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces luxurious living and fine dining find common ground. Whether it is introducing exotic world cuisines to India or taking authentic Indian fare to the world, the Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces is renowned for the eclectic culinary experiences it brings to its guests. Through a vast repertoire of award-winning restaurants, legendary recipes from royal kitchens and celebrated food festivals, the Taj has pioneered innovation in fine dining across the world.
Taj Hotels also promise a whole new experience of tranquillity and total 'wellness', through Jiva Spas a unique concept, which brings together the wisdom and heritage of the Asian and Indian Philosophy of Wellness and Well-being. Rooted in ancient Indian healing knowledge, Jiva Spas derive inspiration and spirit from the holistic concept of living. There is a rich basket of fresh and unique experiences under the Jiva Spa umbrella of offering, Yoga and Meditation, mastered and disseminated by accomplished practitioners, authentic Ayurveda, and unique Taj signature treatments. Royal traditions of wellness in service experiences, holistic treatments involving body therapies, enlivening and meaningful rituals and ceremonies and unique natural products blended by hand, come together to offer a truly calming experience.
IHCL operates Taj Air, a luxury private jet operation with state-of-the-art Falcon 2000 aircrafts designed by Dassault Aviation, France; and Taj Yachts, two 3-bedroom luxury yachts which can be used by guests in Mumbai and Kochi, in Kerala.
IHCL also operates Taj Sats Air Catering Ltd., the largest airline catering service in South Asia, as a joint venture with Singapore Airport Terminal Services, a subsidiary of Singapore Airlines.
Additionally, it operates the Indian Institute of Hotel Management, Aurangabad since 1993. The institute offers a three-year diploma, designed with the help of international faculty and has affiliations with several American and European programmes.
CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY AND SOCIAL RESPONSBILITY
As a part of Tatas; India's premier business house; we; at Taj Hotels, have always believed in society and environment being integral stakeholders in our business along with our shareholders, customers, vendors and others. Over the last decade, the movement towards ecologically sound tourism has gained urgency and importance across the globe and we recognize that responsible practices in vogue are as diverse as the geographies.
We promote corporate citizenship through our strategic public-private partnerships which encourage building livelihoods of less-advantaged youth and women. The causes we promote include reducing malnutrition, promoting indigenous artisans and craftsmen and enhancing employability of identified target groups by sharing our core competencies as a leading hospitality company. We encourage training and development of differently abled youth.
We at Taj have the unique scope and opportunity to develop raw potential into a skilled workforce that is immediately employable by various players in the industry. A majority of our community projects are focused around extending our key strengths in food production, kitchen management, housekeeping, customer service and spas to promote economic empowerment of candidates from vulnerable socio-economic backgrounds. We are fully committed to the cause of building a sustainable environment by reducing the impact of our daily operations on the environment and improving operational efficiencies, resource conservation, reuse and recycling of key resources.
Our eight Corporate Sustainability Report (downloadable from here) has been submitted to United Nations Global Compact Society in August 2011. The United Nations Global Compact is a strategic policy initiative for businesses that are committed to aligning their operations and strategies with ten universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, labor, safety & security, environment and anti-corruption. This Corporate Sustainability
report also serves as our GRI (Global Reporting Initiative) as well as Triple Bottom Line report. The report focuses on identified priorities at IHCL and responds to key stakeholder needs. We plan to continue and further strengthen our commitment to the environment and societies in which we operate.
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EARTH
In an endeavour to reinstate its vision and efforts to boost sustainable tourism, Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces presented EARTH (Environment Awareness & Renewal at Taj Hotels) this year. Implementing schemes such as the Gangroti Glacier Clean-Up Expedition, as well as designated Earth rooms, which minimise environmental impact, Taj is one of Asia's largest group of hotels to commit to energy conservation and environmental management. EARTH has received certification from Green Globe, the only worldwide environmental certification program for travel and tourism.
The Taj began a century ago with a single landmark - The Taj Mahal Palace Hotel, Mumbai. Today, the various Taj hotels, in all their variety and historical richness, are recognised internationally as the symbols of true Indian hospitality. The Company's history is integral to India's emergence into the global business and leisure travel community; and looking to the future, Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces is well positioned to meet the increase in travel activity with the rapid expansion of the Indian economy.
