Tata Group
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Tata is one of the oldest and best-known groups of companies in India. The group takes the name of its founder, Sir Jamshedji Tata, a member of whose family has almost invariably been the chairman of the group. The present chairman is Ratan Tata, who took over from the justly renowned J.R.D. Tata in the 1990s. TISCO is now renamed as Tata Steel Limited while TELCO has become Tata Motors Limited.
Tata group of enterprises comprises 93 companies in seven business sectors
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History
TISCO, now Tata Steel was established in 1907 to set up India's first iron and steel plant in Jamshedpur. The plant started production in 1912. In 1910, Tata Hydro-Electric Power Supply Company was set up. In 1917, the group entered the consumer goods industry with the Tata Oil Mills Company being established to make soaps, detergents and cooking oils. In 1932, Tata Airlines was established. In 1939, Tata Chemicals was established. TELCO, now Tata Motors, was established in 1945 to manufacture locomotive and engineering products.
Engineering
- Tata Motors TELCO (Tata Engineering and Locomotives Ltd) is a company of Tata group of companies which produces automobiles for the Indian Market. Its products range for goods and passenger transport. It is now called Tata Motors. Seven out of ten medium and heavy commercial vehicles in India bear the Tata mark, widely trusted in India. The Indica V2 - India's only fully indigenously designed and manufactured passenger car - has been a great commercial success.
- Tata Autocomp Systems Ltd (TACO) is one of the newest addition to Tata Group of Industries. It is one of the fastest growing auto-components company. TACO has established joint ventures with a number of world renowned auto-component companies.
- Tata Projects
- TCE Consulting Engineers
- Voltas
- TAL Manufacturing Solutions
- Telco Construction Equipment Company
- TRF
Materials
- TISCO (Tata Iron and Steel Company Ltd) is India's first private Iron and Steel Company, and also the first company founded by J.N. Tata (the founder of the Tata Groups). Its works are located at Jamshedpur, with headquarters at Mumbai. Now Tata Steel.
- Tata Advanced Materials
Energy
- Tata Power is one of the largest private sector power companies. It supplies power to Mumbai, the commercial capital of India.
- Tata BP Solar India
Chemicals
- Rallis India
- Tata Chemicals
- Tata Pigments
Services
- Indian Hotels (Taj group)
- THDC
- Tata-AIG General Insurance
- Tata-AIG Life Insurance
- Tata Asset Management
- Tata Financial Services
- Tata Investment Corporation
- Tata Share Registry
- Tata Economic Consultancy Services
- Tata Quality Management Services
- Tata Strategic Management Group (TSMG) is one of the largest consulting firms in South Asia.
- Tata Services
Consumer Products
- Tata Tea Limited is the world's second largest manufacturer of packaged tea and tea products. It also owns the Tetley brand of tea sold primarily in Europe.
- Tata McGraw Hill Publishing Company
- Titan Industries
- Trent
- Tata Ceramics
Information Systems And Communications
- Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (TCS) is Asia's largest software company with 2004-05 revenues being over US$ 2.3 bn.
- Tata Elxsi is another Software company of the Tata stable. Based in Bangalore. One of the leading companies in the animation industry of India.
- Nelito Systems
- SerWizSol
- Tata Infotech
- Tata Interactive Systems
- Tata Technologies
- Idea Cellular
- Tata Teleservices
- VSNL, the Indian telecom giant, was acquired in 2002.Tata-owned VSNL acquired Bermuda-based (former Canadian crown corporation and Montreal-based) Teleglobe in 2005
- Tatanet
- Nelco
The Tata Logo
The now ubiquitous blue-coloured Tata logo was designed by the Wolff Olins consultancy. The logo was meant to signify fluidity; it may also be seen as a fountain of knowledge, as also a tree of trust under which people can take refuge.
See also
External links
- Tata Group of Companies
- Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata: The founder of the Tata Empire Jamsetji Tatade:Tata (Unternehmen)