Tata is like India’s GE, a huge conglomerate:
Tata Motors
Tata Projects
TCE Consulting Engineers
Telco Construction Equipment Company
TRF
Voltas
Tata Advanced Materials
Tata Steel
Tayo Rolls, India’s largest roll manufacturer and supplier
Tata Tinplate
Tata Power
Rallis India
Tata Chemicals
The Indian Hotels Company
THDC
Tata-AIG General Insurance
Tata-AIG Life Insurance
Tata Asset Management
Tata Economic Consultancy Services
Tata Financial Services
Tata Investment Corporation
Tata Quality Management Services
Tata Share Registry
Tata Strategic Management Group (TSMG) is one of the largest consulting firms in South Asia.
Tata Services
Tata Ceramics
Infiniti Retail
Tata McGraw Hill Publishing Company
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.
Titan Industries manufacturers of Titan (watches)
Trent (Westside)
Tata Sky
Computational Research Laboratories (CRL)
INCAT
Nelco
Nelito Systems
SerWizSol
Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (TCS) is Asia’s largest software company with 2006-07 revenues being over US$ 4.3 bn.
Tata Elxsi is another Software and Industrial design company of the Tata stable. Based in Bangalore. One of the leading companies in the animation industry of India.
Tata Interactive Systems
Tata Technologies Limited
Tata Teleservices
Takeovers
Feb 2000 Tetley tea company, $407 million
March 2004 Daewoo Commercial Vehicle Company, $102 million
Aug 2004 NatSteel’s steel business, $292 million
Nov 2004 Tyco Global Network, $130 million
July 2005 Teleglobe International Holdings, $239 million
Dec 2005 Millennium Steel, Thailand, $167 million
Dec 2005 Brunner Mond Group, $120 million
June 2006 Eight O’Clock Coffee, $220 million
Nov 2006 Ritz Carlton Boston, $170 million
Jan 2007 Corus Group, $11.3 billion
March 2007 Bumi Resources, $1.1 billion
April 2007 Campton Place Hotel, San Francisco, $60 million
Targets
Jaguar Cars and Land Rover, $2 billion each
Close Brothers Group, $2.9 billion
Orient Express Hotels, $2.5 billion
I remember driving the roads in India, back in the seventies. Tata made all of the Trucks (Public Carriers, as the called them). These vehicles were perpetually overloaded, without brakes, going too fast and could be found on either side of the road. Seeing the TATA Logo coming at you at high speed with apparent intent to kill was a daily occurance.
I can still see that logo in my dreams. I’m lucky I don’t have it embossed on my forehead.