Ratan Tata
Tata Motors—new challenges
The name of Tata is synonyms to Indian Vehicle Industry. 60 percent of buses and trucks are manufactured by Tata. In car industry Tatas are onNo. 2 position. Have a look on the cars produced by Tata.
From wheels to wings
After making name in wheels (Tata Motors, Truck, Buses, Cars, Nano, Jaguar & Land Rover) Tatas trying consciously to take to wings by entering the field of aircraft manufacture. A deal is being tried to be struck with Embrair of Brazil, the third largest aircraft manufacturers of the world.This Brazilian Company is the lone one
Take over of Jaguar & land rover
On March 26, 2008 Ratan Tata created a new history by taking over of Luxury car brands ‘Jaguar’ and ‘Land Rover’ of British Ford Motors Co. It became a talk of the automobile world. For nine months the hide and seek game between Ford Motors and Tata Group continued as the curious world watched. There
Road revolution—’Nano’
It was the year of 2003. Ratan Tata was returning home from his corporate office. A drizzle was on. Suddenly from his car window he saw a middle class family of a man, wife and two children loaded on a scooter driving by. They were wet and the human pile up was precariously balanced while
Who after Ratan Tata?
The big question in the minds of corporate people is ‘Who after Ratan Tata?’ Who will take charge of the Tata Empire? Ratan Tata has not married and he won’t be leaving behind any natural heir. So far, it has been some Tata, one of the family that has been heading the Tata Group. One
Challenges—corus steel plant
When it became clear that Anglo-Dutch giant ‘Corus Steel Plant’ was going for sale several of world’s big steel players joined the hunt to get it. These were a lot of heavy weight steel industrialists and companies. Ratan Tata was also there but he was not being taken seriously. The steel big-wigs of the world
The man of iron will
One distinct quality of Ratan Tata that sets him apart from other industrialists is his will of steel. He sticks to his stand firmly if he is convinced that his stand is morally correct. To prove this point some episodes are revealing and are cited below :During the strike at Pune Tata Motors Plant some
Fulfilment of social concerns
All those who have some knowledge of the business world are familiar with the fact that one hundred year old Tata House of Business never shirked from its responsibilities in social concerns. The doyens of Tatas were particulary conscious about it and their successive descendents carried forward that spirit like the soul of their endeavour.
In Tata empire
Soon after his return from USA Ratan Tata made entry into the Industrial empire of the family.It was not a razzle-dazzle affair but more like a low level new employee joining duty. His uncle JRD Tata was the Chairman of the Group. When JRD had joined the Group he had worked many years as unsalaried
Ratan Naval Tata
I am sure having illustrated the background of the Tata Group and predecessors connected to it the readers will be able to understand the actual role and contribution of Ratan Naval Tata to the growth and expansion or diversification of his industrial house. The legacy that Ratan Tata inherited was founded by Jamshedji whose father
Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhai (J.R.D) Tata
JRD Tata was another legend of Tata tradition. Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhai Tata was born on July 29, 1904. He was the son of Ratanji Dadabhai Tata, the cousin brother of Jamshedji Tata. But in Tata Industries the contribution of JRD was enormous. He played a major role in taking Tata Industrial Empire to new heights.
Naval Hormusji Tata
Naval Tata was born in August 1904. It was the year when Jamshedji Tata died. Luck played a big part in the destiny of Naval Tata. His father Hormusji Tata died when Naval was yet a youngster. Naval fell on bad days. Pecuniary forced him to carry on his education with the help provided by