NET WORTH : $103 Billion
Ratan Naval Tata born on December 28, 1937, Ratan Naval Tata is an Indian entrepreneur, philanthropist, and the former chairman of Tata Sons. He served as the Tata Group's chairman from 1990 to 2012, then from October 2016 to February 2017, he served as acting chairman. He is still in charge of its philanthropic trusts. After being awarded the Padma Bhushan, the third-highest civilian honor, in 2000, he was bestowed with the Padma Vibhushan, the second-highest civilian honor in India, in 2008.
He is the son of Naval Tata, who was taken in by Ratanji Tata, the founder of the Tata Group and the son of Jamsetji Tata. He received a bachelor's degree in architecture from Cornell University College of Architecture. In 1961, he began working at Tata Steel, where he was employed on the shop floor. Later, once J. R. D. Tata retired from Tata Sons in 1991, he took over as chairman. In an effort to transform Tata from a mostly India-focused corporation into a worldwide enterprise, the Tata corporation purchased Tetley, Jaguar Land Rover, and Corus during his leadership. Tata contributes between 60 and 65 percent of his earnings to charitable causes, making him one of the world's greatest philanthropists.
Ratan Tata is also a prolific investor and has made numerous investments in several startups.Tata has invested in over 30 start-ups till date, most from his personal capacity and some via his investment company.
Early Age
On December 28, 1937, Ratan Tata was born in Bombay, which is now Mumbai, under the British Raj.He is the son of Naval Tata, who was adopted into the Tata family after being born in Surat, and Sooni Tata, who is the niece of Jamsetji Tata, the founder of the Tata group. Hormusji Tata, Tata's biological grandpa, was a blood relative of the Tata family. When Tata was ten years old in 1948, his parents divorced, and he was taken in and reared by his grandmother, Navajbai Tata, who was also Ratanji Tata's widow. Raised by Simone Tata, the second wife of Naval Tata, he has a half-brother named Noel Tata and a younger brother named Jimmy Tata.
He completed his eighth grade education at the Campion School in Mumbai. Following that, he attended the Bishop Cotton School in Shimla, the Cathedral and John Connon School in Mumbai, and the Riverdale Country School in New York City, from which he graduated in 1955. Tata studied in Cornell University following his high school graduation, where he earned a bachelor's degree in architecture in 1959. Tata became the biggest foreign contributor in Cornell's history in 2008 when he gave the institution a $50 million donation.
Career
Tata received a promotion to manager within the Tata group in the 1970s. His early success came from turning around the National Radio and Electronics division, but amid a recession, the company failed.He was named J. R. D. Tata's successor after he resigned from his position as chairman of Tata Sons in 1991. At first, Tata encountered strong opposition from the leaders of several subsidiaries, who had considerable operational autonomy during the older Tata's leadership. Tata responded by enacting many rules aimed at consolidating control. These policies included setting a retirement age, mandating that subsidiaries report directly to the group headquarters, and asking subsidiaries to use their profits to further the Tata group brand. Tata gave innovation top priority and gave younger employees a lot of responsibility.
Sales increased by almost 40 times and profits by over 50 times during the 21 years that Tata presided over the Tata Group. Sales were mostly made up of commodities when he took over the firm, but by the time he left, brands accounted for the bulk of sales. He oversaw the acquisitions of Tetley by Tata Tea, Jaguar Land Rover by Tata Motors, and Corus by Tata Steel. Through these purchases, Tata was repositioned as a global enterprise with over 65% of revenue derived from operations and sales outside of India. Previously, the company was primarily focused on India.
Along with conceptualizing and leading the development of the Tata Nano, he also helped bring automobiles within the budget of the typical Indian customer. Since then, Tata Motors has begun producing Tigor Electric Vehicles at its Sanand Plant in Gujarat. The company has referred to this as "fast-forwarding India's electric dream."
List of all companies owned by Tata Group
- Tata Consultancy Services
- Tata Asset Management Company
- Tata AIA Life
- Tata AIG
- Tata Capital
- Tata Housing
- Tata Realty and Infrastructure
- Tata Consulting Engineers
- Tata Projects
- Infiniti Retail
- Tata Steel Limited
- Jaguar Land Rover
- Tata Motors Limited
- Titan Company Limited
- Tata Chemicals Limited
- Tata Power Company Limited
- Indian Hotels Company Limited
- Tata Communication Limited
- Voltas Limited
- Trent Limited
- Tata Investment Corporation
- Tata Metaliks Limited
- Tata Elxsi Limited
- Tata Coffee Limited
- Tata Consumer Products Ltd
- Tata AutoComp System
- Tata SIA Airlines
- Tata Play
- Tata Industry
- Tata International
- Tata Digital
- Air India
TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICE
Tata Consultancy Serives Limited (TCS) is an Indian Multinational Information Technology and consulting company headquarted in Mumbai. It is a part of the Tata Group and operates in 150 locations across 46 countries.In July 2022, it was reported that TCS had over 600,000 employees worldwide. TCS is the second-largest Indian company by market capitalization and is among the most valuable IT service brands worldwide, and is the top Big Tech(India) company.
In September 2021, TCS recorded a market capitalization of US$200 billion
Incorporation Year : 1968
TATA ASSET MANAGEMENT COMPANY
Tata Asset Management CompanyInvestment Corporation of India, the company is primarily involved in investing in long-term investments such as equity shares, debt instruments, listed and unlisted, and equity-related securities of companies in a wide range of industries. The sources of income of the Company consist of dividend, interest and profit on sale of investments. TICL invests in sectors such as banks, cement, chemicals and fertilizers, electricity and transmission, electrical and electronics, engineering, construction and infrastructure, fast-moving consumer goods, finance and investments, healthcare, hotels, information technology, metals and mining, motor vehicles and ancillaries, oil and natural resources, retail, textiles, transportation and logistics, and miscellaneous and diversified.
Corporation Year : 1937
TATA AIA LIFE
Tata AIA( American Insurance Association) Life Insurance Company Limited (Tata AIA Life Insurance) is a joint venture company, formed by Tata Sons Pvt. Ltd. and AIA Group Ltd. (AIA).
Incorporation Year : 2000
TATA AIG GENERAL INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED
Tata AIG General Insurance Company Limited is an Indian general insurance company and a joint venture between the Tata Group and American International Group (AIG). Tata Group holds a 74 percent stake in the insurance venture with AIG holding the balance of 26 percent.
which started its operations in India on 22 January 2001, provides insurance to individuals and corporates. It offers a range of general insurance products including insurance for automobile, home, personal accident, travel, energy, marine, property and casualty as well as specialized financial lines. The company's products are available through distribution channels like agents, brokers, banks (Through bank assurance tie ups), and direct channels like telemarketing, digital marketing, worksite etc.
Incorporation Year : 2001
TATA REALTY AND INFRASTRUCTURE
Created in 2007 by the brilliant visionary Jamsetji Nusserwanji, it is a 100 percent subsidiary of Tata Sons Pvt Ltd . Tata Realty and Infrastructure Limited is still expanding upon the solid base and long-standing history of TATA. The business of the company is the development of commercial real estate.
Managing Director & Chief Executor Officer : MR. SANJAY DUTT
Incorporation Year : 2007
TATA STEEL LIMITED
Tata Steel Limited is an Indian multinational steel-making company , based in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand and headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra . It is a part of the Tata Group.
With an annual capacity of 35 million tonnes for the production of crude steel, Tata Iron and Steel Company Limited (TISCO), a division of Tata Steel, is one of the biggest steel producing corporations globally. With activities and a global commercial presence, it is among the steel manufacturers with the greatest geographic diversity in the world. The group's consolidated turnover for the fiscal year that ended on March 31, 2023, was US$31 billion (excluding SEA activities). With an annual capacity of 21.6 million tonnes, it is the largest steel firm in India (measured by domestic output), after Steel Authority of India Ltd. (SAIL).
Incorporation Year : 1907
JAGUAR LAND ROVER
The parent company of Jaguar Land Rover Limited, or JLR, is Jaguar Land Rover Automotive PLC. JLR is a multinational British automaker that specializes in producing luxury and sport utility vehicles. The headquarters of Jaguar Land Rover, a Tata Motors subsidiary, are located in Whitley, Coventry, UK. Designing, developing, producing, and selling automobiles carrying the Land Rover and Jaguar trademarks is Jaguar Land Rover Limited's main business.
Prior to their merger, both brands had lengthy histories: Jaguar dates back to the 1930s, and Land Rover dates back to the 1940s. The two brands first joined forces in 1968 as a part of the British Leyland conglomerate, then again independently, and finally as subsidiaries of BMW (for Land Rover) and Ford Motor Company (for Jaguar). BMW split up the Rover Group in 2000, and Ford Motor Company purchased Land Rover, which is now a part of its Premier Automotive Group.
Incorporation Year : 2008
TATA MOTORS LIMITED
Part of the Tata Group, Tata Motors Limited is an Indian multinational automotive corporation with its headquarters located in Mumbai. The firm manufactures buses, vans, lorries, and vehicles.
In addition to locations in Argentina, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and Thailand, Tata Motors has vehicle and auto production facilities in Jamshedpur, Pantnagar, Lucknow, Sanand, Dharwad, and Pune in India. Its R&D centers are located in South Korea, the United Kingdom, Spain, and Pune, Jamshedpur, Lucknow, and Dharwad, India. Tata Motors is traded on the National Stock Exchange of India, the BSE (Bombay Stock Exchange), and the New York Stock Exchange. It is also a component of the BSE SENSEX index. In the Fortune Global 500 ranking of the largest companies in the world as of 2019, the firm is placed 265th.
Incorporation Year : 1945
TITAN COMPANY LIMITED
Titan Company Limited is an Indian enterprise primarily engaged in the production of fashion accessories, including watches, eyeglasses, and jewelry . The firm, which was founded as a joint venture with TIDCO and is a part of the Tata Group, has its registered office in Hosur, Tamil Nadu, and its corporate headquarters in Electronic City, Bangalore.
The Titan Company was founded in 1984 and was first known as Titan Watches Limited. Titan expanded its product line in 1994 by launching Tanishq, a jewelry line, and Titan Eyeplus, an eyewear line. It introduced its line of young fashion accessories, Fastrack, in 2005.
Incorporation Year : 1984
TATA CHEMICALS LIMITED
A global company based in India, Tata Chemicals Limited is involved in the chemical, crop protection, and specialty chemical industries. With activities in Europe, North America, Africa, and India, the corporation is based in Mumbai. Shares of Tata Chemicals, which is a division of the Tata Group, are exchanged on the NSE and BSE. Rallis India is a publicly traded company of Tata Chemicals.
The third-largest soda ash producing facility in India is owned by Tata Chemicals. This was the second soda ash factory that Kapilram Vakil, the late Indian judge Nanabhai Haridas's grandson, constructed in India. It began production in 1944. The Gujarati word "Mitha" (meaning salt) is whence the township Mithapur gets its name.
Incorporation Year : 1939
TATA POWER COMPANY LIMITED
As a member of the Tata Group, Tata Power corporation Limited is an Indian electric utility corporation with its headquarters located in Mumbai, Maharashtra. The company's primary operations are the production, transmission, and distribution of energy. It is the biggest integrated power corporation in India, with 14,076 MW of installed power producing capacity. According to IIM Udaipur's 2017 Responsible Business Rankings, Tata Power is rated third. Tata Power was the first Indian business to supply more over one gigawatt-hour of solar modules in February 2017.
Dorabji Tata established the electric utility firm, which is a division of The Tata Group, in 1911. This business is involved in the generation, distribution, and transmission of energy. It is the biggest integrated power utility in India. With 8613 workers and an Indian base of operations, Tata Power Company Limited's CEO at the moment is Praveer Sinha.
Incorporation Year : 1911
INDIAN HOTELS COMPANY LIMITED
A network of hotels, resorts, jungle safaris, palaces, spas, and in-flight food services are managed by the Indian Hotels Company Limited (IHCL), an organization in the hospitality industry. The business is a member of the Tata Group in India. Jamsetji Tata established IHCL in 1902, and the company's main hotel, the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel, is situated in Mumbai.
The Tata Groups manage a network of several hotels, resorts, spas, and safaris as part of their hospitality industry. Its headquarters are in Mumbai, India, and it was founded in 1899 by Jamsetji Tata. It is tirelessly servicing its consumers with more than 33,790. IHCL has ₹4595 crores in sales, and Puneet Chhatwal is the company's current CEO.
Incorporation Year : 1901
TATA COMMUNICATION LIMITED
An Indian telecommunications firm is called Tata Communications Limited (formerly Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited). Prior to that, the Department of telecoms, the Ministry of Communications, and the Government of India held the telecoms service provider. Then, in 2008, during the first Manmohan Singh ministry government, it was sold to the Tata Group.
In 1986, the company was established as Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited (VSNL). In 1995, VSNL introduced the first publicly accessible Internet plans in India, overseen by B. K. Syngal (1991–1998). In 2004, VSNL International, the company's overseas division, was established. Following the Government of India's Disinvestment of Public Sector Units in India initiative, the Tata Group fully bought VSNL, which was rebranded as Tata Communications on February 13, 2008.
Incorporation Year : 1986
VOLTAS LIMITED
Mumbai is home to the global headquarters of Indian multinational home appliance manufacturer Voltas Limited. It creates, develops, produces, and markets goods such as water dispensers, washing machines, dishwashers, microwaves, air purifiers, and air conditioners as well as air coolers and refrigerators. Based on market share, Voltas is the biggest air conditioning manufacturer in India.
In Mumbai, the business was established on September 6, 1954, as a joint venture between Volkart Brothers and Tata Sons. Pradeep Bakshi is the company's current chief executive officer and managing director, while Noel Tata serves as the head of the board.
Incorporation Year : 1954
TRENT LIMITED
Based in Mumbai, Trent Limited is an Indian retail company that is a member of the Tata Group. The name Trent Limited is a portmanteau of Tata Retail Enterprise. Founded in 1998, Trent is the owner of the brick-and-mortar bookstore chain Landmark and the retail fashion business Westside, both of which have sites throughout India.
Trent was founded with the proceeds from Tata's 1998 ₹200 crore (US$48.46 million) sale of their 50% ownership in the cosmetics company Lakmé to HUL. Various shares in Trent were distributed to each Lakmé shareholder. Trent was headed by Lakmé's chairperson, Simone Tata. Tata's perception of the retail sector's higher growth potential and the fact that it would be more challenging for an Indian company to introduce new cosmetics in a market that had opened to international corporations were the driving forces behind the sale.
Incorporation Year : 1998
TATA INVESTMENT CORPORATION
Tata Investment Corporation Limited (TICL) is a non-banking financial company involved in investing in long-term investments
The company, which was formerly known as the Investment Corporation of India, focuses on making long-term investments in securities related to companies across a variety of industries, including debt instruments, equity shares, and listed and unlisted companies. The Company's revenue streams include dividend payments, interest, and proceeds from the sale of investments. Banks, cement, fertilizers, chemicals, and electricity and transmission, engineering, construction, and infrastructure, fast-moving consumer goods, finance and investments, hotels, information technology, metals and mining, motor vehicles and ancillaries, oil and natural resources, retail, textiles, transportation and logistics, and other diverse and miscellaneous industries are among the sectors in which TICL invests.
Incorporation Year : 1937
TATA COFFEE LIMITED
Indian company Tata Coffee manufactures tea, coffee, pepper, and related goods . It belongs to the Tata Group and is a subsidiary of Tata Consumer Products. Tata Coffee owns 19 coffee estates in South India, which are dispersed throughout the Tamil Nadu and Karnataka districts of Valparai and Hassan, Kodagu, and Chikmagalur. The biggest integrated coffee plantation company in the world is called Tata Coffee.
In order to supply coffee beans to Starbucks Coffee Company's coffee chains in India, Tata Coffee and the company entered into a coffee sourcing and roasting agreement. Both committed to raising the profile of coffee grown in India globally and enhancing coffee quality via the application of cutting-edge agronomy techniques and sustainable practices. The two businesses established Tata Starbucks, an equal joint venture (formerly Tata Starbucks limited), in 2012. As per the reports, Tata Coffee opened a $50 million greenfield facility in Vietnam for instant coffee.
Incorporation Year : 1922
TATA CONSUMER PRODUCTS LIMITED
A member of the Tata Group, Tata Consumer Products is an Indian fast-moving consumer goods company. Mumbai serves as the company's corporate headquarters, while Kolkata serves as its registered office. It is a significant producer of coffee and the second-largest manufacturer and distributor of tea in the world.
Tata Consumer Products was established in February 2020 as a result of the merger of Tata Chemicals' consumer products division with Tata Global Beverages, formerly known as Tata Global Beverages Limited (TGBL). Currently, the company works in the food and beverage sector; approximately 56% of its revenue originates from India, with the remaining portion coming from its global operations. Following the merger, the business now owns both domestic and foreign brands, including Tetley, Tata Sampann, Tata Salt, Tata Tea, Eight O'Clock Coffee, Good Earth Tea, and Tata Starbucks.
Incorporation Year : 1962
AIR INDIA
With its main office located in New Delhi, Air India is the flag carrier of India . After the Government of India, the previous owner of Air India Limited, completed the sale, Talace Private Limited, a fully owned subsidiary of Tata Sons, acquired ownership of it. Air India serves 102 domestic and international destinations with its fleet of Airbus and Boeing aircraft. Along with a number of focus cities spread across India, the airline maintains its hub at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi. With an 18.6% market share, Air India is India's biggest international airline.In [12] Air India offers service to more than 60 international locations on five continents. On July 11, 2014, the airline joined Star Alliance as its 27th member.
J. R. D. Tata established the airline in 1932 under the name Tata Airlines. Tata piloted the airline's first single-engine De Havilland Puss Moth, transporting mail from the Drigh Road Aerodrome in Karachi to the Juhu Aerodrome in Bombay, and then on to Madras (now Chennai). It changed its name to Air India and became a public limited company following World War II. When it received its first Boeing 707, dubbed Gauri Shankar, on February 21, 1960, it became the first airline in Asia to operate a jet.
Incorporation Year : 1932
TATA ELXSI LIMITED
Elxsi Corporation was one of several rival companies that were founded in Silicon Valley, California, in the late 1970s, along with Trilogy Systems, Sequent, and Convex Computer. The Elxsi CPU was an Emitter Coupled Logic (ECL) design with a 64-bit architecture, IEEE floating-point arithmetic, a 50 nanosecond clock, and a 25 nanosecond back panel bus. Being supposedly the first company to do so, it enabled multiple processors to communicate over a common bus called the Gigabus. The operating system was called EMBOS, and it was message-based. Because the Elxsi CPU was microcoded, unique instructions could be encoded into microcode.
This company was founded in the year 1989 by Joe Rizzi and focuses on designing and engineers products for different sectors. The headquarters is situated in Bengaluru, India and the company operates in Germany, Japan, France, Malaysia, the UK, the USA, UAE., South Africa, Dubai, and Singapore. Manoj Raghavan is serving as the CEO of Tata Elxsi since 2019
Incorporation Year : 1989
TATA AUTOCOMP SYSTEM
A French engineering design company based in Indochina was called TACO Faurecia Design Center Pvt. Ltd. (TFDC). It was a 50:50 joint venture between the French company Faurecia Automotive Holdings and the Indian company Tata AutoComp Systems Limited (TACO). It only offered design services for automotive components to Faurecia.
For Faurecia's clients, which included BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Ford Motor Company, General Motors, Peugeot Citroën, Renault Nissan, Toyota, the Volkswagen group, Chrysler, and Hyundai-Kia, the company designed and developed seating systems, dashboards, car doors, bumpers, and other components.
Incorporation Year : 2004
TATA HOUSING DEVELOPMENT COMPANY
The Tata Group's holding company, Tata Sons, wholly owns the Tata Housing Development Company (THDC). The late JRD Tata founded the business in 1984. Under the direction of Brotin Banerjee, the CEO and Managing Director of Tata Housing Development Company Limited, it was resurrected in 2006. Sanjay Dutt is its managing director at the moment.
Since its founding in 2006, the business has grown to become one of India's top developers of real estate, having completed numerous notable projects. Low-cost housing for the economically disadvantaged was first introduced by Tata Housing. Xylem, Bengaluru's first sustainable IT park, was the company's first commercial project and helped to pioneer the idea of sustainable green development. Since the project received a gold certification from LEED, all of Tata Housing's projects—from ultra-premium luxury projects to low-cost and affordable housing—have been certified as sustainable green developments by the Indian Green Building Council.
Incorporation Year : 1942
TATA CAPITAL LIMITED
India's Tata Capital Limited is a provider of investment and financial services . The company has over 100 branches nationwide and is headquartered in Mumbai. The company provides a variety of services, including infrastructure financing, commercial finance, wealth management, and consumer loans.
In 2007, Tata Capital was founded as a division of Tata Sons Limited. It is part of the USD 108 billion Tata Group's financial services division.(5) It is a holding company for Tata Securities Limited, Tata Capital Housing Finance Limited, and Tata Capital Financial Services Limited (TCFSL). The business is listed as a Systematically Important Deposit Accepting Non-Banking Financial Company with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). Credit cards, consumer loans, private equity, treasury advisory, commercial finance, and investment banking are just a few of the services that Tata Capital provides. Through its fully owned subsidiary TCFSL, it provides services to corporate, retail, and institutional clients.
Incorporation Year : 2007
TATA PLAY
Tata Play, also known as TΛTΛ PLΛY, is an Indian satellite television (DTH) service provider that uses INSAT-4A, GSAT-10, and GSAT24 satellites for transmission. MPEG-4 digital compression technology is used in their services. Founded in 2005, it provides numerous value-added services in addition to more than 630 channels, 543 SD channels, and 91 HD channels. The biggest DTH service provider in India is called Tata Play. Tata Play serves 21.3 million subscribers as of March 2023, according to TRAI, accounting for 32.65% of all DTH users in India.
Up until 2008, the Tata Group and News Corporation jointly owned 80% and 20% of Tata Sky. Later, the Singapore-based Temasek Holdings acquired the Tata Group's 10% share of Tata Play. Although Tata Sky was founded in 2001, its services didn't begin until August 8, 2006.
Incorporation Year : 2006
Donations
$ 102 BILLION
Jamsetji Tata has given USD 102.4 billion (Rs 829734 crore), making him the world's greatest philanthropist.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
One of Ratan Tata's greatest accomplishments was taking the Tata brand worldwide through acquisitions of companies like Tetley Tea, the truck division of Daewoo Motors, and Jaguar Land Rover, in addition to Corus Group. In 2004, TCS, an IT services company, went public under Ratan Tata's leadership.
Group Enterprises. The Tata group, a multinational conglomerate with 30 businesses spanning ten verticals and its headquarters in India, was founded by Jamsetji Tata in 1868.
The nearly 100 firms that make up the privately held Tata Group are involved in a number of key industries, including engineering, information systems, materials, consumer goods, energy, chemicals, and services. Head office is located in Mumbai.
Living by the philosophy, Tata has always shown keenness in new ventures and potential technologies. He has made several small and big investments in several start-ups and next-gen technologies. He invested in bitcoin venture Abra along with American Express.
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