Tata is a rapidly growing business group based in India with significant international operations. Revenues in 2007-08 (un-audited) are estimated in excess of $55 billion (around Rs231,000 crore), of which 65 per cent was from business outside India. The Group employs around 350,000 people worldwide. The Tata name has been respected in India for 140 years for its adherence to strong values and business ethics.

The business operations of the Tata Group currently encompass seven business sectors: Communications and Information Technology, Engineering, Materials, Services, Energy, Consumer Products and Chemicals. The Group's 27 publicly listed enterprises have a combined market capitalisation of $49.56 billion as on July 3, 2008, among the highest among Indian business houses, and a shareholder base of 2.9 million. The major companies in the Group include Tata Steel, Tata Motors, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Tata Power, Tata Chemicals, Tata Tea, Indian Hotels and Tata Communications.

The Group’s major companies are beginning to be counted globally. Tata Steel became the sixth largest steel maker in the world after the acquisition of Corus. Tata Motors is amongst the top five commercial vehicle manufacturers in the world and has recently completed the acquisition of Jaguar and Land Rover. TCS is one of the leading global software businesses, with delivery centres in the US, UK, Hungary, Brazil, Uruguay and China, other than India. Tata Tea is the second largest branded tea company in the world, through its UK based subsidiary Tetley. Tata Chemicals is the world’s second largest manufacturer of soda ash. Tata Communications is one of the world’s largest wholesale voice carriers.

In tandem with the increasing international footprint of its companies, the Group is also gaining international recognition. Brand Finance, a UK based consultancy firm, recently valued the Tata brand at US$ 11.4 billion and ranked it 57th amongst the Top 100 brands in the world. Businessweek ranked the Group sixth amongst the ‘World’s Most Innovative Companies’ and the Reputation Institute, USA recently rated it as the ‘World’s sixth Most Reputed Firm.’

Founded by Jamsetji Tata in 1868, the Tata Group’s early years were inspired by the spirit of nationalism. The Tata Group pioneered a number of industries of national importance in India: steel, power, hospitality and airlines. In more recent times, the Tata Group’s pioneering spirit has been showcased by companies like Tata Consultancy Services, India’s first software company, which pioneered the international delivery model, and Tata Motors which made India’s first indigenously developed car, the Indica, in 1998 and recently unveiled the world’s least cost car, the Tata Nano, for commercial launch by end of 2008.

The Tata Group has always believed in returning wealth to the society it serves. Two-thirds of the equity of Tata Sons, the Tata Group’s promoter company, is held by philanthropic trusts which have created national institutions in science and technology, medical research, social studies and the performing arts. The trusts also provide aid and assistance to NGOs in the areas of education, healthcare and livelihoods. Tata companies also extend social welfare activities to communities around their industrial units. The combined development-related expenditure of the trusts and the companies amounts to around 4 per cent of the Group’s net profits.

Going forward, the Group is focusing on new technologies and innovation to drive its business in India and internationally. The Nano car is one example, as is the Eka supercomputer, currently ranked the world’s fourth fastest, developed by one of its companies. The Group aims to build a series of world class, world scale businesses in select sectors. Anchored in India and wedded to its traditional values and strong ethics, the Group is building a multinational business which will achieve growth through excellence and innovation, while balancing the interests of its shareholders, its employees and wider society.

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