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Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata starts a private
trading firm, laying the foundation of the
Tata Group.
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Central India Spinning, Weaving and Manufacturing
Company is set up, marking the Group's entry
into textiles. |
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Indian Hotels Company is incorporated to set
up the Taj Mahal Palace and Tower, India's
first luxury hotel, which opened in 1903. |
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The Tata Iron and Steel Company (now Tata
Steel) is established to set up India's
first iron and steel plant in Jamshedpur.
The plant started production in 1912.
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first of the three Tata Electric Companies,
The Tata Hydro-Electric Power Supply Company,
(now Tata Power) is set up. |
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The
Indian Institute of Science is established
in Bangalore to serve
as a centre for advanced learning.
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Tata Steel introduces eight-hour working
days, well before such a system was implemented
by law in much of the West.
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Tatas enter the consumer goods industry, with
the Tata Oil Mills Company being established
to make soaps, detergents and cooking oils.
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Airlines, a division of Tata Sons, is established,
opening up the aviation sector in India. |
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| Tata
Chemicals, now the largest producer of soda
ash in the country, is established. |
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Tata
Engineering and Locomotive Company (renamed
Tata Motors in 2003) is established
to manufacture locomotive and engineering
products. |
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Tata
Industries is created for the promotion
and development of hi-tech industries.
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Jawaharlal
Nehru, India's first Prime Minister, requests
the Group to manufacture cosmetics in India,
leading to the setting up of Lakme.
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India's major marketing, engineering and manufacturing
organisation, Voltas, is established. |
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Tata
Finlay (now Tata Tea), one of the largest
tea producers, is established. |
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Tata
Exports is established. Today the company,
renamed Tata International, is one of
the leading export houses in India.
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Tata Consultancy Services (TCS),
India's first software services company, is
established as a division of Tata Sons. |
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Tata McGraw-Hill Publishing Company
is created to publish educational and
technical books. |
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Tata
Economic Consultancy Services is set
up to provide services in the field
of industrial, marketing, statistical
and techno-economic research and consultancy.
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Titan
Industries – a joint venture between
the Tata Group and the Tamil Nadu Industrial
Development Corporation (TIDCO) – is
set up to manufacture watches.
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Motors rolls out its millionth vehicle. (The
two-million mark was reached in 1998 and the
third million in 2003.) |
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Tata Quality Management Services institutes
the JRD QV Award, modelled on the Malcolm
Baldrige National Quality Value Award
of the United States, laying the foundation
of the Tata Business Excellence Model. |
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Teleservices (TTSL) is established to spearhead
the Group's foray into the telecom sector.
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Indica – India's first indigenously designed
and manufactured car – is launched by
Tata Motors, spearheading the Group's entry
into the passenger car segment. |
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new Tata Group corporate mark and logo are
launched. |
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Tea acquires the Tetley Group, UK. This is
the first major acquisition of an international
brand by an Indian business group. |
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Tata AIG – a joint venture between
the Tata Group and American International
Group Inc (AIG) – marks the Tata
re-entry into insurance. (The Group's
insurance company, New India Assurance,
was nationalised in 1956). |
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Tata Group Executive Office (GEO) is
set up to design and implement change
in the Tata Group and to provide long-term
direction. |
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The Tata Group acquires a controlling
stake in VSNL*, India's leading international
telecommunications service provider.
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Tata
Consultancy Services (TCS) becomes the
first Indian software company to cross
one billion dollars in revenues. |
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Titan
launches Edge, the slimmest watch in
the world. |
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Idea
Cellular, the cellular service born
of a tie-up involving the Tata Group,
the Birla Group and AT&T, is launched.
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Tata Indicom, the umbrella brand for
telecom services from the Tata Teleservices
stable, starts operations. |
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Motors launches CityRover – Indicas fashioned
for the European market. The first batch of
CityRovers rolled out from the Tata Motors
stable in Pune on September 16, 2003. |
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Tata Motors acquires the heavy vehicles
unit of Daewoo Motors, South Korea. |
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TCS
goes public in July 2004 in the largest
private sector initial public offering
(IPO) in the Indian market, raising
nearly $1.2 billlion. |
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Tata Steel acquires Singapore-based
steel company NatSteel by subscribing
to 100 per cent equity of its subsidiary,
NatSteel Asia |
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VSNL*
acquired Tyco Global Network, making
it one of the world's largest providers
of submarine cable bandwidth |
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Tata
Sons completes 60 years of Tata operations
in the US |
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The
Taj takes over management of The Pierre,
NY |
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Taco
acquires Wundsch Weidinger, Germany |
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Trent
acquires majority stake in India's largest,
privately owned books and music retailer,
Landmark |
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Tata
Steel acquires stake in Carborough Down
Coal Project, Queensland, Australia |
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VSNL*
acquires Teleglobe International Holdings,
Bermuda |
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TCS
acquires Sydney-based Financial Network
Services (FNS) |
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Tata
Motors passenger vehicle sales cross
one-million mark |
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TCS
acquires leading BPO firm Comicrom in
Chile |
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The
Indian Hotels Company acquires hotel
run by Starwood, Sydney |
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Tata
Steel acquires Millennium Steel, Thailand |
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Tata
Chemicals acquires controlling stake
in Brunner Mond Group, UK |
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Tata Credit Card launched |
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Foundation
stone for the Tata Medical Centre unveiled
in Kolkata |
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TCS
launches India’s largest e-governance
initiative, MCA-21 |
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Tata
Steel ranked world’s best steel
maker for the third time by World Steel
Dynamics |
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Tata
Coffee acquires US-based Eight O'Clock
Coffee |
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Tatas
join hands with Indigene Pharmaceuticals
to build a global biopharmaceutical
company |
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Tata
Sky satellite television service launched
across the country |
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Tata
Steel begins construction of R670 million
Ferrochrome plant in South Africa |
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Tata
Group acquires 30-per cent stake in
Glacéau |
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VSNL*
rebrands SNO as Neotel in South Africa |
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Tata
Refractories sets up Greenfield plant
in China |
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Tata
Research Design and Development Centre
celebrates silver jubilee |
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Tata Steel acquires Corus |
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TCS
inaugurates TCS China — a joint
venture with Chinese government and
other partners |
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Tata
Steel acquires Rawmet Industries in
Orissa |
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Tata
Steel, through its subsidiary NatSteel
Asia, acquires controlling equity stake
in two rolling mills located in Vietnam |
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Tata
Motors rolls out its 100,000th Ace within
20 months of the vehicle's initial launch |
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Indian
Hotels acquires Campton Place Hotel
in San Francisco |
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Tata
Tea subsidiary, the Tetley group, signs
an agreement to acquire the Vitax and
Flosana trademarks in Poland, from Premium
Foods. |
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VSNL*,
through Neotel, acquires Transtel Telecoms,
South Africa |
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TCS
sets up its first global delivery centre
at Guadalajara in Mexico |
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VSNL*
rolls out wi-max services in India |
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Tata
Tea takes the No 1 position in terms
of volume share in India in the packet
tea segment |
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Tata
Motors is listed on the world's largest
bourse, the New York Stock Exchange,
the second Group company to do so after
VSNL* |
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Tata
Steel celebrates its centenary on August
26, 2007 |
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Tata
Teleservices crosses the 1-million subscriber
mark in Kolkata |
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Tata
Teleservices unveils the country's first
full-fledged web-browser for mobile
phones |
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Tata
Teleservices' subscriber base crosses
the 20-million mark |
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www.autojunction.in
introduces auto e-retailing for the
first time in India |
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Tata
Motors rolls out the one-millionth passenger
car off the Indica platform |
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Computational
Research Laboratories, a division of
Tata Sons, develops Eka, the fourth
fastest supercomputer in the world and
the fastest supercomputer in Asia |
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VSNL*
is renamed as Tata Communications |
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Tata
Motors unveils Tata Nano, the People’s
Car, at the 9th Auto Expo in Delhi on
January 10, 2008 |
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Tata
Projects acquires a majority stake of
75 per cent in Artson Engineering |
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Tata
Steel performs the groundbreaking ceremony
for expanding its Jamshedpur capacity
to 10 million tonne annually |
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Indian
Hotels' Taj Leisure Hotels launches
Taj Tashi at Thimphu, Bhutan |
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Tata
Tea forays into the out-of-home beverage
segment by unveiling its first outlet,
Chai Unchai, at Bangalore |
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Tata
Sons unveils the Tata logo at the Nanjing
Tata AutoComp Systems plant in China |
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Tata
Sons announces the launch of Tata International
Social Entrepreneurship Scheme for an
international student internship programme
with the Group’s community initiatives
in India |
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Indian
Hotels Company invests 36 to 37 per
cent in a newly floated company, BJETS,
in partnership with Singapore-based
Briley Group |
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Tata
Advanced Systems signs an MoU with Sikorsky
Aircraft to manufacture S-92 helicopter
cabins in India |
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Tata
Advanced Systems signs an MoU with Israel
Aerospace Industries to establish a
joint venture company in India to manufacture
and support a wide range of defence
and aerospace products |
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Tata
Securities, the wholly owned subsidiary
of Tata Capital, announces its entry
into the retail and institutional broking
segment |
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Tata
Communications, integrating the former
VSNL and Teleglobe brands, is launched
worldwide |
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TRF
launches India’s first mobile stone
crusher and screening plant |
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Telco
Construction Equipment Company acquires
a 79-per cent controlling stake in Spain-based
Serviplem SA |
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E2E
SerWiz Solutions is renamed as Tata
Business Support Services Limited |
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TCS
announces the opening of its North America
delivery centre called TCS Seven Hills
Park |
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Tata
Motors enters into a definitive agreement
with the Ford Motor Company for the
purchase of Jaguar Land Rover |
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INCAT
enters into a joint venture with Hindustan
Aeronautics Limited (HAL) to create
INCAT-HAL Aerostructures |
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Tata
Teleservices (Maharashtra) crosses the
5-million subscribers mark during the
month of March |
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Tata
Chemicals successfully completes the
acquisition of General Chemical Industrial
Products Inc in the USA |
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Tata
Coffee launches its first retail standalone
outlet, Mr Bean Coffee Junction, in
the country |
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Tata
Central Archives inaugurates its new
website |
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*In February 2008, VSNL was
integrated with Tata Communications
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