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Mergers and acquisitions

Given below is a list of the various companies that have been merged with or have been acquired by Tata Group companies (for a company-wise listing click here):

  Tata company Acquired
company
Country Stake acquired Value
2000
February Tata Tea and Tata Sons Tetley Group UK 100 per cent (wholly-owned) GBP271 million
2001
November Tata Sons (TCS) Computer Maintenance Corporation (CMC) India    
2002
February Tata Sons Tata Communications
(formerly VSNL)
India    
September Indian Hotels Regent Hotel (renamed Taj Lands End) India Effective 100 per cent stake Rs450 crore
December Tata Teleservices Hughes Telecom (India) India 50.83 per cent Rs858.83 crore
2003
July Tata Communications
(formerly VSNL)
Gemplex US    
2004
January TCS Airline Financial Support Services India (AFS) India    
March Tata Motors Daewoo Commercial Vehicle Company Korea 100 per cent (wholly-owned) KRW120 billion (USD102 million / Rs465 crore)
March Tata Communications
(formerly VSNL)
Dishnet DSL's ISP division India    
March TCS Aviation Software Development Consultancy India (ASDC) India    
June Tata Chemicals Hind Lever Chemicals India Amalgamation  
July TCS Phoenix Global Solutions India    
November Tata Communications
(formerly VSNL)
Tyco Global Network US    
2005
February Tata Steel NatSteel Asia Pte Ltd Singapore 100 per cent (wholly-owned) S$468.10 million
February Tata Motors Hispano Carrocera Spain 21 per cent Euro12 million (Rs70 crore)
March Tata Chemicals Indo Maroc Phosphore S.A. (IMACID) Morocco Equal partner USD38 million (Rs166 crore)
April Tata Motors Tata Finance India Merger  
July Indian Hotels The Pierre US USD9 million Lease of the property
July Tata Industries Indigene Pharmaceuticals Inc US < 30 per cent Not disclosed
July Tata Communications
(formerly VSNL)
Teleglobe International US    
August Tata Tech INCAT International UK    
August Trent Landmark Ltd India 76 per cent USD24.09 million (Rs103.60 crore)
September TACO Wündsch Weidinger Germany   Euro 7 million
September Tata Communications
(formerly VSNL)
Tata Power Broadband India    
October Tata Tea through Tata Tea (GB) Good Earth Corporation & FMali Herb Inc US 100 per cent (wholly- owned) USD31 million
October TCS Financial Network Services Australia    
October TCS Pearl Group UK Structured deal  
November TCS Comicrom Chile  

 

December Indian Hotels Starwood Group (W Hotel) Sydney 100 per cent (wholly- owned) USD29 million
December Tata Chemicals Brunner Mond UK

63.5 per cent (December 2005)

Rs508 crore (December 2005)

36.5 per cent (March 2006) Rs290 crore (March 2006)
2006
January Tata Metaliks Usha Ispat, Redi Unit India 100 per cent (wholly- owned) Rs115 crore
January Tata Interactive Tertia Edusoft Gmbh Germany 90 per cent Not disclosed
Tertia Edusoft AG Switzerland 90.38 per cent
February TCS Tata Infotech India    
April Tata Steel Millenium Steel Thailand 67.11 per cent

USD167 million (Baht6.5 billion)

May Tata Tea through Tata Tea (GB) JEMCA Czech Republic Assets: intangible and tangible GBP11.60 million
June Tata Coffee Eight 'O Clock Coffee Company US 100 per cent (wholly-owned)

USD220 million (Rs1015 crore)

September Tata Tea through Tata Tea (GB) Joekels Tea Packers South Africa 33.3 per cent GBP0.91 million
2007
January Tata Steel Corus UK 100 per cent  
March Tata Steel Rawmet Industries India   Rs101 crore
April Indian Hotels Campton Place Hotel US   $58 million
April Tata Power Acquired Coastal Gujarat Power India    
April Tata Tea through Tetley Group Vitax and Flosana trademarks Poland    
April Tata Communications (formerly VSNL) through Neotel Transtel Telecoms (TT) South Africa   $33 million
(approximately)
June Tata Power PT Kaltim Prima Coal and PT Arutmin Indonesia Indonesia 30 per cent equity stake  
October TRF York Transport Equipment (Asia) Singapore 51 per cent stake  
2008
January Tata Chemicals General Chemical Industrial Products US 100 per cent stake  
January Tata Projects Artson Engineering India    
March Tata Motors Jaguar and Land Rover brands
UK   $2.3 bn (approximately)
March Telco Construction Equipment Company (Telcon) Serviplem SA Spain 79 per cent  
March Telco Construction Equipment Company (Telcon) Comoplesa Lebrero SA Spain 60 per cent  

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