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Profile
Established in 1962, Tata International has evolved
from an export
house into an international marketing company with a
global turnover of US$1.6 billion in 2005-6. Its operations
are organised into two business lines — Leather
and Engineering. With the worldwide reach provided by
a well-integrated network that spans major global trade
blocs, the company has strengthened its capability to
source globally, deliver world-class quality, work with
global brands, and has developed some key international
alliances for sustaining future growth. The company
exports to more than 100 countries, with its major markets
being Europe, the ASEAN countries, West Asia, the Far
East, and Africa.
Areas of business
Tata International's operations are organised into five
global business units (GBUs). These include:
- Leather
and leather products: Tata International
is India's
leading leather and leather-products exporter and
supply chain
integrator. Its value chain encompasses global sourcing,
world-class manufacturing in India and China, design
studios in Europe, strategic alliances, marketing,
and world-renowned brands as clients. Its state-of-the-art
manufacturing facility at Dewas (in India) is among
the top three worldwide for goat skin and was the
first in the leather industry in Asia to be ISO 9000
and 14000 certified. The R&D here has made internationally
acknowledged breakthroughs in processing chrome-free
leather and generating energy from solid waste.
- Engineering:
The engineering business unit is involved
in international marketing, global sourcing, distribution
and supply chain management in the engineering domain
including the sectors of mining, railways, power,
steel, aluminium, agriculture and automotive accessories.
The engineering unit has agreements with manufacturers
in India, China and other countries for marketing
and representation in select markets.
- Chemicals:
Tata International's chemicals division supplies chemicals
spanning applications in pharma, food, paints and
textiles to glass and mining, offering a wide range
of product lines and services.
Services
In the
services sector, Tata International provides
a comprehensive set of services, from marketing
and marketing intelligence, manufacturing and
sourcing, financing, documentation, warehousing,
logistics and delivery, to effective management
of global supply chains and customer relationship
management.
Global operations
The global
reach provided by a well-integrated network
and
infrastructure of subsidiaries, offices and
associate Tata companies allows Tata International
to source competitively. This network includes
subsidiaries in Hong Kong, United Arab Emirates,
Australia, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique,
Namibia, Tanzania, Uganda and Ghana. Additionally,
Tata International has offices in India, Thailand,
Bangladesh, Saudi Arabia, China, Singapore,
United Kingdom and Uruguay.
The company and
its subsidiaries worldwide have taken on various
value-added roles and have stakes in a cross-section
of businesses. It has stakes in a five-star
hotel, bus body building and trailer manufacture,
distributorships, and IT ventures; it has customer
support facilities for Tata vehicles and design
studios for leather.
Joint
ventures and
alliances
Joint
ventures:
- Tata Precision Industries,
India with Tata Precision Industries, Singapore, for
the marketing and manufacture of precision engineering
components.
- Graziella with Pucci SRL,
Italy, for the manufacture of leather footwear.
- Tata Africa Holdings, South
Africa with Consilience Technologies, South Africa
for information technology.
- Tata Motors with Automobile
Corporation of Goa.
- Tata Ceramics with Tata Power.
- With Imperial Group (South
Africa) for distribution and marketing of pick-ups
in South Africa.
- Zamil Tata (Intl) Information
Services with Al-Zamil Group of companies for IT marketing.
- Tata International DLT with
M/s Dutch Lanka Trailer Manufacturers, Sri Lanka,
for manufacturing / assembly of trailers for the Indian
market.
- With Gruppe Vecchia Toscana
(GVT), Italy, for fashion leathers.
Strategic
alliances:
- With
Itochu, Australia, for marketing mining-related consumables
and chemicals.
- With Asia Trading SA (ATSA),
Chile, for marketing and sourcing arrangement for
Chile and other Latin American countries.
- With Al-Zamil Group of companies
for marketing in Saudi Arabia.
- With The Turbo Genset Company
(TGC), UK, for business development of innovative
'distributed generation' products and solutions for
India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.
- With Oxalaga SRL, Romania,
for marketing of finished leather and leather products
in Romania.
- With Martinez Group, Spain,
for marketing Tata leather products in Spain and Martinez
leather products in Asia.
- With Lloyd Shoes GmbH (Germany)
to jointly manufacture footwear products for Europe
and market Lloyd branded shoes and accessories in
India.
- With M/s SYP Kangqiao Autoglass
Co Ltd, China, for exclusive marketing of automotive
glass in India, Iran and South Africa.
- With M/s International
Tractors Ltd, Hoshiarpur, India for exclusive marketing
of agricultural tractors in select countries in Africa
and Latin America.
Research
and development
 In
tune with the Tata ethos, the R&D division of Tata
International's leather GBU, the company's only manufacturing
operation, fosters projects that look at the future
needs of the leather industry, such as processes
for chrome-free leather, eco-labelling of finished leather
products (as per the Indian government's Bureau of Indian
Standards), and gainful utilisation of solid waste for
energy generation and resource recycling.
Tata International's
in-house R&D division is recognised by the Indian
government's Ministry of Science and Technology and
its patented 'biomethanation' project for securing energy
from tannery effluent solid
waste and was done under the United Nations Development
Programme's General Environmental Fund. The company
has also developed its own technologies for leather
processing and finishng and for import substitution
of chemicals.
Corporate social responsibility
Tata International is a signatory to the United Nations'
Global Compact initiative. In keeping with the Tata
Group's philosophy, Tata International has initiated
a series of measures that support the conservation and
rejuvenation of the environment and natural resources.
It also supports communities around its facilities through
work-life balance training programmes, the renovation
and upkeep of a village school, and corporate volunteering
with non-governmental agencies at various locations.
In addition, the company offers financial assistance
to various non-governmental agencies working in the
fields of education, healthcare, medical research, social
welfare and environmental consciousness.
The company's initiatives
on the ecological front are mainly at its leather manufacturing
facility at Dewas. These include forestation projects,
water conservation efforts, the setting up of a sophisticated
effluent treatment plant, as well as effective solid-
and liquid-waste management. The Dewas complex is ISO-14001
compliant and has one of India's largest solar thermal
water heating systems to preheat boiler feed water,
as also a patented biomethanation plant for generating
fuel gas and recovering chrome.
Awards
- Multiple
winner of Council of Leather Exports awards since
1984.
- Rajiv Gandhi Award for Environment
Protection in 2002.
- Rajiv Gandhi National Quality
Award in 2000.
- Multiple winner of MODEUROP
colour selection in 1998-2006.
- Madhya Pradesh Govt Environment
Award for Best Environment
Practices in 2005.
- TERI Environment Award
for Environment Excellence in 2005.
- Eco Mark for Finished
Leather from Bureau of Indian Standards
(BIS).
Contact
Block A, Shivsagar Estates
Dr Annie Besant Road
Worli, Mumbai 400 018
India
Phone: +91(22) 6665 2200 10
Fax: +91(22) 6661 2833
Email: tintl@tatainternational.com
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