Profile
Established in 1945, Tata Motors is India's largest automobile company. With a portfolio that extends across commercial, passenger and utility vehicles, the company generated revenues of Rs 32,426 crore (USD 7.2 billion) in 2006-07. It was the first Indian automobile company to list on the New York Stock Exchange.

The company began manufacturing commercial vehicles in 1954 with a 15-year collaboration agreement with Daimler Benz of Germany. Today Tata Motors is India's largest commercial vehicle manufacturer; it is also among the world's top five manufacturers of medium and heavy trucks and the world's second largest medium and heavy bus manufacturer. Having entered the passenger vehicles segment in 1991, Tata Motors now ranks second in India's passenger vehicle market.

The company enjoys the prestige of having developed Tata Ace, India's first indigenous light commercial vehicle; Tata Safari, India's first sports utility vehicle; Tata Indica, India's first indigenously manufactured passenger car; and the Nano, the world's least expensive car.

In March 2008, Tata Motors entered into a definitive agreement with Ford for the purchase of Jaguar Land Rover.

Areas of business
Tata Motors' product range covers passenger cars, multi-utility vehicles and light, medium and heavy commercial vehicles for goods and passenger transport.

Passenger car
The company launched the compact Tata Indica in 1998, the sedan Indigo in 2002 and the station wagon Indigo Marina in 2004. The next car to be rolled out will be the Nano, unveiled in January 2008. Tata Motors already distributes Fiat-branded cars in India.

Utility vehicles
Tata Sumo was launched in 1994 and Tata Safari in 1998. Variants of these models are also available in the market.

Commercial vehicles
The company entered the mini-truck segment in 2005 with Tata Ace. The commercial vehicle range extends from the light two-tonne truck to heavy dumpers and multi-axled vehicles in the above 40-tonne segment. Through the Tata Daewoo Commercial Vehicle Company it offers high horsepower vehicles of 220 HP to 400 HP for dump trucks, tractor-trailers, mixers and cargo applications.

The company also manufactures and sells passenger buses — 12-seaters to 60-seaters — in the light, medium and heavy segments, including Magic, a four-wheeler public transport developed on the Ace platform, and Winger, a maxi-van.

Research and development
Tata Motors has over 1400 engineers and scientists in six R&D centres in India, South Korea, Spain and the UK. The company's R&D facilities include India's only certified crash-test facility and a hemi-anechoic chamber for testing of noise and vibration. The company draws on the expertise of leading international design and styling houses such as the Institute of Development in Automotive Engineering and Stile Bertoni in Italy.

The company is developing environment-friendly electric and hybrid vehicles as well as vehicles that can run on alternate fuels (such as biofuels and hydrogen) for personal and public transportation. It also implements several environment-friendly technologies in manufacturing processes so as to enhance resource conservation.

Exports
Tata Motors' vehicles are exported to Europe, Africa, the Middle East, South and South East Asia and South America. The company has joint ventures and franchisee operations in Bangladesh, Ukraine, Kenya, Russia and Senegal.

Associates
Tata Motors is pursuing growth internationally through exports and acquisitions. It has a joint venture with Marcopolo, the Brazil-based maker of bus and coach bodies. It has also entered into a joint venture with Thonburi Automotive Assembly Plant Company of Thailand to manufacture and market the company's pickup vehicles in Thailand. Tata Motors and Fiat Auto have entered into an agreement for a Tata license to build a commercial vehicle at Fiat's facilities in Córdoba, Argentina.

The company has made substantial investments in building a network of associate and subsidiary companies and joint ventures that complement and support its business activities. These include:

• Tata Daewoo Commercial Vehicle Company is a 100 per cent subsidiary of Tata Motors in the business of heavy commercial vehicles. It is South Korea's second largest truck maker and the largest exporter of heavy trucks.
• Telco Construction Equipment Company makes construction equipment and offers allied services. Tata Motors has a 60 per cent holding; the rest is held by Hitachi Construction Machinery Company, Japan.
• Tata Technologies provides specialised engineering and design services, product lifecycle management and product-centric information technology services. It has two operating companies, INCAT and Tata Technologies iKS.
• Tata Cummins manufactures high horsepower engines used in the company's range of commercial vehicles.
• HV Transmissions and HV Axles are 100 per cent subsidiaries that make gearboxes and axles for heavy and medium commercial vehicles.
• TAL Manufacturing Solutions is a 100 per cent subsidiary that provides factory automation solutions and designs and manufactures a wide range of machine tools.
• Tata Motors European Technical Centre is a UK-based 100 per cent subsidiary engaged in design engineering and development of products.
• TML Financial Services is a 100 per cent subsidiary in the business of financing customers and channel partners of Tata Motors.
• Hispano Carrocera is a reputed Spanish bus manufacturing company in which the company has acquired a 21 per cent stake.
• Tata AutoComp Systems (TACO) is a holding company for promoting domestic and foreign joint ventures in auto components and systems. It is also engaged in engineering services, supply chain management and after-market operations for the auto industry.
• Concorde Motors is a 100 per cent subsidiary that retails Tata Motors' range of passenger vehicles

Corporate social responsibility
Tata Motors is a signatory to the United Nations Global Compact. It focuses on health, education, water management, environment and employment generation issues in areas where it operates. These continuing initiatives have received national recognition: Tata Motors was conferred the 'CII-ITC Sustainability Award 2006 for Significant Achievement on the Journey towards Sustainable Development' and the 'Golden Peacock Award for Corporate Social Responsibility'.

Tata Motors has led the Indian automobile industry's anti-pollution efforts through a series of initiatives in effluent and emission control. The company introduced emission control engines in its vehicles in India before the norm was made statutory. Modern effluent treatment facilities, soil and water conservation programmes and tree plantation drives at its plant locations contribute to the protection of the environment and the creation of green belts.

Location
Tata Motors' plants are located at Jamshedpur (eastern India), Pune (west), Lucknow and Pantnagar (north). Tata Motors and Fiat have set up a common manufacturing facility at Ranjangaon, near Pune. The company is establishing two new plants at Dharwad (south) and Singur (east).

Contact
Bombay House
24, Homi Mody Street
Mumbai 400 001
India
Phone: +91 (22) 6656 1676
Email: am@tatamotors.com
Email for international inquiries: rbc@tatamotors.com