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Ratan Tata, Chairman of the Tata
Group, was presented the FIRST
Award for Responsible Capitalism at a special ceremony
at Marlborough House, London, by the Princess Royal. |
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He was also conferred
the prestigious Bombay Management Association's (BMA)
Entrepreneur
of the Decade Award by governor SM Krishna at a glittering
ceremony held at YB Chavan Auditorium in Mumbai. |
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He also received an
honorary degree of Doctor
of Literature by the Tata Institute of Social Sciences
for his outstanding contribution to society in May. He
also received the prestigious Maharashtra
Bhushan Award for 2005-06 by the state government
in May. |
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S Ramadorai, CEO and managing
director of TCS, was named the sixth
most
influential person in the global enterprise IT sector
by Computer Business Review in July. |
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In April, General
Kofi Annan appointed B Muthuraman, MD, Tata Steel,
on the board of the UN Global Compact. |
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In May, Raymond Bickson, managing
director, Indian Hotels, was awarded Doctor of
Business Administration in Hospitality Management
( honoris causa), by the Johnson & Wales University,
USA. |
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In April, executive director
of VSNL N Srinath was named the 'Telecom
CEO of the Year' by Telecom Asia, a leading publishing
group, for the year 2006. |
| Companies |
| Indian
Hotels |
| August 2006 |
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Taj Hotels Resorts
and Palaces bagged the top
company award in the hospitality sector at the Dun
& Bradstreet American Express Corporate Award 2006. |
| Tata
AIG Life Insurance |
| May 2006 |
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Life Insurance Marketing
and Research Association gave the prestigious International
Quality Agent award to 61 advisors of Tata AIG Life Insurance
Company. The company
also won in a first-ever customer survey in insurance
sector conducted by the Voluntary Organisation In Interest
of Consumer Education. |
| Tata
BP Solar |
| February 2006 |
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The prestigious PV
GAP Quality Mark was awarded to Tata BP Solar for
its 1-80 wp TBP Mono and Polycrystalline Solar PV Modules
in February 2006. Only five other companies in the world
have recieved a similar award. |
| Tata
Chemicals |
| April 2006 |
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Tata Chemicals, Babrala,
won the award
for excellence in the management of safety, health and
environment from the Indian Chemical Manufacturers
Association for the year 2004-05. |
| Tata
Consultancy Services (TCS) |
| November 2006 |
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TCS
won the CII-Exim Bank award for business excellence
that recognises business excellence as a measure of organisational
competitiveness. The award was given at CII's 14th Quality
Summit in Bangalore. |
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It was rated by IDC
eighth
in market share among US Application Management Services
(AMS) vendors. It is the first such offshore vendor to
be ranked in the top ten in the US. |
| September 2006 |
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The company bagged
the coveted annual Economic
Times Awards for corporate excellence. |
| Tata
Motors |
| December 2006 |
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Tata Motors set up
two
new greenfield plants as part of its Rs 10,000-crore
expansion programme to meet its target of more than doubling
its annual sales to one million units over the next five
years. |
| November 2006 |
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Tata Motors achieved
historical overall India sales
of 4 million vehicles since its inception in 1954.
The company sold its four-millionth vehicle in the domestic
market on October 30. |
| September 2006 |
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The company's commercial
business unit won the Confederation of Indian Industry
(CII) Exim
Bank Award for Business Excellence 2005. |
| April 2006 |
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The company was commended
by CII for its achievements in sustainable development. |
| Tata
Power |
| December 2006 |
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Tata Power Company
bagged licences for developing
mission-critical electronic warfare systems for the
Indian military. The department of industrial policy and
promotion, which comes under ministry of commerce and
industry, has issued seven licences to Tata Power SED. |
| Tata
Refractories (TRL) |
| September 2006 |
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Tata Refractories,
Belpahar, was awarded
Integrated Management System (IMS) certification by
Bureau Veritas Quality International (BVQI). By virtue
of this, TRL is now certified to three management systems
— Quality Management, Environment Management, and
Occupational Health and Safety Management System. TRL
is the first refractories company and one of the very
few companies in India to have successfully implemented
IMS. |
| Tata
Sons |
| December 2006 |
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Tata Group was awarded
the 'Civil
Society Award' by UNAIDS for its exemplary role in
fighting against HIV in India, on the occasion of World
AIDS Day 2006. |
| August 2006 |
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Tata Group became
the only Indian entity to feature among the top 20 companies
worldwide in the 9th annual global Most
Admired Knowledge Enterprises study, 2006. |
| June 2006 |
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Awarded India's
Most Respected Multinational Business Conglomerate
by United States-India Business Council. |
| Tata
Sponge |
| December 2006 |
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Tata Sponge received
the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) certificate from
the UN executive board for its power project that converts
waste heat into power, thereby reducing green house gas
emissions. |
| Tata
Steel |
| November 2006 |
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The company won the
'Best
Governed Company Award 2006' for setting high standards
in corporate practices. The award was presented by the
Asian Centre for Corporate Governance. |
| May 2006 |
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Received the title
of 'The
Best Integrated Steel Plant in India', for the year
2001-2002, for the fifth time and the fourth successive
year. |
| April 2006 |
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Ranked as the best
steel making company in the world for the third consecutive
year by World Steel Dynamics Inc, USA. It also received
the first CII-ITC
Sustainability Award for the year 2006. |
| Tinplate
Company of India |
| May 2006 |
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The Engineering Export
Promotion Council (eastern region) awarded the All
India Certificate for Export Excellence 2003-2004 in Iron
& Steel category to Tinplate Company of India.
The company was also commended by CII for its achievements
in sustainable development. |
| April 2006 |
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Swept away prizes
at the CII
(ER) Annual Awards ceremony receiving awards for 'Sustained
level of high overall productivity', 'certificate of appreciation'
for safety, health and environment and 'certificate of
appreciation for commendable effort' for human resource
development. |
| Titan |
| November 2006 |
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Titan Industries featured
in the
Dun and Bradsheet (D&B) list of India's top 500 companies
with a rank of 198. The profiles in the list are pre-eminent
companies of corporate India that have emerged as leaders
in their respective sectors. |
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Titan Time Products
(TTPL) won the first-level recognition of 'Strong Commitment
to Excellence' and was awarded the 'CII
Exim Bank Award for business excellence' commendation
certificate at the inaugural session of the16th National
Quality summit held at Bangalore. |
| September 2006 |
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Titan Industries bagged three
awards in the retail sector. The India Retail Forum
(IRF) presented the 'Fashion Retailer of the Year' award
recognising retail initiatives of both Titan and Tanishq.
The second award, The Images 'Retail Company of the
Year', acknowledged the company's benchmark practices
in retailing.
The third recognition, from abroad, came from Retail
Asia Publishing, Singapore, that ranked Titan Industries
(for their 'retail' chains — the World of Titan
and Tanishq boutiques) as the No 2 retail organisation
in the country.
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| June 2006 |
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Won the Reader's
Digest Platinum Trusted Brand Award under luxury and
personal style category. |
| VSNL |
| November 2006 |
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VSNL Singapore (VSNL International), the international
arm of Videsh Sanchar Nigam (VSNL) was named the 'Best
Wholesale Carrier' at the 2006 World Communication
Awards (WCA).
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It also
received the 'Best
Pan-Asian Wholesale Provider' award at the fourth
annual Capacity Magazine Global Wholesale Telecommunications
Awards ceremony held at the Capacity Europe 2006 show
in Amsterdam. |
| October 2006 |
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The company was selected as the top company for American
Express Corporate Awards 2006 by D&B India.
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