| Advinus
Therapeutics |
| November 2006 |
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Advinus Therapeutics and
Veeda CR, an Anglo-lndian clinical research organisation
(CRO) having specialised high-quality clinical
pharmacology units in Plymouth, UK and Ahmedabad,
forged an alliance to work on integrated
drug discovery.
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Advinus and
Merck & Co formed a drug
discovery and clinical development collaboration
in the sphere of metabolic disorders. |
| Indian
Hotels |
| September 2006 |
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Taj Hotels Resorts and
Palaces joined hands with Qatar Sports Investment
Company (QSI) to develop Qatar's
first five-star golf and spa hotel in Doha
with an investment of around QR 220 million (Rs
280 crore) spread over three years.
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| July 2006 |
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Formed a partnership with
Eurocape in South Africa, the developers of the
$137.9 million Mandela Rhodes Place, aimed at
jointly developing a part of the Mandela
Rhodes Place lifestyle complex in Cape Town.
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| Tata
Coffee |
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October 2006
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Tata Coffee
entered into an agreement
with the Ugandan government to set up a 3,600
metric tonnes-per-annum capacity plant at an investment
of Rs 70 crore. |
| January
2006 |
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Acquired a 20-per
cent stake in Alliance Coffee, a
joint venture with Beeyu Overseas, Kolkata. |
| Tata
Consultancy Services (TCS) |
| December 2006 |
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TCS received
a five-year,
multi-million pound contract from Europe's leading
manufacturer and marketer of biscuits and snacks,
United Biscuits (UB). |
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It
also signed an agreement
with Morocco for setting up a 500-employees
unit in that country. |
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TCS
was selected as an ICT
alliance partner by Dwr Cymru Cyfyngedig (DCC),
also known as Welsh Water. |
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The
company, furthering its expansion in Latin America,
set up a global
delivery centre (GDC) in Uruguay that will house
over 250 personnel. |
| November 2006 |
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TCS
acquired 75-per cent stake
in Switzerland-based TKS-Teknosoft for Swiss
Franc 100.5 million (around Rs 360 crore). |
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It acquired
an Australian company for a total consideration
of A$15 million (Rs 50 crore) over five years.
The private consultancy firm, TCS Management, was
earlier called Total Communication Solutions. |
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The company
signed a seven-year agreement
with Somerfield, a leading UK-based small-format
food retailer to provide complete managed IT services. |
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It also planned
to merge its Chinese operations with TCS China,
a joint
venture with the Chinese government. |
|
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The company
won a large pharma
BPO contract from Eli Lilly for providing drug
development services. These include clinical trial
data management, statistical analysis and medical
writing. |
| September 2006 |
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The
company announced an alliance
with Agitar Software, an enterprise developer
testing solutions company, for Java technology. |
| Feb 2006 |
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Entered into
a partnership
with Singapore Technologies Electronics, the
electronics arm of Singapore Technologies Engineering,
for the marketing of identified IT solutions developed
for the regional market. |
| Aug 2006 |
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Entered into
a one-year software development agreement
with Sequenom Inc, a leading US provider of
genetic analysis solutions for molecular medicine
and diagnostics. |
| Tata
Metaliks |
| Jan 2006 |
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Won a bid to
acquire the immovable and movable assets
of Usha Ispat in a deal worth Rs 115 crore. |
| Tata
Motors |
| December 2006 |
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Tata Motors
and Italian car giant Fiat announced the formation
of a joint venture with aggregate investments
of over Rs 4000 crore (over euro 665 million) in
a phased manner. |
|
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The company
made plans to invest Rs 120 crore in the new 70:30
joint
venture with the Thailand-based Thonburi Automotive
Assembly Plant Company to manufacture, assemble
and market pick-up trucks at Thonburi's existing
production facility. |
| November 2006 |
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The company
acquired a South
African manufacturing plant from Japanese auto
giant Nissan. The acquired facility in Pretoria
was previously engaged in truck manufacturing for
the $80.5-billion Nissan. |
| July 2006 |
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Signed a memorandum
of understanding with the Fiat group to establish
an industrial joint venture in India to manufacture
passenger vehicles, engines and transmissions for
domestic and overseas markets. |
| Tata
Industries |
| July 2006 |
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Picked up an equity
stake in Indigene Pharmaceuticals, a bio-pharmaceutical
company located in Boston and Hyderabad.
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| Tata
Interactive Systems |
| Jan 2006 |
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Acquired two
European
software companies, Tertia Edusoft Gmbh, Germany,
and Tertia Edusoft AG, Switzerland. |
| Tata
International |
| May 2006 |
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Set up an equal
joint
venture with Dutch Lanka Trailer Manufacturers (Pvt)
Ltd (DLT), Sri Lanka, called Tata International
DLT to manufacture trailers in India. |
| Tata
Sky |
| Jan 2006 |
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The company
entered into a partnership
with NDS Group PIc for the launch of a direct-to-home
television service in India. |
| Tata
Sons |
| October 2006 |
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Tata Sons signed
a memorandum
of understanding (MoU) with Singapore Management
University (SMU) for partnership in various areas,
including internship, research and executive education. |
| Tata
Steel |
| December 2006 |
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Tata Steel signed
an agreement
with Japan's Nippon Yasen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK),
one of the largest shipping companies in the world,
to form a 50:50 joint venture (JV) shipping company
to cater to dry bulk and break bulk cargo segment. |
| Tata
Strategic Management Group (TSMG) |
| December 2006 |
|
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Tata Strategic
Management Group (TSMG) entered into an alliance
with The Excellence Center (TEC), a corporate
department of Dubai World Group, which is one of
the largest groups in UAE, for provision of management
consultation services, strategic planning, performance
improvement, due-diligence, re-engineering and knowledge
sharing. |
| Tata
Tea |
| October 2006 |
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Tata Tea subsidiary,
The Tetley Group, signed an agreement to acquire
a 33-per
cent stake in South African tea company, Joekels
Tea Packers, the third largest player in the
South African tea market. |
| May 2006 |
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Signed
an agreement to acquire the assets
of JEMCA, the leading tea company in the Czech
Republic, from food processing company Alima Znacková
Potravina. |
| Aug 2006 |
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Signed
an agreement
with Glacéau, the maker of vitaminwater,
whereby Tata Sons and Tata Tea will jointly invest
$677 million to purchase the stake previously held
by TSG Consumer Partners, and provide additional
growth capital, holding 30-per cent stake. |
| Titan |
| July 2006 |
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The
company picked up a 5-per cent stake
in Innoviti Embedded Solutions, a new venture
in the consumer wireless products market. |
| VSNL |
| December 2006 |
|
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VSNL
Singapore (also called VSNL International), the
international arm of Videsh Sanchar Nigam (VSNL),
announced a voice
peering arrangement with Yahoo! |
| October 2006 |
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VSNL signed
an MoU with leading global telecom firms to construct
a new
submarine cable linking India, the Middle East
and Western Europe. The MoU has been signed among
international telecom service providers Etisalat,
Saudi Telecom, Telecom Egypt, Telecom Italia Sparkle
and VSNL. |
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