Tata Group is an Indian multinational conglomerate holding company headquartered in Mumbai,

Maharashtra, India. It was founded in 1868 by Jamsetji Tata and gained international recognition
after purchasing several global companies. It is one of India's largest conglomerates and is
owned by "Tata Sons", a charity registered with the Charity commissioner in India.[4][5]
Each Tata company or enterprise operates independently under the guidance and supervision of
its own board of directors and shareholders. There are 29 publicly listed Tata enterprises with a
combined market capitalisation of about $145 billion as of November 2017.[3] Tata companies
with significant scale include Tata Steel, Tata Motors(Jaguar, Land Rover), Tata Consultancy
Services, Tata Power, Tata Chemicals, Tata Global Beverages, Tata Teleservices, Titan, Tata
Communications and Indian Hotels (Taj Hotels).

Contents
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 1Chairman
 2Subsidiaries
 3Philanthropy
 4Controversies and criticisms
o 4.1Munnar, Kerala
o 4.2Kalinganagar, Odisha
o 4.3Supplies to Burma's military regime
o 4.4Land acquisition in Singur
o 4.5Dhamra Port, Odisha
o 4.6Soda extraction plant in Tanzania
o 4.7Data and intellectual property theft
o 4.8Fire breakout at headquarters
 5See also
 6References
 7External links

Chairman[edit]
The Chairman of Tata Sons is usually the Chairman of the Tata Group.

 Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata (1868–1904)

 Sir Dorab Tata (1904–1932)
 Nowroji Saklatwala (1932–1938)
 JRD Tata (1938–1991)
 Ratan Tata (1991–2012)
 Cyrus Pallonji Mistry (2012–2016)
 Ratan Tata (2016–2017)
 Natarajan Chandrasekaran (2017–present)[6]

Subsidiaries[edit]
Main article: List of entities associated with Tata Group

Bombay House, the head office of Tata Group

Tata Bus

Tata Tigor

Packages of Tata Tea

Himalayan–Tata Mineral Water

Tata bus in Madrid, Spain

Thai assembled Tata Xenon pickup truck

The Taj Mahal Palace Hotel, owned by a Tata subsidiary

This section lists the Tata companies and details their business:
Chemicals

 Tata Chemicals
 Advinus Therapeutics
 Brunner Mond
 General Chemical Industrial Products
 Magadi Soda Company
 Rallis India
 Tata Pigments Limited
Consumer products

 Casa Décor
 Eight O'Clock Coffee
 Fastrack, youth fashion brand
 Himalayan, mineral water brand
 I-shakti
 Infiniti Retail (Cromā)
 Landmark Bookstores
 Tanishq
 Tata Ceramics
 Tata CLiQ
 Tata Coffee
 Tata Global Beverages, the world's second largest manufacturer of packaged tea and tea
products
 Tata Industries
 Tata International Ltd.
 Tata Refractories
 Tata Salt
 Tata Sky
 Tata Starbucks, a 50:50 joint venture company, owned by Starbucks Corporation and Tata
Global Beverages
 Tata Swach
 Tata Zoya
 Tetley
 Titan Eye+, optical stores from Titan Industries
 Titan Industries
 Voltas, consumer electronics company
 Westside
Energy
 Hooghly Met Coke and Power Company
 Jamshedpur Utilities and Services Company
 Powerlinks Transmission
 Tata Petrodyne
 Tata Power, one of the largest private sector power companies
 Tata Power Delhi Distribution Ltd (formerly known as North Delhi Power Ltd)
 Tata Power Solar, started as a joint venture between Tata Power and BP Solar, now a wholly
owned company
 Tata Power Trading
 Tata Projects
Engineering

 Hispano Carrocera
 TAL Manufacturing Solutions
 TASL (Tata Advanced Systems Limited)
 Tata Advanced Materials
 Tata Advanced Systems
 Tata AutoComp Systems Limited (TACO)
 Tata Consulting Engineers Limited
 Tata Marcopolo
 Tata Cummins
 Tata Motors, manufacturer of commercial vehicles (largest in India) and passenger cars
 Jaguar Land Rover (manager of Tata's English brands Jaguar cars and Land Rover)
 Tata Daewoo Commercial Vehicle
 Tata Motors European Technical Centre
 Tata Petrodyne
 Tata Precision Industries
 Tata Projects
 Tata Technologies Limited
 Telco Construction Equipment
 Telcon Construction Equipment
 TRF
 Voltas Global Engineering Centre
Information systems and communications

 CMC Limited
 Computational Research Laboratories
 INCAT
 Nelco
 Nelito Systems
 Tata Business Support Services
 Tata Communications
 Indicash ATM
 Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (TCS), one of the world's largest IT services companies
 Tata DoCoMo
 Tata Elxsi
 Tata Interactive Systems
 Tata Teleservices
 Tatanet, managed connectivity and VSAT service provider
 VSNL International Canada
Services
 Air Asia India, joint venture with Air Asia
 Drive India Enterprise Solutions
 e-Nxt Financials ltd.
 The Gateway Hotels & Resorts
 Ginger Hotels
 The Indian Hotels Company
 Mjunction
 Roots Corporation
 Taj Hotels
 TajAir
 Tata Advanced Systems Limited
 Tata Africa Holdings
 Tata AG
 TATA AIA Life Insurance
 TATA AIG General Insurance
 Tata Asset Management
 Tata AutoComp Systems
 Tata Capital
 Tata Financial Services
 Tata Housing Development Company Ltd. (THDC)
 Tata Industrial Services
 Tata Interactive Systems
 Tata International AG
 Tata Investment Corporation
 Tata Limited
 Tata NYK
 Tata Quality Management Services
 Tata Realty and Infrastructure Limited
 Tata Services
 Tata Sons
 Tata Strategic Management Group
 TKM Global, Logistics and Supply Chain
 Vistara
 Vivanta By Taj
Steel

 JAMIPOL
 NatSteel Holdings
 Tata Bearings
 Tata BlueScope Steel
 Tata Metaliks
 Tayo Rolls
 Tata Sponge Iron
 Tata Steel
 Tata Steel Europe
 Tata Steel KZN
 Tata Steel Processing and Distribution
 The Tinplate Company of India
 TM International Logistics
Acquisitions:
 February 2000 – Tetley Tea Company, $407 million[7]
 March 2004 – Daewoo Commercial Vehicle Company, $102 million
 August 2004 – NatSteel's Steel business, $292 million
 November 2004 – Tyco Global Network, $130 million
 July 2005 – Teleglobe International Holdings, $239 million
 October 2005 – Good Earth Corporation
 December 2005 – Millennium Steel, Thailand, $165 million
 December 2005 – Brunner Mond Chemicals, $10 million
 June 2006 – Eight O'Clock Coffee, $220 million
 November 2006 – Ritz Carlton Boston, $170 million
 January 2007 – Corus Group, $12 billion[8]
 March 2007 – PT Kaltim Prima Coal (KPC) (Bumi Resources), $1.1 billion
 April 2007 – Campton Place Hotel, San Francisco, $60 million
 January 2008 – Imacid Chemical Company, Morocco[9]
 February 2008 – General Chemical Industrial Products, $1 billion
 March 2008 – Jaguar Cars and Land Rover, $2.3 billion
 March 2008 – Serviplem SA, Spain
 April 2008 – Comoplesa Lebrero SA, Spain
 May 2008 – Piaggio Aero Industries S.p.A., Italy
 June 2008 – China Enterprise Communications, China
 October 2008 – Miljo Grenland / Innovasjon, Norway
 April 2010 - Hewitt Robins International, United Kingdom
 July 2013 - Alti SA, France
 December 2014 - Energy Products Limited, India
 June 2016 - Welspun Renewables Energy, India

Philanthropy[edit]
The Tata Group has helped establish and finance numerous research, educational and cultural
institutes in India.[10][11] The Tata Group was awarded the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy in 2007
for philanthropic activities.[12] Some of the institutes established by the Tata Group are:

 The Energy and Resources Institute (formerly known as Tata Energy and Research
Institute), a non-governmental research institute
 The JRD Tata Ecotechnology Centre
 National Centre for Performing Arts
 Tata Center for Technology & Design at Massachusetts Institute of Technology[13]
 Tata Centre for Technology & Design at IIT Bombay[14]
 Tata Cricket Academy
 Tata Football Academy
 Tata Institute of Social Sciences
 Tata Management Training Centre
 Tata Medical Center, inaugurated on 16 May 2011 by Ratan Tata[15]
 Tata Memorial Hospital
 Tata Trusts, a group of philanthropic organisations run by the head of the business
conglomerate Tata Sons[16]
 Tata Cancer Hospital
The Tata Group donated ₹ 2.20 billion ($50 million) to the Harvard Business School (HBS) to
build an academic and a residential building on the institute's campus in Boston, Massachusetts.
The new building is called the Tata Hall and is used for the institute's executive education
programmes.[17] This amount is the largest given from an international donor to Harvard Business
School.
Ratan Tata, the former chairman of Tata Group[18]

In 2017, Tata Football Academy has won the bid to form a football club based on Jamshedpur of
Jharkhand in the 4th edition of Indian Super League along with Bengaluru FC.