Tata Motors, India's largest automobile company, on Monday said it has entered into a joint venture with Thailand's Thonburi Automotive Assembly Plant Co to build, assemble and sell pick-up trucks in that country.
As it makes inroads into the quality-conscious global markets, Tata Motors on Wednesday said it was in the process of "shrinking" vendor base as part of a "strategy" to rationalise supplier chain.
Be it the name, the design and communication campaign and the engagement processes being imagined between the brand and its buyers, the company is casting its cars in a new mould, reports T E Narasimhan.
Tata Motors, a regular at the Geneva Motor Show, has shown several concepts that have eventually turned into production realities.
Total revenue from operations however rose to Rs 67,081.29 crore as compared with Rs 59,818.22 crore in the year-ago period
During the festive season, dealers of Tata Motors reported a robust pick-up in demand for the Nano.
According to figures released by Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers on Monday, Tata Motors exported 498 units last month as compared to just a single unit in the corresponding month last year.
For UK automakers, market access to India will be limited by quantity caps and phased tariff cuts, especially on petrol, diesel and electric vehicles.
Leading automobile manufacturer Tata Motors Limited has shortlisted West Bengal as the possible location for setting up a greenfield truck manufacturing unit.\n\n
The business will also see a change of guard. Shailesh Chandra, president of EV and corporate strategy, will replace Mayank Pareek as president of PV business, including EV, with effect from April 1. Pareek will be superannuating from the company after a six-year stint at the end of February 2021. Chandra and Pareek will work on transition over the next few weeks.
Guenter Butschek will start his new job by Feb. 15
The updated Aria will be available in three variants, with the base model priced at Rs 9.95 lakh (ex-showroom Delhi).
"There was an unprecedented traffic flow of around 40 million and the website crashed for sometime. It was restored later," sources told Business Standard. A company spokesperson also confirmed the development, but added that the website was immediately restored. The website had put up information on Tata Nano, the application forms for booking, financing details, dealer locations and pictures of the car on its website.
Billionaire Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries has retained its position as the highest-ranked Indian company on the 2025 Fortune Global 500 list, according to the latest rankings released by the publication. The oil-to-telecom-and-retail conglomerate has been ranked at No.88 on the latest list, down from 86th position in 2024.
Luxury carmakers are shifting into high gear with a mix of product launches, personalised experiences and lifestyle-led engagement.
The world's largest truck maker Daimler is understood to be selling off its residual stake in Tata Motors for over $400 million.
Among Sensex firms, Tech Mahindra, HCL Tech, Eternal, Axis Bank, Maruti, Tata Steel, HDFC Bank and Asian Paints were the gainers. However, Adani Ports, Trent, Tata Motors, Hindustan Unilever and NTPC were among the laggards.
After more than two years, Tata Motors has dislodged Korea's Hyundai Motors in India from the second spot in monthly domestic passenger vehicle sales. The spurt in Tata's June numbers has primarily been due to a dramatic increase in sales of the Nano, after the mother plant at Sanand in Gujarat went onstream last month, as well as a surge in that of the Indigo.
Tata Motors on Tuesday rolled out the first batch of CityRover cars, to be marketed by MG Rover in the highly competitive United Kingdom and European markets.
The price reduction across passenger vehicles is in the range of Rs 6,300 to Rs 69,000.
The scheme has been extended to all categories of employees.
The auto maker is on a rough road with demand for both CVs and cars sluggish. With sales of commercial vehicles having barely grown and passenger car volumes dipping in FY08, the street was not expecting much from India's biggest automobile company.
Tata Sons' dividend from Tata group companies for last financial year is expected to show a decline of 3.5 per cent to Rs 36,514 crore from Rs 37,832 crore a year earlier. This should be the first year-on-year decline in Tata Sons' dividend in the last nine years. The holding company had last reported a decline in FY16, when its proceeds had gone down 42.5 per cent to Rs 6,898 crore from Rs 11,993 crore a year earlier.
Tata Motors on Wednesday forayed into the CNG segment with the launch of Tiago and Tigor trims, priced between Rs 6.09 lakh and Rs 8.41 lakh respectively (ex-showroom Delhi). The Tiago iCNG range is priced between Rs 6.09 lakh and Rs 7.64 lakh while the three variants of Tigor iCNG are tagged at Rs 7.69 lakh, Rs 8.29 lakh and Rs 8.41 lakh respectively. With the launch, the homegrown auto major plans to strengthen its position in the CNG market which has been growing at a fast pace. "It is very clear that the CNG segment is going to witness a steep growth over the next few years.
Kant, an alumnus of IIT-Kharagpur, was managing director of the company before being promoted as vice-chairman five years ago.
The Tata Harrier.ev is a car that makes you feel safe and powerful within a luxurious cocoon, raves Rajesh Karkera/Rediff after a gruelling test drive.
Tata Motors is planning to invest Rs 15,000 crore in the EV segment in the next five years, a top company official has said. The company, which is a leader in the newly emerging EV segment with offerings such as Nexon, is also planning to develop around 10 more new offerings in the segment, president for Passenger Vehicles Business of Tata Motors Shailesh Chandra said. "As far as future is concerned, in next five (years) we will invest Rs 15,000 crore in electrification.
Automobile giant Tata Motors' shares were in demand on Wednesday as the stock rallied as much as 3.69 per cent to hit an intraday high of Rs 671.80 per share, before settling 3.18 per cent higher at Rs 668.45. By comparison, the BSE Sensex settled 0.10 per cent, or 72.56 points, lower at 74,029.76.
After launching the Nano early this week, the country's leading truck and bus maker, Tata Motors, is now looking to set up a truck manufacturing plant in Myanmar with support from the Indian government in the form of financial participation.
Tata Motors is seeking an image makeover with the curvaceous hatchback, Zica.
"Tata Motors is taking a block closure at Jamshedpur from November 6 to November 8, 2008, to match production with the demand of vehicles produced at the Jamshedpur plant to avoid build-up of inventory either in the company or with our dealers," a company spokesperson said. In October, the company reported 29 per cent decline in commercial vehicles sales at 19,154 units, against 27,103 units in the same month last year.
Amid challenging market environment, Maruti Suzuki India and Mahindra & Mahindra reported an increase in vehicle dispatches to dealers last month while Tata Motors and Hyundai saw a year-on-year drop in sales.
From a 15-16-level hierarchy, the organisation is moving to a flat five-level hierarchy.
India's largest auto maker Tata Motors on Tuesday said it will set up in Myanmar a heavy truck manufacturing facility with a capacity of 1,500 units per annum.
A digital configurator comprising a three-dimensional graphics-based app will allow customers to choose specifications and align the output generated by the tool to company's back-end manufacturing.
RIL is also more profitable than Tata Motors.
Block closure in the Jamshedpur plant is the second in a fortnight.
