For the cult following that "excellence" enjoys among policymakers we have to thank Tom Peters and Bob Waterman and their 1982 book In Search of Excellence. They were consultants at McKinsey when they wrote this book, which went on to sell 3 million copies in the first four years of its existence and is believed to be the most widely-held book in libraries in the United States.
Led by the record increase in benchmark iron ore prices, steel rates are set to climb steeply from August, immediately after the three-month period during which steel producers had promised the government to hold prices gets over.
Tata Steel, the world's sixth-largest steel maker, is looking to acquire Brazilian iron ore assets of the United Kingdom-based London Mining, which will help ensure raw material supply for its Anglo-Dutch subsidiary, Corus. The valuation of the asset is yet to be completed, but analysts said that it would be in the range of $2 billion.
Spanish Formula One test driver Maria de Villota, one of the few women to come near to competing at the top of the sport, has been found dead in a hotel in the southern Spanish city of Seville, a police spokeswoman said on Friday.
TATA Group Chairman Ratan Tata and India-born steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal will be among seven international business leaders to attend the three-day International Investment Council to be hosted by President Thabo Mbeki this weekend in South Africa.
After a secret voting by the 24 members of IMFC last Friday, India, Italy and Canada were the only countries that remained in contention for the position, which was traditionally headed by Europe.
To help UB raise above half the buyout cost of Rs 4,620 cr.
Tata Steel's greenfield projects -- in Orissa, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand -- were significant for Corus, which incurred high cost on raw materials, said sources close to Tata Steel.
The company, in a notice to shareholders, said it would come out with a rights issue of ordinary shares and cumulative convertible preference shares, besides issue of securities in the domestic or international markets.
The shadow of the European Commission's anti-trust proceedings is hanging over Companhia Siderurgica Nacional's bid for Anglo-Dutch steelmaker Corus.
Six months after acquiring Anglo-Dutch steel giant Corus, Tata Steel has put the foreign company's aluminium business on the block.
Under the terms of the deal Ranbaxy will drop litigation it initiated in November 2005 and will sell Nexium from May 2014 - the expiry date of the first of a series of patents. Under US law Ranbaxy would be the exclusive generic distributor for the first six months.
Less than a year after acquiring Anglo-Dutch steelmaker Corus, Tata Group appears close to taking over the reins of Ford's British marques - Land Rover and Jaguar, for which it is believed to have submitted a detailed offer of more than $2 billion. The home-grown business conglomerate is understood to be leading the race for the two brands at close of second-round of bidding on Friday, media reports said.
Atwal's protest came midway through the function in the historic Central Hall of Parliament, addressed by the President, the vice president, the prime minister and the Lok Sabha speaker.
Hailing from Punjab, Dr Bhart was the Mayor of Bicester from May 2006 until May 2007. He had been both town and district councillor. He worked for numerous organisations and spent much time promoting Anglo-Asian relations.
A British court will review whether open air cremations are unlawful.
Since Ratan Tata , the patriarch of India's Tata Group, decided to splash out $13.1bn early in 2007 on Anglo-Dutch Corus, he has spent a lot of time with smooth-talking Frenchman Philippe Varin , who has run Corus for five and a half years.
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'During my nearly three decades of military service, both in war and peace, I have usefully drawn upon Gandhiji's storehouse of wisdom.' 'When military intelligence jobs require tightrope walking on the edge of moral and ethical dilemmas, I have looked up to Gandhiji,' notes Colonel R Hariharan (retd).
During the quarter, exceptional items stood at Rs 1,899.64 crore, which includes an actuarial gain of Rs 1,850.25 crore on funds for employee benefits. Total income zoomed 425 per cent to Rs 32,535.15 crore from Rs 6,192.95 crore. Total expenditure, however, jumped 551 per cent to Rs 28,803.59 crore as well.
After Tata Steel's successful bid to acquire much-larger Anglo-Dutch steelmaker Corus, the trend of small companies acquiring larger firms could soon find its way into the Indian IT space, a new study shows.
Analysts tracking Corus said the steel company's workers had witnessed nearly 8,000 job cuts in the last eight years and were, therefore, apprehensive of Tata Steel's intentions.
The board of HUL, India's largest consumer goods company, will meet on July 29 to consider the proposal.
What a terrific start to the new year! Tata Steel has won a mind-blowing $13.65 billion bid for Anglo-Dutch steel-maker Corus.
If 2006 was the year when companies in China and India hinted at their potential to redraw the global landscape for mergers and acquisitions, this has been the year when they started to deliver on their promise.
Question: what do Tata, Twenty20 and 20,000 have in common? Answer: mention any of the three Ts in the company of an Indian and be prepared for an animated conversation.
The European Commission on Friday approved Tata Steel's proposed acquisition of Anglo-Dutch steelmaker Corus.
This will be over and above a Rs 3,655-crore domestic rights issue and a Rs 4,350 crore convertible preference share issue the company announced last month.
Tata Steel said on Tuesday its Board will meet on April 17 to discuss plans for funding the $12 billion acquisition of Anglo-Dutch firm Corus Group Plc.
The High Court in Britain has approved the $12 billion take over of Anglo- Dutch steel maker Corus Group by the Indian Steel giant Tata Steel. The deal is expected to be completed by early next week.
The bank has agreed to provide up to $1 billion to Tata Steel's special purpose vehicle, Tata Steel UK, to refinance $7.2 billion of bridge loans taken for the biggest buyout by an Indian company.
Fresh with its takeover of Anglo-Dutch giant Corus, Tata Steel has now started talks with world's second-largest steel maker Nippon of Japan for jointly producing the alloy for automakers and other companies.
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Corus Group chairman Jim Leng will receive an addition payment of pound 750,000 (Rs 6.41 crore) for turning around the Anglo-Dutch steel maker in the past two years.
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