"I hope there's a bad 'M' and a good 'M'," Ratan Tata quipped shortly after Gujarat became a new home for his Nano small car project.
Tata Motors Chairman Cyrus Mistry said the company was poised for an 'inflection', even as it revamped its entire product portfolio.
Keeping an eye on the common man, Tata on Thursday launched two new variants of its water purifier 'Swach' in the North-Indian market, with the low-end version quoting a rock-bottom price of just Rs 499.
Car makers are trying hard to boost sales in India.
In the commercial vehicles segment, the company's sales declined by 45.83 per cent to 25,738 units in the domestic market during the month compared to 47,515 units in the corresponding month previous year.
The Tata Group, one of India's largest business houses, has made summer internship offers to 19 students of five leading US business schools this year
The Calcutta high court has dismissed all the petitions challenging the acquisition of land at Singur for the Tata Motors small car plant.
Gautam Adani's alleged proximity to Narendra Modi may dent the latter's self-styled image of incorruptibility, points out Kanika Datta.
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Strategy might not help revive volume growth in passenger vehicle sales.
The car is expected to be powered by 800cc to 1 litre engine.
Enthused by rave reviews that its Rs 100,000-car Nano got at the auto fair recently, the country's largest automobile company Tata Motors is embarking on a dealership network expansion drive.
The creation of the Nano ranks with major pioneering attempts in manufacturing. It is thus fair to say that Ratan Tata has written himself into the history books.
The Tata Group is investing millions of dollars in Sun Catalytix -- an energy storage and renewable fuels company -- founded by a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor, Daniel Nocera.
The company had sold 51,160 vehicles in the same month last year.
The product is currently undergoing testing at the Tata Motors European Technical Centre, the company's research and development outfit in UK, and at the Engineering Research Centre at Pune.
Tata Motors on Tuesday said it is rejigging its dealerships with plans to open product category-specific outlets as it looks to increase sales volumes of passenger vehicles.
Kant, an alumnus of IIT-Kharagpur, was managing director of the company before being promoted as vice-chairman five years ago.
Mr Mitra, show me where is industrial development in Bengal: Tata
Car-maker sends another strongly-worded letter on vendor park.
Tata Motors was allotted 1,000 acres of prime agriculture land at the Pantnagar industrial estate in the hope that the company would set up its dream Nano project in Uttarakhand. It has now agreed in principle to allot 50 acres more to the auto giant. Tata Motors is seeking 100 acres for housing purposes. Meanwhile, suspense continues over the Nano project being shifted to the hill state.
Even as Tata Motors is racing against time to get its new Singur plant near Kolkata ready for commercial roll-out of the Nano by October 2008, the company may need an out-of-the-box solution to overcome some delays in the integrated plant and component park structure proposed for the vehicle.
Under the passenger car division, the company sells small car Nano, hatchback Indica series and Indigo family of sedans.
About time the Tata companies that are owned by the public are freed from the clutches of Tata Sons, says Sudhir Bisht.
The world's cheapest car, the Nano, may still roll out from Singur with Tata Motors today expressing hope that the West Bengal government's new rehabilitation package will evoke a positive response from unwilling land-losers who had refused compensation.
Sanand has catapulted into the big league of automobile industry hubs.
The start-up mentors debated if they could drive the price further down, but feared an even lower price would raise doubts about its quality, as was the case with the Tata Nano, reports Amrita Singh.
Mamata government initiates process to give land back to farmers.
The boundary wall has been brought down and makeshift entrances to the unit have come up overnight.
The 125-km stretch covering Sanand, Hansalpur and Vithalapur, with connected nodes at Kadi and Halol, is set to emerge as the next major automobile hub in India.
Mitra's stout and vociferous protest to what most see as Tata's meandering and even affectionate critique has taken people by surprise.
The houses will be made in pre-fabricated format, under which the company will provide a kit consisting of roofs, doors, windows, etc, which can be erected or assembled.
The company is planning the despite facing continued pressure on sales.
The project was expected to create employment in excess of 10,000 jobs among vendors and service providers in the vicinity of the plant. When Tata Motors announced the small car project in May 2006, it promised to employ 2,000 people directly initially.
Mamata offered 1,000-acre land at Goaltore and said anyone be it the Tatas or BMW are most welcome to set up an auto plant in the state
It has turned around its domestic operations under the HorizoNext strategy
There are many things we can do with the Nano. It is a canvas, says Managing Director Karl Slym.
This was how a despondent Ratan Tata, who once said he will not pull out of Singur even at gun-point, on Friday summed up his group's "painful" decision to exit the Rs 1-lakh Nano car project from West Bengal.
According to experts, Tata Tiago JTP and Tigor JTP -- a sedan and hatchback -- are not only powerful and faster than every other car in the segment, but also in the segment above, including their peers Maruti Baleno RS, Volkswagen Polo and others.
The Virtus is indeed designed to look, act and behave like a well-built European sedan that swims in the segment between the compact sedan VW Vento and the larger Passat, says Pavan Lall.
The automobile firm's response came in reply to an earlier specific query of the apex court asking it to make its stand clear over the allotted land in the wake of changed scenario as the company had already moved its car plant to Gujarat.
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