Tata Sons, holding company for the Tata group, is working on building a centralised rural business platform that could be leveraged for the entire group's benefit, instead of each company looking at it separately.
'He was the most thoughtful corporate person I encountered.'
.jpg)
The proposal of Tatas and Singapore Airlines for a new joint venture, entailing foreign investment of $49 million, is likely to come up before the Foreign Investment Promotion Board for approval on October 18.
When 'humiliated' Tata did 'favour' to Ford with JLR buyout!
Tata Motors is India's largest automobile company, with consolidated revenues of Rs 1,65,654 crore (Rs 1.65 trillion)
The company has also been exploring the possibility of opening a factory in Mexico.
Sales of commercial vehicles declined 24.51 per cent in June to 31,384 units from 41,577 units a year ago.
US-based coffee giant Starbucks on Thursday said it is moving forward with the memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed with Tata Coffee and hopes to make an announcement soon even as the government has notified 100 per cent FDI in single brand retail.
Giants like Pepsi and Coke are fast losing shelf-space to healthier, functional options.
Titan Industries, the country's leading watch manufacturer, is leveraging the existing distribution network of the Tata Group companies to penetrate the rural markets to mark its presence in the low-cost watches under the Sonata brand.
Not wanting to alienate other suitors including Mahindras, Ford may wait till the new year to announce the winner for its Jaguar and Land Rover brands, although Indian conglomerate Tatas have emerged as the top choice, media reports said in London on Friday. "Tata Motors is set to be chosen by Ford as the preferred bidder for Jaguar and Land Rover as early as Friday," a report in Financial Times said quoting people close to the situation.
Prepares map for more flexible, lower breakeven, self-sustaining brands.
Orient-Express has rejected repeated approaches from Tata's Indian Hotels Company, with the issue turning into a public spat in December when the US group said it believed such an alliance would damage the value of its brands.
Auto experts from CarJasoos will answer all your questions related to buying, selling or maintenance of new or used cars.
The new model from the British marquee brand Land Rover will be available in both petrol and diesel engine options.
Publicly available data concerning the North American properties of both the hotel chains showed that Orient's average room rates were "meaningfully" below those of Taj's properties. Also, as per the latest financial statements, the trailing 12 month EBITDA margin of Indian Hotels was around 15 per cent higher than that of Oriental, Tatas said.
Open order books in February breach 700,000; wait period for some models exceed a year.
Subscribers will get free talk-time based on their purchases at the group's stores.
Retail rates of the fuel will now reflect international movement in oil prices.
The 400,000 square-metres plant was launched within two years of foundation laying ceremony.
Perhaps, the group's leadership position and potential in the retail segment prompted Tata Sons Chairman Cyrus Mistry to identify retail as one of the group's four growth clusters in his recent Vision 2025 statement.
This year's edition, three years lost to the pandemic and scheduling, wore a distinctive shade of green, and, as would befit an era of technology shift from internal combustion engines to electric motors, had a clutch of high-technology exhibits and concepts. But the excitement of the expo's heyday was missing.
In January this year, Tata Sons invested an additional Rs 2,500 crore (Rs 25 billion) in Tata Teleservices which was used to repay loans of the wireless telephony company.
The curious case is of Honda, which has moved up the pecking order while actually losing market share!
Nescaf is leading the company's efforts to widen the public lens on its portfolio of brands
Under its Turnaround 2.0 programme, Tata Motors will work to improve its sales capabilities -- "as the product itself is not enough" -- use experiential marketing to excite the market and cut costs to make its offerings more competitive.
Nissan's executive vice-president and CEO Carlos Ghosn's key man for his new strategy in emerging markets, Andy Palmer, tells Business Standard how the Tata Nano's experience made his company steer away from the $2,500 car. He also speaks about how Nissan's association with Bajaj Auto to develop a small car failed, making his company place its bets on the Datsun brand to grow its market share 10-fold over the next three years.
The group, however, measured the economic value of just 43 creative ideas out of 1,700 innovations that took place within the Group last year.
Tata credit card holders will soon be able to instantly use the reward points they earn to have a cup of coffee or snacks by swiping their card.
Known for its acquisition-led strategy, India's second-largest branded tea company, Tata Tea, has tied up with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to buy 51 per cent in a Russian packaging and distribution company called Grand.
Unprecedented rains and floods in the northern region in the past few days have not only caused extensive damage to lives and property but have also impacted business and commercial establishments. Vegetable prices have gone through the roof in the national capital and many other parts of the country since rains started pouring earlier this month. Traders say vegetable prices would come down only after roads open and skies clear, even as water in the fields will take time to recede.
Even as India's passenger-vehicle sales touched a record high of 3.9 million units in 2022-23, growing 27 per cent over the previous financial year, the country's largest carmaker, Maruti Suzuki India (MSIL), said on Monday uncertainties in the electronic-component supplies might affect production in FY24. MSIL said the shortage of electronic components had some impact on production in FY23. "The company took all possible measures to minimise the impact.
Tata Motors-owned Jaguar Land Rover reported 25 per cent increase in its global sales in November this year at 37,403 units.
Earlier, the JV company got a go-ahead from the Foreign Investment Promotion Board in October 2013 and was awaiting AOP for launching a full-service carrier.
Few people know Ratan Tata as well as R K Krishna Kumar does. Widely perceived to be among the managers closest to Tata, Krishna Kumar assesses Ratan Tata, the man and business leader, in this exclusive interview to Rediff.com's Vaihayasi Pande Daniel.
Consolidated net sales during the quarter this year increased by 8.03 per cent.
It has been reported that Richard Branson's Virgin Mobile and Tata Teleservices are joining hands to launch Virgin in India.
© 2026 Rediff.com - Investor Information - Advertise with us - Disclaimer - Privacy Policy - Sitemap - Feedback - About us - Terms of use - Grievances