About time the Tata companies that are owned by the public are freed from the clutches of Tata Sons, says Sudhir Bisht.
Ratan Tata created India's first truly multinational business group. As he prepares to step down, the bar's been raised sky-high for his successor.
Unlike Ratan Tata's philosophy, Mistry cared about short-term gains. This is a Diwali gift for many
The Tata Sons' chairman emeritus has been aggressively investing in start-ups, ranging from e-commerce firms to cab aggregators
Tata Group's Chairman Emeritus Ratan Tata said corporates who are eager to please the shareholders need also to focus on social issues such as these.
After steering the company for 21 years, Tata will pass on the leadership baton to his successor designate and present deputy chairman of Tata Sons, Cyrus Mistry in December, when Tata turns 75.
In a significant development that ends the prolonged speculation about the succession in India's leading corporate house Tatas virtually extended the term of group Chairman Ratan Tata till 2012.
Ratan Tata, Chairman of the $14.25 billion Tata Group, in an interview to London-based Financial Times hinted that the days of his family being at the helm of one of India's biggest industrial groups
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Congratulate Tata and the entire Tata Motors team for their incredible achievement.
"The report is out of context and factually incorrect. Tata's comments on wealth are in the larger context of the growing disparity in the society. The comments seem to have been deliberately sensationalised," a statement from Tata Sons said.
Auto major Tata Motors on Monday said it appointed Carl-Peter Forster as the new group chief executive of the company.
Designing is another critical area for him, especially in the business of furniture.
In the midst of an ongoing search process to find Ratan Tata's successor to head the country's biggest corporate house, top leaders from the group have heaped lavish praise on his leadership style.
He seems to have struck a chord with young entrepreneurs.
Ratan Tata has made investments in his personal capacity in more than 15 start-ups over the last 20 months.
After months of discord, the Tata Trusts appear to be moving towards reconciliation, with recent reappointments and open exchanges signalling a return to cooperative governance.
Marking a generational change, Tata, who turns 75 tomorrow, will hand over the reins of the group to 44-year-old Cyrus Mistry, who was chosen his successor last year and formally appointed Chairman earlier this month.
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Tata Group's Chairman Emeritus Ratan Tata has invested in online furniture company Urban Ladder, making it his second personal investment in an e-commerce firm after Snapdeal.
Ratan Tata has got over Rs 1 crore as compensation for serving as an independent director on the board of NYSE-listed Alcoa Inc during 2012.
Ratan TataTata Group Chairman Ratan Tata has asked all group companies to do a reality check in view of the economic slowdown, expected to continue in the New Year.
In a congratulatory message addressed to the chief minister, Tata expressed hope that West Bengal would make rapid strides in all spheres of development under her leadership, sources close to the Tata Group said.
Ratan Tata, Chairman Emeritus of the Tata Group, on Sunday said ace investor Rakesh Jhunjhunwala will always be remembered for his acute understanding of the markets as well as for his jovial personality, kindness, and foresightedness. Jhunjhunwala, often referred to as 'India's Warren Buffett', passed away here Sunday morning due to a cardiac arrest. He was 62. Jhunjhunwala had investments in more than three dozen companies, the most valuable being watch and jewellery maker Titan, part of the Tata conglomerate.
Tata Group Chairman emeritus Ratan Tata expressed the confidence that India will re-emerge as an economic power.
This was a man who like Buddha transformed himself into achieving the impossible and being an inspiration for many generations to come, says business thinker Mudit Jain.
When he took over as chairman of the Tata Group in 1991, the majority perception was the untested nephew of J R D Tata would be a pushover.
They say better late than never. For the Tatas, the original owners of Air India, bringing back the airline to its fold is worth the wait even if the attempt to privatise the bleeding national carrier by successive governments has taken over two decades. While many airlines have come and gone from the Indian skies since the time when the first move was made to privatise Air India to date, the salt-to-software conglomerate has never let the love affair with aviation, more so with Air India that its former chairman Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata (JRD) had, to go off the radar. It is said that Tata group executives used to complain in private that JRD -- the pioneer of the Indian aviation industry -- spent more time worrying about Air India than the Tata group when he was heading both the entities.
The NAE this year has elected 69 new members and 11 foreign associates, thus bringing the total US membership to 2,250 and the number of foreign associates to 211.
Veteran industrialist Ratan Tata, who headed Tata group whose iconic hotel in Mumbai was one of the sites of the 26/11 terror attacks, on Thursday penned a heartfelt tribute saying the wanton destruction that took place 12 years ago will never be forgotten.
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Vision 2025 to focus on four clusters; aim is to join the global club of top 25 companies.
With the FIPB giving approval to the Tata-Singapore Airlines joint venture to start a full-service carrier, Tata Group Chairman Emeritus Ratan Tata on Friday met Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma.
Tata Sons, now debt-free, has asked the RBI to drop its 'upper-layer NBFC' tag and allow it to stay private.
It is Tata's fourth such investment in an e-commerce co.
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Coinciding with the beginning of a search for chairman Ratan Tata's successor, the Tata Group has become the country's wealthiest, with a market value of about Rs 371,000 crore (Rs 3,710 billion) -- higher than that of the business houses led by the two Ambani siblings.
Few businessmen demonstrate the zeal that he does for innovating for the bottom of the pyramid, says Adi Godrej.
'I've been backing businesses in the e-commerce space because they enable goods and services to reach people who could never have been catered to in this manner before.'
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