Tata Group is an Indian multinational conglomerate company headquartered in Mumbai, [3] Maharashtra, India.

It encompasses seven business sectors: communications and information technology, engineering, materials, services, energy, consumer products and chemicals. Tata Group was founded in 1868 by Jamsetji Tata as a trading company. It has operations in more than 80 countries across six continents. Tata Group has over 100 operating companies each of them operates [4] independently. Out of them 32 are publicly listed. The major Tata companies are Tata Steel, Tata Motors, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Tata Power, Tata Chemicals, Tata Global Beverages, Tata [5] Teleservices, Titan Industries, Tata Communications and Taj Hotels. The combined market capitalisation of all the 32 listed Tata companies was $89.88 billion as of March 2012. Tata receives [6] more than 58% of its revenue from outside India. Tata Group remains a family-owned business, as the descendants of the founder (from the Tata family) own a majority stake in the company. The current chairman of the Tata group is Cyrus Pallonji [7] Mistry, who took over from Ratan Tata in 2012. Tata Sons is the promoter of all key Tata companies and holds the bulk of shareholding in these companies. The chairman of Tata Sons has traditionally been the chairman of the Tata group. About 66% of the equity capital of Tata Sons is held by philanthropic trusts endowed by members of the Tata family. The Tata Group and its companies & enterprises is perceived to be India's best-known global brand [8] within and outside the country as per anASSOCHAM survey. The 2009, annual survey by the [9] Reputation Institute ranked Tata Group as the 11th most reputable company in the world. The survey included 600 global companies. The Tata Group has helped establish and finance numerous quality [10][11] research, educational and cultural institutes in India. The group was awarded the Carnegie [12] Medal of Philanthropy in 2007 in recognition of its long history of philanthropic activities.

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Main article: List of entities associated with Tata Group

Bombay House, the head office of Tata Group

Tata Bus

Tata Nano

Packages of Tata Tea

HimalayanTata Mineral Water

Tata bus in Sri Lanka

This section lists the Tata companies and details their business: Chemicals Tata Chemicals Rallis India

Tata Pigments Limited General Chemical Industrial Products Brunner Mond Advinus Therapeutics Magadi Soda Company

Consumer products Tata Salt I-shakti Casa Dcor Tata Swach Tata Global Beverages

Tata Tea Limited is the world's second largest manufacturer of packaged tea and tea products. Eight O'Clock Coffee Tata Ceramics Infiniti Retail (Crom) Tetley Tata Coffee Tata Industries Titan Industries Trent (Westside) Tata Sky TajAir Tata International Ltd. Tanishq Tata Refractories Westland

Energy Tata Power is one of the largest private sector power companies. Tata BP Solar, a joint venture between Tata Power and BP Solar Hooghly Met Coke and Power Company Jamshedpur Utilities and Services Company Tata Power Delhi Distribution Ltd (Formerly Known as North Delhi Power Ltd) Powerlinks Transmission

Tata Power Trading Tata Projects

Engineering TAL Manufacturing Solutions Tata AutoComp Systems Limited (TACO) Hispano Carrocera Tata Motors, manufacturer of commercial vehicles (largest in India) andpassenger cars Jaguar Land Rover (Manager of Tata's British brands Jaguar cars andLand Rover Tata Daewoo Commercial Vehicle

Tata Projects Tata Consulting Engineers Limited Tata Cummins Telco Construction Equipment TRF Voltas, consumer electronics company Voltas Global Engineering Centre Tata Advanced Materials Tata Advanced Systems Tata Motors European Technical Centre Tata Petrodyne Tata Precision Industries Telcon Construction Equipment

Information systems and communications Computational Research Laboratories INCAT Nelco Nelito Systems Tata Business Support Services Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (TCS) is one of the world's largest IT Services companies. Tata Elxsi Neotel Tata Interactive Systems Tata Technologies Limited Tata Teleservices

Virgin Mobile India Tata Communications CMC Limited VSNL International Canada Tatanet, Managed connectivity and VSAT service provider Tata Teleservices Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra)

Services Tata Sons

TKM Global ( Logistics and Supply Chain ) www.tkmglobal.net The Indian Hotels Company Ginger Hotels Roots Corporation Landmark Bookstores Tata Housing Development Company Ltd. (THDC) Tata Limited TATA AIG General Insurance TATA AIG Life Insurance Tata AG Tata Asset Management Tata Financial Services Tata Capital Tata International AG Tata Investment Corporation Tata Advanced Systems Limited Drive India Enterprise Solutions Mjunction services Tata Quality Management Services Tata Realty and Infrastructure Limited Tata Interactive Systems Tata Africa Holdings Tata AutoComp Systems Tata Industrial Services Tata NYK

Tata Services Tata Strategic Management Group Taj Hotels

Steel Tata Steel Tata Steel Europe Tata Steel KZN Tata Steel Processing and Distribution JAMIPOL NatSteel Holdings Tata BlueScope Steel Tata Metaliks Tata Sponge Iron Tayo Rolls The Tinplate Company of India TM International Logistics

Core sciences Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Tata Institute of Social Sciences

Acquisitions[edit]
February 2000 Tetley Tea Company, $407 million
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March 2004 Daewoo Commercial Vehicle Company, $102 million August 2004 NatSteel's Steel business, $292 million November 2004 Tyco Global Network, $130 million July 2005 Teleglobe International Holdings, $239 million October 2005 Good Earth Corporation December 2005 Millennium Steel, Thailand, $167 million December 2005 Brunner Mond Chemicals, $120 million June 2006 Eight O'Clock Coffee, $220 million November 2006 Ritz Carlton Boston, $170 million January 2007 Corus Group, $12 billion
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March 2007 PT Kaltim Prima Coal (KPC) (Bumi Resources), $1.1 billion April 2007 Campton Place Hotel, San Francisco, $60 million January 2008 Imacid Chemical Company, Morocco
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February 2008 General Chemical Industrial Products, $1 billion March 2008 Jaguar Cars and Land Rover, $2.3 billion March 2008 Serviplem SA, Spain April 2008 Comoplesa Lebrero SA, Spain May 2008 Piaggio Aero Industries S.p.A., Italy June 2008 China Enterprise Communications, China June 2008 Neotel, South Africa October 2008 Miljo Grenland / Innovasjon, Norway