Tata Group is an Indian multinational conglomerate company headquartered in the Bombay House in Mumbai, India.

 In terms of market capitalization and revenues, Tata Group is the largest private corporate group in India.  It has interests in communications and information technology, engineering, materials, services, energy, consumer products and chemicals.

 The Tata Group has operations in more than 80 countries across six continents and its companies export products and services to 80 nations employing 350,000 people.  The Tata Group comprises 114 companies and subsidiaries in eight business sectors, 27 of which are publicly listed. . TATA Group's 114 companies are held by its main company Tata Sons and the main owner of Tata Sons are various charitable organizations developed and run by Tata Group  65.8% of the ownership of Tata Group is held in charitable trusts.  Companies which form a major part of the group include Tata Steel (including Tata Steel Europe), Tata Motors (including Jaguar and Land Rover), Tata Consultancy Services, Tata Technologies, Tata Tea (including Tetley), Tata Chemicals, Titan Industries, Tata Power, Tata Communications, Tata Sons, Tata Teleservices and the Taj Hotels.  The group takes the name of its founder, Jamsedji Tata. The current chairman of the Tata group is Ratan Tata, who took over from J. R. D. Tata in 1991 and is one of the major international business figures in the age of globality.

CO. TURNOVER
 In June 2011, based on market value Tata Group has become the country's wealthiest group with $98.7 billion.

 According to its financial report 2011, the largest Indian steelmaker Tata Group increased its net profit by 72 percent year on year in the first quarter of the current year to $937 million, stating that rising steel prices contributed to its good performance.

Tata group figures Year 2009-10 Total turnover 3,195,339 Sales turnover 3,111,290 Value of assets 2,501,786 Gross block 2,922,475

(Rs million) Exports 31,721

Net Profit: Rs 10,867 million in (2010) Market cap: Rs 367,145 million in (2010)

 Tata gets more than 2/3 of its revenue from outside India.

 The total revenue of Tata companies, taken together, was $67.4 billion in 2009-10, with Compounded annual growth rate of 11.6% also With 57 per cent of this coming from business outside India.

 The total sales revenue of the group amounted to $7.59 billion in 2010, rising by 23 percent year on year.

 Cumulative sales (including exports) for the company for the fiscal are 499,492 vehicles, a growth of 31 per cent over 381,003 vehicles sold last year.

The company's sales from exports at 4,203 vehicles in November 2010 registered a growth of five per cent compared to 3,994 vehicles in November last year.

CO. FINANCES

 The international brand consultancy Brand Finance has ranked the $68billion conglomerate, Tata Group, as 50th most valuable brand in the world.

 Tata Group's brand value has soared to $15.08 billion for the 2010 year compared to $11.2 billion last year in 2010.

 TCS alone accounts for more than half of the group's total market value with a market capitalisation of $52 billion (Rs. 232,194 crore).

 There are 28 publicly listed Tata enterprises and they have a combined market capitalisation of about $101.96 billion (as on June 30, 2011), and a shareholder base of 3.5 million

Market capitalisation of Tata companies as on June 30, 2011

Name of the Company Tata Consultancy Services Tata Communications Tata Motors Tata Steel

Rs Cr 231,021 5,617 63,053 58,387

$ billion 51.68 1.26 14.11 13.06

 The Tata Group has donated $50 million to the prestigious Harvard Business School (HBS) to build an academic and a residential building on the institutes campus in Boston, Massachusetts.

 Social welfare and environment-related projects for Year 2009-10 (US$ million) Social welfare projects 29.0 Environmental projects 23.3 Others 2.7 Total $55.0 million.

Acquisitions:

 january 2000 - Tetley Tea Company of Britain, $407 million  March 2004 - Daewoo Commercial Vehicle Companyof south korea, $102 million.  Eight Oclock Coffee of US in 2006.  Anglo-Dutch Corus in 2007.  Jaguar and Land Rover in 2008.

COMPETITIVE POSITION
 Ratan Tatas Tata Group is the most trustworthy business house in India.This was found in a poll conducted among domestic investors.  Two Indian corporate giants, Tata Group and Reliance Industries, have made to a new list of world's 50 most innovative companies.  Between them, Tata Group is better placed as the world's 17th most innovative compared to Mukesh Ambani-led RIL's 33rd position globally in this league.  The top Tata companies which have added market wealth over the past one year includes the name of TCS , Tata Motors , Tata Steel , Titan, Tata Coffee , Tata Chemicals and Rallis.

 The latest market valuation places the Tata Group at Rs 4,40,000 crore.  The Nano car is one example, as is the Eka supercomputer (developed by another Tata company), which in 2008 was ranked the worlds fourth fastest.

AREAS OF OPERATION
Some popular brands: Tetley (beverages), Tanishq (jewellery), Titan (watches), Voltas (cooling appliances), Rallis (agro-chemicals), Westside (garments), Tata Indicom (telecom), Taj Air (in-flight catering), Nelco (electronics). Some brand ambassadors: Tennis ace Sania Mirza, cricketers Saurav Ganguly, Yuvraj Singh and Irfan Pathan, Formula One racer Narain Karthikeyan, and actors Aamir Khan and Naseeruddin Shah. Some major companies: Indian Hotels, Tata Consultancy Services, Tata Tea, Tata Coffee, Tata Motors, Titan, Rallis India, Voltas, Tata Chemicals, Tata Steel, CMC, Tata Communications, Tata Elxsi, Tata Power, Tata Investment, Tata Metaliks, Tayo Rolls, Tinplate, Trent, Tata Teleservices and Nelco

Some of areas of tata groups are discussed below:

Chemicals: Tata Chemicals, Rallis India Consumer Products

Tata Salt ,Tata Swach ,Eight O'Clock Coffee, Tata Ceramics Titan Industries Tata Tea Limited is the world's second largest manufacturer of packaged tea and tea products. Tetley, Trent (Westside), Tanishq, Tata Sky.

Energy
 

Tata Power is one of the largest private sector power companies. Tata BP Solar, a joint venture between Tata Power and BP Solar

Engineering


Tata Motors, manufacturer of commercial vehicles (largest in India) and passenger cars Jaguar and Land Rover Tata Daewoo Commercial Vehicle Tata Projects Tata Consulting Engineers Limited TRF Voltas, consumer electronics company

      

Information systems and Communications

  

Nelco Nelito Systems Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (TCS) is Asia's largest software company.

Services
     

Tata Sons The Indian Hotels Company Ginger Hotels,Taj hotels. TATA AIG Life Insurance Tata Realty and Infrastructure Limited Telco Construction Equipment

Steel
 

Tata Steel Tata Steel Europe