2. Jamsetji Tata
1)Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata was an Indian pioneer industrialist, who founded the Tata
Group, India's biggest conglomerate company
2) Jamsetji Tata is regarded as the legendary "Father of Indian Industry“
3) He founded a trading company in 1868 with Rs. 21,000 capital. He bought a
bankrupt oil mill at Chinchpokli in 1869 and converted it to a cotton mill, which he
renamed Alexandra Mill.
4) He devoted his life to four goals: setting up an iron and steel company, a world-class
learning institution, a unique hotel and a hydro-electric plant. Only the hotel became a
reality during his lifetime, with the inauguration of the Taj Mahal Hotel
at Colaba waterfront in Bombay (now Mumbai) on 3 December 1903. At that time it
was the only hotel in India to have electricity.
5) Jamsetji Tata married Hirabai Daboo. Their sons, Dorabji Tata and Ratanji Tata,
succeeded Jamsetji as the chairman of the Tata group.
6) While on a business trip in Germany in 1900, Tata became seriously ill. He died
in Bad Nauheim on 19 May 1904, and was buried in the Parsi burial ground
in Brookwood Cemetery, Woking, England.
7) Tata's iron and steel plant was set up at Sakchi village in jharkhand. The village grew
into a town and the railway station there was named Tatanagar. Now it is a bustling
metropolis known as Jamshedpur in Jharkhand, named in honour of the Jamshetji.
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4. Dorabji Tata(1859- 1932)
1)Dorab married Meherbai in 1897. The couple did not have children.
2) Meherbai's brother Jehangir Bhabha became a reputed lawyer. He was the father of the
scientist Homi J. Bhabha and thus Dorabji was Homi Bhabha's uncle by marriage. This family
connection explains why the Tata group lavishly funded Bhabha's research and the research
institutions set up by Bhabha, including the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research.
3) Dorab is credited with the establishment of the conglomerates Tata Steel in 1907
and Tata Power in 1911, which are the core of the present-day Tata Group.
4) Dorabji additionally provided the seed money to fund the setting up of India's
premier scientific and engineering research institution, the Indian Institute of
Science, Bangalore.
6. Ratan Naval Tata(1937-to be continue)
1) Tata began his career in the Tata group in 1961. He initially started on the shop
floor of Tata Steel, shovelling limestone and handling the blast furnace.
2) Ratan also has a step brother Noel Tata from Naval Tata's second marriage
to Simone Tata.
3) Ratan Tata retired from all executive responsibility in the Tata group on 28
December 2012, his 75th birthday, and he was succeeded by Cyrus Mistry, the 44-
year-old son of Pallonji Mistry and managing director of Shapoorji Pallonji Group.
4) Recently, he invested his personal savings in Snapdeal- one of India's leading e-
commerce website. Mr Tata is working closely with Jaguar Land Rover and some
of the new models launched by the British marquee have several inputs from Mr
Tata.
5) Ratan Tata is a director on the boards of Alcoa Inc., Mondelez International and
Board of Governors of the East-West Center. He is also a member of the Board of
Trustees of University of Southern California, Harvard Business School Board of
Dean's Advisors, X Prize and Cornell University.
7. Noel Tata (1957)
1) is an Indian businessman, who is the
Chairman of Trent Ltd and Managing Director
of Tata International. He is also the chairman
of Tata Investment Corporation.
2) Noel Tata is the son of Naval Tata and Simone
Tata. He is married to Aloo Mistry, the
daughter of Pallonji Mistry, who is the largest
single shareholder in Tata Sons (the Tata
Group's holding company). He is also the half-
brother of Tata Group's Ex-chairperson,Ratan
Tata.
3) His brother-in-law Cyrus Mistry was announced as the successor to Ratan Tata
8. Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata
1) Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata (R.D. Tata, 1856–1926) was a Parsi businessman who
played a pivotal role in the growth of the Tata Group in India. He was the first
cousin of Jamsetji Tata, a pioneering industrialist of India and the Founder of Tata
Sons.
2) Under the name Tata & Co, Ratanji ran an opium importing business in China,
which was legal at the time.
3) Tata Steel was conceived and commissioned by Jamshedji Tata. However,
Jamshedji died before the completion of the project. Ratanji played an important
role in the completion of the Tata Steel Project along with Jameshdji's
son Dorab and thus Tata Steel was established in Jamshedpur.
4) Ratanji was in his forties when he remarried a French woman, Suzanne Brière, in
1902. They had five children Rodabeh, Jehangir/JRD Tata, Jimmy, Sylla and Dorab.
9. J. R. D. Tata (1904 –1993)
1) was a French-born Indian aviator and business tycoon. He was the Chairman
of Tata Sons. He became India's first licensed pilot in 1929. In 1983, he was
awarded the French Legion of Honour and, in 1992, India's highest civilian award,
the Bharat Ratna.
2) On 10 February 1929, Tata obtained the first pilot licence issued in India.He later
came to be known as the father of Indian civil aviation. He founded India's first
commercial airline, Tata Airlines in 1932, which became Air India in 1946, now
India's national airline.He and Nevill Vintcent worked together in building Tata
Airlines. They were also friends.
3) Under his guidance, this Trust established Asia's first cancer hospital, the Tata
Memorial Center for Cancer, Research and Treatment, in Bombay in 1941.
4) It also founded the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS, 1936), the Tata Institute
of Fundamental Research (TIFR, 1945), and the National Center for Performing
Arts.
5) In 1945, he founded Tata Motors. In 1948, JRD Tata launched Air India
International as India's first international airline. In 1953, the Indian Government
appointed JRD Tata as Chairman of Air India and a director on the Board of Indian
Airlines – a position he retained for 25 years.
10. 6) He founded Tata Consultancy Services as Tata Computer Centre. In 1979, Tata Steel instituted
a new practice: a worker being deemed to be "at work" from the moment he leaves home for
work till he returns home from work.
7) In 1987, he founded Titan Industries. Jamshedpur was also selected as a UN Global Compact
City because of the quality of life, conditions of sanitation, roads and welfare that were offered
by Tata Steel.
8) On his death, the Indian Parliament was adjourned in his memory – an honour not usually
given to persons who are not members of parliament. He is buried at the Père Lachaise
Cemetery in Paris.
11. Sir Nowroji Saklatwala
1)was the third chairman of the Tata group from 1932 till his sudden death in 1938 due
to a heart attack.
2) He was son of Bapuji Saklatwala and Virbaiji Saklatwala .His mother Virbaiji was the
sister of Jamshetji Nusserwani Tata.
3) Closely connected with Indian cricket, Saklatwala played for the Parsees team
during 1904-05, but stopped playing actively due to business pre-occupations. As
a cricket player he represented the Parsees against the Europeans in 1904.
4)
12. R. M. Lala( 1928 –2012)
1) the author known for his chronicles of Tatas, graduated with History Honours
from Bombay University.
2) He started his career in journalism in 1948 at the age of nineteen and went ahead
to establish the first book publishing house from India in London in 1959.
3) He managed this publishing house till 1963 and in 1964, he founded Himmat
Weekly with Rajmohan Gandhi(grandson of Mahatma Gandhi) which he edited
for a decade.
4) In 1974, R.M.Lala joined the Tata group and he retired in 2003 as director of the
Sir Dorabji Tata Trust.
5) Books- a) The heartbeat of a trust - The story of the Sir Dorabji Tata Trust
b) Beyond the Last Blue Mountain - A Life of J.R.D. Tata
c) The Joy of Achievement - Conversions with J.R.D. Tata
d) For the Love of India - The Life and Times of Jamsetji
e) The Romance of Tata Steel
f) The Thread of God in my Life - An autobiography with a difference
g) Finding a purpose in life
h) Widening the Circle - The Art of Effective Giving
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14. F. C. Kohli
1) He is frequently referred to as the Father of the Indian Software Industry due to
his significant contribution in Indian IT industry.
2) He was the founder and first CEO of Tata Consultancy Services, India's largest
software consultancy company.
15. C. K. Prahalad
1) In the early 1990 Prahalad advised Philips‘ CEO Jan Timmer on the restructuring
of this electronic corporation, then on the brink of collapse.
2) He authored or co-authored: Competing for the Future (with Gary Hamel,
1994), The Future of Competition (with Venkat Ramaswamy, 2004), and The
Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty through
Profits (Wharton School Publishing, 2004). His last book, co-authored by M. S.
Krishnan and published in April 2008, is The New Age of Innovation.
3) Prahalad was co-founder and became CEO of Praja Inc. , The company had goals of
providing unrestricted access to information for people at the "bottom of the
pyramid" and providing a test bed for various management ideas.
4) He was the first recipient of the Lal Bahadur Shastri Award for contributions to
Management and Public Administration presented by the President of India in
1999.
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17. Cyrus Pallonji Mistry
1) is an Irish businessman who became chairman of Tata
Group, sixth chairman of the group and the second not to be
named Tata, after Nowroji Saklatwala.
2) The Economist has described him as "the most important
industrialist" in both India and Britain.
3) He is the youngest son of Indian construction magnate Pallonji
Mistry. Mistry has been managing director of Shapoorji Pallonji &
Company, which is part of the Shapoorji Pallonji Group. He joined the
board of Tata Sons on 1 September 2006, a year after his father retired
from it.
20. TATA CHEMICALS
1) Tata Chemicals has the second largest soda ash production capacity
plant in India. This was the second soda ash plant built in India by
Shri Kapilram Vakil that started operating in the year 1944. The
township Mithapur, derives its name from "Mith" which means salt
in Gujarati language.
2) Since 2006 Tata Chemicals has owned Brunner Mond, a United
Kingdom-based chemical company with operations
in Magadi (Kenya) and General Chemicals, in United States of
America.
3) The Tata Swach is a water purifier developed by Tata Chemicals, a
part of the Tata group in India
4) In 2004 the company developed a water purifier called Sujal. Tata
Consultancy Services deployed thousands of these filters in
the Indian Ocean Tsunami disaster of 2004 as part of its relief
activities.
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22. Titan Company
1) It is a joint venture between the Tata Group, and the Tamil Nadu Industrial
Development Corporation.
2) Titan include Fastrack, Sonata, Raga, Edge, Octane, Xylys, Nebula, Zoop, Titan
Eye+, Tanishq, Goldplus, Zoya and Skinn.
3) Titan was established in the year 1984,becoming the third Indian watch
manufacturer after HMT and Allwyn.
4) Titan unveiled the everyday French Luxury Perfume line, Skinn. With three
masculine and three feminine fragrances, Skinn has already begun to leave a mark
on the Indian subcontinent.
5) Titan entered the prescription eyewear segment under the brand name Titan
Eye+.
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24. Trent (Westside)
1) Trent is the retail arm of the Tata group. Started in 1998, Trent operates Westside, one of
the many growing retail chains in India.
2) In 1998 Tata sold off their 50% stake in the cosmetic products company Lakmé to HLL for Rs
200 Crore and created Trent from the money it made through the sale. Simone Tata, the
chairperson of Lakmé, went on to head Trent.
3) Trent acquired a 76% controlling stake in Landmark, a Chennai-based privately owned books
and music retailer and completed 100% acquisition in April 2008.Landmark currently has 16
stores.
Tata Starbucks
1) Tata Starbucks Ltd is a 50:50 joint venture company, owned by Starbucks
Corporation and Tata Global Beverages.
Voltas
1) Founded in India in 1954, Voltas Limited offers engineering solutions for a wide
spectrum of industries
2) Voltas provided the air-conditioning for the world's biggest ocean liner, the RMS
Queen Mary 2 and also the world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa.
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26. Eight O'Clock Coffee
1) Eight O'Clock Coffee Company, a subsidiary of Tata Global Beverages. Eight O'Clock
Coffee was created by The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company in 1859, which is
also that company's founding year.
Tetley
1) Tetley is a British beverage manufacturer, and the world's second
largest manufacturer and distributor of tea. It is a wholly owned
subsidiary of Tata Global Beverages (formerly Tata Tea).
2) In 1822, brothers Joseph and Edward Tetley sold salt from a pack
horse in Yorkshire, England. They started to sell tea and the venture
became such a success that they set up as tea merchants "Joseph
Tetley & Co." in 1837.They relocated to London in 1856 and set up
"Joseph Tetley & Company, Wholesale Tea Dealers“
3) It was the first company to sell tea in tea-bags in the United Kingdom
in 1953.
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28. TATA POWER
1) The firm started as the Tata Hydroelectric Power Supply Company in 1911, which
amalgamated with the Andhra Valley Power Supply Company in 1916.[9] It
commissioned India’s first large hydro-electric project in 1915 in Khopoli for 72
MW.
29. Tata Motors
1) Tata entered the commercial vehicle sector in 1945 after
forming a joint venture with Daimler-Benz of Germany.
2) Tata subsequently launched the Tata Estate (1992; a station
wagon design based on the earlier 'TataMobile' (1989), a light
commercial vehicle), the Tata Sumo (1994; LCV) and the Tata Safari
(1998; India's first sports utility vehicle).
3) In 2004, Tata Motors acquired Daewoo's South Korea-based truck
manufacturing unit, Daewoo Commercial Vehicles Company, later
renamed Tata Daewoo.
4) Tata launched the Indica in 1998, the first fully indigenous Indian
passenger car.
5) In 2008, Tata Motors acquired the British car maker Jaguar Land
Rover, manufacturer of the Jaguar, Land Rover, and Daimler luxury
car brands, from Ford Motor Company.
6) Tata Daewoo, Tata Hispano, Jaguar Land Rover, Tata Marcopolo,
Tata Hitachi Construction Machinery
