Private | |
Industry | Conglomerate |
Founded | 1868 |
Founder | Jamsetji Tata |
Headquarters |
Bombay House, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India |
Area served
|
Worldwide |
Key people
|
Natarajan Chandrasekaran (Chairman) |
Products |
|
Revenue | US$103.5 billion (2016) |
Total assets | US$120.6 billion (2017) |
Owner | Tata Sons |
Number of employees
|
660,800 (2016) |
Subsidiaries | List of subsidiaries |
Website | www |
Tata Group is an Indian multinational conglomerate holding company headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. It was founded in 1868 by Jamshedji Tata and gained international recognition after purchasing several global companies. It is India's largest conglomerate. In 2015-16, the revenue of Tata companies altogether is $103.51 billion. These companies collectively employ over 660,000 people. Each Tata company or enterprise operates independently under the guidance and supervision of its own board of directors and shareholders. There are 30 publicly-listed Tata enterprises with a combined market capitalisation of about $116 billion as of March 2016. Tata companies with significant scale include Tata Steel, Tata Motors, Tata Consultancy Services, Tata Power, Tata Chemicals, Tata Global Beverages, Tata Teleservices, Titan, Tata Communications and Taj Group.
This section lists the Tata companies and details their business:
Chemicals
Consumer products
Energy
Engineering
Information systems and communications
Services
Steel
Acquisitions
The Tata Group has helped establish and finance numerous research, educational and cultural institutes in India. The Tata Group was awarded the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy in 2007 for philanthropic activities. Some of the institutes established by the Tata Group are:
The Tata Group has donated ₹ 2.20 billion ($50 million) to the Harvard Business School (HBS) to build an academic and a residential building on the institute's campus in Boston, Massachusetts. The new building will be called the Tata Hall and used for the institute's executive education programmes. The amount is the largest from an international donor to Harvard Business School