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Tata Steel Limited
Public
Traded as TATASTEEL

BSE SENSEX Constituent
CNX Nifty Constituent
Industry Steel
Founded 25 August 1907; 110 years ago (1907-08-25)
Founder Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata
Headquarters Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Natarajan Chandrasekaran
(Chairman)
T. V. Narendran
(Managing Director, Tata Steel India & South East Asia)
Products Steel, flat steel products, long steel products, wire products, plates
Revenue Decrease117,151 crore (US$18 billion) (2016)
Decrease7,585 crore (US$1.2 billion) (2016)
Profit Decrease-3,179 crore (US$−500 million) (2016)
Total assets Decrease163,250 crore (US$25 billion) (2016)
Number of employees
74,000 (2017)
Parent Tata Group
Subsidiaries Several
Website www.tatasteel.com

Tata Steel Limited (formerly Tata Iron and Steel Company Limited (TISCO)) is an Indian multinational steel-making company headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, and a subsidiary of the Tata Group.

It is one of the top steel producing companies globally with annual crude steel deliveries of 23.88 million tonnes (in FY17), and the second largest steel company in India (measured by domestic production) with an annual capacity of 13 million tonnes after SAIL.

Tata Steel has been ranked 2nd in 2017 Responsible Business Rankings developed by IIM Udaipur.

Tata Steel has manufacturing operations in 26 countries, including Australia, China, India, the Netherlands, Singapore, Thailand and the United Kingdom, and employs around 80,500 people. Its largest plant is located in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand. In 2007 Tata Steel acquired the UK-based steel maker Corus.
It was ranked 486th in the 2014 Fortune Global 500 ranking of the world's biggest corporations. It was the seventh most valuable Indian brand of 2013 as per Brand Finance.

Tata Iron and Steel Company was founded by Jamshetji Tata and established by Dorabji Tata on 26 August 1907, as part of his father Jamshetji's Tata Group. By 1939 it operated the largest steel plant in the British Empire. The company launched a major modernization and expansion program in 1951. Later in 1958, the program was upgraded to 2 million metric tonnes per annum (MTPA) project. By 1970, the company employed around 40,000 people at Jamshedpur, with a further 20,000 in the neighbouring coal mines. In 1971 and 1979, there were unsuccessful attempts to nationalise the company. In 1990, it started expansion plan and established its subsidiary Tata Inc. in New York. The company changed its name from TISCO to Tata Steel in 2005.


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