As a tourist of India, you’ll quickly be exposed to the different products TATA sells across the country. From mobile calling plans, cars, trucks and buses, the tea you drink, and even the hotel you sleep in, TATA will impact your time spent in India on a daily basis. But even after your Indian journey has finished, you’ll still be exposed to the many brands of TATA sold worldwide. Led by Ratan Tata since 1991, TATA Group has grown significantly to become a powerhouse brand representing Indian ingenuity.

Tata Steel

Tata Steel is the world’s sixth largest steel manufacturer. It operates in more than 20 countries and has a commercial presence in over 50. The company was established in Jamshedpur, India, in 1907. The company produces crude steel and basic steel products, and makes steel for building and construction applications through Tata BlueScope Steel, its joint venture with Australia’s BlueScope Steel.

Tata Steel is headquartered at Jamshedpur in Jharkhand, India.

Tata Motors

Tata Motors is India’s largest automobile company. Established in 1945, it is also among the world’s top five manufacturers of medium and heavy trucks and the world’s second largest medium and heavy bus manufacturer. It entered the passenger vehicles segment in 1991 and now ranks second in India’s in this market.

The company, formerly known as Tata Engineering and Locomotive Company, began manufacturing commercial vehicles in 1954 with a 15-year collaboration agreement with Daimler Benz of Germany. It has, since, developed Tata Ace, India’s first indigenous light commercial vehicle, Tata Safari, India’s first sports utility vehicle, Tata Indica, India’s first indigenously manufactured passenger car, and the Nano, the world’s cheapest car.

Most recently, Tata Motors acquired Jaguar/Land Rover from Ford Motor in 2009 for more than $2 billion.

Tata Motors’ plants are located at Jamshedpur (eastern India), Pune (west), and Lucknow and Pantnagar (north). Tata Motors and Fiat have set up a common manufacturing facility at Ranjangaon, near Pune. The company is establishing a new plant at Sanand, Gujarat (western India).

Tata Consultancy Services

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is an IT services, business solutions and outsourcing organization that delivers real results to global businesses, ensuring a level of certainty no other firm can match. TCS helps clients optimise business processes for maximum efficiency and galvanize their IT infrastructure to be both resilient and robust.

A part of the Tata group, India’s largest industrial conglomerate, TCS has over 130,000 of the world’s best trained IT consultants in 42 countries. The company generated consolidated revenues of USD5.7 billion for the fiscal year ended 31 March 2008, and is listed on the National Stock Exchange and Bombay Stock Exchange in India.

Tata Power

Tata Power is India’s largest power utility in the private sector today, with a presence in generation, transmission, distribution and trading. The company was established in 1911 as the Tata Hydro-Electric Power Supply Company to supply power to Mumbai.

Tata Power has an installed power generation capacity of over 2,300mw in the areas of thermal, solar, hydro and wind energy generation. In addition, the company is implementing a 4,000mw mega power project in Mundra, Gujarat.

Tata Chemicals

Tata Chemicals (TCL) is the second largest producer of soda ash in the world. It is India’s market leader in the branded and iodized salt segment as well as in urea and phosphatic fertilizers.

Established in 1939 at Mithapur in the Indian state of Gujarat, TCL has, over the last few years, invested in increasing its stake in the global soda ash business. It has acquired UK-based Brunner Mond group and American company General Chemical Industrial Products Inc, making the conglomerate the second largest soda ash producer in the world.

The company also makes food additives and fertilisers and has a varied user industry base comprising glass, paper, textiles, food additives, petroleum, refining, chemicals, dyes, pesticides, direct farm application, etc. It exports to markets in Europe, Africa, South East Asia and the Middle East.

Tata Tea

Tata Tea is the world’s second-largest global branded tea operation with a presence in over 60 countries. The prominent companies in the group are Tata Tea, the UK-based Tetley group and Tata Coffee. In the US, consumers will best know Tata for it’s Eight O’Clock Coffee which it acquired several years ago.

Tata Tea is just one of several divisions housed under the Consumer Products category. Tata has a hand in watches, ceramics, books, jewelry, home and housewares and packaged water among other retail ventures.

Indian Hotels

The Indian Hotels Company (IHCL) and its subsidiaries are collectively known as Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces, which is recognised as one of Asia’s largest and finest hotel companies. Incorporated by the founder of the Tata group, Jamsetji Tata, the company opened its first property, the Taj Mahal Palace hotel, Bombay in 1903.

Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces comprises 64 hotels in 45 locations across India with an additional 15 international hotels. The most significant additions to the Taj portfolio have been The Pierre, the iconic landmark hotel on New York’s Fifth Avenue, the Taj Boston and the Blue, Sydney.

Tata Communications

Tata Communications is a leading global provider of telecommunications solutions serving the voice, data and next-generation service needs of carriers, enterprises and consumers in over 30 countries.

Earlier known as Videsh Sanchar Nigam, the company became a part of the Tata Group in 2002. In 2008, VSNL, VSNL International, Teleglobe, Tata Indicom Enterprise Business Unit, VGSL and CIPRIS were brought under one global brand name – Tata Communications. The company is now the number one global international wholesale voice operator and India’s largest provider of international long distance, enterprise data and internet services in India.

Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) is the leading steel-making company in India. It is a fully integrated iron and steel maker, producing both basic and special steels for domestic construction, engineering, power, railway, automotive and defence industries and for sale in export markets.

Ranked amongst the top ten public sector companies in India in terms of turnover, SAIL manufactures and sells a broad range of steel products, including hot and cold rolled sheets and coils, galvanised sheets, electrical sheets, structurals, railway products, plates, bars and rods, stainless steel and other alloy steels. SAIL produces iron and steel at five integrated plants and three special steel plants, located principally in the eastern and central regions of India and situated close to domestic sources of raw materials, including the Company’s iron ore, limestone and dolomite mines. The company has the distinction of being India’s second largest producer of iron ore and of having the country’s second largest mines network. This gives SAIL a competitive edge in terms of captive availability of iron ore, limestone, and dolomite which are inputs for steel making.

SAIL’s wide range of long and flat steel products are much in demand in the domestic as well as the international market. This vital responsibility is carried out by SAIL’s own Central Marketing Organisation (CMO) that transacts business through its network of 37 Branch Sales Offices spread across the four regions, 25 Departmental Warehouses, 42 Consignment Agents and 27 Customer Contact Offices. CMO’s domestic marketing effort is supplemented by its ever widening network of rural dealers who meet the demands of the smallest customers in the remotest corners of the country. With the total number of dealers over 2000 , SAIL’s wide marketing spread ensures availability of quality steel in virtually all the districts of the country.

SAIL’s International Trade Division ( ITD), in New Delhi- an ISO 9001:2000 accredited unit of CMO, undertakes exports of Mild Steel products and Pig Iron from SAIL’s five integrated steel plants.

With technical and managerial expertise and know-how in steel making gained over four decades, SAIL’s Consultancy Division (SAILCON) at New Delhi offers services and consultancy to clients world-wide.

SAIL has a well-equipped Research and Development Centre for Iron and Steel (RDCIS) at Ranchi which helps to produce quality steel and develop new technologies for the steel industry. Besides, SAIL has its own in-house Centre for Engineering and Technology (CET), Management Training Institute (MTI) and Safety Organisation at Ranchi. Our captive mines are under the control of the Raw Materials Division in Kolkata. The Environment Management Division and Growth Division of SAIL operate from their headquarters in Kolkata. Almost all our plants and major units are ISO Certified.