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Last week, the CEO of Tata Consulting Services said the company was looking to make purchases around the world.

Mr Tata himself was not always as keen to open up at home as he was to venture abroad.

The first big acquisition was that of Tetley Tea, one of Britain's leading tea brands, by Tata Tea (now Tata Beverages) in 2000.

They might have expected Mr Tata, who had never held an executive position, to leave them alone.

It was a huge turnaround from the last two years, when the Tata group, like many other Indian companies, was on an aggressive buying spree.

"If he had listened to what everyone told him, he would never have done it, " notes one of Mr Tata's friends.

Tata eventually secured its prize in an all-night auction organised by the takeover panel in London a year ago.

Some, including Tata Motors, overextended themselves when commodity prices were high and credit was easy to come by.

Tata is often accused of being flabby and undisciplined.

I joined Telco, made TATA trucks, pretty close to Pune. I worked there for two years, and I realized that I was not born to make trucks.

Mr Tata said he had once viewed the US, with its exacting consumers and obsession with large cars, as unsuitable for the diminutive Nano.

Tata is making the best of a bad lot by asking prospective buyers to place deposits that come close to the full price of the car.

Yet although Tata may have paid over the odds, it got a big confidence boost out of it, as did India as a whole.

[font=Verdana]For now, most of the top brass at the global car firms are just watching and waiting to see whether Tata can pull it off.

Tata Motors did not specify which banks were backing the company.

Tata debut a European-spec Nano at the 2009 Geneva Motor Show and has hinted a similar model might be in the cards for the U. S. market.

The Sir Ratan Tata Trust alone disburses up to $8. 7m a year to support NGOs, individuals and institutions.

Tata promised during the Jaguar-Land Rover purchase process that none of the vehicles from either brand would be built in India.

Tata Motors is sticking it out, and expects to secure the land to build its new plant at the end of the month.

Two years ago, Tata lost out to farmers in West Bengal who refused to make way for a factory to churn out Nano cars.

D. , when he retired in 1991, Tata was a group of companies ill-equipped to deal with the changes about to sweep through India.

The leading provider of IT services to Indian companies is not a home-grown champion like Wipro or Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), but IBM.

In a recent interview, Ratan Tata, the group's chairman, admitted that the company bought JLR at an "inopportune time" .

During a recent visit to India the British prime minister, David Cameron, remarked that Tata was now Britain's biggest manufacturer.

Tata's first move was to proclaim a ten-year plan to develop the two British brands; their outlook is at last looking brighter.

But Ratan Tata, the patriarchal boss of the Tata Group, had made it clear that a condition of the deal was that Mr Varin stayed.

The famed Tata Nano, unveiled in 2009, has so far been a disappointment.

In the 1990s Mr Tata inherited a group that sprawled across many industries, but remained largely cooped up in a single country.

On August 22nd Ratan Tata, chairman of the Tata group, threatened to move the Nano plant from the state if the company was not wanted.

IF INDIA were a nation of gamblers, the betting on who will succeed Ratan Tata, chairman of the Tata group, would be furious.

Brunner Mond, a chemicals firm started in 1873 just a few miles from Quarry Bank Mill, was bought by Tata Chemicals in 2006.

Tata experimented with a smaller engine, but was dissatisfied with its performance.

"For all intents and purposes , Tata is the preferred bidder, " said a person close to one of the rival bidders .

However, Tata head Ratan Tata says the company is re evaluating that strategy in the wake of the recent economic collapse.

"It's kind of like the iPod, " says Tarun Khanna, a Harvard Business School professor who has studied the Tata Group for years.

and a host of companies, including Infosys, Tata Consulting Services (TCS), Cognizant and HCL Technologies, in information services.

In contrast, Tetley has been part of the Tata group for 10 years, yet the Tetley brand remains independent in terms of its identity.

"To tell a story about Tata is to tell a story about India, " says Peter Unsworth, chief executive of Tata Global Beverages.

He made his remarks on the same day as unions criticised Tata Steel, formerly Corus, for axing 1, 500 jobs in Lincolnshire and Teesside.

Ratan Tata, the chairman of the Tata group, said the chance to own the Jaguar brand was "irresistible" .

Tata Motors of India is set to be chosen by Ford as the preferred bidder for its UK Jaguar and Land Rover operations as early as today.

The manner in which it appears to be seeking Mr Tata's replacement certainly offers a positive example to Indian businesses.

Tata was sufficiently convinced by the five-year plan drawn up by JLR that it has promised to back it without any big changes.

A mine operated by the giant Indian firm Tata at the company's West Bokaro site in Jharkhand.

"This has been referred to as one man's dream, " sadi Tata. "And indeed it was. "

The plant is now part of Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), owned by Tata Motors, the car division of an Indian conglomerate.

Tata Chemicals has produced a $24 purifier that can provide a family with pure water for a year.

The fact that Tata is an Indian business was less of an issue for West Midlanders than for some disgruntled US car dealers.

He felt that Tata's future lay outside India, and that it should aspire to become a global company.

The Tata scheme will have to be tailored to India's fragmented retail market, says Vikas Choudhury of Aimia.

STARBUCKS WANTS IN ON INDIA by way of a joint venture with Indian company Tata Coffee that would give Starbucks (SBUX) a 26% stake.

Tata said that despite the problems, he would still invest in the U. S. because he still has 'enormous faith' in the country.

Mr Tata says that he looks beyond sheer size in search of a strategic fit when he acquires companies.

But the Tata Mundra project has brought to light a harsh new reality: Coal power is no longer looking like cheap power.

Tata is certainly not the only company from an emerging economy striding onto the global stage.

This new-found confidence was helped by the buoyancy of Tata's car sales in India, and a modest recovery of orders at JLR.

But Land Rover's off-road technology was the more valuable asset for Tata Motors' truck and passenger-car business at home.

By radically simplifying production and by stripping down the design, Tata's engineers managed to cut that supposed floor price in half.

The car was envisioned by Ratan Tata, Chairman of the Tata Group and Tata Motors, who has described it as an eco-friendly "people's car" .

One of the most interesting new developments comes from India's biggest company, the Tata Group, which owns Tata Motors.

However, Mr Pan said the group, based in China's Shandong province, had surpassed Tata this year after several acquisitions of local rivals.

NEW DELHI (CNN) -- India's Tata Motors Monday announced it would begin delivery of the Nano, billed as the world's "cheapest car" , in July.

Tata has filed for three dozen patents for the Nano, mostly for innovations that are out of sight.

In fact, Tata Motors itself did not draw a lot of attention to what is perhaps the most innovative aspect of the Nano: its modular design.

Draeger explained that the vehicles will be premium and not a rival for cars like the Tata Nano.

Unions were particularly happy with a commitment from Tata to follow the business plan of Ford, the previous owner, up until 2011.

Separately, Tata Motors is developing a new line of small hatchbacks and mid-sized sedans to be introduced next year.

Ford and BMW failed to make Jaguar or Land Rover profitable, when Rover group collapsed. Tata has succeeded in turning both around.

Tata Motors said delivery of the first 100, 000 cars will begin from July and is expected to be completed in the last quarter of 2010.

The most prodigious is the Tata group, which accounts for about one quarter of the total.

Last June Ford (which had bought Jaguar in 1990, Land Rover in 2000 and then combined them) sold JLR to Tata, an Indian group.

Thewhole idea is to take Tata Coffee from being just a plantationcompany.

The main instrument for unifying the group is the Tata corporate brand, which embodies values that are shared by all companies in the group.

Its joint venture in India with Tata Group is one of the subcontin- ent's fastest-growing mobile carriers.

Tata Chemicals, which is making the devices, is planning to produce 1m over the next year and hopes for an eventual market of 100m.

That has made the portfolio a little easier to manage, but it leaves Mr Tata more isolated at the top.

IDE executive director Zenia Tata says some who were able to buy diesel pumps now do not enough money to buy fuel.

Text message volume is up 20 to 25 percent at Tata Teleservices, said Rohit Gupta, an associate vice president for the company.

The Tata group is highly decentralised, and member companies have great aut onomy in terms of strategy and operations.

Ford told Jaguar workers this month that it was "in substantive discussions" with Tata.

Tata Motors said it had received 203, 000 advance orders for its tiny Nano car, all with big deposits.

As global credit has dried up, even Tata Motors, one of India's best companies, has been struggling to lay its hand on capital.

So far this year, Indian firms, led by Hindalco and Tata Steel, have bought some 34 foreign companies for a combined $10. 7 billion.

On August 10th Tata Motors posted a forecast-beating first-quarter profit, which it said had been driven by demand for JLR's luxury models.

Tata, one of the country*s largest conglomerates, has two principal trusts.

it is now planning to launch it in Europe, too, where there is growing demand for cheap, simple vehicles.

The unions asked for assurances that Tata wouldn't cut costs in the U. K. by outsourcing assembly of certain components to India.

Business Process: Ratan Tata, chairman of the Tata Group, for pioneering the globalisation of corporate India.

Tata Motors, however, aims to make 350, 000 Nanos a year from 2010 at another unit elsewhere in the country, a company statement said.

Its impressive run culminated in January with the launch by Tata Motors of an ultra-cheap family car, the Nano.

Naturally, Tata Motors will serve as the official importer for the historic British brands.

Tata executives are more adventurous and better at lateral thinking, says one senior British employee.

Tata, which has a philanthropic heritage reminiscent of Cadbury, the Birmingham chocolate maker, fits the bill nicely, in their view.

It also gave Tata a speciality-steel business that would have been hard to build, however.

Starbucks just announced plans to enter that market in a deal with India's Tata Coffee company.

Mr Tata's career carries two powerful lessons for an introverted and corruption-obsessed India.

Dassault Aviation and INCAT's parent company, Tata Technologies, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for ESO services.

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India's Tata Steel already owns a 22 per cent stake in Riversdale and Brazil's CSN has 16 per cent of the company.

Mr Tata hopes to "create entrepreneurs across the country that would assemble the car" .

Tata Steel is in the process of raising as much as 16 billion rupees ($343 million) by selling shares and warrants to its parent.

Tata Tea, for its part has invested more money in Tetley and helped it expand through its own acquisitions.

But the Tata group is revered in India for its ability to overcome seemingly impossible hurdles and it has formidable financial resources.

Tata, instead, has sent its managers to work for Tetley and learn about tea buying and branding and exporting to new markets.

China and India are pushing on this door, with products including Haier air conditioners and the Tata Nano car.

But according to Deepak Jain of Edelweiss Securities in Mumbai, Tata Motors faces a funding gap this year of at least $3. 4 billion.

But after a difficult start, Tata Motors is now India's second-biggest carmaker by sales.

In fact, one of the things Tata's designers have systematically stripped from their design is electronics content.

And already investors view the credit risk of Tata's subsidiaries differently, suggesting they are not convinced it is an integrated whole.

Companies like Tata have not arrived to close factories down and ship machines to India.

Whoever takes over from Mr Tata is likely to focus on making work better what the group already has, rather than rushing to acquire more.

It can happen, you have to wait little bit, ? of time. India and Indian Big hauses like TATA are more respectable then China's.

Tata likewise feels the move makes sense both from a business perspective and in a corporate synergy sense.

"Our brand represents a framework of fairness and equality, " says Ratan Tata, leader of the Tata group.

Mr Tata does not like publicity and avoids the platforms and applause of conferences.

The companies also are considering the opening of Starbucks outlets in Tata retail locations and hotels, Mr. Schultz said.

For this reason, Tata Housing has formed a partnership with Micro Housing Finance Corporation.

Corus's managers were surprised at Tata Steel's reluctance to reallocate responsibilities and run the two firms as one.

Tata plans to bring it to the U. S. in two to three years.

There's no way to prove Tata was the world's oldest crow when he died Sunday at age 59. But an expert on crows says it's possible.

But Tata faced different pressures, and had to respond in a different way.

Companies like Tata steel buy corus , suffer big losses in african continent, in communication industry.

Cutting the links with its Indian identity could do the Tata brand much more harm than good.

While Tata's IT business, TCS, was cutting a swathe through North America, Mr Tata was planning other international moves.

Yesterday, managers at Tata Steel and Corus were meeting separately to discuss the details of the offer, which values Corus at 455p a share.

This inconsistency is seen by the Tata group as less important than adherence to the group's values.

Today, Tata has 98 firms and is one of India's biggest carmakers and IT outsourcers.

Despite the cleverness of its frugal engineering, Tata Motors has not yet cracked frugal marketing.

Projects by Tata Steel, India's biggest maker of the metal, are faring no better in those two states and in Chhattisgarh.

For Tata, JLR combined a global brand with the engineering that created its rugged four-wheel-drive vehicles.

"Tata Motors is progressing on the refinancing options and discussing with banks, " a spokesman said.

Analysts say, however, that Tata Motors still faces significant challenges to boost JLR's falling sales.

Mr Tata became chairman in 1991, just as India's economy was opening up.

The first to do this, last month, was Australia's Woolworths, in league with Tata, India's second-largest firm.

Having made a dream real, Ratan Tata, the chairman of Tata group, wants to sell a European version by 2011 and an American one by 2012.

Tata Motors sells cars, trucks and buses in 16 countries in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, South America and South Asia.

On a busy Friday the roads are crammed with honking Tata Sumos, the local sports-utility vehicle.

Created in 1999 from the merger of British Steel and Hoogovens of the Netherlands, Corus is three times larger than Tata in output.

The Jaguar and Land Rover acquisition remains key to the future of Tata Motors, and for now the prospects appear mixed.

He will also strive to maintain Tata's much-lauded "value system" , an important part of its brand in India.

Tata hopes the car's launch will encourage similar innovations throughout the Tata Group.

Tata Motors was hard hit by the economic crisis but still managed to post a $214 million profit in the first quarter.

Aamir already promotes several brands, including Tata Sky, Coca-Cola, Parle and Samsung.

Regulations stopped its manufacturer, the Tata group, starting a factory in West Bengal.

JLR heads the queue for government-help to carmakers, though Tata today is meeting its immediate needs.

RATAN TATA, chairman of the Tata group of companies, has a cerebral and cordial manner.

Tata Consultancy Services has installed sensors in some rural areas to gather information about local soil and weather conditions.

Tata Motors (TTM), India's largest automaker, has opened an assembly operation in South Africa.

Calling the situation "hostile and intimidating " Tata Motors has suspended work at the plant.

Indian research institute, founded by the Tata group of companies.

The Tata Group earlier this year opened its dedicated plant in western India for the Nano, the world's cheapest car.

Ratan Tata, chairman of Tata, however, wants to appeal to the desire for greater safety.

There it retails at around $10, 000 and Nissan will have to compete with the Tata Nano - which sells for less than $4, 000.

Tata's approach to brand management is global: in Canada the Tetley name had long been given to fancier teas.

Nasdaq-listed Tata says senior management had no knowledge of the payments.

Tata's brand is linked to its Indian identity.

One independent candidate is offering voters a Tata Nano car (worth about $2, 200 apiece) if he's elected.

Material costs have since increased, but Tata still hopes the price will be less than $3, 000 before tax.

That would leave room for the plant, but not Tata's suppliers, which should relocate nearby, she says.

Tata doesn't see it that way, calling complaints about the potential environmental impact of widespread Nano adoption "somewhat ironic. "

Tata failed to give a timeframe for the new roadster, but the XE could surface as early as 2011.

It is to the credit of the team at Tata Motors that a car once thought impossible by the world is now a reality.

India's Tata group awards an annual prize for the best failed idea.

So he obtained a single solar lighting system on credit from Tata BP Solar, an Indian solar panel manufacturer.

India's Tata Steel is considering its options, though its heavy debts may deter it from bidding.

Ravi Kant, Tata Motors's managing director, strongly disagreed.

Mr Tata says he is "quite gratified" that other firms are following suit.

However, even in India some companies in the group, such as Trent and Taj Hotels, do not use the Tata name.

Tata Steel has a plant in Ohio; Boeing uses engineers in Bangalore to design 787s whose parts are manufactured across America.

The Tata factory was canceled in 2008 and plunged the Left Front coalition into recriminations and re-examination.

At Kellogg, India-based Infosys (INFY) and Tata Group are now on hand for recruiting.

But the group's first big jump into British industry could scarcely be ignored: in 2000 Tata Tea bought Tetley, a household name.

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Indeed Tata'sanimal spirits contrast with the rather depressed mood in British industry.

Instead, Tata will refocus Jaguar on the sports car and luxury sedan markets.

British staff say Tata was a preferred bidder for their firms because it could be relied upon to support research and product development.

There are thoughts of more co-operation with Tata, perhaps involving shared production platforms.

As Indian companies such as Tata become global giants, we need to understand where they came from.

Since August JLR has been losing money, and Tata has poured in a reported £ 400m in debt and equity.

The view from Bombay House, Tata's headquarters in Mumbai, is different.

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Tata Motors will choose the first 100000 customers by a lottery to cope with supply shortages.

Corus had expertise in fancy types of steel that Tata Steel lacked.

In India Tata created the world's cheapest car, the Nano, by combining dozens of cost-saving tricks.

Tata Chemicals makes a filter that requires no power and can give a family of five safe drinking water for a month for 30 rupees ($0. 65).

They are now owned by Tata Steel, which belongs to an Indianconglomerate that also makes cars, chemicals and tea.

But the group's heady expansion will present Mr Tata's successor with some challenges.

However Tata and her husband, Mawan, who co-owns the salon, both claim you can see results immediately.

A vast empire, Tata has interests ranging from mineral water to steel.

Ford then later contributed $600 million to Tata to cover Jaguar-Land Rover pension plans.

Today a report emerged in the Financial Times indicating that Tata is considering the Nano for U. S. launch by 2011 or 2012.

[font=Verdana]Mr Tata is clearly distressed by what has happened.

Indians who have grown up enjoying Tata tea might be more inclined to buy the latest Tata electric car.

India needs ultra-low cost mini cars equipped to handle flooded roads and stronger air conditioning systems such as the Tata Nano.

Many, such as Tata Beverages and Tata Motors, use the name and logo explicitly.

In 2010, after some hesitation, Tata Steel finally rebranded Corus as Tata Steel Europe.

Tata is doing a great job of setting standards here.

One reason Tata wants to buy Corus is to gain expertise in making steel in small batches geared to customers' needs.

For slightly more affluent customers, Tata Motors ( TTM - news - people ) has launched the Nano, the world's cheapest car priced at $2, 500.

India's Tata Group and Aditya Birla Group set up colleges years ago as acts of social responsibility.

Tata's approach to handling the new acquisitions has been pragmatic.

Tata has a clear vision: to exploit India's low costs and the West's spending power.

Tata plans to sell a version of the Nano in Europe from 2011.

A single discreet line on the packaging reminds consumers they are buying a Tata product.

Tata has announced plans to introduce their highly publicized Nano mini-car in the US by 2011.

The Tata brand in India has been built on this basis.

Tata Steel's acquisition of Corus was different.

Brian: In the very beginning, Nicoletti Tata with inSTEDD was actually on the ground at Port au Prince airport.

"What looked too high in 2000 looked brilliantby 2007, and a sweet deal by 2010, " says one Tata executive of the purchase ofTetley.

On Monday, Indian operator Tata Teleservices said it is buying 3G equipment from Huawei.

Take the rise of vast and highly diversified business groups in the emerging world, such as India's Tata group and Turkey's Koc Holding.

In some sectors, Tata follows conventional wisdom.

Tata hopes that the car will catch the eyes of India, s working class people who could only afford to buy scooters, until now. Tata.

From the Corus deal, Tata Steel plans to learn about making higher-quality steel for the booming automotive industry in India.

According to Mr Tata, the answers were respectively yes and no.

That is what Tata is hoping for in India and that is how carmakers have propsered in emerging markets from Brazil to Thailand.

On January 31st Tata won with a bid of £ 6. 7 billion to become the world's fifth-largest steel producer.

How could Tata Motors make a car so inexpensively?

Wuojiaill Mr Tata's successor even be an Indian?

How can Tata transcend that image?

Tata has already invested 15 billion rupees in the project.

But why is later than "POLARIS " of TATA?

"We can be hurt, but we can't be knocked down, " said Ratan Tata, the grand-nephew of Jamshedji, and the current head of Tata.

According to Tata, the Swach filter means a family of five could have safe drinking water for about 30 rupees a month.

Few would bet against Ratan Tata.

Indian customers know that Tata products and services will always deliver what they promise.

Cost is especially a 'big challenge' facing the future of electric cars, said Carl-Peter Forster, CEO of Tata Motors Ltd. of India.

The Tata Nano car in India is a case in point.

By the end of 2010 there could be as many as 300, 000 Tata Nanos on India's roads.

However, Ratan Tata, the group's leader, believed this had to change.

Indian conglomerates such as Tata and drugs firms such as Ranbaxy are hyperactive in South Africa.

Indian companies are permitted to take fixed term deposits from the public but this is the first time Tata Motors had done so for 13 years.

Before 1991 the Tata group had few interests in the world outside India.

Last year, India's largest automobile company, Tata Motors, signed a deal to help develop the technology.

Mr Tata concedes that "we will limp initially, and at a higher cost. "

Why Tata Infotech for Tax DSS?

Tata has announced a new line of trucks, but sales for those have not yet begun.

In 1991 Mr Tata assumed the reins of his family-run company.

Tata, the firm that makes the $2, 500 "Nano" car, is building 1, 300 basic units at Boisar, about 100km north of the city, and may add more.

The following year Tata Motors bought Jaguar Land Rover (JLR)for $2. 3 billion.

The car should eke out 50 miles to the gallon, Mr Tata says.

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That is why Tata was admired in Detroit for its boldness with the Nano.

At the same time Tata does not appear that strapped for cash, having put £ 1. 2 billion into JLR over the past 14 months.

However, the $300 million loan for its Jaguar Land Rover Unit announced on Aug. 10 gives Tata the room it needed to maneuver.

Launched last year by Tata Motors, it has been widely lauded as a symbol of frugal innovation.

None of them advised on Tata Steel's takeover last year of Corus, an Anglo-Dutch steel company.

"We wanted to learn about brands, " says Percy Siganporia, deputy head of Tata Global Beverages.

Mr Kumar, who is also a director of Tata Sons, the group's parent company, describes this as the natural "trajectory" for any company.

Including rural areas, Tata Housing sees an even larger market of 180m households earning between 90, 000 and 200, 000 rupees.