TATA
TATA
CONTENTS
1. Fact file 8. Innovation overview
2. Core values 9. Career skills
3. Mission and vision 10. Leadership and learning
4. Business sectors 11. SWOT analysis
5. Products and services 12. Current strategies
for consumers and 13. Conclusion
businesses
6. Mergers and
acquisitions
7. Ranks achieved
FOUNDER AND CHAIRMAN
Established by Jamsetji Tata in 1868.
He ad qu arters Mumb ai and Navi Mumbai, Maharastra, India
Ratan N Tata is the chairman of Tata Sons, the Tata
promoter company.
Rev enue US$ - 62.5 billion(Feb 2008)
Emp loy ees 350,000 (2008)
Brand Finance, a UK-based consultancy
firm, recently valued the Tata brand at
$11.4 billion and ranked it 57th among the
world’s Top 100 brands. Businessweek magazine
ranked Tata sixth among the ‘World’s Most Innovative Companies’
and the Reputation Institute, USA, recently rated it as the ‘World’s
Sixth Most Reputed Firm.’
CORE VALUES
Integrity
Spirit
Agility
Passion for
excellence
Unity
Mission: to be a competitive value
provider in international business for
Group companies and all our partners.
Vision: Become a globally networked
enterprise seizing opportunities worldwide
to generate USD 25 million annual profits
by 2008.
BUSINESS SECTORS
Tata companies operates in seven business sectors.
The total revenue of Tata companies, taken together,
was $62.5 billion (around Rs251,543 crore) in 2007-08,
with 61 per cent of this coming from business outside
India, and they employ around 350,000 people
worldwide.
The Tata name has been
respected in India for 140
years for its adherence to
strong values and business
ethics.
There are 27 publicly listed Tata enterprises and they
have a combined market capitalisation of some $60
billion, and a shareholder base of 3.2 million.
Information systems and
communications
The Tata group has well-established enterprises
in the fields of software and other information
systems, telecommunications and industrial
automation.
The Tata Group invests in building outstanding research facilities and forging
partnerships with academic and research organisations in order to
encourage creative thinking and find innovative solutions that improve our
quality of life.
TATA Careerscape
an extraordinary The Tata group is one
range of disciplines of the world’s largest
business management private-sector
skills employers
Inter-company
mobility
Continuous
improvement
STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP AND
LEARNING
TAS: This managerial development programme was
conceived by JRD Tata, the late chairman of the Tata
group, in the 1950s.
TMTC: The Tata Management Training Centre, set in a
lush campus in Pune in western India, helps group
professionals add to their knowledge bank.
Tat a Busi ness L ea de rshi p Awa rd : Initiated in 2004,
this an annual business school event organised by the
Tata group. It offers students from select management
institutions a unique opportunity to compete with the
brightest and display their business acumen.
SWOT Analysis
Strengths: Weaknesses:
resources and capabilities Distribution
(People and Raw value chain innovation
Material) macro environment
vast experience (steel
in order to serve the
and automobiles) global markets with high
The business model.
quality and low price.
(TBEM is a model
determining the quality
movement in the
gr oup).
Opportunities Threats
new markets India’s recent
exports mergers of global
Acquisitions markets
E.g Vodafone,
e.g jaguar and land
Reliance
rover
CURRENT STRATEGIES
Expending globally (globalization strategy)
acquiring other companies in different countries
No frill strategy; “a low frill strategy combine a
low price and low value added, low perceived
product/services benefits and a focus on a price
sensitive market segment.
maintain the cost of raw materials as lowest as
possible and to achieve the lowest cost of final
products
invested a huge amount in research and
development in order to achieve the highest
degree of quality at the lowest price
News update: (April 12, 09) – tata motors
presents new buses, TATA motors marcopolo
limited, a joint venture of TATA motors and
marcopolo of Brazil introduced its starbus range
of buses in Punjab. These will be manufactured
at Dharwad in Karnataka and will be sold to
customers as fully built coaches.