Lord Karan Bilimoria on the Sale of Cobra Beer

The following interview appeared on Livemint
The UK-based wholly owned subsidiary of New York-listed Molson Coors Brewing Co., Coors Brewers Ltd, has acquired majority stake in Karan Bilimoria-owned Cobra Beer Ltd. It will pay £14 million (around Rs105 crore) for a 50.1% stake in a new joint venture company called Cobra Beer Partnership Ltd. Bilimoria will [...]

Ratan Tata, India’s humble business king

From the Times Online
Ratan Tata has a taste for buying British. But he has a battle on his hands to steer his latest purchase, Jaguar Land Rover, through the crisis
Ratan Tata is tired but has a smile on his face. The head of the Indian business empire that bears his family name has spent part [...]

Tata introduces ‘Nano’ housing for Rs 3.9 lakh-Rs 6.7 lakh

After its revolution on wheels, the Tatas are aiming at a Nano house, which will cost anywhere between Rs 3.9 lakh and Rs 6.7 lakh.
Tata Housing, a subsidiary of Tata Sons, has launched its low-cost housing initiative called the Shubh Griha project.
The first Shubh Griha township will be launched at Boisar in Mumbai. [...]

Understanding Tata in the UK Business Scenario

IT is six months since we revealed that Tata, the owners of Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), had asked the government to help the struggling British carmaker.
Since then things have moved slowly – so slowly in fact that Tata might have been better off calling the AA.
This week we report that the parties are [...]

Green Rich List: Anu Aga of Thermax

Anu Aga (India)
Anu Aga was born into an upper middle-class Parsi family in Mumbai. She graduated in economics and later did postgraduate studies in medical and psychiatric social work at the prestigious Tata Institute of Social Sciences. She married Rohinton Aga, a Cambridge and Harvard Business School educated Indian businessman, who built up his boiler-making [...]

A towering icon of India stumbles, raising alarms

In this Nov. 29, 2008 file photo, people sit next to the waterfront in the backdrop of the Taj Mahal hotel, owned by the Tata group, after the completion of an operation against terrorists in attacks that left 164 dead in Mumbai, India. The 141-year-old Tata company, India’s oldest and largest conglomerate whose story [...]

Steel amid adversity: Tata after Mumbai

Ratan Tata was at home in south Mumbai late on November 26 when the call came. On the line was a frantic R K Krishna Kumar, head of the Tata group unit that owns the city’s luxury Taj Mahal Palace and Tower Hotel.
The unthinkable had happened, Mr Kumar told the Tata chairman. Terrorists had [...]

Did Ratan Tata Pay Back a Parsi Debt to Gujarat ?

In a sort of coup d’etat Narendra Modi got the Nano Car manufacturing plant to Sanand, Gujarat.
I despise Narendra Modi’s politics of hate and his questionable human rights record. However I have been observing how he has made Gujarat into a powerhouse state when it comes to agriculture or industry. Gujarat has prospered a [...]

Ratan Tata’s words of inspiration

Ratan Naval Tata has been called many things. Quiet. Reticent. Humble. A businessman par excellence. Tenacious. And a tiger, when pushed to the wall.
As we all witnessed when it looked like the controversy about Singur, where the Tata Nano was to be manufactured, looked like escalating instead of dying down.
The 70-year-old [...]

Freed Giant Emerges from Chaos

In an article about India’s 61st Independance Day, there is mention of Ratan Tata.
This has been bolstered by “reverse colonisation” as Indian entrepreneurs and businessmen began acquiring landmark western conglomerates, outbidding their more established rivals from developed economies.
In March, Rattan Tata, who heads the US$29 billion (Dh106.43bn) Tata Group, is one such “Indian sahib” who [...]

Tata, the headiest brew in the world

An Indian Giant
Tea, cars, steel, IT… Tata, the headiest brew in the world
India’s extraordinary conglomerate has found unique solutions to many of its problems. But it’s still unclear what will happen when the boss retires

The favourite boast of executives of the Tata Group is that it accompanies the average Indian throughout the day. They wake [...]

Ratan Tata: The 2008 TIME 100

By Simon Robinson
Since Ratan Tata first suggested building a car that could sell for 100,000 Indian rupees ($2,500) four years ago, rival automakers have sniggered. “If you think about the direction that safety and environmental standards are going in India, you can’t sell a car for that kind of price,” said Osamu Suzuki, head of [...]

An Accidental Millionaire: Tata

The words used most often to describe Ratan Tata are shy and loner. The 71-year-old chairperson of the Tata Group shuns the media spotlight.
Quiet and unassuming, the Indian business baron drives himself to work in an unremarkable Tata sedan. His beachfront bachelor pad is found in the hippest tip of south Mumbai, but Ratan has [...]

Ratan Tata rode the tiger economy and now he drives Jaguar

“Chairman of Corporate India”
By William Langley
It is tempting to look at Ratan Tata, the Indian tycoon whose company last week took over Land Rover and Jaguar, as a symbol of a nation’s headlong charge towards economic superpowerdom. This, we suspect, is how it tends to be with those pesky, nouveau riche Asians; one minute [...]

Indian Business Empire Eyes Global Role

A dozen years ago, many believed that India’s Tata Group – the country’s oldest and largest conglomerate – was a bloated behemoth that would eventually go under.
Instead, it has become a powerhouse in the 21st century, focusing on core businesses like steel and automobiles and seizing opportunities, including the hugely profitable outsourcing business, that came [...]