Archive for 'Industry'

Steel amid adversity: Tata after Mumbai

Posted 10 December 2008 | By arzan sam wadia | Categories: Bombay, Industry, Mumbai | No Comments

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 ?

Posted 07 October 2008 | By arzan sam wadia | Categories: Events, Individuals, Industry | 6 Comments

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

Posted 27 August 2008 | By arzan sam wadia | Categories: Individuals, Industry, Institutions | 1 Comment

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

Posted 15 August 2008 | By arzan sam wadia | Categories: Industry | 1 Comment

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

Posted 05 May 2008 | By Mehernaaz Sam Wadia | Categories: India, Individuals, Industry | No Comments

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

Ratan Tata: The 2008 TIME 100

Posted 05 May 2008 | By arzan sam wadia | Categories: Individuals, Industry | No Comments

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

Posted 09 April 2008 | By Shirin Kumaana-Wadia | Categories: Individuals, Industry | 3 Comments

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

Ratan Tata rode the tiger economy and now he drives Jaguar

Posted 31 March 2008 | By arzan sam wadia | Categories: Individuals, Industry | 1 Comment

“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

Posted 26 February 2008 | By arzan sam wadia | Categories: Industry | No Comments

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 [...]

Boeing partners with Tata for plane parts

Posted 14 February 2008 | By arzan sam wadia | Categories: Industry | No Comments

Airplane maker creates partnership with India’s Tata to make more than $500 million in aerospace components.

Boeing and Tata have formed a joint venture for $500 million in aerospace components.
Boeing Co., the world’s second-largest commercial jet manufacturer, said Thursday it created a joint venture with Tata Industries Ltd. to make more than $500 million in aerospace [...]

Why Blame Ratan Tata for the Nano?

Posted 01 February 2008 | By Mehernaaz Sam Wadia | Categories: Individuals, Industry | 4 Comments

That is the title of a wonderful article by Govindraj Ethiraj. It is the only sensible arguement I have read amongst all the people who are gunning for Ratan Tata for creating more traffic and chaos on Indian roads.
Ratan Tata is chairman of Tata Motors. He is passionate about cars. Not just driving or [...]

Ratam Tata Awarded the Padma Vibhushan

Posted 25 January 2008 | By arzan sam wadia | Categories: India, Industry | No Comments

Ratan Tata was one of the 13 people who have been conferred with the nation’s second highest civilian award, the Padma Vibhushan.
It is a testament to the Tata House of Industry that successive chairmen have gone on to get the nation’s highest awards. J R D Tata was awarded the Bharat Ratna in 1992 [...]

How to turn a Nani into a Nano

Posted 24 January 2008 | By arzan sam wadia | Categories: Individuals, Industry | No Comments

By Bachi Karkaria
Apro Ratan has allowed the masses to have an ‘apri gaadi’. So we don’t need Meddling Mamata’s permission to continue the rah-rah, and explain why it caught everyone’s imagination so dramatically. The size-surprise did not come only from the Nano’s physical dimensions. What’s more amazing is the way this new chit of a [...]

Godrej hosts Salman Rushdie, angers Muslims

Posted 17 January 2008 | By arzan sam wadia | Categories: Industry, Iran, Issues | 1 Comment

An Islamic group in India is asking Muslims to boycott products of a top Indian business group if its owner does not apologise for hosting author Salman Rushdie on a brief holiday this week.
Rushdie stayed at the bungalow of the Godrej family while visiting Mumbai, where he was born and spent many of his early [...]

Tata Pulls Ford Units Into Its Orbit

Posted 14 January 2008 | By Shirin Kumaana-Wadia | Categories: Industry | No Comments

LONDON — When Ratan Tata visited the home of the designer Ralph Lauren last autumn, the two auto enthusiasts spent much of the time in the garage, admiring Mr. Lauren’s car collection, including the Batmobile-esque 1955 Jaguar XKD.
Now Mr. Tata is poised to take over Jaguar.
Tata Motors said Thursday that it was beginning detailed talks [...]

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