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The Tata name
has been respected in India for 140 years for its adherence to strong
values and business ethics. Tata's mission has been guided by the
spirit of nation building and service to society. Founded by Jamsetji
Tata in 1868, the group’s early years were marked by the establishment
of several industries of national importance in India: steel, power,
and hospitality. After India gained independence from British rule,
JRD Tata carried on the Tata tradition and pioneered the country’s
entry into the airline, chemicals and software businesses. Also
established then was Tata Motors, which, inspired by Ratan Tata,
chairman, Tata Sons, made India’s first indigenously developed
car, the Indica, in 1998 and recently unveiled the world’s
lowest-cost car, the Tata Nano.
Tata has always believed in returning wealth to the societies it
serves. Two-thirds of the equity of Tata Sons, the Tata promoter
company, is held by philanthropic trusts that have created national
institutions for science and technology, medical research, social
studies and the performing arts. The trusts also provide aid and
assistance to non-government organisations working in the areas
of education, healthcare and livelihoods. Tata companies extend
social welfare activities to the communities located around their
industrial units.
Tata companies operate in seven business sectors: communications
and information technology, engineering, materials, services, energy,
consumer products and chemicals. They are, by and large, based in
India and have significant international operations. The companies
employ around 350,000 people worldwide.
Each Tata company or enterprise operates independently. Each of
these companies has its own board of directors and shareholders,
to whom it is answerable. 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. The major Tata companies
are Tata Steel, Tata Motors, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Tata
Power, Tata Chemicals, Tata Tea, Indian Hotels and Tata Communications.
Going forward, Tata is focusing on new technologies and innovation
to drive its business in India and internationally. The Nano car
is one example, as is the Eka supercomputer (developed by another
Tata company), which in 2008 was ranked the world’s fourth
fastest. Anchored in India and wedded to traditional values and
strong ethics, Tata companies continue their aim of building multinational
businesses that achieve growth through excellence and innovation
while balancing the interests of shareholders, employees and civil
society.
The GrowMorePulses campaign — the role of Rallis and Tata
Chemicals
The GrowMorePulses campaign is a Tata initiative supported by two
premier Tata companies, Rallis and Tata Chemicals.
Rallis India is one
of India’s leading agrochemicals companies, with more than
150 years of experience in servicing rural markets and a comprehensive
portfolio of pesticides, herbicides, fungicides and plant nutrients
for Indian farmers. It has the largest agrochemicals capacity in
the country (10,000 tonnes per annum of technical grade pesticides
and 30,000 tonne litres per annum of formulations). The domestic
formulation business caters to the crop protection and yield enhancement
needs of farmers through a wide portfolio of products, including
insecticides, fungicides, herbicides, plant-growth nutrients and
seeds.
Tata
Chemicals (TCL) is the second-largest producer of soda ash
in the world. It is India's market leader in the branded and iodised
salt segment as well as in urea and phosphatic fertilisers. Established
in 1939 at Mithapur in the Indian state of Gujarat, TCL manufactures
nitrogenous fertilisers, phosphatic fertilisers like di-ammonium
phosphate (DAP), NPK complexes and single super phosphate. The company
has set up a network of about 600 Tata Kisan Sansars (or Tata farmer
centres) in the northern Indian states of Uttar Pradesh, Punjab,
Haryana and Uttaranchal. The centres are one-stop resource centres
for farmers.
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