Ratan Tata retires on his 75th birthday this week‚ handing over the baton of his business to Cyrus Mistry‚ the first chief appointed from outside the immediate Tata family in its 144-year history. While Ratan Tata has been credited with transforming the Tata group into a streamlined conglomerate of more than 100 companies and earning a global reputation for his consolidation and expansion strategies‚ I am looking at his leadership traits and how those traits influenced the group and made him the
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TATA MOTORS: Serving an ‘ACE’ for SUCCESS Tata Motors‚ India’s largest integrated automobile manufacturer‚ announced the commercial launch of the country’s first versatile and indigenously developed‚ diesel powered mini-truck —The Tata Ace — at a glittering function in Bangalore. Tata Ace is priced in the range of Rs 2.25 lakh for BS II and Rs 2.35 lakh for BS III (ex-showroom Kochi and Bangalore respectively). Tata Ace is powered by a small and efficient 16bhp 700 cc IDI diesel engine. Suitable
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Introduction The Tata group comprises over 100 operating companies in seven business sectors. The group has operations in more than 80 countries across six continents‚ and its companies export products and services to 85 countries. Tata Motors Limited is India’s largest automobile company‚it is a public limited company with consolidated revenues of INR 1‚65‚654 crores in 2011-12. It is the leader in commercial vehicles in each segment‚ and among the top in passenger vehicles with winning products
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Tata Motors 1. Describe the economic characteristics of the global motor vehicle industry. The characteristics of the global motor vehicle industry are a boom in certain places and a bust in others all due to economic conditions in different nations. Four years after tow of Detroit Michigan’s big three went into bankruptcy American car makers are going “full throttle” with sales in August hitting an annual rate that if substantiated can take them back over 16 million and that is a rate that was
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customers could get cars of any color as long as it was black‚ while Tata Motors went to customers before designing Ace and asked them about the price and features that they wanted. Compare and contrast between these two approaches? 1. Both the cases are related to Automobile industries. Mr. Ford is talking about passenger cars & tata is talking about commercial vehicles. Main points can be argued as follows. Ford Cars | Tata Ace | Passenger Vehicles | SCV | Already made a huge market &
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weaknesses that Tata‚ as an internationally branded company‚ could potentially face. Tata motors wanted to compete in the Indian automotive industry by creating a form of transport that could carry up to 5 passengers. One of the requirements of the car was to provide an alternative to a traditionally used overloaded motorcycle which was unsafe. The main feature of the car was definitely its low sticker price‚ making it affordable for the growing middle class family in India. So‚ Tata Motors priced
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Trust INTRODUCTION Tata Steel Limited (NSE: TATASTEEL‚ BSE: 500470) (formerly Tata Iron and Steel Company Limited‚ abbreviated as TISCO) is an Indian multinational steel-making company headquartered in Mumbai‚ Maharashtra‚ India‚ and a subsidiary of the Tata Group. It is the 12th-largest steel producing company in the world‚ with an annual crude steel capacity of 23.5 million tonnes‚ and the largest private-sector steel company in India measured by domestic production. Tata Steel has manufacturing
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Tata’s purchase of Jaguar and Land Rover earlier this week Declan Mulkeen‚ Marketing Director at Communicaid‚ Europe’s leading Culture and Communication Skills consultancy responds to the announcement and discusses the cultural and communication challenges which a cross-border acquisition of this type may produce and the steps that both Tata and Jaguar/Land Rover need to take in order to make this a successful Anglo-Indian story. The current trend towards international mergers‚ acquisitions and joint
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The campaign‚ created by Draftfcb Ulka‚ consists of 23 TVCs in which Kapoor plays a stand-up comedian where he presents the different products and services offered by Tata Docomo. Each TVC starts by illustrating a complexity in the category and presents the service as a means of simplifying things. Commenting on the campaign‚ KS Chakravarthy (Chax)‚ national creative director‚ Draftfcb Ulka‚ said‚ "There were many tricky challenges going into this campaign. First was the need to consolidate
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Introduction Tata Engineering and Locomotive Co. Ltd was established in 1945. In 1954‚ the company launched its first automobile; between 1954 and 1969‚ it collaborated with Daimler Benz to produce commercial vehicles. By the 1990s‚ the company had entered the passenger vehicle market. In 2004 Tata Motors acquired Daewoo commercial Vehicle Co. Ltd.‚ Korea’s second- Largest truck manufacturer‚ and became the first Indian company to be listed on New York Stock Exchange. The next year‚ it acquired a
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