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20 Things I Know about Tata Motors

Submitted by Bill Belew on Wednesday, 10 December 2008No Comment

I know a few things about Tata Motors.

1. is India’s largest car company.

2. has annual revenues of nearly $9 billion.

3.  has 23,000 employees.

4. was established in 1945.

5. has rolled out more than 4 million vehicles since its first in 1954.

6. dealership, sales, services and spare parts network comprises over 3500 touch points.

7. has a strategic tie-up with Fiat since 2005.

8. was the first from India’s engineering sector to be listed on the NYSE.

9. has operations in the UK, South Korea, Thailand and Spain.

10. success largely is attributed to the success of Indica.

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11.  Tata Motors  acquired the Daewoo Commercial Vehicle Company of South Korea in 2004.

12.  acquired 21% stake in Hispano Carrocera SA, Aragonese bus manufacturing company and introduced high-end inter-city buses.

13.  has  a 51:49 joint venture with Brazil-based Marcopolo S.A. in bus body building. Them buses are strong!

14. Tata Ace is India’s first indigenously developed sub-one ton mini-truck. it was launched in May 2005.

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15. along with Motor Development International of Luxembourg jointly developed the world’s first commercially-viable prototype of a compressed air car, named OneCAT.

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16.  reached an agreement with Ford to purchase their Jaguar and Land Rover operations for $2 billion in March 2008.

17. has  operations in South Korea, Thailand, South Africa and Argentina and is planning to plants in Turkey, Indonesia and Eastern Europe.

18. has a 50.3% holding in electric vehicle technology firm Miljø Grenland/Innovasjon of Norway

19. has electric versions of passenger car Tata Indica and commercial vehicle Tata Ace.

20.  In January 2008, unveiled its People’s Car, the Tata for $2500.

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  • Digvijay Singh said:

    That’s Great

  • Ramesh Kumar Anand said:

    Tata Motors is market leader not only in cars but also light/ medium commercial vehicles.

  • Nikolay said:

    Thank you, very informative.

  • s.sabapathi said:

    very excelant looking

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