A Thread on India's largest Conglomerate @TataCompanies:
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1) With 7.5 lac employees, it is India’s third-largest employer after the Indian railways and defense forces.
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1) With 7.5 lac employees, it is India’s third-largest employer after the Indian railways and defense forces.
2) Tata Consultancy Services (@TCS ) is the largest private-sector employer in India and one of the top employers globally.
It employs more than 4.5 lac people representing 146 nationalities across 46 countries.
It employs more than 4.5 lac people representing 146 nationalities across 46 countries.
3) They have never invested in the alcohol or tobacco business and have never sponsored any Bollywood movies.
4) In the year 1955, they took part in the Geneva-Bombay Rally, and 3 of the Tata trucks covered ~1200 kilometers non-stop without a single breakdown.
4) In the year 1955, they took part in the Geneva-Bombay Rally, and 3 of the Tata trucks covered ~1200 kilometers non-stop without a single breakdown.
5) It is the only group that has a dedicated city with a railway junction on its name ‘Tatanagar’- Jamshedpur, Jharkhand.
6) Every day ~4.5 crore cups of Tetley tea are consumed across the globe, making Tata Consumer the world’s second-largest tea company.
6) Every day ~4.5 crore cups of Tetley tea are consumed across the globe, making Tata Consumer the world’s second-largest tea company.
7) In 1945 when management as a discipline was not fully developed even in Western countries, they set up Tata Industries—the first technocratic structure of our country.
8) In the late-1880s when there was no electricity in India, Empress Mills – Tatas’ flagship textile company, was providing a healthy work environment in its factories through the installation of humidifying systems to protect the health of its employees.
9) Sir Dorabji Tata (second Chairman of Tata Sons) provided cheap and clean energy to Mumbai through hydroelectric power generation in 1910 under the Tata Hydro Electric Company (now @TataPower), a century before the term ‘clean energy’ first became popular.
10) Tatas started the Lakme brand of cosmetics as an outcome of a request from Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.
Lakme started as a 100% subsidiary of Tata Oil Mills and it was named after the French opera Lakmé, which itself is the form of Lakshmi (the goddess of wealth).
Lakme started as a 100% subsidiary of Tata Oil Mills and it was named after the French opera Lakmé, which itself is the form of Lakshmi (the goddess of wealth).
11) Tata Group has over 100 operating companies of which 29 are publicly listed in India.
12) They pay ~2.25 % of the total taxation in India making them India's highest taxpayers. (With ~ 4% of the country’s GDP, they are significant contributors to India’s Growth story.)
12) They pay ~2.25 % of the total taxation in India making them India's highest taxpayers. (With ~ 4% of the country’s GDP, they are significant contributors to India’s Growth story.)
13) In 1981, @TataChemicals became one of the first companies in India to provide employee stock options.
14) They were the pioneers in introducing provident fund, gratuity, and accident compensation schemes when they were unheard of anywhere in the world.
14) They were the pioneers in introducing provident fund, gratuity, and accident compensation schemes when they were unheard of anywhere in the world.
15) In 1974, when the Chota Nagpur had become the epicenter of the smallpox epidemic, WHO requested help from @TataSteelLtd.
They obliged and in just 6 months, ~20k villages and 82 towns were inoculated and for the first time in history, India was declared free of smallpox.
They obliged and in just 6 months, ~20k villages and 82 towns were inoculated and for the first time in history, India was declared free of smallpox.
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