Each Tata company or enterprise operates independently under the guidance and supervision of its own board of directors and shareholders. There are 30 publicly listed Tata enterprises with a combined market capitalisation of about $116 billion as of March 2016. Tata companies with significant scale include Tata Steel, Tata Motors, Tata Consultancy Services, Tata Power, Tata Chemicals, Tata Global Beverages, Tata Teleservices, Titan, Tata Communications and Taj Group.
Chairman
- Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata (1868–1904)
- Sir Dorab Tata (1904–1932)
- Nowroji Saklatwala (1932–1938)
- JRD Tata (1938–1991)
- Ratan Tata (1991–2012)
- Cyrus Pallonji Mistry (2012–2016)
- Ratan Tata (2016–2017)
- Natarajan Chandrasekaran (2017– )
- Advinus Therapeutics
- Brunner Mond
- General Chemical Industrial Products
- Magadi Soda Company
- Rallis India
- Tata Chemicals
- Tata Pigments Limited
- Casa Décor
- Eight O'Clock Coffee
- Fastrack, youth fashion brand
- Himalayan, mineral water brand
- I-shakti
- Infiniti Retail (Cromā)
- Landmark Bookstores
- Tanishq
- Tata Ceramics
- Tata CLiQ
- Tata Coffee
- Tata Global Beverages, the world's second largest manufacturer of packaged tea and tea products
- Tata Industries
- Tata International Ltd.
- Tata Refractories
- Tata Salt
- Tata Sky
- Tata Starbucks, a 50:50 joint venture company, owned by Starbucks Corporation and Tata Global Beverages
- Tata Swach
- Tata Zoya
- Tetley
- Titan Eye+, optical stores from Titan Industries
- Titan Industries
- Voltas, consumer electronics company
- Westside
- Hooghly Met Coke and Power Company
- Jamshedpur Utilities and Services Company
- Powerlinks Transmission
- Tata Petrodyne
- Tata Power, one of the largest private sector power companies
- Tata Power Delhi Distribution Ltd (formerly known as North Delhi Power Ltd)
- Tata Power Solar, started as a joint venture between Tata Power and BP Solar, now a wholly owned company
- Tata Power Trading
- Tata Projects
- Hispano Carrocera
- TAL Manufacturing Solutions
- TASL (Tata Advanced Systems Limited)
- Tata Advanced Materials
- Tata Advanced Systems
- Tata AutoComp Systems Limited (TACO)
- Tata Consulting Engineers Limited
- Tata Marcopolo
- Tata Cummins
- Tata Motors, manufacturer of commercial vehicles (largest in India) and passenger cars
- Jaguar Land Rover (manager of Tata's English brands Jaguar cars and Land Rover)
- Tata Daewoo Commercial Vehicle
- Tata Motors European Technical Centre
- Tata Petrodyne
- Tata Precision Industries
- Tata Projects
- Tata Technologies Limited
- Telco Construction Equipment
- Telcon Construction Equipment
- TRF
- Voltas Global Engineering Centre
- CMC Limited
- Computational Research Laboratories
- INCAT
- Nelco
- Nelito Systems
- Tata Business Support Services
- Tata Communications
- Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (TCS), one of the world's largest IT services companies
- Tata DoCoMo
- Tata Elxsi
- Tata Interactive Systems
- Tata Teleservices
- Tatanet, managed connectivity and VSAT service provider
- VSNL International Canada
- Air Asia India, joint venture with Air Asia
- Drive India Enterprise Solutions
- e-Nxt Financials ltd.
- The Gateway Hotels & Resorts
- Ginger Hotels
- The Indian Hotels Company
- Mjunction
- Roots Corporation
- Taj Hotels
- TajAir
- Tata Advanced Systems Limited
- Tata Africa Holdings
- Tata AG
- TATA AIA Life Insurance
- TATA AIG General Insurance
- Tata Asset Management
- Tata AutoComp Systems
- Tata Capital Financial Services Limited
- Tata Financial Services
- Tata Housing Development Company Ltd. (THDC)
- Tata Industrial Services
- Tata Interactive Systems
- Tata International AG
- Tata Investment Corporation
- Tata Limited
- Tata NYK
- Tata Quality Management Services
- Tata Realty and Infrastructure Limited
- Tata Services
- Tata Sons
- Tata Strategic Management Group
- TKM Global, Logistics and Supply Chain
- Vistara
- Vivanta By Taj
- JAMIPOL
- NatSteel Holdings
- Tata Bearings
- Tata BlueScope Steel
- Tata Metaliks
- Tayo Rolls
- Tata Sponge Iron
- Tata Steel
- Tata Steel Europe
- Tata Steel KZN
- Tata Steel Processing and Distribution
- The Tinplate Company of India
- TM International Logistics
- February 2000 – Tetley Tea Company, $407 million
- March 2004 – Daewoo Commercial Vehicle Company, $102 million
- August 2004 – NatSteel's Steel business, $292 million
- November 2004 – Tyco Global Network, $130 million
- July 2005 – Teleglobe International Holdings, $239 million
- October 2005 – Good Earth Corporation
- December 2005 – Millennium Steel, Thailand, $165 million
- December 2005 – Brunner Mond Chemicals, $10 million
- June 2006 – Eight O'Clock Coffee, $220 million
- November 2006 – Ritz Carlton Boston, $170 million
- January 2007 – Corus Group, $12 billion
- March 2007 – PT Kaltim Prima Coal (KPC) (Bumi Resources), $1.1 billion
- April 2007 – Campton Place Hotel, San Francisco, $60 million
- January 2008 – Imacid Chemical Company, Morocco
- February 2008 – General Chemical Industrial Products, $1 billion
- March 2008 – Jaguar Cars and Land Rover, $2.3 billion
- March 2008 – Serviplem SA, Spain
- April 2008 – Comoplesa Lebrero SA, Spain
- May 2008 – Piaggio Aero Industries S.p.A., Italy
- June 2008 – China Enterprise Communications, China
- October 2008 – Miljo Grenland / Innovasjon, Norway
- April 2010 - Hewitt Robins International, United Kingdom
- July 2013 - Alti SA, France
- December 2014 - Energy Products Limited, India
- June 2016 - Welspun Renewables Energy, India
- The Energy and Resources Institute (formerly known as Tata Energy and Research Institute), a non-governmental research institute
- The JRD Tata Ecotechnology Centre
- National Centre for Performing Arts
- Tata Center for Technology & Design at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Tata Centre for Technology & Design at IIT Bombay
- Tata Cricket Academy
- Tata Football Academy
- Tata Institute of Social Sciences
- Tata Management Training Centre
- Tata Medical Center, inaugurated on 16 May 2011 by Ratan Tata
- Tata Memorial Hospital
- Tata Trusts, a group of philanthropic organisations run by the head of the business conglomerate Tata Sons
- Tata Cancer Hospital
One Tata project brought together Tata Group companies (TCS, Titan Industries and Tata Chemicals) in developing a compact, in-home water-purification device. It was called Tata swach, which means "clean" in Hindi, and would cost less than 1000 rupees (US$21). The idea of originated from the 2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean, which left thousands of people without clean drinking water. This device has filters that last about a year for a family of five. It is a low-cost product available for people who have no access to safe drinking water in their homes. The advantage of this device is that it does not require the use of electricity.
TCS also designed and donated an innovative software package that claims to teach illiterate adults how to read in 40 hours. "The children of the people who have been through our literacy program are all in school", said Pankaj Baliga, global head of corporate social responsibility for TCS.
In 1912, Tata Group expanded their CEO's concept of community philanthropy to include the workplace. They instituted an eight-hour workday, before nearly any other company in the world. In 1917, they recommended a medical-services policy for Tata employees. The company was among the first worldwide to organise modern pension systems, workers' compensation, maternity benefits, and profit-sharing plans.
The charitable trusts of Tata Group fund a variety of projects, for example, the Tata Swach and the TCS project. They founded and still support such cherished institutions as the Indian Institute of Science, the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, the National Centre for the Performing Arts and the Tata Memorial Hospital. Each Tata Group company channels more than 4 percent of its operating income to the trusts, and every generation of Tata family members has left a larger portion of its profit to them.
After the Mumbai attacks, salaries of the attacked Taj Hotel employees were paid despite the hotel being closed for reconstruction. About 1600 employees were provided food, water, sanitation and first aid through employee outreach centres. Ratan Tata personally visited families of all the employees that were affected. The employees' relatives were flown to Mumbai from outside areas and were all accommodated for three weeks. Tata also covered compensation for railway employees, police staff, and pedestrians. The market vendors and shop owners were given care and assistance after the attacks. A psychiatric institution was established with the Tata Group of Social Science to counsel those who were affected and needed help. Tata also granted the education of 46 children of the victims of the terrorist attacks.
In 2013, the Tata Group, through the Tata Relief Committee and the Himmotthan Society, an associate organisation of the Sir Ratan Tata Trust, worked in close collaboration with the Uttarakhand government to provide relief to the impacted local communities in three districts of the state. The relief activities, which included provision of food and household material, covered over 65 villages and 3,000 families. In the first phase of relief, the group expected to reach over 100 villages. The Tata group also plans to implement long-term measures for the economic, ecological and resource sustainability of the affected communities and areas. The plan will be based on a baseline survey of impacted villages carried out by teams from the Centre for Disaster Management at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, in collaboration with local organisations and communities.
In 2017, Tata Football Academy has won the bid to form a football club based on Jamshedpur of Jharkhand in the 4th edition of Indian Super League along with Bengaluru FC.
The Kerala Government filed an affidavit in the high court saying that Tata Tea had 'grabbed' forest land of 3,000 acres (12 km2) at Munnar. The Tatas said they possessed 58,741.82 acres (237.7197 km2) of land, which they are allowed to retain under the Kannan Devan Hill (Resumption of Lands) Act, 1971, and there was a shortage of 278.23 hectares in that. The then Chief Minister of Kerala V.S. Achuthanandan, who vowed to evict all on government land in Munnar, formed a special squad for the Munnar land takeover mission and started acquiring back properties. However, later he had to abort the mission as there were many influential land grabbers and faced opposition from his own party.
On 2 January 2006, policemen at Kalinganagar, Odisha, opened fire at a crowd of tribal villagers. The villagers were protesting the construction of a compound wall on land historically owned by them, for a Tata steel plant. Some of the corpses were returned to the families in a mutilated condition. When pushed for comment, TATA officials said the incident was unfortunate but that it would continue with its plans to set up the plant.
Tata Motors reported that deals to supply hardware and automobiles to Burma's military junta had come in for criticism from human rights and democracy activists. In December 2006, Gen. Thura Shwe Mann, Myanmar's chief of general staff visited the Tata Motors plant in Pune. In 2009, TATA Motors announced that it would press ahead with plans to manufacture trucks in Myanmar.
The Singur controversy in West Bengal led to further questions over Tata's social record, with protests by locals and political parties (though the involvement of Mamata Banerjee's party was widely criticised as an act for political gains) over the forced acquisition, eviction and inadequate compensation to those farmers displaced for the Tata Nano plant. As the protests grew, and despite having the support of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) state government, Tata eventually pulled the project out of West Bengal, citing safety concerns. The Singur controversy was one of the few occasions when Ratan Tata was forced to publicly address criticisms and concerns on any environmental or social issue. Ratan Tata subsequently embraced Narendra Modi, the then Chief Minister of Gujarat, who quickly made land available for the Nano project.
In a historic judgement on Aug 31 2016, the Honorable Supreme Court of India set aside the land acquisition by the West Bengal Government in 2006 to facilitate Tata Motors to set up its Nano plant, and directed the West Bengal government to take possession of the land and distribute it to the land owners within 12 weeks.
On the environmental front, the Port of Dhamara controversy has received significant coverage, both within India and in Tata's emerging global markets.
The Dhamra port, a venture between Tata Steel and Larsen & Toubro, has come in for criticism for its proximity to the Gahirmatha Sanctuary and Bhitarkanika National Park, from Indian and international organisations, including Greenpeace. Gahirmatha Beach is one of the world's largest mass nesting sites for the Olive Ridley Turtle, and Bhitarkanika is a designated Ramsar site and India's second largest mangrove forest. TATA officials have denied that the port poses an ecological threat, and stated that mitigation measures are being employed with the advice of the IUCN. On the other hand, conservation organisations, including Greenpeace, have pointed out that no proper environment impact analysis has been done for the project, which has undergone changes in size and specifications since it was first proposed, and say that the port could interfere with mass nesting at the Gahirmtha beaches and the ecology of the Bitharkanika mangrove forest. Dhamra port stake has been hived off.
Tata group, along with a Tanzanian company, joined forces to build a soda ash extraction plant in Tanzania. Environmental activists oppose the plant because it would be near Lake Natron, and it has a very high chance of affecting the lake's ecosystem and its neighbouring dwellers.
It could also jeopardise the Lesser Flamingo birds there, which are already endangered. Lake Natron is where two-thirds of Lesser Flamingos reproduce. Producing soda ash involves drawing out salt water from the lake, and then disposing the water back to the lake. This process could interrupt the chemical makeup of the lake. 22 African nations are against the creation of the project and have signed a petition to stop its construction.
In April 2016, a U.S. Federal Grand Jury awarded Epic Systems a $940 million judgement against Tata Consultancy Services and Tata America International Corp. Filed Oct. 31, 2014, the charges accused Tata of "brazenly stealing the trade secrets, confidential information, documents and data" and that the 6,477 unauthorized downloads could be used to enhance Tata's competing product, Med Mantra.
On 16 June 2016, a fire broke out at the corporate headquarters of the company in Mumbai. However, due to quick containment, no casualties were reported.
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