Know how big is TATA: Top interesting facts about the Indian Giant !

TATA Logo
source:logodataabase.com

TATA is not one company, it is a large Group of over 90 different companies, spanning various different sectors. Each having an annual turnover of around Rs.1 lakh crores or more currently. In 2014-15, the revenue of TATA companies, taken together, was $108.78 billion. The promoter stakes in Tata Group companies is held mostly under Tata Sons, which again is majority owned by TATA Trusts and remaining with few other in reputed people. TATA Group is the group of various companies or we can say in short- TATA is a name which is present in all the sectors which exist currently. There are 30 publicly-listed TATA enterprises with a combined market capitalisation of about $134 billion (as on March 31, 2015).

Lets find out more interesting facts to know- how big TATA really is?

1 .  The Communication Giant

• This may come as a surprise, but more than 24% of the internet's traffic goes through TATA's cables! TATA communications is one among the few global tier-1 Internet service providers in the world. Tier-1 means that they have enough cables to connect the world that they don't need to pay anyone any fee to access any destination on internet! They are the only tier-1 ISP from India and claims to have the world's largest global network. 

TATA's complete cable network worlwide Map
source:subseaworldneaws.com

• TATA provides internet to the tier-2 companies which sells internet to normal tier-3 internet service providers from whom we buy our broad band connections. Companies like BSNL, MTNL etc buy bandwidth from Tata.

• They have build a network of more than 500,000 KMs of submarine fibre optic cables and 210,000 KMs of terrestrial cables reaching more than 240 countries. Just for a reference, circumference of the equator of Earth is 40,075KM.

• One out of every 10 international voice calls goes through their cables. 70% of the mobile carriers in the world are connected to their network.

2 .  TATA Motors

Vheicles of TATA Motors
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•  It is the world's 5th-largest motor vehicle manufacturing company, fourth-largest truck manufacturer, and second-largest bus manufacturer by volume.

• Its products include passenger cars, trucks, vans, coaches, buses, construction equipment and military vehicles.

TATA Truks at Truck World Expo
source:indiacarbikes.com

• Tata Motors has vehicle assembly operations in India, Great Britain, South Korea, Thailand, Spain and South Africa. It plans to establish plants in Turkey, Indonesia, and Eastern Europe.

Models of Jguar and LAndrover
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• Jaguar Land Rover is one of the most popular name among the car lovers, also is the subsidiary of TATA Motors.

3 .  Jewel in the hotels (The Taj group)

Umaid Bhawan Palace
source: boutiquehotelawards.com

• As of 2015, Taj Group operates 108 hotels across India and 17 hotels in the UK, USA, Africa, Maldives, Malaysia, Bhutan, Sri Lanka and the Middle East.

• Taj Group also owns a few private islands.

Udaivilas Palace
source: rajasthantourpackage.com

• The group has been converting royal palaces in India into luxury hotels since the 1970s. And now the group has lots of palace hotels in its list.

4 .  The huge TATA family

• The best thing about Tata is, it is not owned by a single person. It is a trust's organization.

• TATA group companies collectively employ 611,794 people.

5.  Leading brand in IT sector

• TATA's flagship company is Tata Consultancy Services:  Asia's largest IT company. TCS' market capitalization is more than the other top 4 companies combined market cap.

  

  TCS Minneapolis center
  source: www.tcs.com

• TCS is now placed among the ‘Big 4’ most valuable IT services brands worldwide.

6 .  The Gang of TATA’s companies

A Image with TATA Companies
source:thehindubusinessline.com

• Tata group of enterprises comprises 93 companies in seven business sectors. 65.8% of the ownership of Tata group is held by charitable trust of Tata.

7 .  Pioneered civil aviation

• The airline was founded by J. R. D. Tata as Tata Airlines in 1932; Tata himself flew its first single-engine de Havilland Puss Moth, carrying air mail from Karachi to Bombay's Juhu aerodrome and later continuing to Madras (currently Chennai).

  
  

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  First Indian airline funded by TATA
  source: jetlinemarvel.net

    
• World War II, it became a public limited company and was renamed as Air India.

Friends you can find another introduction of TATA Group by their own way, here. This is full of the proud things of TATA and written in a interesting way.