"The Tata Group has always recognized that the world marketplace is not divisible, " says R.
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The partnership aims to take advantage of the various businesses running under the Tata group.
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Tata Steel acquired Corus, an Anglo-Dutch firm, which made the Tata group UK's biggest manufacturer.
That got it a slot for a daily news bulletin and big-name sponsors, such as the Tata Group.
AirAsia last month announced it plans to set up a domestic low-fare airline in India with the Tata Group.
The Tata group, an Indian conglomerate with a new British-educated boss, is the largest employer of manufacturing workers in Britain.
An early flagship of the Tata Group conglomerate, it now shares a place alongside bigger steel, auto and outsourcing companies.
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The car is the pet project of Ratan Tata, the Tata group's revered chairman, who is over six feet tall.
AirAsia will operate the airline with a 49% stake, the Tata Group will own 30% and Mr. Bhatia will hold 21%.
Mr Chatterjee, in contrast, shares (with the Tata group and West Bengal's theoretically communist state government) ownership of troubled Haldia Petrochemicals.
Tata employees are entitled to discounts of up to 20% off cars produced by the Tata group including Jaguars and Land Rovers.
Other reformers include the Tata group, India's largest conglomerate, and the companies controlled by Li Ka-shing, the biggest entrepreneur in Hong Kong.
The Tata group is continuing its forays into alternative power generation.
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One company that does, he says, is the Tata Group, which has evaluated some of its top employees, noting from which universities they graduated.
Here are some ideas, as recommended by India resort hotel chain Taj, owned by The Tata Group, and by boutique Brazil-based travel planners at Dehouche.
Mukesh Ambani and the Tata Group also have initiatives funding sports.
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The Tata group runs its hotel operations through Indian Hotels Co.
The Malaysian carrier last week said it had approached the Indian government to set up a budget airline along with the Tata Group and another Indian investor.
The Starbucks outlets which would offer the brand's coffees and food are likely to be located in retail stores and hotels associated with the Tata group, the person said.
While the core deal would be between Starbucks and Tata Coffee, the partnership would take advantage of the strengths of various other companies under the Tata group umbrella, the person said.
Corus, part of the Tata Group which also owns Jaguar and Land Rover, has 42, 000 workers around the world and says it will try to achieve the 3, 500 cuts through voluntary redundancies.
The links between the two, though, go back to the days of Reliance founder Dhirubhai Ambani who preferred the Oberoi over its arch rival Taj chain, part of the Tata Group.
Today the Tata group earns 60% of its revenues abroad, and Indian companies ranging from natural-resource firms, such as Reliance Industries, to health-care companies, such as Pirmal Healthcare, have been snapping up American brands.
Such growth doesn't just occur by itself, insists Kamath's B-school buddy Kishore Chaukar, who used to head ICICI's investment banking arm and now runs Tata Industries, a holding company for the Tata Group's investments in emerging sectors like telecom.
By insisting that an auction is the only fair way to allocate spectrum, the Supreme Court has cast into question other licences granted before 2009 by different means, including those of Reliance Communications and the Tata group, two giant firms.
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The deal would also restore the Tata Group to its traditional place as India's biggest conglomerate by revenues, ousting the more abrasive Reliance Industries from the top spot a side-effect that Mr Tata and his colleagues are no doubt quietly relishing.
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It turns out 120 feature films a year, has four stock exchanges (including the third largest in the world), some 6, 500 factories and is headquarters for major companies such as the Tata Group, Reliance and the State Bank of India.
Tata--the former Tata Group chairman who founded India's now-state-run carrier Air India--is considered the father of civil aviation in India.
After a brief stint working with the private sector Tata group, he joined the Indian civil services in 1992 as a revenue officer.
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