| Names |
RATAN
Naval TATA |
| Date of Birth |
December 28, 1937 – Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. |
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Identity |
Indian businessman of the Tata Group, a Mumbai-based
conglomerate. |
|
Date-wise Events / Works |
- 1991: JRD Tata stepped down
as Tata Industries chairman, naming Ratan Tata as his
successor.
- 1962: He began his career
in the Tata group in 1962; he initially worked on the shop
floor of Tata Steel, shovelling limestone and handling the
blast furnace.
- 2000: He was honoured with
PADMA BHUSHAN Award by the Govt of India.
- 2008: He was honoured with
PADMA VIBHUSHAN Award by the Govt of India.
- 2012: He received the
Lifetime Achievement Award from the prestigious
Rockefeller Foundation.
- December 2012: He retired
from all executive responsibility in the Tata group and was
succeeded by Cyrus Mistry.
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| Special Achievements
/ Events |
- His title, KBE, means Knight Commander or Dame Commander
of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.
- He is currently the chairman emeritus of the Tata Group.
- He is a member of a prominent Tata family of Indian
industrialists and philanthropists.
- He is the adoptive great-grandson of Tata group founder
Jamshedji Tata.
- Under his stewardship, Tata Tea acquired Tetley, Tata
motors acquired Jaguar Land Rover and Tata Steel acquired
Corus, which have turned Tata from a largely India-centric
company into a global business, with 65% revenues coming
from abroad.
- He also pushed the development of Indica and the Nano.
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