Founders, Executives and Management Thinkers

Ratan Tata

Also Known As Ratan Naval Tata

Founder and Executive

Citation Formats

General Reference

Business Atlas. "Ratan Tata." Accessed September 7, 2026. https://dev-business.interactiveatlas.org/business-figures/ratan-tata.

APA Style

Business Atlas. (n.d.). Ratan Tata. Retrieved September 7, 2026, from https://dev-business.interactiveatlas.org/business-figures/ratan-tata

BibTeX

@misc{businessatlas-ratan-tata,
  author = {Business Atlas},
  title = {Ratan Tata},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://dev-business.interactiveatlas.org/business-figures/ratan-tata},
  note = {Accessed September 7, 2026}
}

Ratan Tata was an Indian businessman who served as chairman of Tata Sons, the holding company of the Tata Group, from 1991 to 2012 and again in an interim capacity in 2016 and 2017. During his tenure the group expanded aggressively overseas, including the acquisitions of the British steelmaker Corus Group in 2007 and the British luxury automotive brands Jaguar and Land Rover from Ford in 2008, and under his direction Tata Motors launched the low-cost Tata Nano car aimed at first-time car buyers in India. A great-grandnephew of Tata Group founder Jamsetji Tata, he was widely regarded in India as a symbol of principled, philanthropically minded business leadership, and he died in October 2024.

Facts

Birth Date

1937-12-28 1

Birth Year

1937 1

Death Date

2024-10-09 1

Death Year

2024 1

Birthplace

Mumbai (Bombay), British India 1

Nationality

Indian 1

Defining Contribution

Served as chairman of Tata Group and Tata Sons from 1991 to 2012, leading acquisitions including Tetley, Jaguar Land Rover and Corus that turned Tata from a largely India-centric group into a global business. 1

Notable Work

Tata Group 1

Cross-Tradition Connections

Associated With

Tata Motors-Jaguar Land Rover Acquisition

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1. Ratan Tata (Wikipedia)

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Ratan Naval Tata was born in Mumbai, (earlier Bombay), during the British Raj, into a Parsi family

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9 October 2024

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was an Indian industrialist and philanthropist

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During his tenure, the Tata Group acquired Tetley, Jaguar Land Rover, and Corus, in an attempt to turn Tata from a largely India-centric group into a global business.

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