Wednesday, September 12, 2007

The TATAs


Some how over the last few months i have been thinking of writing something related to TATAs. Everytime i saw Ratan Tatas pic on TV or in Newspaper i some how got inspired and wondered what will be running in his head.
I have always repected TATA for the way they do business (better than the Ambanis), Ratan Tata has always been think ahead of his time. It was the time of Tata's Indica Car when everyone was saying the old man has gone nuts in his head. Now who is having the final laugh. Cut in to recent past while buying Off Corus people said where will he get the money from. By the looks of all this it seems that they have managed it pretty well. And now come the One lakhs Rupee car. i am sure Ratan Tata has thought over it better than what everyone things.
From my side on my blog i will post articles about the TATAs. For the 1st installment here is the brife history of TATAs form the Wikipedia.

Tata Steel was established by Indian Parsi businessman Jamshedji Tata in 1907 (he died in 1904, before the project was completed). Tata Steel introduced an 8-hour work day as early as in 1912 when only a 12-hour work day was the legal quirement in Britain. It introduced leave-with-pay in 1920, a practice that became legally binding upon employers in India only in 1945. Similarly, Tata Steel started a Provident Fund for its employees as early as in 1920, which became a law for all employers under the Provident Fund Act only in 1952. Tata Steel's furnaces have never been disrupted on account of labour strike and this is an enviable record of sorts.

Tata's track record of good works and social awareness has become tarnished in recent years with complaints about heavy handed tactics to clear land for factories. In one incident in 2006, protesters were fired upon by police and it was reported that security staff hired by Tata were involved in the rape of a teenage girl.

The company is facing increasing criticism that the drive for growth and profits is completely overshadowing its once famed philanthropy and causing lasting social and environmental damage. Tata Steel has been most recently condemned by environmentalists for its plans to build a vast port close to the world's largest breeding grounds for an endangered species of turtle.

Environmentalists say Tata's plan to construct a new "megaport" at Dhamra on the eastern coast of Orissa will damage the habitat of the olive ridley turtles which breed on nearby beaches of the Gahirmatha Marine Sanctuary. This sanctuary is one of very few such sites in the world and each year more than 100,000 olive ridley turtles come here to nest.

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Sumit Jaswal

Marketing Management eBook

hii there,

I have been asked over and over again Philip-Kotler---Marketing-Management book. the fact was that i was looking for this book for a long time. this time i manage to get a good copy of this ebook. at the same this I know that downloading stuff is difficult on our network. That is why I've made sure that the file is posted on some other webserver other than RapidShare.

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Sumit Jaswal

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