Tata

Tata Motors Limited is the largest commercial car and vehicle company in India. This company ranks 6th in commercial vehicle companies in the world. This company is part of the Tata Group conglomerate. Tata Motors first entered the NYSE in 2004.

Headquartered in Mumbai, Tata Motors has a production base in Jamshedpur, Lucknow, Pune, and Singur in India, as well as Argentina, South Africa, Thailand and in the United Kingdom. Its research and development center is in Pune, Jamshedpur, Lucknow and Dharwad, India, and South Korea, Spain and the United Kingdom. The main division of Tata Motors is British luxury car manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover and South Korean commercial vehicle manufacturer Tata Daewoo. Tata Motors also has a joint venture bus factory with Marcopolo SA (Tata Marcopolo), a joint venture construction company Hitachi (Tata Hitachi Construction Machinery) and joint venture with Fiat in India.

Tata Motors was founded in 1945 as a locomotive manufacturer. Production of commercial vehicles began in 1954, in collaboration with Daimler-Benz AG, which was carried out until 1969. Tata Motors entered the passenger car market in 1991 with the launch of Tata Sierra, making it the first Indian producer to produce its own cars. In 1998 Tata launched a "truly Indian" passenger car, Tata Indica. In 2004 Tata purchased the Daewoo truck unit which is now called the Tata Daewoo Commercial Vehicle. In January 2008, Tata introduced the Tata Nano, which is the cheapest car in the world. In March 2008, Tata Motors acquired Jaguar and Land Rover.

Tata Motors is listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange, which has the BSE SENSEX index, the Indian National Stock Exchange, and the New York Stock Exchange. Tata Motors currently ranks 314 in the world's largest company in the 2012 Fortune Global 500 ranking.