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Tata Motors

TATA MOTORS
Tata Motors is India’s largest automobile company. Established in 1945, it is also among the world’s top five manufacturers of medium and heavy trucks and the world's second largest medium and heavy bus manufacturer. It entered the passenger vehicles segment in 1991 and now ranks second in India's in this market.
The company, formerly known as Tata Engineering and Locomotive Company, began manufacturing commercial vehicles in 1954 with a 15-year collaboration agreement with Daimler Benz of Germany. It has, since, developed Tata Ace, India's first indigenous light commercial vehicle, Tata Safari, India's first sports utility vehicle, Tata Indica, India's first indigenously manufactured passenger car, and the Nano, the world's cheapest car.
Tata Motors has over 1,400 engineers and scientists in six R&D centers in India, South Korea, Spain and the UK. Its vehicles are exported to Europe, Africa, the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia and South America.
Areas of business
Tata Motors makes passenger cars, multi-utility vehicles and light, medium and heavy commercial vehicles.
• Passenger cars: The Company launched the compact Tata Indica in 1998, the sedan Indigo in 2002 and the station wagon Indigo Marina in 2004. Tata Motors also distributes Fiat’s cars in India.
• Utility vehicles: The Tata Sumo was launched in 1994 and the Tata Safari in 1998.
• Commercial vehicles: The commercial vehicle range extends from the light two-tonne truck to heavy dumpers and multi-axled vehicles in the above 40-tonne segment.
• Passenger buses: The Company also manufactures and sells passenger buses, 12-seaters to 60-seaters, in the light, medium and heavy segments.

Joint ventures, subsidiaries, associates
Tata Motors has joint ventures with Marco polo, the Brazil-based maker of bus and coach bodies, and with Fiat Auto (to build a commercial vehicle at Fiat's facilities in Córdoba, Argentina).
Other associates include:...