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by 2143 1438 days ago
> it's a massive part of their income I'm pretty sure the income is massive, but it might not be where the majority of the money comes from.

Tata is a huge conglomerate with businesses that apparently have nothing to do with each other.

Steel, Salt, coffee/tea, hotel chains, multiple airlines, IT, car companies, watches, financial companies, phone companies (?), jewellery, air conditioners, the list goes on.

(Whether any of their products are good is a different matter; it may or may not be — I don't really know.)

Tata motors in India has been pretty good over the last few years. They now make very desirable products designed for the Indian market — ie., spacious, efficient, practical cars with good enough performance, reliability, high scores in GNCAP crash tests, at a price which a lot of Indians can afford.

Tata cars probably won't win any races, but they have finally figured out the pulse of the Indian market.

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From wikipedia, Tata Group is worth $300B.

Tata Group owns 70% of TCS, which is worth $200B.

Also this: > more than 70% of Tata Sons' dividends were generated by TCS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tata_Group

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tata_Consultancy_Services

TCS is around half the value of Tata.