RATAN-TATA

     RATAN NAVAL TATA

Interesting Facts About Ratan Tata

He Was Born Rich. Very Rich

- Ratan Naval Tata was born on 28 December, 1937, into a wealthy and famous family of         Mumbai.

He Had a Troubled Childhood

  - His parents separated during mid-1940s, when he was just 7 years                                          old. Thereafter, he was brought up and raised by his grandmother.

He Studied From Best Boarding Schools

- Ratan completed his B.S. in Architecture in 1962 from Cornell University, New York and         got an Advanced Management Program degree from Harvard Business School, US in           1975.

An Amazing Career Story

- In December 1962, Ratan joined the Tata Group. He joined at Jamshedpur to work at the Tata Steel. He worked as a blue-collar employee till 1971 and was promoted as the Director-In-Charge at the National Radio & Electronics Company Limited. The company was going through a rough financial phase at that time. Ratan suggested Nelco should invest in developing high technology products other than consumer electronics. J.R.D was initially reluctant to do so, due to the financial performance of Nelco, but he still followed Ratan’s suggestions and the company eventually recovered all its damages

One After Another Successful Projects; A Stellar Leader

 - Tata motor’s then came up with the brain child of Tata Motors and named it ‘Tata Indica’. However, Ratan Tata gained wide popularity in 1998, when he first introduced the world’s cheapest car– “Tata Nano”. Also known as the “People’s Car”, Tata Nano could be bought for 1 lakh rupees.