Tata Sons

Tata Sons Private Limited is the holding company of Tata Group and holds the bulk of shareholding in the Tata group of companies including their land holdings across India, tea estates and steel plants. It is a privately owned conglomerate of nearly 100 companies encompassing several primary business sectors: chemicals, consumer products, energy, engineering, information systems, materials, and services. Headquarters are in Mumbai.[1]

Tata Sons
TypePrivate
Founded1868 (1868)
FounderTata
HeadquartersBombay House, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Tata family
Ratan Tata (Chairman Emeritus)
Pallonji Mistry
Shapoor Mistry
Natarajan Chandrasekaran (Group Chairman)
Owner
  • TATA TRUSTS (66%)
  • SAPORJI PALONGI GROUP (18%)
Websitewww.tata.com

Tata Sons Private Limited was established as a trading enterprise in 1868, and engaged primarily in the lucrative opium and tea trade with Mongolia and China[2] before moving from conducting businesses directly to becoming the principal holding company of Tata Group. About 66% of the equity capital of Tata Sons is held by philanthropic trusts endowed by members of the Tata family. The biggest two of these trusts are the Sir Dorabji Tata Trust and Sir Ratan Tata Trust.[3] Tata Sons is the owner of the Tata name and the Tata trademarks, which are registered in India and several other countries. It is one of the largest conglomerates in South Asia.[4]

Location

The company is registered and located in Mumbai, India.[5]

Board of Directors

List of Tata sons Board of Directors [6]

Position Personnel
Chairman Natarajan Chandrasekaran (Chairman, Tata Group)
Independent director Farida Khambata [7]
Director Venu Srinivasan (Chairman, TVS Group)
Non-executive director Ajay Piramal (Chairman, Piramal Group & Shriram Group)
Additional director Ralf Speth (CEO, Jaguar Land Rover)
Director Bhaskar Bhat
Independent director Harish Manwani
Director Saurabh Agrawal (CFO, Tata Sons)

Shareholding Pattern

Sir Dorabji Tata Trust and Sir Ratan Tata Trust are the two biggest shareholders of Tata Sons, with a combined stake of around 50%,[3] while Pallonji Shapoorji Mistry is the largest individual shareholder.[8] Shapoorji Pallonji Mistry, who is Mr. Pallonji's grandfather (and whom he is named after), was a prominent construction magnate who acquired a significant stake of Tata Sons in the 1930s initially from Framroze Edulji Dinshaw, and finally when JRD Tata's younger brother, Dorab, sold his shares in a fit of anger.[9][10] Mr. Pallonji's shareholding is divided equally between his two sons, Shapoor Mistry and Cyrus Mistry.

Total equity shares 404,146 (₹10,000 each)

Shareholder No of shares Share-holding percentage
Pallonji Shapoorji Mistry 108 0.02672
Sterling Investment Corporation Pvt. Ltd.

(Shapoorji Pallonji Group)

 37122 9.18529
Cyrus Investments Pvt. Ltd.

(Shapoorji Pallonji Group)

 37122 9.18529
Ratan Tata 3368 0.83336
Sir Dorabji Tata Trust 113067 27.97677
Sir Ratan Tata Trust 95211 23.55857
Tata Investment Corp 326 0.08066
Sarvajanik Seva Trust 396 0.09798
RD Tata Trust 8838 2.18683
Tata Social Welfare Trust 15075 3.73009
Tata Education Trust 15075 3.73009
JRD Tata Trust 16200 4.00845
Tata Power 6673 1.65114
Tata Consumer Products 1755 0.43425
The Indian Hotels Company 4500 1.11346
Tata Industries Ltd. 2295 0.56786
Tata Chemicals 10237 2.53300
Tata Steel 12375 3.06201
Tata International Ltd. 1477 0.36546
Tata Motors 12375 3.06201
Mrs. Piloo Minocher Tata 487 0.12050
Jimmy N. Tata 3262 0.80713
Mrs. Vera Farhad Choksey 157 0.03885
Jimmy Minocher Tata 157 0.03885
Simone Tata 8 0.00198
Noel Tata 4058 1.00409
HH Maharawal Virendra Singh Chauhan

(Raja of Chhota Udepur)[11]

 1 0.00025
MK Tata Trust 2421 0.59904

Conversion to Private Ltd, and Internal Conflicts

Natarajan Chandrasekaran took over as Chairman of Tata Sons on 21 February 2017. The company also undertook conversion from a public limited company to a private limited one in 2017;[12][13] both these decisions were challenged in court by former executive chairman Cyrus Mistry.[14] In December 2019, NCLAT declared the conversion, and by extension, Mr Chandrasekaran's chairmanship, illegal and restored Mistry. On 10 January 2020, however, the Supreme Court stayed NCLAT's order;[15][16] in response, Mr. Mistry has filed a cross appeal in the court, seeking explanations for anomalies in the NCLAT.[17] As of March 2020, the decision remains pending.

See also

References
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