Tata Motors is India's largest automobile company,
with revenues of Rs 32,426 crores (USD 7.2 billion) in 2006-07. Tata
Motors is the leader in commercial vehicles in each segment, and the
second largest in the passenger vehicles market. The company is the
world's fifth largest medium and heavy commercial vehicle manufacturer,
and the world's second largest medium and heavy bus manufacturer.
Tata Motors was established in 1945. Today, over 4 million Tata
vehicles ply on Indian roads. Tata Motors is the first company from
India's engineering sector to be listed in the New York Stock Exchange.
Tata Motors has also emerged as an international automobile company. In
2004, Tata Motors acquired the Daewoo Commercial Vehicles Company,
Korea's second largest truck maker, and rechristened it as Tata Daewoo
Commercial Vehicles Company. Today two-thirds of heavy commercial
vehicle exports out of South Korea are from Tata Daewoo. Tata Motors
also exports buses to many African countries, The Middle East, Russia,
and Ukraine.
