He was replaced by his half-brother Noel Tata. Ratan Tata’s parents Naval Tata and Soonoo Commissariat divorced when he and his little brother Jimmy were quite little. Years later his father married Simone Dunoyer with whom he had a son Noel.
New Delhi: Tatas – a brand inspiring confidence and instilling confidence for over 150 years – has always had a line of succession wherein the men at the helm of affairs have set the highest standards and ethics in the corporate sector. Their identity is so intertwined with the brand as it has evolved.
From a humble start in 1868, the Tatas have grown into one of the most diversified and largest conglomerates in the world. It is a name that echoes in practically every household in India and tens of millions across the world.
Ratan Tata, the suave and charming gentleman-industrialist-philanthropist who gave the world reason to believe that the Tata brand could be spread across more than 100 countries during his tenure, died earlier this week in a Mumbai hospital. His leadership at the helm of the Tata giant has left a void that few, if any, can fill; only time will tell.
He is succeeded by his half-brother Noel Tata. Ratan Tata’s parents, Naval Tata and Soonoo Commissariat divorced when he and his younger brother Jimmy were quite little. Years later their father married Simone Dunoyer, and the two gave birth to a son, Noel.
RATAN TATA FAMILY GENEALOGY
The ancestors of the Tata family originally migrated to India from Persia-now Iran in the eighth century AD. They were among the large Parsi exodus Zoroastrian ethnic group from Persia- which fled persecution following the Islamic Conquest of Persia.
The Tata Central Archives trace the Tatas as settlers in Navsari, Gujarat, where they had lived for 25 generations before migrating to Bombay, then called the Bombay Presidency during British times. Bombay Province, then, comprised western two-thirds of Maharashtra, northern Karnataka, all of Gujarat, all of Sindh, now Pakistan, and Aden, now Yemen.
The business history of the Tata family started with Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata in the year 1868 when it initiated a trading enterprise in Bombay, which eventually morphed into the Tata Group. The Tatas have always been believers in the institution of country and society> Returns to people and communities before personal gain – and from the beginning, Jamsetji and his two sons, Sir Dorabji Tata and Sir Ratan Tata, left the majority of their estate and company shares to charitable trusts.
Today, the Tatas operate 14 different trusts that work in an array of fields, each with its character and scope. All these are part of the Tata Trusts. Ratan Tata was the chairman of Tata Trusts and chairman emeritus of the Tata Group. His half-brother Noel Tata succeeded him as the chairman of the Tata Trusts, while Natarajan Chandrasekaran took over as the chairman of the Tata Group, the largest shareholder of Tata Trusts.
