Tata’s Global Bet: How an Indian Conglomerate Turned Foreign Brands Into a Two-Way Bridge Between India and the World From Tetley in Britain and Daewoo Commercial Vehicles in South Korea to Corus and Jaguar Land Rover, Tata’s overseas acquisitions helped transform an India-focused industrial group into a genuinely global enterprise. Today, the more interesting question is not which foreign brands Tata owns, but how those businesses have been reshaped as part of an increasingly international Indian corporate ecosystem. For decades, the story of Indian business going global was largely about exports: Indian companies manufactured products at home and sold them overseas. The Tata Group helped change that model. Beginning with the acquisition of British tea company Tetley in 2000, Tata companies embarked on a series of high-profile international acquisitions that put Indian ownership behind some of the world’s best-known businesses. Tata’s own historical account lists Tetley, Corus, Jaguar Land Rover, Daewoo Commercial Vehicles and other overseas acquisitions as part of that internationalisation drive. The significance for the Indian diaspora is larger than corporate deal-making. Millions of Indians live and work in countries where Tata businesses now operate. Tata’s globalisation has therefore created a different kind of India-world connection: Indian capital
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