Ratan Naval Tata is the current chairman of Tata Sons and the Tata Group. He chairs several major Tata companies including Tata Steel, Tata Motors, Tata Power, Tata Consultancy Services, Tata Tea, Tata Chemicals, The Indian Hotels Company and Tata Teleservices. He worked on the shop floor at Tata Steel after returning to India in 1962 before being appointed director of Nelco in 1971. In 1981, he succeeded JRD Tata as chairman of Tata Industries despite criticism over his lack of experience. The Tata Group was founded by Jamsetji Tata and began steel production in 1907, becoming the first Indian enterprise owned by Indian shareholders.

2. RATAN NAVAL TATA -
BIOGRAPHY
Ratan Naval Tata (born 28
December 1937) is the present
chairman of Tata Sons and
therefore, Tata Group. He is
also the chairman of major Tata
companies such as Tata Steel,
Tata Motors, Tata Power, Tata
Consultancy Services, Tata Tea,
Tata Chemicals, The Indian
Hotels Company and Tata
Teleservices.

3. CAREER AT TATA SONS
When he returned to India in 1962 after turning down a job with
IBM on the advice of JRD, he was sent to Jamshedpur to work on
the shop floor at Tata Steel with other blue-collar employees,
shovelling limestone and handling the blast furnace. In 1971, he
was appointed the Director of National Radio and Electronics
(Nelco), which was in dire straits when he came on board: with
losses of 40% and barely 2% share of the consumer electronics
market. However, just when he turned it around (from 2% to
25% market share), the Emergency was declared. A weak
economy and labour issues compounded the problem and Nelco
was quickly near collapse again.
In 1981, JRD Tata stepped down as Tata Industries chairman,
naming Ratan as his successor. He was heavily criticized for
lacking experience in running a company of the scale of Tata
Industries.

4. HISTORY
In his lifetime J.N.Tata was captivated and led by the three guiding
stars - building an iron and steel company, generating hydro-electric
power and creating an institution that offer the best education in
science.
Jamsetji Tata had started his quest for steel way back in 1882 but it was
twenty-five years later, in December 1907 that the explorers found
their way to Sakchi - at the confluence of the rivers Subarnarekha and
Kharkai. On 27th February 1908 when the first stake was driven into
the soil of Sakchi the dream had come alive.
When Tatas issued shares on 26th August 1907, for the first time in the
financial history of the country, the Indian people - the masses, the
affluent and the common people -joined hands to put up the first truly
Indian enterprise. The Tata family contributed the remaining 11%
shares of the Tata Iron and Steel Company Limited.

5.  Tata Steel
 Tata Motors
 Tata Power
 Tata Consultancy
Services
 Tata Tea
 Tata Chemicals
 Tata Hotel Company
 Tata Teleservices

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7. The global crude steel production in 2007 was 1,344 million tonnes, showing
an increase of 100 million tonnes over the 2006 level of 1,244 million tonnes.
The following table shows the crude steel production of the top six crude steel
producing nations:
Countries 2006 2007
China 423 489
Japan 116 120
United States 99 98
Russia 71 72
India 44 53
South Korea 49 51
• In the last few years, the primary growth
in steel production has been in China from
127 million tonnes in 2000 to 489 million
tonnes in 2007. The growth in crude steel
production in China is evident from Fig. 1.
The global crude steel capacity has increased
by 46.9% to 1,564 million tonnes in 2007
from 1,065 million tonnes in 2000 as
depicted in Fig. 2. The additions to the
capacity over the number of years have
ranged from 32 million tonnes in 2002 to 112
million tonnes in 2005 and 108 million
tonnes in 2007.