Tata Group - the divided empire facing boardroom drama
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Getty Images The Tata Group, headed by N Chandrasekaran, is facing severe business headwinds
A year after the death of Ratan Tata, the Tata Group - a gigantic Indian salt-to-steel conglomerate which he steered into a global, modern, technologically advanced enterprise - finds itself facing a plethora of crises. The business empire, which owns iconic British brands such as Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) and Tetley Tea and makes the iPhone for Apple in India, is, yet again, a divided house. For months, a boardroom power battle between trustees has exposed internal rifts that forced the government to step in and prevent a repeat of the very public legal tangle that engulfed the Tata empire in 2016, when its former chairman Cyrus Mistry was ousted from the
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