PRESENTATION ON

ENTREPRENEUR - JAMSETJI TATA

SUBJECT : BUSINESS HISTORY

TEAM MEMBERS
1.SATHEESH 3511040170
2.SATHYA BALAN 3511040172
3.VIGNESH SENTHIL NAYAGAM 3511040169
4.SATHISH RAJ 3511040173
5.SENTHIL RAJ 3511040176
 PARENT’S : Nusserwanji and Jeevanbai Tata
 Born on 3 March 1839 in Navsari, a small town in
South Gujarat.
 Was the first child and the only son.
 Was married to Hirabai Daboo while he was still a
student.
 Their sons, Dorabji Tata and Ratanji Tata.
 He graduated from college in 1858 and joined his
father's trading firm.
 Path To Entrepreneurship
 Jamshedji worked in his father's until the age of 29.
 In 1868, he started a trading company with a seed
capital of Rs. 21,000.
 In 1869, he acquired a bankrupt oil mill in
Chinchpokli, converted it into a cotton mill and
renamed the mill Alexandra Mill.
 He sold the mill two years later for a healthy profit.
 Thereafter he set up a cotton mill in Nagpur in 1874.
 He christened it Empress Mill on 1 January 1877 when
Queen Victoria was proclaimed Empress of India.
 The Taj Mahal Hotel was inaugurated on the 3rd of
December 1903.
 Many of his business ideas were born in his travel and
he was quick to bring back to India the technologies he
saw abroad.
 1880 - 1904
 Setting up an iron and steel company, a world-
class learning institution, a one-of-a-kind hotel
and a hydro-electric plant.
 Only one of the ideas became a reality during his
lifetime.
 The Taj Mahal Hotel was inaugurated on the 3rd
of December 1903.
The Taj Hotel
 He was denied to enter into one of the city’s
hotels for being an Indian.
 Total cost – Rs 4.21cr
 First building in Mumbai to use electricity.
 Soaked in luxury.
 Jamshedpur steel plant came into existence only after
his death.
 First production line was in 1912
 India Institute of science in Bangalore - Tata
pledged Rs 30 lakh from his personal fortune
towards setting up the institute.
 The company started by Jamsetji Tata came to be
known as the Tata Group and is today among the
largest and most respected companies of the world.
 History Of Tata Group
 JAMSETJI NUSSERWANJI TATA (1887 TO 1904)
 SIR DORABJI TATA (1904 TO 1932)
 SIR NOWROJI SAKLATVALA (1932 TO 1938)
 J. R. D. TATA (1938 TO 1991)
 RATAN N. TATA (SINCE 1991)
Years mentioned indicate the period of Chairmanship