Tata Steel Ltd Company Summary

Tata Steel (Formerly TISCO) is Asia’s first and India’s largest private sector integrated steel company. It is part of Tata Enterprises, established by Jamshedji Tata in 1907 and making the company the oldest company to operate in India. Today, Tata Steel has pioneered India’s leading industrial city, Jamshedpur and has become a global entity.

Company Overview

Tata Steel is an Indian multinational producer of steel, with a storage capacity of about 35 million tonnes. The company manages an end-to-end value chain, including captive mines and finished steel products. 

Founding & Evolution

• Founded: Tata Iron and Steel Company Limited was established in 1907 by Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata. 
• Listed Year: The entity’s shares were listed approximately three decades later (In 1937) on the Bombay Stock Exchange. The company subsequently increased its market presence by getting listed on the National Stock Exchange on 18 November 1998.
• Leadership: The administrative operations of Tata Steel are headed by Mr. Natarajan Chandrasekaran. He is the Chairman of the company in a non-executive position, and his position facilitates long-term planning and governance throughout the organisation.
• Strategic Alliances & Acquisitions: Tata Steel’s one of the biggest achievements was the acquisition of Singapore-based NatSteel (2004), which assisted the company in international operations. It has also established a number of key joint ventures, such as a 50:50 joint venture with BlueScope Steel, which is known as Tata BlueScope Steel Ltd.

Scale and Presence

Tata Steel has a strong and geographically diversified footprint. It operates a global value chain, which includes mining of raw materials, finished products marketing, and conducts business on five continents.

• Network Footprint: Tata Steel’s business network includes 24 stockyards and 37 steel processing centres.
• Branches/Sites: It has major sites of operation and manufacture in India (Jamshedpur, Kalinganagar, Meramandali, etc.), the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Thailand.
• Employees: Tata Steel had about 115,788 employees, including all of its operations, subsidiaries and joint ventures as of 31st March 2025.
• International Operations: The group has operations in 26 countries and has a commercial presence in more than 50 countries. 
• Customer Base: Tata Steel’s major customers are in the automotive industry, construction industry, general engineering industry, energy industry, packaging industry and infrastructure industry.

Business Segments

The business segments of Tata Steel are mostly geographically separated (India, Europe, Southeast Asia) and further split into market-specific product segments.

• Automotive and Special Products: This division sells high-strength, high-quality flat and long steel products, such as coated, cold and hot-rolled coils and sheets, to key original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and auto ancillaries of various parts of the vehicle.
• Branded Products and Retail: This division targets a wide variety of branded steel products to a specific consumer group and small and medium enterprises (SMEs). 
• Industrial Products, Projects, and Exports: This division distributes a wide variety of products, such as structural steel, plates and tubes, to the energy, engineering and material handling sectors.
• Raw Materials: This upstream division operates the capture of iron ore and coal mines in India and Canada. It also covers the Ferro-Alloys and Minerals division.

Leadership Team